‘No room left for Mexico or Canada’ to make a deal, Trump says
U.S. President Donald Trump says his long-threatened trade war is going ahead with tariffs on Canadian goods set to take effect just after midnight and there’s nothing Canada can do to stop them.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the United States has been “a laughingstock for years and years” and he needs to take trade action against its continental neighbours.
He said Canada has allowed fentanyl to flood into the U.S. despite data that shows the claim is false.
“Very importantly, tomorrow, tariffs, 25 per cent on Canada and 25 per cent on Mexico, and that will start. So, they’re gonna have to have a tariff,” Trump said.
What is a czar in the USA? In the United States, the informal term “czar” (or, less often, “tsar”) is employed in media and popular usage to refer to high-level executive-branch officials who oversee a particular policy field. Until 2025, there had never been any U.S. government offices with the formal title “czar”.
Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more tsar /zär,tsär/ noun noun: czar 1. an emperor of Russia before 1917. “the assassination of the tsar and his family”
–>>> Weird that the United States of America would choose a very Russian term to describe a position.
While it hasn’t been used formally until 2025, it has been used unofficially / informally since at least the time of FDR.
It’s not an uncommon title.
Tzar actually comes for Caesar.
German kaiser as well.