The line fell silent.
In a phone call from the Oval Office, President Trump had just delivered unwelcome news to three of America’s most powerful auto executives: Mary Barra of General Motors, John Elkann of Stellantis and Jim Farley of Ford.
Everyone needs to buckle up, Mr. Trump said on the call, which took place in early March. Tariffs are going into effect on April 2. It’s time for everyone to get on board.
I’d kiss that Stellantis battery plant goodbye as well as Volkswagen’s.
Fewer than 60 days into his second term, President Donald Trump is determined to expand U.S. dominance across the Americas. His targets are not limited to Canada and Mexico. And while Trump 2.0 is already bending some countries to his will, his presidency also risks triggering dangerous escalation while alienating allies, empowering rivals and unravelling decades of hemispheric stability.
The President envisions a zero-sum world divided between the strong and the weak. He channels the Athenian historian and general Thucydides’s maxim that the “strong will do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.” In seeking to operate free of institutional constraints and without regard for partners, he is upending the post-Second World War order founded on positive sum rules, trade and alliances.
On the surface, it seems like a surprising split for two powerful unions with decades of shared history and interests.
The United Auto Workers, or UAW, representing thousands of American auto workers, has thrown itself behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada and Mexico.
“We are glad to see an American president take aggressive action on ending the free trade disaster that has dropped like a bomb on the working class,” the union said recently.
We had better get used to this.
If the situation were reversed we would expect Ottawa to re-shore jobs just as Trump is doing.
But we don’t live in a normal country. Trump holds his fellow citizens in high regard while our government hates us.
The Liberal Party and their corporate cronies flooded Canada with cheap foreign labour creating a housing and public services crisis while destroying the home ownership dreams of a generation.
The Liberal Party imposed a Stalinesque Net Zero tyranny taxing us to death to change the weather.
The Liberal Party is attempting to normalize the sexual mutilation of children and you can bet Carney is down with that.
The Liberal Party has never let us forget they regard Canada as a genocidal settler state and you as an unwelcome resident.
The people who most fear Trump are the Carney’s of the world.
These ersatz patriots shipped your jobs to China and Mexico and in return you get to enjoy 3rd world customer service at Tim’s.
The Globalists have gotten used to feeding on the working class of both Canada and the United States.
Trump is going to end that ordeal for America. Carney will try to keep you a slave to his Globalist vision.
Ireland’s taoiseach has denounced anti-immigration comments made by Conor McGregor as the MMA fighter visited the White House before a St Patrick’s Day meeting with Donald Trump.
McGregor said “Ireland is on the cusp of losing its Irishness” and that an “illegal immigration racket” was “running ravage on the country”.
Last week, Donald Trump singled out “Conor” – who last year was found liable for sexual assault after a civil trial – as one of his favourite Irish people.
The United States is treating Canada only a little better than it treats Cuba.
The point is not that Canada and Cuba are similar countries; they are patently not. Rather, it is to note that the U.S. government has chosen purposefully to treat Canada, a vibrant multiparty democracy and the world’s ninth-largest economy, in a similar way.
I thought we already were?
Commencing countdown, engines on …
Elon Musk has claimed that plans to bring Wilmore and Williams back earlier were shelved by former President Joe Biden and that the mission had been marred by political mudslinging.
US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally departed from the International Space Station early Tuesday to begin their long-awaited journey back home after spending more than nine months stuck in space.
Donald Trump has deported a Brown University doctor over her alleged links to Hezbollah and the terror group’s longtime leader who was killed last year.
Dr Rasha Alawieh, 47, from Lebanon, was deported from Boston Logan International Airport to Paris on Friday despite having a US visa and a job teaching at the Ivy League college in Rhode Island.
Federal authorities told Politico that border officials moved to expel Alawieh from the country after they found ‘sympathetic photos and videos’ of prominent Hezbollah figures in a deleted items folder on her cell phone.
h/t PA Cat
U.S. Vice President JD Vance doubled down on his criticism of Europe, stating that the continent is “at risk of engaging in civilizational suicide” by not protecting its borders and allowing in millions of migrants from other parts of the world.
In an interview with Fox News, Vance said many European countries “are unable to or unwilling to control their borders.”
“They patrol L.A.’s streets in search of ICE, Trump immigration raids,” is how the Los Angeles Times described the pro-illegal alien activists sabotaging the arrests of illegal alien criminals. The newspaper breathlessly described how ‘community patrols follow ICE vehicles and alert illegal aliens that federal law enforcement is on the way.”
The pro-illegal alien activists use megaphones to make noise, hoping to scare away the criminals that ICE has come to protect the community from, to the applause of the media.
I am loving this uproar over that communist terrorist fluffer from Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, who the feds detained with an eye towards booting his sorry rear out of our glorious country. First, I love how the commies are crying about it, how suddenly they care about free speech even though they carried absolutely nothing about free speech when normal patriotic Americans were being rounded up for daring to oppose abortion and bogus elections. I love how they’re calling his totally legitimate arrest a “kidnapping” when this guy’s unseemly and eager onanism over his dirtbag Palestinian buddies’ kidnapping of innocent Israelis is what got him busted in the first place. But mostly, I love this imbroglio because it shows that we Americans are not going to take any more guff from uppity foreigners.
h/t DS
While most Canadians recoil at the thought of becoming the US’ 51st state, an increasingly vocal minority are convinced it is essential for the future of their country.
Secessionists in Alberta say they are sick of their oil-rich province subsidizing the rest of the nation.
A dissatisfaction with the status quo, along with avid support for Donald Trump, has led to around 10 percent of Canadians expressing separatist views, the Telegraph reports.
h/t pathedog
By flooding TikTok with religious messages, China could be baiting a backlash. Progressives react with hostility, attacking Christianity as a dangerous ideology.
Christianity may be fading in America, but in 2024, it helped put Donald Trump back in the White House. Evangelicals, Catholics, and other Christian voters backed him in even greater numbers than before.
While Christianity is repressed at home, the CCP has weaponized religion for its own purposes abroad.
This fact, I suggest, is not lost on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The King should go to Ottawa and open parliament as a reminder to Trump who the head of state is
The news that the prime minister of Canada saw the King yesterday would not normally set the pulse racing, but we live in new times.
Let me go back a bit. As a young journalist in 1982, I remember being faintly perturbed by the Canada Act of that year. This “patriated” the Canadian Constitution, getting rid of the last vestiges of British power over Canadian affairs. It came into effect just after Argentina had invaded the Falkland Islands. I sensed it might be a bad idea.
The Act was perfectly logical, however. It was the final step in the emergence of Canada as an entirely independent country.
I think Charles would receive a warm reception but not overwhelming adulation. The Firm ain’t what it used to be.
Journalists have always had a tendency to treat Donald Trump as a gold medalist in some kind of Olympics of Stupidity. But even for them, the trade war he has fitfully waged over the last two weeks has been dazzling in its illogic and arbitrariness. He has imposed tariffs, both on China and on his country’s nearest neighbors and closest allies. Then called them off. Then reimposed them.
Sowing ill will, repelling investors, decimating the 401(k) plans of those who once thought it was a good idea to vote for him, Trump appears to most newspapers readers as a mad king, or as the crazed naval captain Humphrey Bogart plays in The Caine Mutiny—someone from whom control ought to be wrested, and soon.
Interesting info on the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency pro and con among other things.
OTTAWA, March 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump must stop making “disrespectful” comments about Canada before the two countries can start serious talks about future ties, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday.
Trump, who is promising potentially crippling tariffs against imports from Canada, frequently muses about making the country the 51st U.S. state.
