Will Australia get a Rudd tariff?

Australia should look at the case of King Trump’s 25% Canada tariff and worry.

The excuses for the tariff—drugs and illegal immigrants—are nonsense.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that Canada has allowed “millions and millions” of people to illegally enter the United States. However, with regard to Canada at least, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for Fiscal Year 2024 tells a different story. In that period, Border Patrol apprehended 23,721 people who illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border, representing just 1.5% of nationwide Border Patrol apprehensions. In contrast, at the U.S.-Mexico border, Border Patrol reported more than 1.5 million apprehensions in the same year.

…In Fiscal Year 2024, USCBP seized 21,148 pounds of fentanyl at the southwest border, mostly smuggled from Mexico. In contrast, only 43 pounds were intercepted at the northern border. This means that less than 1% of all fentanyl seizures occurred at the U.S.-Canada border.

This looks personal to me. A King Trump 25% Trudeau tax for being an annoying woke imbecile.

Still, the personal humiliation of Trudeau has resulted in the same as Mexico.

I just had a good call with President Trump. Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly…

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 3, 2025

Shifting to Australia, what kind of punishment can we expect with “Trump is a village idiot” Kevin Rudd in Washington?

Jim Chalmers says Australia has a “very strong case to make” against tariffs being imposed. But so did Trudeau!

From the perspective of King Trump, Rudd has to be worth 10% at least!

Albo’s idiots have dispatched Richard Marles to kiss the ring.