Jimmy Fallon jokes Donald Trump used fortune-telling to impose tariffs

Jimmy Fallon jokes Donald Trump used fortune-telling to impose tariffsThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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00:00Over the weekend, President Trump announced new tariffs

00:02on Canada and Mexico that are expected to start a trade war.

00:06Audience oohs.

00:08People are wondering why Trump would start a war

00:10with our closest allies, and he was like,

00:12I didn't say anything about Russia and North Korea.

00:14Audience laughs.

00:18Yeah, Trump is putting tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China.

00:21It's a strange fight to pick.

00:22China, okay, but Canada and Mexico?

00:25Maybe it's a New Yorker in me, but the last people

00:27you want to upset are your upstairs and downstairs neighbors.

00:29Audience laughs and applauds.

00:31Everything good?

00:33Knock it off!

00:37And in a post, Trump even acknowledged

00:38that tariffs could raise prices for Americans,

00:41saying, will there be some pain?

00:43Yes, maybe, and maybe not.

00:47It's comforting to know he's being advised

00:49by a magic eight-paw, but that's...

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