Summary

In a virtual speech at the World Economic Forum, Trump suggested Canada could become a U.S. state to avoid his proposed tariffs on imports.

The remark elicited gasps from the audience.

Trump claimed the U.S. does not need Canadian lumber, energy, or vehicles, vastly overstating the trade deficit between the two nations.

He reiterated his intention to impose tariffs, potentially as high as 25%, on imports from Canada and Mexico starting February 1.

Economists warn such tariffs would raise prices for U.S. consumers.

  • Hegar
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    9111 days ago

    Putin hired him to start pointless nonsensical arguments with our nearest and most vital allies and that’s what he’s gonna do.

      • @[email protected]
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        3211 days ago

        Any taped content wouldn’t sway his cult of loonies. The guy rapes and fantasizes about shooting people on the street. Could be just psycho machismo why they’re colluding

      • @grue
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        Nobody would give a fuck about pee tapes. Cee-pee tapes, maybe, but even then it might still not be enough to bring him down at this point.

        Otherwise, it’s 100% clear Trump is doing this shit because he’s a Putin fanboi and fascist true believer, not because he’s somehow being coerced. Stop giving him the benefit of the doubt.

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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        1011 days ago

        I’d like to see MAGA’s cognitive dissonance in trying to conceptualize Trump getting peed on as a power move of his

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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          610 days ago

          Trump getting peed on

          That didn’t happen. Trump is famously a germaphobe.

          What allegedly happened:

          Trump “hated” Obama so much that when he stayed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow, he hired the presidential suite (Report 80), but did not stay in it.[233] There he employed “a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him”[127][225][234] in order to defile the bed used by the Obamas on an earlier visit. The alleged incident from 2013 was reportedly filmed and recorded by the FSB[235] as kompromat.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier

        • @betterdeadthanreddit
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          311 days ago

          Soaking in their precious bodily fluids while denying them his essence.