A Room of My Own: Dumbest Trade War Tanka

On the Brink of Trumperica, XVIII

the dumb, no,

dumbest trade war in history ...

with news on mute

I glance at the MAGA neighbor 

piling up boxes of eggs

FYI: The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 31: The Dumbest Trade War in History

Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.

And the following is an excerpt from Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, news conference on Canada’s response to tariffs, March 3:

So today the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator...

I think in what President Trump said yesterday, that there is nothing Canada or Mexico can do to avoid these tariffs, underlines very clearly what I think a lot of us have suspected for a long time — that these tariffs are not specifically about fentanyl, even though that is the legal justification he must use to actually move forward with these tariffs...

We have to fold back on the one thing he has said repeatedly, that what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us.

And National Post, March 4: U.S. is busting more people with prohibited eggs at the Canadian border

Between October 2024 and February 2025 at the Detroit-Windsor crossing, for instance, the field office has witnessed a 36 per cent increase in “interceptions of eggs” compared to the same time last year. 

This tanka is a sequel to the following one:

On the Brink of Trumperica, XVIII

white house blowout...

this man-child's meaty smile

in the window

as southern magnolias explode

with a mob of ravens

 

FYI: Among the [symbolically rich] trees on the White House Grounds, the oldest ones, southern magnolias, were planted by Andrew Jackson in 1829.

And PopMatters, Feb.9, 2017: The Spoiled Little Man-Child They Made King: Celebrity, Richard II, and Donald Trump.

Did Shakespeare predict Donald Trump? No. He just wrote a play about a thin-skinned, petty, self-aggrandising narcissist whose poor leadership drove an empire to ruin. 

Added: On the Brink of Trumperica, XIX

one ice jam

after another, another...

shouts of trade war

FYI: The New York Times, March 4: Trump’s Tariffs Set Off Day of Anger, Retaliation and Market Unease: Global markets fell after steep U.S. tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico went into effect, and as the possible ramifications of a global trade war set in.

Added:

rusty nail heads

in my neighbor's fence

blast of Arctic air