Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

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President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-tariff speech by former President Ronald Reagan in 1987.

“Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs,” Trump posted on Truth Social, adding, “Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now.”

The president’s post came after he said Thursday he was terminating trade talks with Canada, threatening once again to upend the crucial economic relationship between the United States and its second-biggest trading partner. The new tariff is Trump’s latest salvo in his global trade agenda after he imposed a levy of 100% “over and above” any tariffs on China in retaliation for new export controls Beijing imposed on rare-earth minerals earlier this month.

 
Ford had a deceptive edited version of the video created and aired in the USA.

That's propaganda from aboard to interfere in American politics.

He fucked around and Canada found out.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I am pretty sure it was not edited.....it was simply not the full speech...a very different thing.
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Yes, the ad was edited; selectively splicing President Reagan's words to emphasize anti-tariff warnings while omitting his defense of targeted tariffs as a "necessary" enforcement tool. This omission provides incomplete context, which the Reagan Foundation and President Trump reasonably call a misrepresentation, making the editing deceptive in intent to portray Reagan as a blanket tariff opponent.

It was edited by splicing six snippets together into a 60-second narration, omitting context where Reagan defends specific tariff impositions. This selective editing has been criticized as misleading by the Reagan Foundation.
 
Diogenes said:
Yes, the ad was edited; selectively splicing President Reagan's words to emphasize anti-tariff warnings while omitting his defense of targeted tariffs as a "necessary" enforcement tool. This omission provides incomplete context, which the Reagan Foundation and President Trump reasonably call a misrepresentation, making the editing deceptive in intent to portray Reagan as a blanket tariff opponent.

It was edited by splicing six snippets together into a 60-second narration, omitting context where Reagan defends specific tariff impositions. This selective editing has been criticized as misleading by the Reagan Foundation.
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Ya alright, it was edited.
 
Good Point:


James Surowiecki


@JamesSurowiecki


Trump is raising US tariffs on Canada by 10% because he's unhappy that Ontario ran an ad quoting Ronald Reagan on why tariffs are bad. This is, of course, insane, and Trump has no legal authority to raise tariffs for that reason. If the Supreme Court can see this and still accept Trump's national-security/national emergency argument for why he should be able to impose whatever tariffs he wants on whomever he wants, they are not serious people.
 
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True.....The Constitution Is OVER:

Bill Kristol

@BillKristol


An embarrassingly obvious point, but...This. Is. Illegal.If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
 
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