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Cars, for example, are made by american countries anyway (Ford, GM etc). Australia is being punished for aluminium exports to the US. And the largest company involved in this.....ALCOA. Another american company. The orange one and his stupiid sidekick seem to have no idea how international trade works, especially if you are punishing mostly american internationals. Just look how he has punished the DOW. Americans are going to suffer even more in the future.

It’s a trade dispute between USA and Canada, where from Russia came into this subject. Anyway USA people job and economy are NOT depending only on Canada, so don’t worry. So your “Friendship” depends on tariffs % ?

What's the trolling horse? Cause Trump is doing stuff and nobody's watching what he's doing. Guess what? This can be World War 3, no matter what Canadians do to protect their borders. He aint gonna be satisfied anyway, so we gotta cut our resources and go somewhere else. Take our goods and baskets out of the basket. And start dealing outside of the US that was our big mistake we don't want to deal with Russians. This putin is nothing but a dictator please nobody

I´m from Mexico but lived in Montreal because I love Canada: let´s keep MEX-CAN relationship anyway without the Donald!!!

I get all the commentary lifting Trudeau up but when i heard that he is like on his last couple of days of his term i couldn't help but feel that noone so far anyways has come out and let lose with the hard hitting, proper Grammer and clean nice language be dammed, no not anyone to speak to this wannabe hard guy which this guy absolutely is not - trust me , and i get it he is 80 years old, but if you watch him in his 60s and 50's and going back to his youth he never could bust a grape; just all bluster , daddy's money, and when it came time to pay some rent .. he'd pay someone else to do it. A coward thru and thru.

Gooday mate .Im an Australian and living 500km from the next tiny town . Anyway , what's going on with America and Canada ? Cheers !

All he needed to do to secure Canada's borders. They should be doing that anyways. But Trudeau decides to hurt his own people by having a trade war with the USA. CANADIANS are angry with Trudeau

their food stinks anyways, buy icelandic and greenlandic export instead.

I am not so diplomatic and cannot say that Trump is in anyway smart…

Trump is NOT smart-in anyway. He's F'ING IDIOT.

Tariffs hurt short term but we have to think about the children and future generations, we can and will produce anything we need , how often do u eat maple syrup anyway

Funny how everyone has support for Trudeau when his own country doesn’t support him. He is on his was out anyways.

99% of Fentanyl is from the Southwest border, 1% from Canada. No Folks, this is not about that. This is about trying to break down Canada economically and steal money and resources from Canada. The US president will NEVER have war approval on Canada through congressional approval and the US is so divided that the army would not cooperate anyways.

I support Trump and I support MAGA. However a president needs to keep his word and Trump appears to have broken his word here. He asked Canada to reign in illegal immigration to the US and Canada complied. He said do something about fetanyl and Canada did. Trump said the tariff's were because Canada was not acting on these but now they have and we imposed the tariff's anyway. We look like liars and cheats. \nEven with Mexico we threatened tariffs if they didn't help with crackdown on illegal immigration, fetanyl, and drug cartels. Mexico complied and is also helping us. And we still slapped tariffs on them. We lied to Mexico too. \nAnd now we want everyone to trust us to negotiate a peaceful end to the Ukraine war with Trump threatening more sanctions on China and the EU. What the heck should they trust us and believe us after what we just did. \nWhen it comes to defining your character your willingness to keep your word overrules absolutely everything else. Our president gave his word that if these countries took certain actions there would be no tariffs. They did and now he slapped them both in the face with sanctions anyway. He broke his word. This is a dishonorable action. I hope it does not escalate from there. \nIf it was about promoting or building domestic industries, I think the Canadians could have helped us with that but now.... good luck now that bridge has been burned.

Aint nobody listening to Trudeau. He fittin to become a governor anyway!!! ???

Who is this Governor TrueDope anyway?

Cut the power. Our relationship with the US has run its course. It’s gonna be rough for a while but it is anyways. We can’t bend the knee to the US dictatorship they are building.

GOOD JOB!!!!! CANADA IS BETTER COUNTRY THAN US ANYWAY!! US WILL COME BEGGING YOU

I think it would be great if all news media boycotted the frump Congress speech tonight... There won't be anything factual anyway....and maybe it will upset the 5th grader..

What is the purpose of showing PM Trudeau in his press conference if we can't hear him? These CNN commentators are paraphrasing endlessly what he said, while cutting off his voice. Are we so dumb that we have to be served a rehash while being deprived of the real thing? \n Maybe CNN is trying to explain things to MAGA voters; why the effort? They would'nt watch CNN anyway!

I'm American and yes this will affect me but I honestly hope that Canada brings this country and Maga to its knees!!! I want the pain to be so great that's is never forgotten. If there was anyway I could help Canada I would! Let them feel the consequences of their choices.

Trudeau is making it even harder on Canada, not that he cared about canadians anyways. Like are you stupid canadians?, I think so. Sincerely from the USA

Can America just become your next province? (We didn’t ask for this either. Well the sane people anyway)

Trump isn't listening to this moron, anyway. He's insignificant.

I love that he’s just repeating stuff we would have done anyway ? trump just wants to take credit for it

I’m an Indigenous American here, I say if Canada was really our friend then they would understand that they have been taking advantage of our countries kindness for too long and it’s time they step up.. If us trying to do something good for our own country for one time instead of everybody else and it’s a problem like this then maybe we weren’t friends anyway.. That means u were only friendly bc u were taking advantage.. \nPlenty of other countries has decided to pick up their own slack and it’s time Canada and America and the other countries start focusing more on their own citizens.. \nThis man is ready to send Canadian soldiers to die in Ukraine right now for something that has nothing to do with them and now instead of negotiating an agreement it’s all about relation and hurting your own people to get back at others over something you took personally..\nI always liked Trudeau but if that’s how he feels about our country then that’s how we feel about his.. \nwe don’t care about Canada anymore except justing Bieber and Linus media group.. everyone else can go lol..

I am not a fan of Trudeau and prefer Pierre but I am not above giving Justin credit for this address. Where was this Justin when we needed him. Anyways credit to Justin no matter my stand because one can see it in his face he isn’t happy and means it . ?

Donnie wanted praise for what he called the great deal he now is trashing. He also threatens a neighbor, who does what he asked, then attacks them anyway. His word means nothing, he's making our country's word stand for precisely jack...pathetic

No you just want to keep screwing us on trade for decades so we will deal with it you f'ing tool. I hope you shut down the electric its only hurting the blue areas anyways that are like you that most of us hate like new york. Love it your going to have inflation go out of control will love when the people wakeup and see that a loaf of bread cost you a wheel barrel of cash. We want our money back and tired of us paying and supporting the world.

This makes for even more reason for Canada to become the 51st state. This wouldn’t even be happening. Canada is basically like America anyway. Smh this is so stupid smh I can’t even watch the entire video smh it’s so dumb

Can we swap out the orange moron for Trudeau? Sounds like Canada will be done with him soon anyway.

What a bunch of mf R3t@rds in this comment section. \n\nCanada, we don't need you. We never did. Who tf wants to be allies with a country that supports the self-mutilation and suic!d3$ of its own citizens anyway??? Pathetic.

well-done Canada. Trump is living in another fantasy-world outside reality. Anyway, what do you expect from a dummie in power.

Who cares he’s gone anyways?

Somewhat right but not exactly right. According to Trump admin, Trump is actually trying to stop the circumvention of Chinese goods and Chinese drugs coming from Canada. Trudeau promised Trump to work on the drug issue, but I guess he did not if we are seeing the significant import tax on Canada now. And come on Trudeau, you dislike Trump and aren't exactly his friend. You talked back on him on many international stages. Anyways, I wish you two get along eventually and hope the same for US and Canada.

Good, pull all America crap off your shelf Canada. I don't care about burbon or whiskey because I don't drink liquor anyway. Who cares if they lay off some burbon and whiskey employees. America voted and wanted this, so here you go.?

c'est dommage, why did they interrupt his French bit...kind of cuts of that part of Canadian culture...could have subbed it...anyway, imho, it is difficult to speak to a patients in a psychiatric ward.

Trump won’t listen to anything anyone has to say anyway. Talking to Trump is like talking to a doorknob

Hope trump close all borders with Canada trash products anyways

Hillary Clinton and VP Harris warned us about this dictator and you voted for this anyway. High prices will affect all of us even if you're rich.

Trump is wrong in this .... anyway they planned all this when Canada honored the international criminal court against Israel... on the record SC graham spoke in video about destroying Canada economy.... but Canada has two serious nations that will automatically back Canada.. the UK and it sphere AND France and it sphere.... the only problem is logistics But Denmark has the logistics solution.... anyway USA first started growing off track with bush jr ... he who started the downfall policies of usa ..

We got better beer and booze anyways ??

No you believe in us protecting you for free for forever. And it’s over. You are crippling yourselves Canada. And again, you must have a team of moderators that crowd source opinions and use mine often to prepare you for your next speech. I am but one intelligent Hoosier calling these moves… you really will be losing seafood here next ;). Trade war is hardly 25%, and the tariffs were meant to be reciprocal anyways XD so wooo, big move. Weren’t you facing fraud charges or something just recently cuz you stole from your own people?

Canada should block all US imports, not just put tariffs on US goods. No one in Canada will buy US goods anyway.

Why can't you Canadians do business with your step brotheter and sisters from England. You folks are British anyway...Mr. Trump is the best president who is doing best for Americans. Canada, England, other British colonies like Australia gonna starve to death without American tycoons ...

what I am confused the most, beyond how dumb the tariff is, is why Trump needs a fentanyl pretext. it's so fake, and Trump is so shameless anyway. why even bother?

You resigned anyway. So just leave. No one cares about your words and it shows, tariffs took place .

Well Americans, this is what y’all voted for some of y’all anyway

More inflation isn't going to affect most of us. We've already had so much that we can't afford anything anyway. If a house already costs a million dollars who cares if it goes up to 100 million. Is truly not worth working during this period of time until work pays a living again. I'm at the point I'd rather go live off the land on a commune

Fuck Canada lol. Never liked maple syrup anyway