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President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to double the taxes Americans pay on goods imported from Mexico as he issued an early morning Truth Social message while watching television in the White House residence.
Trump, 80, complained that “huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico” en route to the United States and suggested the movement of migrants north was a direct response to last week’s massive election, which will return Democrats to control of Congress in January.
“Many of the people in these caravans are the ones various countries don’t want – ‘Send them to America,’ they say – but they won’t be accepted! MEXICO NEEDS TO STOP THEM NOW, and if they don’t, the tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED,” said Trump, who frequently and without evidence claims that people seeking to come to the United States are being deliberately “sent” by the governments of their countries of origin.
He added that “MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL, (and) ICE, HAVE BEEN INFORMED.”
The president’s morning threat of lawsuits and tariffs appeared to be directly motivated by one or more segments of the Fox News Channel morning show, Fox and friends, which early Thursday decried the migrant caravan, believed to be made up of Salvadoran and Honduran nationals hoping to seek asylum in the United States despite the Trump administration’s harsh policies that have all but ruled out that possibility and largely closed the U.S.-Mexico border to non-white migrants attempting to enter the country by land.
The billionaire president’s post came amid a morning frenzy that included boasts about his tax returns and his decision to donate his $400,000-a-year presidential salary and accusations of unspecified “corruption” from Democrats just days after his party suffered a historic rout in the 2026 midterm elections.
It started at 5:50 a.m. with a claim that Democrats are “doing everything in their power to escape MASSIVE BLUE STATE CORRUPTION by saying, over and over again, that the Trump administration is corrupt.”
“DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite,” he added.
Trump also falsely claimed to be the only president who donated his salary rather than accepting it.
Previous presidents who have done so include Herbert Hoover and John F Kennedy.
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