President Trump on Friday promised to help North Carolina and California rebuild faster. One way to do it would be to drop his threat to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada that would make disaster recovery slower and more expensive.
The President reiterated his tariff threat in video remarks to the World Economic Forum on Thursday. “We don’t need [Canada] to make our cars. We make a lot of them. We don’t need their lumber because we have our own forests,” he said. “We don’t need their oil and gas, we have more than anybody.”
Mr. Trump is wrong on all…
