This nation needs to hang it's head in collective shame for allowing this embarrassing buffoon to continue dragging our country into the gutter of his own demented assholery:
Link: Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario as Spat With Canada Escalates - WSJ
"WASHINGTON—President Trump threatened to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” in the latest escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Canada after trade negotiations between the two countries collapsed.
On Tuesday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. is “giving serious consideration” to the name change because it didn’t expect to be “doing much business with Ontario any longer.”"
DonOld threatened Canada with "severe consequences" the other day after the Canadian Prime Minister responded to his massive call of across the board 50% tariffs on imported Canadian goods by putting out a public statement that Canada would reciprocate in kind with "dollar for dollar" tariffs on US imports into their country.
And true to form, like the toddler he is, this is apparently the first wave of of those "severe consequences" from King DonOld:
The Canadians have essentially had enough of Drumpf's bullying and manically spontaneous threats, and the blustering accusations about past US/Canada trade relations which are primarily lies.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney is a serious man with serious political and career accomplishment credentials that make Drumpf look exactly like the low-life mobster that he has always been.
Carney has a degree from Harvard in economics. He has a doctorate in economics from the distinguished University of Oxford. He was the first non-British person to be appointed as Governor of the Bank of England. He has served honorably in a variety of positions in Canadian government for many years and was popularly elected Prime Minister of Canada in March of last year.
Carney is generally considered to be a political moderate, but Drumpf's completely erratic and unserious actions and behaviors during the recent US/Canadian trade talks more or less has convinced Carney that the US POTUS is hopelessly and intractably demented, and that Canada isn't going to entertain any deals while Drumpf is in office.
Therefore Americans get higher prices on Canadian imports and Canada is going to forge ahead with plans to do less trade with the US and more trade with Europe.
And no - having Canada turn away from doing trade with the US is not a good thing for America or our economy. It is not a good thing at all.
Canada is the second largest trading nation with the US behind Mexico and ahead of China:
As you can see, Canada, at -24 has a much lower trade imbalance with the US than most of the other countries in that top ten list of trading partners.
Also, the overall Total trade imbalance that the US has with all of it's trading partners is -901.5:
Link: List of the largest trading partners of the United States - Wikipedia
So why is Drumpf picking on Canada? Because the Canadian leader Mark Carney refuses to bow down on his knees and kiss the filthy old mobster's ring.
Carney is telling Drumpf straight up that he has no patience or time for DonOld's adolescent behavior and arrogant gamesmanship - period.
Unlike Diaper Donny, Mark Carney has a nation to run and a citizenry to responsibly answer to and protect, and he is going to do what is in the best interests of his nation and his people, DonOld Drumpf be damned.
On this side of the border, Drumpf couldn't give less of a shit what his tariff wars do to the American economy, American businesses, American farmers, and American consumers.
All that DonOld cares about is what he himself gets out of any deal. What's in it for DonOld and his "friends" is always the prime negotiating point in every transaction the mobbed-up old con artist is involved in.
DonOld is just showing us all how things work in the mob world when it comes to making "deals." The mob boss always gets his generous cut of the shakedown loot and that is an unbreakable tenet of that line of Drumpfian 'business.'
Anyway, long enough harangue. Support our neighbors to the north. Refuse to vote for a single candidate or politician with the letter (R) after their name for the foreseeable future. That's how we put an end to the orange lunatic's tragicomic subversion of our constitution, our laws, our democracy, and our sense of decency.
Taking power away from Drumpf, MAGA and the hopelessly corrupt and morally impoverished Republican party is the first step toward re-establishing some sense of normalcy and sanity in our government and putting America on the road to recovery from Orange Caligula's Canada-bashing reign of terror.
---TFG
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