Different legal justification this time. They're using a 1930 law about discrimination against US businesses. It's clearly bullshit, but they've learned it doesn't matter

and if he runs out of those ways which will be ruled illegal, he'll just make up new ways like if your name is Trump, you can do it, and watch it take another year to go through the courts anyway.

If there's one good thing to come from Trump, it's that he's shown the president has the ability to do nearly anything they want

I won't accept any excuses from future presidents

Probably but Mexico and Canada have the most direct incentives. China for example doesn't want the US to implode since that has a solid chance to eliminate one of their major consumer bases and depending on how the US comes out of it either intact or not it could result in broad economic realignment towards locally produced goods and decreased consumption therein.

Not sure where Lemmy gets its information from, but Canada is a net importer of US electricity since 2023.

And we don't make oil, we extract bitumen sludge and send it to be refined in Texas.

You want the damage to be quick and brutal so as to cause as much friction as possible, taxes won't necessarily due this due to the fact the goods and resources that are effected would likely still be present. Better to remove materials outright and cause as much friction as possible, make the demands for Trump's removal clear and also make it clear that succession would have the same opening of trade.