Wall Street Journal Issues Scathing Summer Request For Trump: 'For The Good Of The Nation'

The newspaper's conservative editorial board also hit the president with a cold truth about his tariff strategy.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board has once again called out Donald Trump’s tariff policies, this time with a pointed summer-themed request.

“Would Tariff Man please take a summer vacation for the good of the nation?” the conservative-leaning board asked in a sharply worded editorial, using its new nickname for the president.

The Journal, a frequent critic of Trump’s global trade agenda, slammed his latest move to raise tariffs on Canadian goods to 35 %, which prompted a fall in the stock market.

And it hit the president with a cold truth:

“For the record, since Mr. Trump has a fixation with trade deficits, the U.S. had a surplus with Canada last year when excluding $141 billion in crude oil imports. Canadian crude feeds refineries in the Midwest and some on the Gulf Coast that aren’t equipped to process U.S. shale blends. Crimping that flow would eliminate the overall trade deficit with Canada, but it would also raise costs for U.S. consumers, while sending dollars to the Middle East instead.”