Donald Trump continues to decimate America’s economic standing by destroying relationships with our trading partners that may be impossible to repair—even after he’s gone.
For context
Over the weekend, Canada suspended trade negotiations with America after Trump acted in bad-faith and tried to make last-minute changes to the terms of their deal.
In a shocking statement, Canadian PM Mark Carney announced that he was officially walking away from the negotiating table with Trump after 18 months of trying to get a fair deal in the works for both countries. Carney said America tried to make “last-minute” changes that he deemed to be “unfair”, “uneconomic”, and “threw into question the reliability” of ever reaching a deal with the US.
Sounds pretty on-brand for Trump.
Then
At the end of Carney’s statement, he wrote that “America has changed", and then went on to talk about how this will actually be good for Canada in the long term, citing how Canada has been creating “4x as many jobs” as America, how their non-US exports are set to “double” in the coming decade, and about how they have been attracting the “most foreign investment” of any G7 country.
It sounded like Carney was truly envisioning a reality in which Canada no longer relies on trade with America…something that should have made Trump realize he had no leverage to pull against the Prime Minister.
But instead of bringing Canada back to the negotiating table like a good President would, Trump dug himself—and America—a deeper hole:
