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FALLOUT: Mitch and friends join Dems to shank Trump in the back over tariffs as world leaders howl in protest

April 3, 2025 | | Print Article

Mere hours after President Donald J. Trump unveiled his “Liberation Day” tariff policy, he was stabbed in the back by his own party with four GOP senators joining with their Democrat friends to sabotage him.

In a typically underhanded maneuver, spiteful geriatric Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), along with usual accomplices Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted with Democrats to undermine Trump by voting for a Democrat resolution to undo the president’s tariffs against Canada.

The triad was joined by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), whose quirky libertarian principles made him a perfect dupe for Democrats looking to embarrass Trump on an issue central to his America First economic policies.

The measure, which was sponsored by  Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), passed 51-48 with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate crowing about striking a blow against Trump’s “idiotic tariffs on Canada,” and Mitch’s renegades apparently agreed, handing the president’s enemies a big win on Wednesday night.

“At a time when Americans are tightening their belts, we would do well to avoid policies that heap on the pain,” McConnell said in a statement after the quartet sided with the opposition.  “We ought to strengthen our friendships abroad, and reinforce our allies as pillars of American prosperity and security.”

Earlier in the day, Trump criticized the McConnell Four for their refusal to be team players for the good of the country by supporting the Democrat effort to remove the penalty for Canada’s lack of vigor in preventing the flow of deadly fentanyl into the United States.

“They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels. The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four,” Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social.

“In the coming days, there will be complaints from the globalists and the outsourcers and special interests and the fake news—always. The fake news will always complain, but never forget—every prediction our opponents made about trade for the last 30 years has been proven totally wrong,” Trump said from the White House Rose Garden, where he announced the new tariffs on Wednesday afternoon.

World leaders fumed at the idea that a U.S. president would no longer allow them to take advantage of America as they had done under previous administrations.

“President Trump has just announced a series of measures that are going to fundamentally change the international trading system,” Canadian PM Mark Carney told reporters after Trump’s announcement. “We’re in a situation where there’s going to be an impact on the U.S. economy, which will build with time.

“In our judgment, it will be negative on the U.S. economy that will have an impact on us,” added Carney, a former globalist banker.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen blasted the “Liberation Day” tariffs as a “major blow” to the global economy.

“There seems to be no order in the disorder, no clear path to the complexity and chaos that is being created as all U.S. trading partners are hit,” she said of the 20 percent tariff on the increasingly authoritarian Euro bloc.

“We will do everything we can to work towards an agreement with the United States, with the goal of avoiding a trade war that would inevitably weaken the West in favor of other global players,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a statement posted to Facebook.

“While President Trump might call today ‘Liberation Day’, from an ordinary citizen’s point of view, this is ‘Inflation Day’. These unjustified, illegal, and disproportionate measures can only lead to further tariff escalation and a downward economic spiral for the US and the world as a whole,” whined European Parliament’s International Trade Committee Chairman Bernd Lange in a statement.

“Because of this decision, US consumers will be forced to carry the heaviest burden in a trade war. These tariffs will only make processes and manufacturing more inefficient. They have prompted damaging uncertainty in the investment climate. Stock markets could hardly be clearer in their reactions,” Lange added, calling for a united response from countries impacted by the tariffs.

“So for 40 years, America has been the piggy bank of the world,” Vice President JD Vance told Breitbart News. “We absorb all of the ridiculous trade practices and economic practices of friend and foe alike. For the first time in probably 40 years, we have an American president who’s saying, ‘No more,’ that it’s not going to work, that he’s not going to allow America to be taken advantage of anymore.”

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