Vice President JD Vance explained that Mexico and China are not conducting retaliation on the United States and its newly announced tariffs, as the U.S. is actually the one responding to their actions.
President Donald Trump implemented wide-ranging tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China on Saturday. Both Mexico and Canada have announced tariffs in response, while China is pursuing legal action against the U.S. Vance suggested that Trump is specifically standing up against China and Mexico taking advantage of the U.S. “for decades,” and is telling the two countries “no more” with these tariffs.
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“We know that Mexico has allowed the facilitation of the illegal drug trade and illegal sex trafficking for years and has done nothing about it,” Vance explained on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “If they want to be a better partner to us, the time starts now.”
Mexico and China have been taking advantage of the United States for decades.
Finally, we have a president in Donald Trump who is ready to look out for American citizens and impose some consequences to show these countries that we're not going to be taken advantage of. pic.twitter.com/92XwRJhspD
Vance added that China has “stolen American manufacturing jobs” for over 30 years, and that the country has also facilitated the trafficking of illegal fentanyl into Mexico, paving the way for drug cartels to bring it into the U.S. This has created an environment in which the U.S. is “done being taken advantage of.”
The vice president expressed thanks that the U.S. still has “the biggest economy” in the world as well as the best workers. However, Trump is now telling other countries that the U.S. will no longer tolerate being taken advantage of, and that he is looking out for what is best for his nation’s citizens.
“Thank God we do, and we’re going to try to do it the best we can,” Vance said.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has suggested that the tariffs against China and Mexico would “go away” if the two countries put a stop to the “fentanyl poisoning" happening across the U.S., as “3,000 Americans die every two weeks” from fentanyl drugs smuggled into the country. Graham also expressed thanks to Trump for “putting everybody on notice that the old way of doing business is over.”
Amid Trump’s newly announced tariffs, Canadian Ambassador Kirsten Hillman argued that the U.S. is heavily reliant on Canada for both oil and electricity. However, Trump has claimed that the U.S. does not “need anything” from Canada, and that the U.S. can use its “unlimited energy” instead.
