Trumps planer om å utvide grensene og øke importavgifter er i effekt - Washington Post

 Trump threatens country after country with U.S. economic weapons

In only a week, the president has floated financial reprisals for Mexico, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Colombia. The hostilities could backfire.

 

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January 27, 2025 at 10:10 p.m. EST today at 10:10 p.m. EST

 

President Donald Trump disembarks Marine One on the South Lawn as he returns to the White House on Monday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

By Jeff Stein

 and 

Cat Zakrzewski

President Donald Trump has already threatened to impose major economic penalties on at least a half-dozen countries, alarming global leaders as he uses the prospect of sanctions and tariffs to force other nations to do what he wants.

Almost every day during his first week in office, Trump promised to hammer some country with potent economic weapons, rapidly reshaping U.S. foreign policy in pursuit of goals on everything from trade to migration.