Trump appears to forget he’s still the boss with rage post on ‘huge CARAVANS’ from Mexico

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Trump’s social media post prompted by segment on ‘Fox & Friends’

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President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to double the tax Americans pay on imported goods from Mexico as he issued an early-morning Truth Social post while watching television in the White House residence.

Trump, 80, complained that “huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico” en route to the United States and suggested that the movement of migrants northward was a direct response to last week’s massive landslide election which will put Democrats back in control of Congress this January.

He added that “MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL, [and] ICE, HAVE BEEN SO INFORMED.”

The president’s early-morning complaint-cum-tariff threat appeared to be directly prompted by a segment or multiple segments on Fox News Channel’s morning show, Fox & Friends, which at the top of each hour on Thursday led with descriptions of the migrant caravan, which reportedly is made up of Salvadoran and Honduran nationals hoping to seek asylum in the United States despite harsh Trump administration policies that have all but foreclosed that possibility and largely closed the U.S.-Mexico border to non-white migrants attempting to enter the country by land.

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