Summary
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced Trump’s sudden 25% tariffs, warning they threaten American jobs and will inflate consumer costs.
He revealed that Trump refuses to take his calls and sharply criticized claims linking tariffs to illegal immigration and fentanyl crossing U.S. borders.
In retaliation, Canada and Mexico imposed matching tariffs, targeting crucial American exports like auto parts, agriculture, and red-state staples like famous Kentucky bourbon.
Trudeau warned American factories may shut, citing integrated supply chains.
I really believe Trump is refusing calls from Trudeau like its a power move in a high stakes negotiations. Instead its an idiot, Trump, doing something dumb and an actual intelligent adult is trying to tell him how dumb he is and he won’t listen.
His brain operates like a hamster and wheel. The issue is that the hamster died a long time ago.
That poor thing has been lifelessly spinning for at least 9 years now… Someone should put it out of its misery.
I know Luigi doesn’t traditionally deal with hamsters, but he does have experience with general extermination, so maybe it’ll translate.
Of course I am talking about the Mario bros and their turtle extermination side hustle… For legal reasons.
Or he is doing what his Russian master (Putin) wants…
Yeah, I don’t understand how people are confused about this. We KNOW from his last term that the Russians have kompromat on MANY Republicans, or just outright own them. Did everyone forget all the Republican senators flying to Russia together to meet with Putin?
If you view Trump and Co.'s actions from Putin’s POV, it makes a lot of sense.
And the flew there on the 4th of July 🫡🇺🇸
Putin planned it on the 4th to wave his dick in their faces even harder.
He’s acting like his allies are enemies and not countries you want to cooperate with for the common good.
Cooperation is pussy liberal shit, a real American dies alone
First you have to have an understanding of “the common good”, which I’m quite certain he is lacking. There is only “the good for me”.
The US’s allies ARE his enemies, because his allies are our enemies.
Our allies are sensible and question his stupidity. Our enemies are also sensible and so they applaud his stupidity, because they’re our enemies.
When everything in the world is zero sum, there is no cooperation.
Such a sad way to view the world.
A telephone call requires him to respond without his team in the loop. He’s not opening himself up to that.
Since taking office I’m getting more and more convinced that he’s in two modes. Teleprompter mode, where his words have been agreed upon by his team, and twitter rant, where he’s just spouting his own bile.
He never speaks candidly in person since winning the election. Even the press room statement after the air crash was a prepared piece with all the hate baked in. Sure he took some questions but they were predictable and mainly deflected.
Nah, he’s just refusing to talk to him because his goal is to tank America and this is a step in it. Funnel all the money to himself and his friends, rape and pillage, and eliminate it as a superpower, threat, or world influence for daddy Putin.
It’s proof that it’s not about the economy which would mean the door is always open to negotiate a better deal. It’s not about drugs since Canada could be calling to say, “We’ve made X changes to reduce drug trade.”
So that begs the question: what is this all about?
Wrecking the economy so billionaires can buy up infrastructure at fire-sale prices?
This is Putin getting his Puppet to weaken the USA to promote Putin’s goals. Donvict is a Russian asset. A weak USA helps Russia and BRICS, especially for objectives like Ukraine. Other players, like the oligarchs, are also beholden to Putin.
He also refused to answer calls from Von der Leyen.
Maybe he doesn’t know how phones work.
I do remember him talking about writing letters to Kim Jong Un after all.
Maybe he’s just mad that his wife and daughter never looked at him the way they looked at Trudeau.
His voters like him because he is like them.
No, he hates Trudeau, who has resigned. Why would you talk to a lame duck you despise?
Do you believe the same thing of the Biden administration’s refusal to talk to Putin’s office?
Ah yes, who can forget the longstanding free-trade agreement with America’s favourite, peaceful neighbour, Russia. Both sides are totally the same.
It’s a simple question. Are you gonna answer it or not?
The answer is implied. No, I don’t believe the same thing, because they are explicitly different situations.
Refusing to communicate with someone is valid when you have valid reasons.
Refusing to take a phone call from a guy actively engaging in a violent robbery is valid for a number of reasons.
Flinging bags of shit into your neighbour’s yard, then refusing to talk to your neighbour’s when they say “this isn’t helping either of us live well; I don’t want to throw this shit back at you, but I will until you stop” is not valid, it is the inaction of a petty imbecile that can’t justify their actions.
Does that answer your question?
So you think it was not childish at all to refuse to communicate with Russia? That blows my mind.
What? No. I literally just explained that. No, it’s not childish to refuse to take a bad faith call from a dictator to either legitimize their rule or engage in a conflict that would drag the world into a 3rd world war.
Whether you agree or disagree with whether that is the correct political move is certainly up for debate. But to claim it is childish is itself naive.
You made an analogy with talking to a robber