In three long months since Donald Trump announced 25- and 10-percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, as part of his “America has been taken for a ride for too long, and Uncle Don isn’t gonna take it anymore” schtick, everyone outside of his craziest advisers has tried to talk him off the ledge. German chancellor Angela Merkel, using small words and simple sentence construction, attempted to communicate that slapping tariffs on aluminum and steel would hurt U.S. industries, by causing prices to spike. French president Emmanuel Macron tried to explain the same thing, but with flattery and hand-holding. Larry Kudlow, before he became National Economic Council director, said the measures would “hurt millions of people.” U.S. companies and trade groups have called the duties “misguided,” “counterproductive,” and “injurious,” and urged Trump to “reconsider imposing these costly tariffs and punishing the very businesses that are helping him grow the economy and create jobs.” The stock market, Trump’s favorite metric, has deflated on fears of protracted trade wars.

Now, with less than 24 hours before temporary exemptions granted to the European Union, Canada, and Mexico expire, has the president absorbed the information he’s been presented with, weighed the analysis, and changed his mind about launching an un-winnable pissing match with America’s allies on dubious “national security” grounds? Not exactly.

Instead, the administration announced on Thursday that it will follow through on its threat, with steel and aluminum tariffs going into effect on products from the E.U., Canada, and Mexico starting Friday. European officials, who refused to negotiate a trade deal without being granted a permanent exemption first, immediately condemned the move, with E.U. trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström saying “today is a bad day for world trade” and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker calling the tariffs “unjustified,” remarking Trump had left the E.U. “no choice” but to retaliate with levies of up to $7.5 billion on U.S. exports, citing a World Trade Organization rule that allows members to immediately punish countries for inappropriately attempting to “safeguard” their exports. While U.S. officials have claimed the steel and aluminum tariffs are all about protecting national security, the E.U. isn’t buying it. “We have not seen any analysis that shows these exports pose a problem to national security,” David O’Sullivan, the European Union ambassador in Washington, told The Wall Street Journal. The E.U. has said it will target American products like motorcycles, jeans, bourbon, yachts, rice, cranberries, and peanut butter, hitting regions that voted for Trump hard.

Mexico has responded by vowing to impose $3 billion worth of its own tariffs—“an amount comparable to the level of damage” inflicted by the Trump administration—on U.S. goods, targeting products like fruits, cheeses, pork bellies, and various types of steel. Canada called the levies “totally unacceptable,” said it was “frankly absurd” that they had anything to do with national security, and during a press conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared the tariffs “an affront” to Canadian soldiers that have died fighting with American soldiers. Our neighbors to the north counterattacked with duties that could hit $16.6 billion on steel, aluminum, beer kegs, whisky, maple syrup and other goods. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne called Trump a “bully” and said “we need to hit [him] where it hurts—in his wallet.” She added that “this short-sighted decision” is “not the action of a friend, an ally or an economic partner,” which, for a Canadian, are fighting words.