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READ/WATCH! Trump Has Many Reasons to Be Upset With Mexico, by Victor Davis Hanson – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Trump to Mexico: Stop Ripping Us Off. Victor Davis Hanson. The Daily Signal

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal, March 11, 2025

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.

Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of the book “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.” You can reach him by emailing authorvdh@gmail.com.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Last time I talked about our North American problems with Canada. Now I want to turn the emphasis to Mexico.

President Donald Trump has threatened all sorts of trade sanctions on Mexico, a 25% tariff. But why is he doing this? And I think the answer is there’s four things that Mexico knows it has been doing to us with impunity, especially under Joe Biden, that are not sustainable.

The first, it used to run under NAFTA $10-$20 billion trade surplus. Then it went to $40 billion, then it went to $50 billion. And then, during Donald Trump’s first term, we renegotiated it. It kind of stayed static. Now it’s over $175 billion.

But get this, it’s mostly due to China evading tariffs on China by sending raw product materials to Mexico—computers, phones, appliances to be assembled by Mexicans, and then sent under free trade agreements with us, to the benefit of Mexico and China. …

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Last time I talked about our North American problems with Canada. Now I want to turn the emphasis to Mexico.

President Donald Trump has threatened all sorts of trade sanctions on Mexico, a 25% tariff. But why is he doing this? And I think the answer is there’s four things that Mexico knows it has been doing to us with impunity, especially under Joe Biden, that are not sustainable.

The first, it used to run under NAFTA $10-$20 billion trade surplus. Then it went to $40 billion, then it went to $50 billion. And then, during Donald Trump’s first term, we renegotiated it. It kind of stayed static. Now it’s over $175 billion.

But get this, it’s mostly due to China evading tariffs on China by sending raw product materials to Mexico—computers, phones, appliances to be assembled by Mexicans, and then sent under free trade agreements with us, to the benefit of Mexico and China. … Continue reading >>>>>>>>>>

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But get this, it’s mostly due to China evading tariffs on China by sending raw product materials to Mexico—computers, phones, appliances to be assembled by Mexicans, and then sent under free trade agreements with us, to the benefit of Mexico and China. …

Continue reading >>>>>>>>>>