When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trumpo contacted President Trump this week to discuss the imposition of harsh American definitions, Trump linked the deadly fentanel and unconventional immigrants who cross the United States along its northern border.
Trump said that he blamed Trudeau for “weak border policies”, which allows “huge quantities” in fentanel and migrants to “cast” the United States
“I told him that many people died of fentanel that came across the borders of Canada and Mexico, and nothing convinced me that he stopped,” Trump wrote on the social truth platform. “He said he became better, but I said,” This is not good enough. “
The framework for the brand of Trump was that he threw a difficult negotiation on his favorite political cause: illegal immigration and artificial opioid deaths. But it was also on the brand as a 1 % political war for the president, which fueled fear about a relatively small issue.
Fintanel attacks on the northern border account for less than 1 % of all the recent United States attacks in the country, according to customs data and US border protection. Most of the fentanel attacks occur along the southern border with Mexico.
The concerns of immigrants are not documented on the northern border in recent years, but still only represent about 1.5 % of fears throughout the country in 2024, according to L. Analysis by Factcheck.orgAnnberg Center for Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Again, most concerns occur along the southern border.
Trudeau has repeatedly referred to these relatively small risks in pushing Trump in recent months, describing Trump’s focus on such issues as a “excuse” of a commercial war that would destabilize the Canadian economy and facilitate its annexation, and the goal of Tram’s adoption.
Trump has similarly attacked the transgender people, who represent about 1.3 % of the population of the United States, according to The last gallop surveyAnd external aid issued by the United States Agency for International Development, or the United States Agency for International Development, which represents less than 1 % of the federal budget, according to many Analyzes.
Trump and his supporters say he is following the “America first” agenda that supports “sound sense”. They say the small quantities of fentanel or fraud in government spending are the cause of anxiety, and that transgender people represent an increasing threat to women and children and deserve equal anxiety.
However, Trump’s critics and other experts reject these defenses as inaccurate inaccurate and unjustified in an unjustified way of these negative policies.
in interview In “The View” last month, the transgender actress criticized the “Laverne Cox Trump for publishing” propaganda and lies “about the fact that the transgender people are a threat. She pointed out that society has no real power or influence on the lives of ordinary Americans, and when it contradicts this with the huge impact of “1 % of the others”-a clear reference to the wealthy in the country.
“At the end of the day, transgender people are less than 1 % of the population, and the transformed people are not why you cannot afford the costs of eggs. We are not why you cannot afford the cost of health care. We are not why you cannot buy a house or rent very high.” “I think they focus on 1 % error. I think the other 1 % is the reason for all these things.”
LGBTQ+ and other critics have repeated this argument, partly by highlighting Trump’s dependence on Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and head of the government’s efficiency department in the world, who was trying to close the United States Agency for International Development.
according to Analysis by the Pew Research CenterThe US government spent $ 71.9 billion on foreign aid in the fiscal year 2023, which amounted to 1.2 % of the total federal spending for more than 6.1 trillion dollars. Of 71.9 billion dollars, less than $ 43.8 billion was distributed by the United States Agency for International Development – which means that its budget was less than 1 % of federal financing that year.
Representative Robert Garcia (D-Long) recently drew his attention by comparing the budget of the United States Agency for International Development with much larger expenses by the Ministry of Defense, including in the F35 Fighter Jet program, and to nearly $ 40 billion in federal contracts held by Musk and its companies, which Garcia noted that it could cover the annual budget of the US agency for the list.
“the [Republican] The majority does not talk about Elon Musk’s programs or ask him here to testify. They attack the US International Development Agency, and support billionaire that becomes richer every day. “” We must pay back. “
Musk and Trump greatly cleaned these criticisms. Trump supporters have said that Trump’s favorite goals were attempts because small issues miss this point.
They points to the fact that young generations of Americans are determined as LGBTQ+ in larger numbers, and they suggest that this means that activists “wake up” will “throw” more children if they do not interfere, which is an unfounded claim used to suppress the rights of LGBTQ+ for generations.
They have claimed with little evidence that the American Agency for International Development is mired in waste, corruption and a large drainage of American resources, and that such waste – large or small – should be present anywhere. They have noticed that fentanel is fatal in small quantities such as those that were seized on the northern border.
When he was recently asked about the imposition of such dangerous definitions on Canada on such small quantities of fentanel – only 43 pounds were seized on the northern border last year – the White House press secretary Caroline Levitt avoided the issue of size and described the question “with respect to families in this country who lost their loved ones at the hands of this deadly poison.”
She said that Trump spoke to these families, and they are grateful because he imposes definitions on Canada, Mexico and China on their roles in Fintanel that reaches the United States “There are consequences for this. The period,” Levitte said.
The Republican leaders also supported the main. The majority leader of the Senate John Thun of South Dakota, for example, said Fintanel is a major issue that many Americans expect Trump to treat Trump, and Trump uses the customs tariff to do so.
Kathleen Hall Jameson, director of the Innberg Center for Public Policy, said that Trump’s amplification of relatively small issues in major threats to his components – and put human faces of these issues, as he did in his joint speech to Congress this week – is not a new political tactic, but he uses it in particular.
She said: “President Trump brilliantly plays his base fears by exaggerating the extent and importance of problems and their effects on dramatic details.”
Jameson said that such plays on fear can be politically effective, but they can also carry “incompatible costs with any benefit.”
She said that stopping every package of fentianel from Canada will not lead to a large extent in the American opioid epidemic, but Trump’s tariff will have a significant negative impact on individual consumers, industry and relationship between the two countries. She said that the discounts at the United States Agency for International Development – made by Trump as a simple campaign on American bulletins abroad – will provide relatively small amounts, but could have severe consequences in the United States, including whether infectious diseases that could have been contained abroad were able to reach the United States.
Jameson said that Trump’s policies are part of the right context – and on the right scale – it will be important in rejecting the temperature in the American policy to move forward, as Americans tend to reduce their opinions when they know the facts.
For example, according to a recent survey of KFF, 86 % of Americans exaggerate the estimation of the federal dollar share that goes to external aid, which is estimated on average that the United States spends about a quarter of its budget on this aid.
After telling that the number is closer to 1 %, the percentage that believes that the United States spends too much on external aid “decreases more than twenty percentage points”, found KFF, by only 34 %.