Trump terminates all U.S. trade negotiations with Canada over Reagan tariffs TV ad (www.cnbc.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 05:18
https://lemmy.world/post/37781509

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Donald Trump said he had terminated all U.S. trade negotiations with Canada.

Trump said he was doing so because of an allegedly “fake” advertisement that Canada was airing that features former President Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.

Doug Ford, the premier of the Ontario province in Canada, recently said the province would spend $75 million on ads to run in the United States featuring Reagan criticizing tariffs

#world

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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org on 24 Oct 05:48 next collapse

Sure buddy. Why not. You are naked. We all see it. At this point you’re just closing your ears going LALALALALA

MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 05:53 next collapse

I think I’ll eat some butter tarts about it.

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 06:50 next collapse

Be careful with that. Buttery males is exactly how this all started.

lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 14:22 collapse

Damn that’s a slick joke.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 24 Oct 14:19 collapse

Or a Nanaimo bar.

hopesdead@startrek.website on 24 Oct 06:27 next collapse

If they are “fake”… then why is he upset? They aren’t real ads. Right?

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 24 Oct 06:33 collapse

we don’t take kindly to logic and sense around these parts.

- skeeter

Rentlar@lemmy.ca on 24 Oct 06:39 next collapse

Would you look at that, the first snowflakes of the season came early! ❄️

shittydwarf@piefed.social on 24 Oct 06:48 next collapse

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gigachad@piefed.social on 24 Oct 07:18 next collapse

I never heard about that ad but now I want to see it!

If anyone else does to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN_CVvzExpM

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 09:48 next collapse

When I heard about this, my first thought was “if he calls it ‘fake news’, it is probably spot on”. It did not disappoint, to say the least.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 12:16 collapse

Reality has a well known liberal bias.

Conservatism is a dead end death cult predicated on tribal fear and ignorance of the unknown.

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org on 24 Oct 13:16 collapse

Not that I care much about what Reagan said, but if he, too said it, it’s not a party political statement anymore but just common sense.

Plus, to a Republican this is like a double kick in the nuts.

edit: hmm. Tariffs aren’t a bad thing per se - used sparingly and appropriately, in some situations they might make sense.

filister@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 07:53 next collapse

The king had his feelings hurt and he has no one to blame but himself.

He signed a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada during his first term which he isn’t honoring anymore. And then he is annoyed that people are feeling angry at his shenanigans.

rylock@piefed.zip on 24 Oct 12:16 next collapse

Oh no, Canada doesn’t get to negotiate with the most dishonest and malicious administration in US history. What a terrible loss. I’m sure there was going to be a major breakthrough any minute now if not for this. Fucking loser.

theoriginalcows@lemmings.world on 24 Oct 12:53 next collapse

Trump knows how effective advertising is in controlling what people think, that’s why he’s so upset about this.

IronBird@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 16:06 collapse

you give him more credit than he’s due, seriously…every single person who has ever interacted with this guy has said they were surprised with just how stupid he is.

the man is incredibly easy to manipulate, him being so easy to manipulate is the only thing that makes manipulating him difficult, because he’ll just flip to whatever the next guy tells him

he saw a video that challenged the reality his bubble has built around him, and like a child this frightened/angered him so he lashes out.

village604@adultswim.fan on 24 Oct 13:06 next collapse

Is that a real Reagan speech? I feel gross for agreeing with him on something.

IronBird@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 16:03 next collapse

it is impressive just how quickly the US fell to Murdoch and Co.

republicans used to have to atleast try and pretend they were complete pieces of shit, now they get to flaunt their true-selves out in the open

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 17:26 next collapse

The worst people in the world were still more reasonable than the fascists today: youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok

foggenbooty@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 19:22 collapse

I’ve been saying that Idiocracy is coming true, but that was set in 2505. Seeing how far we’ve fallen in just 45 years, there’s no way we make it 500.

village604@adultswim.fan on 24 Oct 20:13 collapse

President Camacho was actually a good president, though.

foggenbooty@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 19:27 collapse

Yes, it’s taken from this address: youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

wampus@lemmy.ca on 24 Oct 13:20 next collapse

So Trump’d seen the ad three days prior to his supposed late night melt down. And he’s again making large, market disruptive comments on a Friday, which will likely get toned down by Monday/Tuesday.

This just smells like more market manipulation on behalf of wealthy backers that want to fleece people further.

IronBird@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 16:01 collapse

that’s the beautiful part about trump with all this, the idiot is so far gone and stupid that anyone even remotely smart/logical has to hedge on the assumption he actually carries through with whatever bullshit he says.

the wolves are running the show right now, and they have plenty of lambs and pigs to choose from

mmmac@lemmy.zip on 24 Oct 15:49 next collapse

Buddy has been cranking out AI videos of himself since he got into office and he’s gonna go cry over some real audio? 🤣

MehBlah@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 20:09 collapse

This is why he can’t imagine Canada’s ad is anything other than AI. After all its what he does and he is a genesis. /s

Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca on 24 Oct 15:55 next collapse

Fascist Ford doing his best to help the child rapist by causing friction between us and Canada is my tinfoil hat theory.

IronBird@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 16:00 collapse

your not going to get anything from negotiating with trump, it should be perfectly clear now how this idiot and those behind him operate. “negotiate” and you just open yourself up to another shakedown later on

maybe seeing a video of their jesus saying tariffs with allies are stupid is what some idiots in america need to wakeup

OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 16:00 next collapse

Someone needs to put him in an old folks home.

switcheroo@lemmy.world on 24 Oct 19:59 collapse

An old folks jail.

hefty4871@lemmy.ca on 24 Oct 19:58 next collapse

“I saw an ad last night from Canada. If I was Canada, I’d take that same ad also,” said Trump. “But I do believe that everybody’s too smart for that.” 

Later:

“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”

IndridCold@lemmy.ca on 24 Oct 20:08 collapse

You can’t reason or make deals with the great Hamberder King because his mood swings depending on how full his diaper is.

World leaders should just ignore him. His word and his signature isn’t worth anything.