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The USA—and the world—are in trouble with this lunatic as president. But honestly, was there ever a better option? Do you really think Kamala could handle the job? Absolutely not.

This has absolutely nothing to do with fentynal.

Trump won't last long. He's an absolute creature.

ABSOLUTE MADNESS!!!! ?

My god… the difference between a true leader and the thing we have occupying space in the Oval Office. Absolutely incomprehensible.

I am Swedish living in Sweden.\nI ABSOLUTELY and DEFINITELY stand with Canada against Trump.

If it isn’t the spineless pseudo-dictator that takes of all his people’s money under the guise of carbon tax and spends it on social programs that do absolutely nothing and private flights/vacations for himself and his friends. Everyone else here needs to wake up

What a absolute LEGEND✊??????

This was an impressive speech and chilling to the bone. People should understand the undertone that this already is the first stage of a war. America is not talking friendly anymore to Europe or Canada, the alliance is questionable now at best, treaties don't matter anymore and the US government openly supports and defends totalitarian regimes like in Russia. It's a dangerous path that has a point of no return somewhere along the way. It is absolutely the time to be very worried and alert.

As an American, I’m sure I’m not alone in this sentiment, I am absolutely terrified, only 6 weeks in. God help us all

Canada is absolutely minute compared to the US. They need us more than we need them.

We do not want this! We want KAMALA! As an American, I am ABSOLUTELY disgusted w this Trump administration!! This behavior to our allies is not strength; It is weakness plain & simple. Trump is jeopardizing our national security by aligning with dictators! Throw the Republicans out of office before Russia owns us too!!!

What donald is saying makes absolute sense .... if you are on the side of Russia and other dubious players.

Sadly Trump is only going to continue to act like an ignorant bully and a child. Im sorry that this country has come to this.\nI absolutely cant stand Trump the chump. Trump the chump Trump the Chump!

Millions of us did not vote for that madman. This is absolutely necessary. We will take the pain. We are with you Canada!

Absolutely clear, calm, and direct. Nothing left to say on this whole business.

As a disenfranchised American citizen, I stand with Canada, Ukraine, and any other nation willing to stand up to this bullying coward. I absolutely DO NOT blame Canada, Mexico or anyone else trying to protect their populations. Imagine having a government that would do that. trump must go. he is a threat to the entire world.

It is shameful what he is doing to the American people for absolutely no reason. He does not care because he doesn’t have money problems

SAY IT LOUDER JUSTIN TRUDEAU ????????\n\nMANY TRUE USA ???????? CITIZENS ARE FOR YALL CANADA ?? ??????FOR YOUR NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG EXCEPT PROTECTING YOUR COUNTRY ????????\n\nI AM PERSONALLY THINKING ABOUT MOVING TO CANADA ?? ?????? OR MÉXICO ????????\n\nI ABSOLUTELY REFUSE IN MY LIFE TIME TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE ANTICHRIST OR THE BEAST, \nTHEM BOYS ARE NOT MY PERSON MY PERSON IS MY HEAVENLY FATHER GOD , MY LORD JESUS CHRIST MY SAVIOR ????????

The dow at 42 thousand...... is the worst drop in history ,erasing all the gains made ...and for absolutely no reason other than a old orange afraid of putin ???‍♂️??‍♂️

A whole lot of yapping. This guy is not even head of state. Absolute clown show. Get Pierre in asap

As an American I am absolute ashamed and disgusted at what is happening to our standing in the world thanks to DJT. And I’m so sorry at the way this is affecting our allied countries and their citizens, our friends. I’m so sorry you have to fight this fight because so many of us failed to stop the fascist oligarchy takeover at home

When Americans get it through their head that fentynal, Canada, tarrifs have absolutely nothing to do to help Americans \nThis is 100% about attack and destroy America's way of life ,via project 2025 and take out the government, and become Americans first dictator \nPutin found his very useful idiot and he became putty in his hand, then he molded him to destroy from within without ever having to fire a shot. He played the player at his own game. Gotta admit well played Russia.

PM Trump is absolutely the most terrifying human on this earth. Even scarier than Putin\nNo plans on listening to his ridiculous speech tonight because it is nothing but lies

He has absolutely no clue how irrelevant he is . This is his choice all he had to do was secure his boarders . So that means Canada is going to be complyoverrun in the future with illegals aliens

Well, of course you KNOW WHY THIS IS happening, don't you ????\nWhy can't people get the fact that it is Elon Musk who is making the call here ????\nHe wants to control the world ?. \nSo, by bringing CANADA ?? TO HER KNEES, it could make it easier for the US to take over CANADA ??.....\nNone of those who are running ?‍♂️ IN the ELECTION CAN MEASURE UP....THEY JUST CAN'T...\nAND FREELAND WILL DO TERRIBLE THINGS. \nI FOR ONE DO ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUST HER...\nTRUDEAU MADE SOME EXTREMELY BAD CALLS BY LETTING FAR TOO MANY IMMIGRUNTS\nINTO THE COUNTRY AND THE CARBON TAX WAS A FLATLINE FAIL......\nHOWEVER, NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION, \nTHEY WILL FLUB UP EVEN WORSE BECAUSE NONE OF THEM ARE CAPABLE. \nALL THE WORK TRUDEAU IS DOING BY NEGOTIATING WITH OTHER COUNTRIES FOR COMMERCE WILL BE SWEPT UNDER THE RUG AFTER THIS NEW ELECTION....\nTRUMPF WANTS ALL OUR RESOURCES AND WATER.\nHE WILL DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO BRING CANADA ?? TO HER KNEES..\nI'm deathly afraid of what's coming .\nCanada has free health care. \ntrumpf and helon Musk will grab our pensions....\nI PRAY ? TO ALL THAT IS HOLY,\nWE DO NOT BECOME PREY....

GO CANADA from GB. USA.. wow you have lost the plot. Absolutely disgraceful. Clueless behaviour from the Whitehouse Russia lovers.

As an American I am absolute ashamed and disgusted at what is happening to our standing in the world thanks to DJT. And I’m so sorry at the way this is affecting our allied countries and their citizens, our friends. I’m so sorry you have to fight this fight because so many of us failed to stop the fascist oligarchy takeover at home

I'm a veteran seven years and i'm entitled to how I feel. I am absolutely disgusted with this president and the presidency

As a sane American, I sincerely apologize to you, Canada!! trump is an absolute disgrace!!

From the States, I absolutely voted against all of this. Its so tiresome and will take us decades to recover from his first term, who even knows about this one...We need a way to hold an emergency vote of no confidence.

I think Trudeau missed the memo on what reciprocal tariffs mean! By the way we don't need Canadas energy when they Say they're going to so-called turn off the energy to America that means literally nothing five minutes of research will tell you that the United States does not need Canadas energy! Absolute empty threat!\n\nBy the way to anybody in the comments section that doesn't know what they're talking about and just listens to cnn so far these tariffs have secured 1.7 trillion US dollars in just three months brought manufacturing back to the United States honda is now leaving their location in Canada and building in the United States same with American car manufacturers in Mexico. \n\nWe won and I find this so funny you guys are flipping out we have socalled Americans joining Canada's side just because they're anti Trump. absolute clowns!

Obviousely, Trudeau talk to the American people first to explain the situation.\nHe knows that it's absolutely useless to convince Trump during 15 minutes : he knows Trump is totally insane and dumb and can't understand one real argument!

I'm sorry to go off topic but I would like to point out how absolutely stunning I think Minister Joly is. pure natural beauty

This is absolutely despicable for Trump to do this to our closest neighbor and ally. This is embarrassing. He’s aligning our country with our enemies. He’s destroying America. Who’s going to stand up to this maniac! The Republicans in Congress are as guilty as Trump because they are too cowardly to stand up for their country. SHAME ON THEM.

As a Canadian this Trudeau is an absolute B A S T A R D And has held us hostage for 10 years crippling our economy before this tarrif war kicked off which he himself caused by doing absolutely nothing about anything except gay pride movement this WEF puppet Trudeau is a LIAR and everything he’s spoken he’s done to Canadians before this distraction.don’t kid yourselves he a spoiled platinum spoon fed trust fund baby who’s achieved nothing of importance on his own

Europe will do the same on american products, If european goods get taxed (and they will..). I guess, the majority of MAGA heads have absolute no clue, what that does to their consumer prizes....

Trudeau resigned as prime minister because he was deeply unpopular in Canada. He proceeded to suspend parliament while President Trump threatened these Tariffs and then immediately left to Europe to posture with European leaders. He did absolutely nothing to strengthen the US/Canadian relationship while his party set about appointing (not electing) a new leader. Trudeau is an actor and a hypocrit. Do not believe anything he says. Now I don't agree with President Trump's tariffs on American allies like Canada. I don't understand the metrics he's using to justify them. Maybe there is a real reason, but this fool that you're listening to has not represented Canada faithfully and I reject everything he says.

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

I have never been so embarrassed to be an American. Its heart breaking that we allowed this to happen even with all the warning signs. I have protested, attended town halls, emsiled all my state representatives and every attempt can only have power if the people we elected go to bat for us. They are not doing so. Americans who know this is absolutely unacceptable will scream as loud as we can to stop this dictator but we need to help of the higher ups. Please...for the love of God, get this man out of the seat of power until it is too late. Maybe it already is.

Absolute self-own by Trump. He doesn't care about Canada. Look at what he is doing to his own federal workforce.

Trump being a narcissist will absolutely take this as an insult by Trudeau. Trunk will feel small but instead of using this constructively, he’ll lash out even further like a child.

Trump is an absolute disgrace. Worst president since James Buchanan. Never in my life have I been more embarrassed for my country. As far as Trump, I didn't vote for that bastard but I'm still embarrassed and ashamed...

I Can't stand Trudeau, but he is absolutely right on all the points!! Don't let Trump take the USA down the drain.....

Believe me, the majority of the American people do not agree with this administration and Trump’s garbage. He is absolutely the worst and dumbest person ever sit in the Oval Office. So we have to suffer this man’s postering and aligning with Putin because some idiotic people believe him. So please punish us, we deserve it.

We hear you man, I am so sorry the absolute moron in the wh is doing this.

What a speech! How do we get someone intelligent like this in office instead of a blathering orange idiot? My heart goes out for Ukraine and all the countries caught up in this mess. For the first time, I can say with absolute certainty that I am embarrassed to be an American

This is what you call a nothing burger ? this is all Trudeau's fault why Canada ?? is in this situation, he had 9 years to fix the borders, build the pipe lines making Canada independent and self sufficient instead he has done absolutely nothing but spend our tax dollars carelessly by putting Canada 68 billion dollars in the hole, folks don't be fooled, remember there's always 2 sides to a story but nobody wants to have that conversation, it's easy to point the finger at everybody else but blame the man in mirror.

I am an American, but this president does not represent who we are!!! Trump is an absolutely disgrace

Picking fights with allies. America & Canada are first cousins. This is insane. Its absolutely insane.