He only cared because the smoke reached DC.
American here.
Please know that this does not represent the average American on the street. When we had big wildfires Canada sent firefighting aircraft and crews and support staff and it saved lives. We haven’t forgotten that, even if our ‘leaders’ have.
These statements are beyond shameful and they dishonor all of America. The American people do not feel this way or agree with these statements. Trump does not speak for all of us or even most of us, especially in this matter. Speaking for the average person on the street- we do not want to annex Canada, we do not want to threaten you with tariffs, we love Canada and we want good relations with our friendly northern neighbors.
Stay safe. And I’m sorry we are sending threats instead of fire crews.
American here.
How much do you care about the average Russian, who hasn’t done shit to overthrow Vlad and the oligarchy there for decades?
We need to do something about our domestic problems instead of going on the internet and grandstanding to the people we’re harming about how “we’re one of the good ones”.
Seriously, let’s have a modicum of self respect and stop begging Canadians to like us, and instead do something about the reasons why they don’t.
This is a surprisingly self aware and refreshing take from an American.
When you’re right you’re right. It’s hard, especially for people pleasers like me to stop apologizing for shit like this but it’s time to realize we’re making things worse, not better.
Please know that this does not represent the average American on the street
“The man we elected to represent us does not represent us”… sorry, that’s not how democracy works.
if i was prime minister i would say to trump strait to his face: “with that attitude? NOPE, no more waterbombers, no more fire fighters, not a drop water until you start being GRATEFUL for what we’ve done for you and your country. sorry, you blew it, and I think I’ve made myself abundantly clear”. then walk away. and plus, by doing that the effort would be foccust on canada so there is less smoke!
Do you burn down your own house when you have a disagreement with your neighbour?
Entire communities have been wiped out by these fires you know.
Do you think Carney’s going to do that? Carnie who’s giving trump everything he’s asked for so far and just caved on the Gordie Howe Bridge? Why do you think trump is doing this, he knows he can get whatever he wants at a Carney and look like a hero
just caved on the Gordie Howe Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zttOoJwvi6A https://nationalnewswatch.com/2026/07/16/we-paid-for-the-bridge-now-were-paying-the-toll
I can post about a dozen more if you need to.
Turns out your no name influencer was wrong. The deal was leaked to boomberg and it does NOT include payment on the interest to the debt which carney had suggested, and it’s a worse deal for us than we had. Mark Carney caved And gave a better deal to the president instead of standing up for Canada. As he has done many times in the past.
Well I’m sure the Prime Minister appreciates you’re desperate efforts on his behalf to justify his actions against Canadian interests the facts are the facts
Mark Carney caved And gave a better deal to the president instead of standing up for Canada.
The thing that most people miss is that Carney isn’t reactionary. He doesn’t give in to squabbling or public chirping. He’s a pragmatist and plays the long game.
Could he have “stood up for Canada”? Sure. Would it have done any good? Probably not.
He knows the US is no longer the same reliable trading partner. Carney got the deal out the door to get some trade going, while the real focus is with just about every other country in the world. The bridge and its deal are just a distraction at this point.
I’m sure the Prime Minister appreciates you’re desperate efforts on his behalf to justify his actions against Canadian interests
I’m sure he doesn’t care. He’s not a whiney baby.
I disagree entirely. Carney is entirely reactionary and has no plan for the long term.
Let’s take a look at some of the evidence. He had no plan whatsoever to arrive at a deal with trump. That is now obvious. There was no strategy or anything. He just gave trump what he wanted and hopes that trump would have mercy, and that’s just not trump.
He claimed that we would build houses at a rate not seen since world war II because he knew that’s what people wanted to hear at the time. But he had absolutely no plan to deal with that and worse not only are we building fewer homes than we were but his big strategy was to bail out the developers because they’re having their first bad year in almost two decades.
He claimed that he would create a law that would have private investment building pipelines in Canada. And his weirdo Tinkerbell law that said he can magically wave his wand and make something legal that isn’t legal didn’t impress the industry at all and was a horrible idea. Now in reaction to that he’s offering to put up taxpayer dollars to build a pipeline but he still hasn’t put forward any kind of business cases to why that’s the best idea for Canada. He’s only reacting to Alberta threatening to separate
I could go on for some time but the fact that matter is everything he does reacts to what’s happening at the moment and there is absolutely no long-term planning
And there’s no chance by the way of every other country in the world replacing America as our trading partner. The one thing he did say that was correct was that Canada could be its own trading partner if we eliminated interprovincial trade barriers and that would replace a good deal of what we send to the states. He said that was going to be one of his focuses and produced a report showing that it could almost entirely make up for what we lost with the Americans
Then he got elected and found out it was hard and abandoned the idea. He eliminated one federal law that really wasn’t a problem for anybody and then after one meeting with the provinces gave up and ran away. Now he’s flying all over the world spending billions of dollars and not bringing back any significant amount of money instead of spending that time working with the provinces to find a way to create an economic union between them that would solve our problems
While intentionally dismantling clean energy projects…
I’ve lost count of how many stupid things this asshole has said or done.
He’s just one big fuck up.
You sound just like his mother.
Person who doesn’t understand how tariffs work, nor the US economy in general, threatens tariffs because he doesn’t give a shit about the environment
Does this POS really not understand still that US consumers pay the tariffs? Why the fuck would we pay extra for Canadian products and he thinks that it’s charging Canada? So sick of this moron. I’d really like to know who told him about tariffs in the first place because they really shouldn’t have. He thinks “ugh grumba mugga wunna punish country” and somehow that a tariff does that. What would it do - reduce Canadian exports? So what? Also note his instinct is to fine and punish Canada, not offer help. What a shitbag.
He likely understands, but counts on the fact that a lot of his base won’t. “Hell yeah! Someone’s finally sticking it to Canada!”
You sir are correct.
He’s riling up his maga lemmings, insulting our good northerly neighbors and has lost the world’s trust and respect of the US for generations.
Our country has gone from decline to collapse under this administration.
We are fuxked.
You know, he’s done SO much in that regard that it’s impossible for me to believe it’s accidental. I’ve never been one for conspiracy theories, but I just have to believe he’s doing the bidding of a foreign country. EVERYthing he’s done has been so good for Putin.
“Accidental” and “conspiracy” aren’t the only alternatives. You don’t need to start a conspiracy with someone this easy to manipulate. You just nudge them in the direction you want them to go.
A big reason why there probably isn’t any conspiracy is that Trump would have blathered about it if there was one.
A big reason why there probably isn’t any conspiracy is that Trump would have blathered about it if there was one.
Yeah, that’s true, except possibly if there was something that would destroy him. If they had hard evidence of crimes that even his base wouldn’t swallow. He’d shut up about that.
Putin, Xi and Netanyahu all have mountains of blackmail on him. He works for them.
And China too.
Xi and Putin are laughing daily.
Our country was founded by colonial imperialism on the backs of slaves and the genocide of the indigenous people who lived here. Clearly Canada is much the same, historically.
As much as this hurts and sucks to be dragged down in, we deserve to burn.
The whole system needs to be rebuilt from the ashes. The oligarchs, corporations and billionaires need to be held to account.
Off with their fucking heads.
I don’t think you get how it works. The American stop buying our products and start looking for other products. But most importantly a lot of the goods and services that are manufactured in Canada only are able to do so because they sell to America so when Americans stop buying that product it’s cheaper and easier for those companies to just set up in America instead.
Trump knows this very well. More tariffs cripples are economy and prevents the investment we need to stay competitive or become competitive as we’ve fallen behind
This is just another excuse to try and bankrupt us to try and encourage us to become the 51st state
I understand he’s trying to hurt canada financially, obviously. However, industries like fertilizer and timber can’t relocate to the US.
Well timber can. Our timber industry is already getting creamed. They JUST shut down another pulp milll last week here in bc and logging is in a death spiral. Fertilizer less so but we’re not going to keep our economy going on fertilizer and oil.
And the problem isn’t just trump, we’ve had 5 consecutive quarters… that’s QUARTERS mind you not months, of more business investment leaving canada than staying and it looks like this quarter is going to be the same… And the kick in the teeth is that pre dates trump. We were already weak to begin with. Now trump has made it worse and he knows very well that it doesn’t take much at this point to make our economy take a nose dive.
This guy wants us poor and collapsing so that he can take over, actually take over if possible and financially take over if not.
Didn’t the Supreme Court of the United States declare his tariffs illegal?
Well then…Canada should just start charging the US for the cost of the wildfires, since they’ve abandoned all efforts to deal with climate change.
Fuck Trump and fuck Americans. Fuck em’ all. Next time they need water planes, snow plows and hydro help, let em’ fucking deal with it themselves.
Americans are fucking rancid.
Not all of us ya hoser!
At least a third of us are vehemently opposed to this authoritarian regime.
Wait… wasn’t Trump just complaining about how there was a US-Canada trade imbalance?
We’re providing the US with all this fertilizer at our cost!
We gotta start charging the US for that sweet, yummy, barbecue smell…
Makes sense. The dumbass probably blames women for having periods. What a fucking lunatic. Somebody off him already FFS.
If we gave what we received we should be demanding a fund from the US to give it “protection” from wildfires.
Americans avoid reducing pollution and fossil fuel consumption because they claim that more populous countries are the real contributors, which would make their sacrifices a mere drop in the bucket. And yet simultaneously they believe that Canada, a country with an eighth of their population, is solely responsible for their air quality
