Trump on Canada: "They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world"

Xi [thought bubble]: “This guy has got to be up to something. He can’t be this much of a child…”

“America” has not changed. Americans have no idea what this conflict with Canada is about. Trump has changed. And he and his team can be voted out of office. In fact, I’m confident they will be voted out

“America” has not changed. Americans have no idea what this conflict with Canada is about. Trump has changed. And he and his team can be voted out of office. In fact, I’m confident they will be voted out

Dollar for dollar reciprocal tariffs with the US at 50% kinda feels like it warrants Parliament to be recalled. An economic decision this large needs to be debated and scrutinized

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The thing is, this isn’t even predicated on Trump reneging on anything, though he most certainly will. This is the formal order of business, to which the government of Canada has already agreed. I say this not as criticism. That can come later, when we find out what the terms are. I merely point out how absurd the whole situation is, and how lethal the Trump administration’s intentions are. This is not going to end with a tidy little package of concessions — things we should want to do anyway, or measures we only enacted as retaliation for theirs. They want to use trade as a weapon of foreign policy — they’ve said so, explicitly — with the declared intent of domination, at a minimum. So these demands are a foretaste; they will escalate from here. This is only the beginning of a long struggle.

My Prime Minister isn’t causing world wars, breaking global trade deals, flying Lolita express, insider trading, killing immigrants, starving Cubans, blockading trade routes, bombing schools, fingering females against their will, or market manipulating. Carney is good to the world, and not a PM who makes Canada look weak or cruel. I’ll call out Trump everyday that he tries to economically destroy 🇨🇦

I've been debating whether I want to keep weighing into this but here it goes. Long post. Colby’s a smart guy, I read his stuff for years before he joined the admin. But the gaslighting on this is exactly why the middle power project exists in the first place, and I think he is smart enough that he must know this, but can't say it publicly. Trump has talked about us as the 51st state over and over. His interventions in our politics were flagrant enough that they changed the outcome of our election in 2025 and revived a Canadian nationalism that had been more or less dead for a generation. He started a tariff war with us, we responded, obviously, and now his own people are hurt that we stood up for ourselves and have worked out that the Americans aren’t the reliable ally they used to be. And the broader MAGA world, which was going after us over wildfire smoke a few weeks ago, isn’t exactly hiding how it feels about this country, they hate Canada and revel in mockery of us. Then get annoyed when we notice, or when we stop pretending we trust them. He has also said, more than once, that the US doesn’t need anything from Canada. Okay, fine. Then we diversify and lessen our dependence, because the dependence is what makes us weak and vulnerable in the first place. On NATO he’s right that other NATO allies have dropped the ball on this for decades, Canadians can and should admit that. But now we're trying to solve this and also strengthen ties with other countries and people like Colby act perplexed when they see what Canada is doing. The president and the people around him muse about invading Greenland, which is the territory of a NATO ally, and again we're supposed to act like this isn't a massive wake up call? The difference now is that we are spending, and we’re doing it in a way that builds our own capacity and doing it with countries in similar predicaments to our own. But now that us and other allies who’ve come to the same conclusion as us about how much they can count on Washington all of a sudden we're a problem? Give me a break. I’d take criticism like this a lot more seriously if it came with even a partial acknowledgement that the reason countries like Canada are scrambling to look elsewhere is the conduct of this president and this administration. Instead we get surprise, and a sort of performed confusion about why any of it is happening. It’s also been something to watch a certain subset of hyper online Canadians, who i suspect maga world have decided speak for Canadians when they definitely don't, repeat the American talking points back at the rest of us because it helps them build their online clout. If the administration is upset about any of this they should look in the mirror. Treat your allies like shit and then expect them to come begging. What we’re actually doing is making sure we’re strong enough to stand on our own two feet, so the next time America has one of these psychotic breakdowns we aren’t as exposed as we were this time. We’re stuck sharing a continent with them. Trudeau Sr’s sleeping with an elephant line still holds, and we can’t divorce America, economically or otherwise. But if this is how we’re going to get treated, it’s prudent to sleep in another room.