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As a German - apart from the content which is no less than justified - just technically comparing Trudeau´s speech with Donald Trump´s verbal outcome - what an incredible difference in niveau & tone. Isn't it almost tragic how little skill it took to run the U.S and even worse, how low the common-sense-threshold must be for a half of the American people to make this happen a second time. Embarrassing.

They've said it themselves. The bulk of their business/money comes from Russia. This isn't hard to understand. And now that he can't be elected again, he cares even less and is focusing even harder on making Russia happy.

There is a chin scratcher do I care less about what Trudeau thinks or do I care less about CNNs ability to translateEnglish into English. A real network would peel back the details of JTs smoke and mirrors.

Everything Canada has done recently was AFTER Trump did something.\n\nMeaning if they wanted to do something about it with the prior administration they could have they just decided it wasn’t worth the investment.\n\nThis guy cares more about his hair products than the average Canadian much less American.

You have power, guys. Temporary hardships might happen, but basically we all need to hold for 4 years, maybe less. We all can do it only together ?

There is a large amount of fentanyl being seized coming into Canada by Americans! Far far more than the less than .001percent coming in from Canada.

One asterisk I'll put on the housing element and immigration:\n\nThe immigration probably would have been fine, but we made the inexplicable decision to place those huge numbers into the already hottest markets - the cities. We probably could have survived that rush better had we spread them into our less populous areas like the prairies, northern territories or smaller towns.

Let trump show his ass & even MAGAs will notice that due to trump's chaos, prices are going up dramatically, plus we are less secure & have lost the trust of the world.

Canada….We DON’T need you at ALL. The only reason you’re still Canada is because of the United States. Fugging less than country. ?

Like always …just follow the money…which will bring you to the players pulling the Trump puppets strings and they could care less about the average American, Canadian, Mexican or any other citizen. They are already making huge profits from this decision and if it changes in a month they will make huge profits from that as well.

Only rich pricks, Canadians and illegals will suffer from this. Average folk like myself, who won't be buying a new car, or a house don't care. No more new houses means less illegals to build them and less houses means less traffic. Win win.

We are less than two months into DJT's term, and I have to say it's turning out much worse than I expected (and I thought it would be pretty bad). It is terribly depressing to see the country fail while roughly half of it's people cheer it on. We're seeing the fall of the US in real-time, and I'm not sure how we come back from this. I'm exhausted, and we're just getting started.

If I really want to make sense of all this non sense, in this 'alternative truth world', I will say that, in fact, Trump is surprisingly the best advocate for sustainable development! Because, if the tariffs have the expected consequences, trade between both your countries will decrease, meaning less trucks on the roads, meaning less fossiles fuels, less production, less consumption, meaning less emissions of CO2. Is it what Trump really wants?

Clown illegitimate that has less than 18%votes last election and had to do a bunch of illegal stuff to remain in power against the will of the Canadian people

I care less about his opinion than that of CNN. Which is saying a lot. He is far and away the worst head of state in the Americas. I've left things in the toilet more qualified to lead a country.

It is so amusing that bots have been employed in full force to ensure all the comments are giving a shoulder to the PM to cry on. He at least finds himself useful after attacking mindlessly countries in the world whose security he has no business endangering .\n\nPOTUS is doing what is best for his country and his steps are revolutionary and will cause some pain in the beginning but the population at large should exercise patience and understand he is the only who can get them out of the abyss and also ensure all the people exploiting Usa for their wealth and support don’t do so \n\nPeople have been using USA to their advantage and here is a man who makes sense with his strategy \n\nThis PM speaks as if his tariffs are going to shake up supplies to USA \nHe seems to be living in a dream . Anyway he is going to be out soon \n\nAmericans hang out with POtUs . He is tough less tactful and polite but he means business

Trump and his loser clan of idiots is going to destroy the country in less than 4 years. How can any Republican literally accept this as a good decision?

Took Trump snd his lackies less than 6 weeks to destroy this country

John Kennedy was assassinated for much less what I have to say about this!

Every now and then there is a politician who can communicate clearly and effectively even to those less gifted.

Finish Free trade zone with EU. Its already in progress, with maximum engagement from Canada and EU it can be done it less than a month. Lets call it MTES - Make Trumputin Eat Shit.

Noticed when he adresses Donald directly he uses less complicated /educated words? ???????

It isn't about Putin! TRUMP IS TRYING TO BE PUTIN. He's trying to crash Canada's economy so oligarchs can swoop in. JFC I cannot believe no one gets this! You people aren't in the same park much less observing the playing field!

The Executive Branch of the United States is occupied by the biggest f*ing elites on the entire planet, Putin's pet kleptocrat Trump, his foreign oligarch boyfriend Elon and a clown show of a cabinet. The most incompetent US administration of all time. Thanks Mitch McConnell and Merrick Garland. Lindsay Graham. Josh Hawley. Chuck Grassley. Canadian born Ted Cruz, who doesn't even defend his wife, much less the country. Leadership like that does not belong in NATO, it's what NATO was meant to protect us, Canada and the United States, from.

It's really important that Canada and the rest of the world understand only a slight majority supports Queen Trump and King Musk there's a huge chunk of the country a little less than half that does not agree nor support that imbecile

Did Sunny from the view watch this press conference BECAUSE it is clear why The US goes after the southern border instead of Canada....Canada clearly does their part instead of the Southern Countries who could care less

Don’t tariff America. As a Canadian two wrongs don’t make it right. Get the energy out. Triple our global output. Our autoworkers need jobs well let’s build Trudeau. Talk and winning. Global energy. Let BYD in with out tariffs. We don’t have an auto sector anymore. ? BYD and get over it ( the eagles ?). Trump is correct at our lack of defence. Maybe this will help. The only way to scourge out of fentanyl is a clean source and less social stigmatization of the sick. Don’t expect a smart man like trump to figure that out.

Canada already has jas insane tarriffs on us. Now they complain because they get treated the same. Trade over seas canada and get even less money LMAO

Trudeau is a loser. Thankfully he is gone in less than a week. Election incoming!!!

Blistering speech? Democrats none the less

Dear Americans,\nIf you don't get rid of this idiot, at the same time, tame poodle of putin from White House, then he will ruin America!\nIn less then a couple of months, you will have very serious economics and other kind of problems, remember my words.

Good job Justin. There's nothing else you could have said or done. The problem as I see it, is that responding in kind to Trump like this is possibly to invite an invasion, justified by Trump claiming that Canadian assets are essential to US national security. It's hard to parse the provocation from the US as anything less than a pretext to eventually try and annexe Canada. Maybe Russia will attack the Baltics at the same time. It's becoming increasingly obvious that the US Government is no longer a friend to the free world.

I have a solution, government should tax the people less to offset the tarriff

Good speakers are not necessarily good leaders. That's why this dude is on his way out. Tough talk from a bad leader doesn't work...again that's why he's on his way out. Do More, say less, but your time has passed.

Boycott All US Products and Anything Musk . The EU , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Japan , Mexico and many more Countries have a combined GDP much greater than the USA . Lets see Trump sell US made Products to Russians with an average monthly wage of Less than $400. US Dollars a Month ?

Don't get it, twisted, Trudeau. You've been screwing Canada over for 9 years, so why do you suddenly care now? You and Carney, and your gimp guilbeault with your carbon tax and doubling of rent and mortgages and groceries has been hurting Canadian families, but now Trump is doing this, and you're acting like a hero or are you just jealous because somebody else is beating on Canadians instead of just you, or is it because it's going to leave you with less of our tax dollars to launder?!

America is less popular than North Korea right now.

We are doomed!!!!! Trump is a wreck less incompetent idiot

Aren’t you supposed to get the fuck out in less than a month?

Never been less proud to be an American. Hopefully we have hit rock bottom, but I am pretty sure Trump and cronies are not done raping and pillaging the country.

Less than half an ounce seized in January ?

Trump has been in office less than 2 months and has already ruined the economies of 3 countries. ?Good job America. You elected a moron as POTUS. Enjoy your incoming recession. You got what you voted for. A lunatic failed felon. Sad it effects all who did not vote for him.

Canada's only got a 63,000 soldiers that isn't enough to protect Maryland let alone Canada we get billions of dollars to protect a foreign country and never asked anything in return Donald Trump ask Canada to help secure the border on Canada side and they are complaining throwing a hissy fit it would be one thing if Canada was providing for itself without the United States. And refused to do such a small little task. \n\nBut when we are giving billions of dollars to Canada's defense and they throw such a hissy fit over a little bitty test it's time to stop all trade with them. \n\nThe armed citizens of the United States to invade Canada, I mean think about it. 63.000 soldiers is all that's protecting Canada \n\nIt would be absolutely nothing for the US citizens to take Canada less than 1% of the firearms in the United States

Trump gave Canada and Mexico both warnings then gave both countries a chance to fix the problem less then 2 weeks ago 10k migrants tried to smuggle drugs from Canada . We stopped them after they in from Canada that was 9 days ago

These tariffs are nothing less than a GST / VAT on everyday American so he can give a tax break to wealthy Americans

Trudeau said it - it’s all because of one guy. Throw Trump and all of his toadies out and let’s get back to business together. He is dismantling your country and these tariffs are simply one mechanism that he’s using to ruin the US. The US is no longer in the position of world leadership and respect and it took Trump less than two months to do that. Your government is failing you and hurting you. Throw them out now.

To our European friends, be careful. American hostility looks bad right now. But the bigger danger is Russia disinformation. America is hostile to Canada and Europe because Putin is using disinformation to radicalize the citizens of democratic countries. America has fallen victim and is divided today. Don't let Russia do the same thing to you. I am already noticing European also becoming radicalized slowly. Russian disinformation must stop now or Europe will fall apart the very same way. The very first step is to learn how Russian disinformation works, including Russian bots and trolls. And use social media less.

Even before now less than 1% of fentanyl came across the Canadian border. Canada has had a trade imbalance with us in our favor. Canada last year had already agreed to beef up border security by $1.3 billion. Canadian troops have fought alongside US troops in several wars. As recently as a few weeks ago Canadian firefighters were helping put out fires in the US. Dumbest tariffs doesn't begin to describe it.

I do not care of the cost .i m canadian bring it on.i can live with lots less

Talk is cheap Canada,cut off the oil and electricity and Trump will fold like a cheap suit,anything less is pointless and will prolong this madness ! CUT THE OIL AND ELECTRICITY OR BOW DOWN !