Wait, Trump Really Has Us Beefing With Canada?

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Previous to the lyrical dust-up between Compton native Kendrick Lamar and Canadian goose Drake, Canada has traditionally been one of many kindest nations on the planet. Residents don’t lock their doorways, and so they have free healthcare and actually goofy and mushy accents.

So why on Rihanna’s inexperienced Earth is the president of people who find themselves shopping for poorly-made trash can vans to personal the libs attempting to beef with Canada? Canada doesn’t trouble anybody. They’re fairly actually the bodily embodiment of consuming their water and minding their enterprise.

However that hasn’t stopped the pretend dictator in workplace from claiming that the nation that doesn’t trouble anybody is America’s 51st state, issuing tariffs, and simply blatantly being disrespectful AF.

Throughout a Tuesday Interview with Republican OnlyFans aka Fox Information, the president claimed that he’s going to maintain bullying our neighboring nation.

“You’re harder with Canada than you might be with our largest adversaries. Why?” requested Laura Ingraham, the New Republic reviews.

“Solely as a result of it’s meant to be our 51st state,” Trump mentioned. “No, no however hearken to this for a second.”

“We’d like their territory. They’ve territorial benefit. We’re not going to allow them to get near China, proper?” the Fox host requested.

“Look, I take care of each nation—immediately or not directly. One of many nastiest nations to take care of is Canada,” Trump mentioned.

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Possibly, and I’m not a moderator, however simply perhaps that’s as a result of Trump retains claiming that he’s going to make their nation America’s 51st state! Oh, and he can’t cease speaking about Canada’s former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, although he misplaced his place as Canada’s foremost man to Mark Carney final week.

“Now, this was Trudeau—good outdated Justin. I name him ‘Governor Trudeau.’ His folks have been nasty, and so they weren’t telling the reality. They by no means inform the reality,” Trump mentioned. “, they’d say, ‘We don’t cost,’ and so they do, they cost great.”

Having hassle working by way of Trump’s phrase salad? Let me see if I will help.

Trump doesn’t perceive how tariffs work so he retains claiming that he’s going to tax the nation that sends items to America. The issue is the corporate/nation that’s being charged the tariff merely passes that cost on to the buyer. In protection of tariffs, Trump started making all types of fictitious claims (learn lies) about Canada.

Like this one: “In Canada, we discover that they’re charging us over 200% for dairy merchandise… And once I left, we had that effectively taken care of, however underneath Biden they simply stored elevating it.”

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CBS Information discovered this declare to be ridiculously false:

“President Trump has prompt Canada unfairly put tariffs of over 200% on American dairy merchandise throughout President Biden’s time period, however the stage has been unchanged since earlier than Biden took workplace.

“The over 200% tariffs on U.S. dairy merchandise are solely triggered if U.S. dairy exports exceed sure yearly duty-free limits, and U.S. dairy producers say they’ve by no means been near exceeding these limits.”

However why would we trouble Trump with the reality when his lies serve a objective? It’s simply complicated that his objective appears to be choosing a combat with Canada, and Canada don’t trouble no one.