‘What the actual?’ Outrage over Trump’s new 250% dairy tax spills into social media

The United States’ ongoing trade war with Canada showed no signs of slowing Friday as President Donald Trump threatened to slap a new 250% tariff on U.S. dairy imports arriving into the country.

In an escalation a day after the president announced a one-month pause on nearly across-the-board 25% tariffs, Trump said Friday that “Canada has been ripping us off for years on lumber and on dairy products” in Oval Office comments. The stiff new tax could hit as early as Friday – “or we’ll wait until Monday or Tuesday,” Trump said.

But while the MAGA leader railed against the country’s traditionally close ally – who he claimed “treated our farmers badly” – political observers took to social media to slam his latest economic move.

“The insanity continues as Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy,” Australian media personality and attorney Peter Stefanovic wrote in a Bluesky post.

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“Yesterday Trump announced he was delaying his tariffs,” the Palmer Report newsletter pointed out to its Bluesky followers. “Today he announced new 250% tariffs. Don’t tell me this guy doesn’t have dementia.”

“I'm sorry -- a 250% Canadian dairy tax? What the actual...?” radio host and journalist Kai Ryssdal wrote on Bluesky.

Canadian Stanley Q. Woodvine suggested to his Bluesky followers that Trump’s new warning “may be an empty threat, as it seems Canada's dairy production is primarily used to meet domestic needs.”

“Either way we won't be cowed, or cry over any spilt milk!” he wrote.