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I didn’t vote for the FELON or f ELON. Prime Minister Trudeau will you allow Michigan to succeed to Canada?? ??????\nAs a highly educated Michigander who has spent over 5 decades enjoying the beauty, kindness, culture and hospitality of Canadians visiting Thunder Bay, Ontario, Toronto and so many other beautiful places with my parents, siblings and now my children, I am heartbroken that it has come to this. Please know that Americans do not support this clown and his GOP lackeys. We love you and you will ALWAYS be our neighbors. Resist, we understand and support you even though it will cause pain. ??????

We understand we stand with Canada

The Canadian leader is speaking to the American people out of concern. Look at what a whole lot of uninformed folks have done. Once you hear this you will understand the hell we will wake up to. Tariffs to America by China, Mexico, Canada. Making us isolationist joining hand with Putin. Oh my God

Canada we understand and not all of us voted for him.

Trump is too stupid to understand that bi-lateral trade imbalances will always balance muilti-laterly when Canada buys from a third country that then buys from the US. Stupid, stupid and stupid all the time due to economic ignorance..

This is what responsible adults sound like. In other words, something Trump's followers can't understand, and don't respect.

Trudeau needs to understand America is NOT your friend.

How about the guns and fentanyl that is imported to Ontario, Canada by American criminals? Our Prime Minister did not mention that, only because he is not about tit for tat. But hey, I have nothing to lose except for half my family in the States. You guys need to educate your children so they understand how good we have it or how good we did have it. You have thrown it all away because of the election of a predator and felon to the White House. Good luck with that.

This is what a LEADER looks like!!! You can understand every word he says. Not like Trump, who reads and sounds like Dick and Jane!!! I stand with you Canada!!!

Well said. I will never understand how Trump and the entire Republican Party turned against our country and our allies, and aligned themselves with a murderous Russian dictator. I don’t know how anyone could grow up in the United States of America and so completely turn their backs on the Constitution, and the laws and values we stand for. I am confused. I am scared. I am angry. But mostly, I am ashamed to be living in Trump’s America.

sadly...your speech is too long so as to be difficult for Trump to understand. Maybe try simple words and short sentences next time ?

Let me understand this. Trump is pressuring Europe to help their neighbors like Ukraine but here in the US Trump is throwing Canada away. How does this make sense? Trump speaks out of both sides of his mouth. I too stand with Canada

These comments on youtube are funny. Trudeau is the reason why Canada is economically a shell of what it was 10 years ago. Everyday canadians understand his words and threats are empty. Hes a shell puppet who is so hated in canada that he had to shut down the canadian government 2 months ago. Thats right, in a demcracy this creepy fool has shut it down to milk a few more measly months of his power before he is forced to slink away. Worse, under his watch our borders have become fentanyl ridden jokes. Less than 10 percent of anything is even inspected at our ports of entry. Human and drug trafficing is out of control. I dont like tarriff wars, but this is all trudeaus fault - every criticism of the US gov is completely valid. Canada went from #3 at the G20 to last under this guy. 90 percent of the fentanyl going into the US comes through canada.. should i go on...

Trump is too dumb to understand arguments - instead do a deal with the EU and Mexico

Trump launched the trade war that very few people in the US wanted, and those who did want it don't understand how the economy works and probably didn't graduate grade school. I'm sorry to our Canadian friends and neighbors. The US is a world embarrassment.

He used big words when talking directly to trump. Trump won’t understand them and will get big angry

Please understand American people don’t want this too.

I understand, do what you have to. Trump is insane.

The orange clown still does not understand how Tariffs work. It is evident he thinks it's a tax and when he sees the numbers in terms of government revenue accredited to tariffs, he ignorantly believes the country is making money. His understanding so simple he thinks he has raised GDP and is making America great again when in fact he is single handedly and in the face of universal opposition destroying the economy and causing grievous hardship to millions of Americans. Apparent friend to our worst enemies and himself the biggest enemy of the people.

Got to make these Trump voters hurt, so they understand how stupid this is.

I doubt the prehominid referenced here as Donald has the intellectual capabilities or even the attention span to understand any of this. AMERICANS, the world is turning its eyes to you. You have the power to unseat this criminal who is wrecking your country and is turning it against its closest allies. You have the power to stop the damage. Act now to stop this delusion.

Trump dispises dogs. He's just kicking his dog. Justin, unlike his father, does not understand and whines why are you kicking us. Trump kicks his dogs because he can.

To our Canadian friends, Most people in the USA are good people, some are being misled and brainwashed by Maga trash. Mother Nature needs to hurry up...; I honestly don't understand how people can fear such weak minded freak. Zelenskyy can see this, reason why he did not back down. If a person tries to lie to my face, I will call it out. I don't give a fudge who they are.

What's the purpose of going against our allies, I don't understand that.

WE DO NOT WANT HIM OR THE REST THE MORONS THAT FOLLOW HIM. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT. DONALD. LOL. MAYBE DONALD HAS SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL

Pretty crazy how we were taught this lesson in the 8th grade. I understood it then. The President definitely understands what he is doing. It is not difficult to see. We are coming off as bullies to other countries. When in fact, we are weak, and weaker for this. Our government a demagogue league of rats straight out of Idiocracy and Judge Dredd lore.

Canada it’s time to turn the electricity off in America. Maybe those boys will understand then.

As an American Autoworker, this sucks. I understand both standpoints. I just hope that Canadians understand that not all Americans are onboard with what our President is doing. A lot are, not all. \nBooing each other’s national anthem at sporting events knowing this isn’t what’s supposed to happen between neighbors, is hard to fathom. It sucks. No matter what your views are, it sucks.

Maybe Trump could get Melania to translate in another language for him in his public speeches - maybe French, Italian or even Spanish so the rest of our adversaries citizens can understand what he’s saying. ?

Elegant. Intelligent. Accurate. This is what America needs in a leader. When are his followers going to understand his goal is to destroy. He will do nothing to help those of us not in his Millionaire Boys Club.

Donald Trump clames he is a business man ,but his businesses always seem to fail.Yet he comes out Scott free.Perhsps this is why he does not understand how mutually beneficial trade is.Trade barriers have not worked in the past.But everyone else is stupid for not applying them,apparently.

I agreed with everything Trudeau said, except when he said Trump is a very smart person. Stupid is what stupid does. Trump does stupid like no other. This is Canada's time to shine. We need our pipelines flowing to both the East and West coasts. It is time for Canadians to invest in Canada and cut our dependence on U.S. trade.\nAmericans need to start understanding, it is Americans who pay the tariffs. They are just a tax. It has nothing to do with the border, or drugs, or migration. This is a tax on the working class and the poor so the rich can continue to get 5 TRILLION dollars in tax cuts.

I’m an Indigenous American here, I say if Canada was really our friend then they would understand that they have been taking advantage of our countries kindness for too long and it’s time they step up.. If us trying to do something good for our own country for one time instead of everybody else and it’s a problem like this then maybe we weren’t friends anyway.. That means u were only friendly bc u were taking advantage.. \nPlenty of other countries has decided to pick up their own slack and it’s time Canada and America and the other countries start focusing more on their own citizens.. \nThis man is ready to send Canadian soldiers to die in Ukraine right now for something that has nothing to do with them and now instead of negotiating an agreement it’s all about relation and hurting your own people to get back at others over something you took personally..\nI always liked Trudeau but if that’s how he feels about our country then that’s how we feel about his.. \nwe don’t care about Canada anymore except justing Bieber and Linus media group.. everyone else can go lol..

Born in Europe, brought up and trained into my profession as a researcher, in France, in the UK, in the Middle East, in Africa, and having been a permanent resident of the USA for almost 25 years, I can state that I agree 100 with what Trudeau stated, with the exception of one little detail If Donald Trump is as Mr. Trudeau suggests, an intelligent man, than he is simply detesting all Americans... and if is able to prove me wrong than one has to accept that Mr. Trudeau is wrong in believing Mr Trump to be an intelligent man, because even a ten-year-old is understanding that this tariff war is truly stupid and will not only damage the economy but will further deplete the coffers of businesses that are essential to world growth.

As a chinenese i understand why trump add 25% tax on chinese gods, but 25% tax on canadian goods that i dont understand

Something I don't understand. If tariffs on goods coming into the US hurt US citizens. Wouldn't a tariff on things coming into Canada hurt Canadians? How does this help you? What harm does it bring to the president?

Americans need to understand: this is an *existential* threat to Canada. We cannot forget this, even if the tariffs go away tomorrow. We now *have* to diversify away from the US to the extent possible. This is a permanent change.

A speech you can actually understand that is coherent is a nice change! I love how media makes out like Canada is escalating things...it started with Trump, just like Putin invaded Ukraine!

I'm just going to clarify something remember when they said Trump had allies with Russia now you see what the Democrats were talking about. Trump always blames democrats for his faults. Trump had you guys convinced not to vote for Democrat. Now are allies don't even want to deal with the US anymore which is understandable because of what the whole nation seen with their own eyes and heard with their own ears. Trump says he wants to make America Great American dream not for Americans maybe for you Republicans I guarantee a lot of Republicans don't agree with him but they all are scared to say anything to Trump and his team which that is disturbing within itself. Trump needs to be impeached he's causing to much chaos and still getting away with people's lives in real life situations this is not a joke. As for JD Vance his vice president he was laughing and asking Zelenskyy why was he not wear a suit what about Elon musk he wasn't wearing a suit? And when you ask another person to come from another country to the White House they are dressed in their traditional clothing to be mocked by these men is despicable. Real people lost their jobs, real people are dying that need aid,for them to shut down the military aid was a slap in the face,mind you they sit back and laugh about it.. Russia is the last person Trump should be nice Putin is not on the US side it's obvious but Trump laughs with him, communicate better with Putin which is disturbing as well. Having the power and money makes people so entwined into their own world,Trump should think about Americans first and not act like a disrespectful person he ruined his chance not Zelenskyy. Now We the people are looking at our President and vice President like the are unhinged, disrespectful, uncompassionate, and down right rude. Kamala,Tim warned everyone Barak, Michelle, Biden did also y'all should have listened. I voted for Kamala and Tim. If Trump wants peace he needs to stop with all the madness and focus fixing the US.

It is interesting to see how many people believe they are right supporting Trudeau (and Selensky) and not realizing they are too dumb to understand the whole picture. USA can be happy to have a president who finally ends the big Deep State scam against the own taxpaying people. UK, Canada, France, Germany etc. should also have such leaders to save the people from betrayal by elites and Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels.

This is the kind of speech we should see more often. Not only the speech is well articulated and full of logical flow to understand intent. \nWe should air less of Trump’s speeches. They are a bad influence for kids’ speech learning.

I am ?? \nYes the tariffs are bad. But everyone forgets how much money we spend defending them and the subsidies we give every fiscal year. I understand that the market will suffer. I just don’t understand how people think it’s ok for ?? to provide military protection to other countries with the ?? taxpayer money. ?

Bravo monsieur Trudeau. Courage aux Canadiens, vous n'êtes pas seuls. Americans, wake up, dammit! I'm not even sure most of you are cognitively capable of understanding what was just said. Either way, you are alone and can only count on yourself.

Canada let me put this in a way that you can understand We As Americans had our dumbest sled dog saw a Russian squirrel and took off with our team this is not our fault

People saying they stand trudeau or canada please understand that this same prime minister RUINED CANADA. .

Please, Mr. Trudeau understand the United States did not do that Donald Trump. Did we love our neighbors, true Americans, love our neighbors and understand how important they are.✌?❤️

As an American we are with you justin....I understand ....trump has no heart the less fortunate will feel it.

I don’t understand why everybody is surprise by what Trump is doing! Are we that dumb! He does not care x the country, its citizens, least of all the constitution! He is and has been working to destroy everything that makes this country what it is! Please wake up!!

American here. We understand and appreciate you fighting back. Feel trapped.

The reporter addressing this speech as anti-americanism is the most shocking thing. Let me put it clearly for you in case you don't understand, CNN: isolationist policies lead to reactionary policies. American policies are anti-canadian, NOT the other way around.