Trump’s rebranding of Lake Ontario was just the beginning of multi-day effort to provoke Canada
Donald Trump sought to escalate his trade war with Canada on Sunday afternoon and issued a demand on Truth Social that Canadian companies wanting to do business with the U.S. reshore their headquarters within its borders.
His latest remarks come as Canadian officials warned that the country was prepared for an extended dispute with the U.S. after trade talks collapsed and Trump announced tariffs as high as 50 percent on some Canadian goods including dairy products and lumber. Canada has levied reciprocal tariffs against U.S. steel, aluminum and other exports.
On Sunday afternoon, the president said Canadian companies should move their headquarters and production facilities to avoid newly imposed tariffs. The duties are set to begin in 2027.
Lunatic.
The way Trump is going we’re not going to be a world power let alone a superpower much longer. I can’t t see Canadian businesses moving to the US as being to their advantage. Plenty of disadvantages, but not many advantages.
Amerikkka was never a superpower. Just a farce in a superpower-looking trenchcoat.
Depending on how you define a superpower… that ship might have already sailed.
There’s no way anyone would think moving to the US is an advantage.
Moving a company headquarters is a 5 year plan.
It’s extraordinarily unlikely Trump will be alive in 5 years.
No one is going to continue these stupid tariffs after he’s gone.
It’s questionable what state the US finances will be in five years from now. Why move your business into a country that just had its debt bomb explode and now nobody has any money?
Yeah. I was having a chuckle about those cheap Mexican electric trucks. I genuinely expect the US will be swamped with them in decades to come after any of a dozen predictable calamities have befallen the hapless US.
Imagine if Oatmilk weren’t as popular as it is, right now, the price of dairy would be through the roof because of Taco.
Soy milk is good too!
You looking for a fight? Huh? You want some, punk?
You want some, punk?
Is it one of the delicious non-dairy “milks”? Because, if so, yes!
And to keep up with demand they’d be cutting corners to the point all of it would be tainted with deadly pathogens
@MicroWave Shear insanity.
Driving me wool-harvesting crazy!
To all the Hat People- that’s what we call it right, folks, America’s Hat. It’s about to be a MAGA hat, amirite? To all the Hat People, immediately move all your businesses to the US, or else. What is the “or else?” I have no idea. Have you seen the ballroom lately? Isn’t it beautiful? Biden didn’t have a ballroom, did he?
Trump doesn’t have a ballroom. At least not yet. heh
2547
Wut?
I can’t even imagine what kind of crazy runs through his head. Sure, let me relocate my entire damn company because some tool decided to throw a tantrum and pick a fight with one of their biggest partners because reasons that’ll get turned around whenever he gets bored with it…
Hey Donnie, you don’t get to go making unilateral demands on an international stage, the world is not one of your casinos to bankrupt
It’s only a matter of time before he begins to really push the boundaries physically.
Can he push himself physically past the boundaries of life instead?
It’s not hard to imagine either. All he needs is some bit of bullshit about a criminal gang or terrorists or something that means they have to send troops to build a base in some previously unoccupied bit of forest somewhere. Canada makes a fuss but ultimately lets it slide because nobody’s directly affected. But then he’s got precedent and keeps pushing further, just like Putin with the former Soviet states.
Those boundaries only exist as far as you’re willing to defend physically, and we’re not opposed to civilian deaths, obviously. Probably why there’s no push for border walls up there yet.
Well yes but there obviously needs to be more aggressive pushback involving real consequences when even simple talk of pushing these boundaries begins.
Appeasement and gentle refusals tend to only invite more aggressive militant responses.
To all Canadians:
The only way we’re not going to end up another victim of this lunatic and his kind is if we all act, every one of us. I still see Starbucks overflowing. I still see people porking out on McDonald’s, Popeyes, Wendy’s. People still filling up their baskets with Coca Cola and Lays potato chips.
What the fuck, people? We did way better when this when this all started, US produce was rotting on the shelves. He’s literally attacking us now and I would hope that could at least get us back to that point.
You. Yes you. Stop. It’s not just a coke. It’s not just your favorite fries. It’s evidence that your dependence on US crap is too high and needs correcting.
Also something I don’t hear said enough is: with boycotts, anything is better than nothing. If you really can’t live without Coca-Cola, that doesn’t have to stop you cutting down on everything else. Just making the small effort on the shelves to check the label goes a long way.
Most of that crap is just licensed American IP produced locally. Cutting it out isn’t even going to be as impactful as other things and will harm local manufacturers and suppliers.
Boycotts need to target direct things. People have been making those choices at the grocery store quite effectively. Liquor and oranges. Web services need to be the next target with government support. Tax Netflix and friends into paying into our culture as they always should have been.
Not just a boycott, it’s a buy Canadian thing as well.
Why buy from the place sending fees back to the USA when you can buy from a purely Canadian company?
Good luck convincing all those Ontarian auto workers to stop buying “american” cars.
I don’t care myself, I don’t buy none of that shit. Just not helpful to target people who are probably on your side.
not helpful to target people who are probably on your side
Encouraging you to buy Canadian is “targeting” you?
Interesting.
Lol, all the USA exports is junk. Social media that’s bad for us. Food that’s bad for us. Drinksnthatbare bad for us. On an individual and societal level.
I like fender. But basically its only registered in the us. Made in china et. al.
Fender has been acting stupid lately too apparently
https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/youtubers-cutting-ties-with-fender
At least of partial blame is all the franchisee’s of those fast food places claiming “100% Canadian owned and operated” (I’ve seen these signs) and people falling for it, meanwhile they tithe back the licensing fees for the franchise.
From my brief research it seems it’s about a 50/50 split of profits (corporate measures in gross revenue though, so no Hollywood accounting to get out of it), and a large chunk of the corporate half goes to advertising.
100% of profits expatriated!
Don’t forget Tom Hortons is US owned now and if that’s not enough maybe their Harry Branding on everything right now can help, I see Tim Hortons Harry Potter trash all along the roads lately.
Yeah Tim’s is another chain that’s been Americanized for sure. Both in ownership and the way they ratfuck customers with inferior service and quality now.
A&W, Bar burrito, local independent joints… That’s pretty much it for me.
What the fuck is wrong with this moron? Is he actively having a stroke?
He’s demented and was never very bright to begin with
He was medically a moron before he had a small stroke. Now he shits himself constantly, can’t remember which country ending in N he started a war with, and can’t name the president of the United States as far back as 2025. If it wasn’t for Steven Miller animating his corpse, he’d be in a burn pit under 6’ of effluent already.
can’t remember which country ending in N he started a war with
You mean “The Islamic Republic of Japan”? You give him too much credit that he simply can’t remember the specific country. He doesn’t even know the country names in the first place.
Lots but I don’t think this move isn’t crazy or wrong from the perspective of his material interest. He’s sending a message to parts of capital that aren’t under his thumb / he isn’t under theirs, that he’ll hit their bottom line unless they materially pledge allegiance. He’s trying to engineer capital flight from Canada that could hurt us enough to get us to fall in line and allow resource and market access to his side of capital to exploit and profit from our labour and natural resources. Would it work? I hope not but I wouldn’t disregard the possibility.
If he’s serious about this, we might see him manufacture some terrorism or drugs excuse to slap massive tariffs, perhaps even sanctions on us. As his chances of losing the senate and the house in 2 months keep growing, this shit is getting more and more about his survival, so I think the chance that this not being hot air is growing.
He already manufactured drug stuff for tariffs.
And I’m not doubting he’s serious, I’m doubting he’s competent.
Dementia
He’s a petulant little orange shit, ain’t he?
So NAFTA was really just about USA having the power. “Free trade” my foot. Hope Canada (and Mexico) can successfully navigate this. How awful.
NAFTA largely benefitted us both, although there were some problems - though from everything I can tell, the upsides far outweighed the downsides.
Republicans in general have been behind most of the rise of fascism and shit, with Trump being even worse on top.
Believe what you like, but you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water on that one.
Nothing I’m saying defends Trump or the fascists being stupid and shooting not guns but bazookas at our own feet and firing those bazookas wildly everywhere and shitting on everything.
Believe what you like, but you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water on that one
I need more info, I may be misinformed and likely don’t know all the things. I just remember hearing a lot of hullabaloo about it then. It seemed like it was supposed to be good for all three countries, and an agreement of sorts. I don’t understand how this stuff now can be a thing beyond Trump being seemingly unchecked.
It was largely a good thing for all three countries.
What Trump is doing has nothing to do with NAFTA and everything to do with him basically doing illegal things. And stupid things.
The reason why he’s not being stopped is that all systems have weaknesses. Our system of government was not set up to assume that the people elected would actively work against our own interests and everyone elses’ (except the oligarchs’) interests. The checks and balances have failed because the fascists have all three branches of government.
The *MCfree trade agreement. Beautiful name. Strong name for a strong agreement. No other agreement has ever had such a great name. Believe me. A man - very strong man - told me, tears in his eyes, “Sir, this is such a great agreement.” Can you believe it?
But an actual issue for anything is a lot of “US”-based companies have moved manufacturing to Mexico. Under NAFTA agreements. So, all former goodwill be dead and all.
If he knew anything about business, he’d know this isn’t that simple or fast to do. If they were even willing.
Boy, he sure is trying to deflect attention a lot, isn’t he?
“Let all Canadian Companies that are doing business with America move to the United States, immediately. Many of them are Companies that moved out years ago due to stupid U.S. Leadership. When you move back, there are no TARIFFS!” Trump wrote.
In a separate post, he argued that Canada was one of America’s worst trading partners, despite being its second-largest. Canada and the U.S. conduct close to $900 billion in cross-border economic activity each year, according to the U.S. trade representative.
This man is insane and needs to be removed from office immediately by impeachment or the 25th amendment.
If it was gonna happen, it would’ve happened by now.
