In a post on TruthSocial this morning, Trump defended the tariffs he imposed yesterday on Mexico, China and Canada, calling critics the “tariff lobby.”

He accused the three countries of participating in a “decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS.”

Still, the president in his post questioned in all-capitals: “WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN?”

He then answered his own question, writing, “YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID.”

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin, who won yesterday’s election to lead the DNC, said “working families will” shoulder the cost of Trump’s tariffs.

“Here’s the thing about Donald Trump’s erratic tariff policy: Trump isn’t going to make corporate billionaires pay for these tariffs — working families and small businesses will,” Martin said. “He’s using American workers as pawns in his petty political games. If a president promised that they’d help my family get by, and then they did this, I’d be pretty pissed off. So, you should be pissed off.”

Martin’s election yesterday made him the successor of Jaime Harrison, who previously headed the DNC.

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, a frequent Trump critic, said in a post to X yesterday that if Trump “is serious” about wanting to increase “good blue collar jobs,” he should “immediately seek to renegotiate our broken trade deals.”

“The UAW supports aggressive tariff action to protect American manufacturing jobs as a good first step to undoing decades of anti-worker trade policy,” Fain said in the statement. “We do not support using factory workers as pawns in a fight over immigration or drug policy.”