'Bourbon from Mitch McConnell's KY': Tapper calls out GOP leaders over retaliatory tariffs

Within an hour of a deal struck between Canada and the U.S., CNN's Jake Tapper made an example out of two GOP leaders whose states would've been affected by Canada's retaliatory 25% tariffs.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had announced the move against the U.S. after President Donald Trump planned to levy 25% trade tariffs on Canada over the weekend. The two leaders spoke on the phone Monday morning and were scheduled for a follow-up call in the afternoon. In that call, Trudeau said the two allies had come to an agreement similar to one reached with Mexico, with both delaying tariffs for a month.

Tapper said that Trump's decision to punish Canada for allegedly allowing fentanyl to come into the United States "will cost the median American household about $600 extra per year."

Tapper then pointed out, "Canada is announcing its own retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-made products with a focus on high dollar exports from Republican states such as orange juice from Marco Rubio's Florida and bourbon from Mitch McConnell's Kentucky."

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Earlier Monday, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) pleaded with Trump to consider how the tariffs will affect farmers in his state of Iowa.

Grassley posted on social media, "Biden inflation increase the input cost to farming by 20% incl particularly high prices on fertilizer. So I plead w President Trump to exempt potash from the tariff because family farmers get most of our potash from Canada."

In a phone call with Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum Monday, Trump agreed to temporarily halt the 25% tariff on Mexican imports since she agreed to send 10,000 National Guardsmen to stop drug traffickers from bringing fentanyl across the border.

Tapper continued, "While Trump's tariffs are designed to increase revenue for the U.S. government, and, in theory, offset his proposed but yet not yet passed tax cuts, Mr. Trump did concede on Monday that Americans will, quote, 'feel some pain.'"

Although the weekend's tariff announcements floored economists and worried consumers, Forbes reported that tariffs have been Trump's strategy all along as a money-making opportunity.

"This was confirmed by Trump’s January 20 inaugural address, in which he touted tariffs as the alternative to 'taxing our citizens to enrich other countries.' Trump followed this up by declaring that he would establish the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs, duties, and revenues.'"

Watch the clip below via CNN.