President Trump on Sunday ripped The Wall Street Journal for criticizing his recent tariffs.
“The ‘Tariff Lobby,’ headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA,” said the president on his Truth Social platform.
A Saturday op-ed from the Journal’s editorial board criticized Trump’s tariff plan and predicted a declining trend in trade and manufacturing capability in the wake of signed sanctions.
“Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the U.S. shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home. This is called autarky, and it isn’t the world we live in, or one that we should want to live in, as Mr. Trump may soon find out,” said the op-ed.
The Journal’s editorial board also received criticism from the White House.
“The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board’s latest tirade against President Donald Trump’s decisive action to stop fentanyl from killing innocent Americans is a helpful remember that the WSJ is always wrong when it comes to tariffs and trade. The Journal’s editorial page has supported America Last policies such as open borders and outsourcing for years now,” reads Sunday comments from the White House, as highlighted by Mediaite.
A 25 percent tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada, along with a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods, was imposed by Trump on Saturday.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pledged to “enhance the strong bilateral relations” between their countries the same day President Trump went forward with tariffs on them, according to a readout on Trudeau’s website.
The Hill has reached out to the Journal for comment.
