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President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was terminating trade talks with Canada, effective immediately.
Trump accused Canada of trying to interfere with an upcoming Supreme Court case about the legality of his "reciprocal" tariffs.
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social after the Canadian province of Ontario began running a television advertisement in the United States featuring a speech from former President Ronald Reagan.
They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts, Trump wrote, referring to the high courts scheduled Nov. 5 oral arguments on legal challenges to a significant part of Trumps tariffs. They include the country-specific rates at the heart of both his foreign policy and economic agendas.
The ad, which Ontario's premier, Doug Ford, posted on X, begins with Reagan saying, "When someone says, 'Lets impose tariffs on foreign imports,' it looks like theyre doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs, and sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time."
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-canada-trade-ronald-reagan-rcna239508
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,308 posts)orangecrush
(27,137 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(178,445 posts)orangecrush
(27,137 posts)KS Toronado
(21,664 posts)TEAR DOWN
THIS WALL
R. Reagan
Some of his potential voters didn't like my hat, but no one would argue that dumpie's wall
idea wasn't a big waste of money.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,356 posts)Trump sees Ronnie as a Saint, but himself as a god/GOD.
Bev54
(12,982 posts)Now everyone is not just looking up the ad but they are going to the original video of the Reagan speech and will notice that the words are true. Also on the video it shows that there are no restrictions at all of people using the video.
Baitball Blogger
(51,234 posts)What I heard was "the uncertainty caused by American dic--"
Did he mean to say, the uncertainty caused by American dictator Donald Trump?
orangecrush
(27,137 posts)Fil1957
(281 posts)Bev54
(12,982 posts)just played into his hands. I thought the ad would be a waste of money but it certainly is getting a lot of attention now.
Fil1957
(281 posts)were going nowhere and the ad was a way to shake things up and educate the American public
Bev54
(12,982 posts)and even if he did, he would never honour it, and Carney has, right from the start, said we would rather have no deal than a bad deal.
Champp
(2,407 posts)has no honor
RainCaster
(13,223 posts)I hope I will live long enough to see some of that.
Botany
(75,649 posts)
The man is bat shit crazy. So Canada (Ontario) is working to get the SCOTUS to give an opinion on a
U.S. Constitutional question by running a t.v./social media spot showing Ronald Reagan?
KS Toronado
(21,664 posts)Thought the only ones capable of doing that was the Heritage Foundation & Moscow Mitch.
Bev54
(12,982 posts)KS Toronado
(21,664 posts)But MAGAts will back dumpie's decision.
Wonder if Doug was deliberately baiting dumpie so he'd do something stupid?
Bev54
(12,982 posts)the greatest American president. Doesn't show a lot of intellect. He is more like Trump than people realize.
GiqueCee
(2,946 posts)... that Orange-boy ain't wrapped too tight, but now the wheels are comin' off, and his mind has achieved escape velocity. NOT a good sign. Cancelling trade talks with one of our nearest and dearest neighbors? What the absolute FUCK was he thinking? I know... "Maybe Vlad will love me NOW!"
littlemissmartypants
(30,431 posts)Brother Buzz
(39,209 posts)Bev54
(12,982 posts)Farmer-Rick
(12,200 posts)Reagan had a robust manufacturing economy that could have been strengthened with a few well placed tariffs. But he was a deregulatory "free" trader.
He was a racist that hid his hate behind economic and political rhetoric. He wanted to do away with the idea that government should help the little guy, not just the filthy-rich. And he did a good job of it. He tore down useful and effective regulations allowing for monopolies, union busting and moving most manufacturing to foreign countries.
Pedo Trump, as a result of Reagan's and other Republicon's actions, got a low wage service economy with very little manufacturing. Tariffs do NOT help if you have NO INDUSTRY to support. Service economies rely on imports because they make nothing, they just sell other people's crap. But Republicons and pedo Trump don't understand economy and think they do. One size doesn't fit all.
The Roux Comes First
(1,910 posts)Virtually all of the others! Time to re-open Trump University and get some scholarly shit going.
Xolodno
(7,209 posts)...Reagan would go back to being a Democrat.
LetMyPeopleVote
(171,858 posts)moondust
(21,105 posts)He's always sounded to me like he got it in his mini-brain decades ago that tariffs were paid by other countries so they were a way to punish them and make money doing so. And of course he's ALWAYS right so the facts don't matter.
I wonder if the ad will cause some old Reaganites to break away from the MAGA cult.