Raging Trump forgets he’s still the boss with TV-led post on ‘huge CARAVANS’ from Mexico - The Independent

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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.

“Many of the people in these Caravans are those that various countries don’t want - ‘Send them to America,’ they say - But they will not be accepted! MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED,” said Trump, who frequently and without evidence claims that people seeking to come to the United States are deliberately “sent” by their home countries’ governments.

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.

The billionaire president’s post came in the middle of an early-morning spree which included boasts about his tax returns and his decision to donate his $400,000 per year presidential salary and accusations of unspecified “corruption” by Democrats just days after his party suffered a historic rout in the 2026 midterm elections.

It started at 5:50 am with a claim that Democrats are “doing everything in their power to get away from MASSIVE BLUE STATE CORRUPTION by saying, over and over again, that the Trump Administration is corrupt.”

“THE DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite,” he added.

Trump also falsely claimed to be the only president to have ever donated his salary rather than accept it.

Previous presidents who have done so include Herbert Hoover and John F Kennedy.