Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has blasted Donald Trump’s pledge to impose a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, threatening retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods. On Tuesday, President Sheinbaum read publicly from her letter to Trump, warning of dire economic consequences of a U.S. trade war, including massive job losses and higher prices on everything from food to electronics to automobiles. Sheinbaum also took aim at Trump’s claims of a so-called invasion of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, whom Trump claims are bringing drugs like fentanyl into the United States.
