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I am an American and Canadian. I live in America. It is INSANE to me that (from what I hear) people dislike Trudeau enough for him to resign, yet I see him here acting respectfully, intelligently, honorably. This is what a good country has reasonably decided to be a bad politician.\n\nPan over to America, and our man in office is egotistical, irrational, dishonorable. His lust for power drives him to split the country and burn our bridges. We are meant to be a good country. We can't agree to call him bad.

Oh, tariffs that are not blanket, uncalculated tariffs and are not meant purely as a slight and a political tool? What, did you consult somebody who's studied the economy or something? Sheesh

The tariffs are meant to bankrupt Canada so they’ll be forced to join the US.. Pretty obvious at this point.

Because Canada supports Ukraine, it meant it is against Russia. And Trump won’t have any of that. Put someone who looks at these things as they are plainly as can be, this is the best anyone can get. Can’t be any flimsier than that.

…and we consumers pay the higher prices. Why don’t these higher prices go exclusively to politicians?!? They are the ones fighting like little girls and they should be the ones to pay for their stupid arguments. I thought politicians were meant to represent the people. This is no longer the case

Do what you have to do Canada I'm American mango Mussolini is just stupid!!\n\nHe's a greedy evil racist narcissistic misogynist and blatant liar. Really all the tariffs are is a poor person's text is meant to hurt confused ? and there's no point in that? \n\nFentanyl is no more dangerous or available than any other drug that has ravaged America in the world. If the people don't take it there is no problem no one is forced. Go Canada go God bless.

Trudeau lost me when he said: Trump is a very smart guy…\nI secretly hope he meant “well dressed”

Everyone knew that Trump election meant the end of american supremacy in the world. His insanity was there all the time. The whole world saw that comming. Everyone but americans saw. Now you have a foreign billionaire imploding your democracy from within to install a fascist experiment. When you wake up from this nightmare, the world order will have changed and America will be a second-rate country.

Trump you sleazy scum receptacle, now inflation is going to make things less affordable and then your going to blame it on Biden and on us for not working hard enough. Is this what you meant when you promised lowering prices? You better have a good apology to the American people

As an American the citizens don't really have a choice on what trump decides to do. If you want to match his 25% tariffs I think you should. We qlso don't want to help putin hurt others. We want to work with Canada our allies. I don't personally know anyone that doesn't agree with this but that doesnt meant they do not exost.

America has got a president, the likes of which have never been seen before. And that is NOT meant to be a compliment. This is NOT what any sane American could possibly want. Frankly, the pride I've always felt for my country is slipping away. All I can do is pray we avoid a war for the next 4 years and are able to repair broken relations with every country we piss off. That's just sad

Let’s face it, these tariffs have nothing to do with drugs or immigration, they are only meant to force Trumps delusion of Canada becoming the 51st state.

Please understand.. thats a Nice Speach, at least it would be if he actually meant any of it, understand hes a Compulsive Liar and rarely if ever, does anything he states, usually its the exact opposite in fact... a whole lot of blee bla bla blee blee... a** h*** .... in my opinion

No you believe in us protecting you for free for forever. And it’s over. You are crippling yourselves Canada. And again, you must have a team of moderators that crowd source opinions and use mine often to prepare you for your next speech. I am but one intelligent Hoosier calling these moves… you really will be losing seafood here next ;). Trade war is hardly 25%, and the tariffs were meant to be reciprocal anyways XD so wooo, big move. Weren’t you facing fraud charges or something just recently cuz you stole from your own people?

In a best case scenario, DJT will rescind the tariffs on Canadian goods. In the worst case, we get even poorer. If this happened after Trump became president the first time, the economy was strong from 4 years of Obama's presidency. Then COVID happened, and for alot of folks here, they haven't recovered financially. Savings and retirement plans are gone. Rent is higher, for many it takes over 50% of their income. So in this emergency time, there's nothing to fall back on. Oh and DOGE will cut SNAP benefits, I'm sure. That's food stamps, meant for the people struggling. It's becoming more and more of Americans. \nAm I depressed? No, I lived through Reagan's presidency. I'm cautious about life, my job, commuting to work, putting food on the table. I'm gonna try growing veggies. I already eat 75% of my meals at home or taken from home-cooked meals. I'm saving as best I can.

Sorry for mistake - - I meant DJT with this sentence: He stumbles along with a very limited vocabulary in his speeches, speeches in which any normal person can hear how little intelligence and substance there is behind these words......

Hey MAGA, is this what you meant by “we’re winning.” ?

I used to be a huge fan of America. I truly believed it was the world’s policeman, the guiding force for justice and freedom. I looked up to the country, admiring its strength, its values, and the way it stood for what was right. I even wished my own country could be more like that. \n\nBut America is no longer what it once was. It’s heartbreaking to see how a once-free and hopeful nation has transformed into something so divided, hostile, and unpredictable. A country that once stood by its friends now turns its back on them. A nation that once fought for unity now thrives on division and conflict. \n\nThere are still many good people in America, and the country is not beyond hope. But deep down, every American must realize—this is not the right path. This is not who you are meant to be. \n\nWake up before it’s too late.

Is this what Drill baby drill meant for Trump?

A great speech. The only lie I heard was the Donald trump was “very smart”. I think you meant he’s a “very very stupid fascist boot licking nepo baby with a talent for bull&h!tting that only works on idiots”. They sound similar, so I understand the mistake.

Trump's Import Tariffs Are To Combat a Non-Existing Problem \n \nThe import tariffs that US President Donald Trump has imposed on Mexico, Canada and China are meant to combat a non-existent problem, economics editor Jonathan Witteman recently analysed. Trump sees the structural trade deficit (the difference between the export and import of goods and services) that the United States has with almost all of its trading partners as a sign of weakness. Contrary to almost all political left-wing and also right-wing economists, he believes that a trade deficit is bad for a country's economy and believes that the US is being cheated by countries that export more to the US than they import. \n \n'I have said that the EU must make up for its enormous deficit with the US by purchasing our oil and gas on a large scale. If not, punitive tariffs will follow', Trump said last December, for example, about the trade balance between the US and the European Union. \n \nA connection between a bad economy and having a trade deficit cannot be found, political economy professor Andres Freytag concludes in the analysis. There are many countries in the world, such as Germany, with a trade surplus but a poorly performing economy. The opposite is more likely to be true: in countries with a trade surplus, more people are unemployed. This was shown by the Peterson Institute. \n \nTrump's tariffs are more dangerous for the economy, because they reduce imports and exports, partly because other countries in turn impose punitive tariffs in response. Trump's announced import tariffs during his first term even led to a larger trade deficit and to 7.2 billion dollars in welfare losses in the US.

It is all Projdct 2025 meant to isolate Americans. Who but the billionaires could possible benefit? Billionaires breaking up with the world and Americans to own their privatized country to do with as they please. We were put on notice.?

Trudeau actually meant Dumb Trump

Love Trump .oops sorry I meant Hate Treudeu.

I meant invade Canada from the Arctic

I think he meant to say they had done Biggly things

Are all 3 chapters in this video? Or are they meant to be separate videos?

The reason Canadians have reacted so viscerally is because they have been stabbed in the back by their brothers and sister to the south of us. What has happened was unfathomable to Canadians, it was the action of an evil mind meant to destroy.

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.

I meant to say tariffs???

Yes we are hypocrite....no I meant Trump is a hypocrite

Our opponents? You meant Canadian opponents. The United States supports the Kremlin.

Well it's dysfunctional enough to fit right in with the US almost like they're meant to be

Pa--jeeets everywhere !! The whole point of the Second Amendment was that Americans could protect their nation if all else fails. All else has failed. Your leaders who are meant to protect you are in the pockets of globalists who want to substitute American workers with cheap third world labor. What are YOU going to do about it?

No more can people allow themselves to be taken in by fake corporate media manipulative narratives meant to aid and abbet imperialism and empire. Kudos to this speaker and to the Arab countries for standing together in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Marxist/Communist Zionists have weaponized migration. It's meant to de-stabilize our countries. Prove me wrong.

I ?? went to school in U.S. & lived there for a brief moment in time afterward. Couldnt leave fast enough just didnt care for it, other than the cheap booze & made some great friends. ???\nThe U.S has a great divide of either rich or poor. \nIn Canada majority are middle class which i really appreciate. I have many great friends & relatives in America my grandnfather was American & moved to Canada he said he didnt like the American way of life whatever that meant IDK. Im grateful for having the privilege being born & rased here....\nGood luck to both Americans & Canadians to find a way to escape these dictators we are all oppressed by!!!\n ?????

What.is that meant as they the drugs dealers,;house breakers;robbery etc

he meant back to shift hole

CNN sucks.\nLook at caption and thumbnail ? \n\nAin't they meant to be in shackles?

Firstpost does not know the illegals are from 192 countries, of all skin color and ethnicities just like the U.S.\n\nI am thinking this video post at YouTube is deliberately inflammatory meddling in U.S. internal affairs.\n\nBiden administration deliberately worked to economically destroy the U.S. His own motivation could be limited to his criminal enterprise, nevertheless it is what he and his administration did.\n\nIn fact, he spent as fast as he could spend when he was not going to hold on to power himself or with his VP Kamala Harris, his Secretary Yellen announcing Trump would have no money Day 1.\n\nHow did that work out for these criminals? It is what they are, audit reveals.\n\nTrump promised economy, and that meant audits to these villains.\n\nThis is why participants put up their big smoke screen attacks on Trump and supporters, and even anyone who voted for him the first time and the next.

I was under the assumption that deporting illegals meant, deporting all people that came to this country illegally, why is deporting illegal Africans any different? Are some Countries immune?

and yes i meant minds

We love the good people of Canada and can’t wait to welcome them as the 51st State.\n\nThe tariffs are meant to crack down on Chinese exports moving through Canada and Mexico as middle men to avoid their own tariffs. Had both Canada and Mexico regulated the terms of our agreements better on “product origin” then none of us would be in this position. Furthermore, China smuggles drugs through both Canada and Mexico using resins that are chemically embedded with synthetic drugs. So, neither Canada nor Mexico should be climbing on any high horses when their exports are killing our people.

You ALL don't get the idea from Trump.... He meant you have to sell your stuff cheaply enough and lose money to support the American economy.

Illinois DW reporter *fumbled by wrong naming as Biden, when in fact he meant Trump, LOL! US

This is the Military, a lethal fighting force to protect your country and for war. There is no place in the military for these types of people and or behaviors. There is no place for specific gender flags and all this crap in what is meant to be the most lethal fighting force on the planet. It has no place at all within the walls of the military, and you do not want other countries to see you as weak, because it upsets these types of people who have spread like ants since dumb joe ruined the country over the last 4 yrs.

Can anyone give me 3 reasons HOW allowing transgender people in our military increases the chances of success in combat? Answers that include anything about protecting their feelings does not count. The enemy does not care about your feelings, nor does a projectile meant to cause harm.

They meant 2000 from a 1 bedroom basement apt in brampton.?

I meant India