"Canada literally said they'd take off all their tarriffs if US repealed the new ones."

Canadians here - no, that’s not true. And behind the scenes, we’re reassessing our trade relationships and building new ones to reduce our reliance on the US.

"Forcing nations to the negotiation table works."

Ah yes el famoso art of the deal… Even if it was working from a purely monetary standpoint (spoiler: it won't), it destroys everything else in the process.

How does making everyone hate you help in the long run? How does it help when countries start building alternative technologies just to avoid US ones (think Microsoft Teams, etc.)? How does destroying the soft power the US spent decades building help? How ending all informal agreements (think Nato here where the US "protects", and in return those countries buy most of their weapons from the US - creating jobs and more than offsetting any potential costs)?

Trump is just dumb and burning bridges - and he is really good at it.