{"id":131456,"date":"2025-02-02T09:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T14:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/02\/trump-tariffs-on-canada-mexico-motivated-by-politics-expert-says\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T09:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T14:09:50","slug":"trump-tariffs-on-canada-mexico-motivated-by-politics-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/02\/trump-tariffs-on-canada-mexico-motivated-by-politics-expert-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico \u2018motivated by politics\u2019, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced 25 percent tariffs on two of its largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, in a move that is as much \u201cmotivated by politics as it is economics\u201d, said Peter Trubowitz, professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE. \u201cThis is really vintage Trump\u201d, Trubowitz said, adding \u201clast week was a bad week for Donald Trump politically in the United States and he needed to change the subject, and he needed to change it fast\u201d.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced 25 percent tariffs on two of its largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, in a move that is as much \u201cmotivated by politics as it is economics\u201d, said Peter Trubowitz, professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan US Centre at LSE. \u201cThis is really vintage Trump\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-131456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}