John Bolton - August 11, 2026


New Polling Shows... Donald Trump Owns You (or at least some of you)

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00:00:00.000 And here's my problem with Canada. Canada was meant to be the 51st state.
00:00:08.460 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 439 AM, Tuesday, August the 11th. It's great to have you
00:00:14.520 here today. I do appreciate it. And I probably lost, oh, half of the people who had watched
00:00:20.540 this video by playing that clip off the top. Donald Trump, 51st state. You know, he doesn't
00:00:27.760 say it as much anymore. This time last year, incredibly prevalent in news media. He would
00:00:34.140 say it over and over again, but he doesn't say it very much anymore. But it was in an article I read
00:00:39.400 this morning, and I'm going to read a little bit of it to you in just a moment. A lot of polling
00:00:43.660 numbers in there, which can kind of baffle your brain when you talk about them. I'm not going to
00:00:48.080 read a lot of this article from the National Post, but it was brought up in the National Post this
00:00:52.520 morning. And this poll that they did got me convinced that in many ways, Canada is already
00:00:59.140 the 51st state, at least in the minds of people who react to every little thing Donald Trump says,
00:01:06.000 everything he does, and everything he threatens. Now, don't get me wrong. I think much of what
00:01:13.140 Donald Trump is doing when it comes to tariffs and things, it's hurting people. I agree with you,
00:01:18.080 but I don't react to it in the same way these people in this poll I'm going to read about in
00:01:23.180 just a moment do. I think about it logically. I don't think emotionally. And I think a large
00:01:27.940 percentage of the population, they're emotional. And in a way, pardon me, they're stupid in many 1.00
00:01:33.860 ways. I don't know. I don't react to it to the same way because I believe that Donald Trump is 1.00
00:01:38.840 doing what he thinks is right for his country. I only wish we had a government here in Canada
00:01:45.340 that would do things right for our country. And that would be the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:01:50.340 You know, George Carlin is known for saying this, never underestimate the power of stupid people 1.00
00:01:56.420 in large groups. And ladies and gentlemen, we've got a large group of stupid people in Canada. 1.00
00:02:03.320 And the conclusion I've come to by reading this article right here in the National Post is that 1.00
00:02:09.120 Donald Trump owns you, okay, because of this polling that was done by Angus Reid. So let's
00:02:16.040 read a little of this article right now. Americans hold Canadians in high esteem,
00:02:20.980 the reverse not so much. Despite all the trade war rhetoric and 51st state comments from the
00:02:26.340 White House, Americans on the whole still have positive feelings towards their neighbors to
00:02:30.920 the north. But from this side of the border, it's a different picture. A poll by Canada's Angus
00:02:36.880 read asked people from both countries about their perceptions of the other. It found that almost
00:02:41.680 half of Canadians hold a negative view of Americans, with 29% choosing unfavorable and
00:02:47.820 another 19% very unfavorable. I wouldn't think if you added these two numbers together, it wouldn't
00:02:53.140 be too far away from the number of people or the percentage of people that voted for the Liberal
00:02:58.160 Party of Canada. I can't be absolutely sure, but it would probably be close. Meanwhile, just 13%
00:03:04.640 of Canadians said they felt very favorably towards Americans, and another 32% said their
00:03:10.200 view was favorable. Final 7% weren't sure or couldn't say. Americans were overwhelmingly
00:03:15.440 upbeat about Canadians. Now, this poll does come to a conclusion right here. We'll come back to that
00:03:20.900 in just a moment, but we'll read the next paragraph, and that's all of the story I'll
00:03:25.120 read until we come back to this. Trump has soured the Canada-U.S. relationship with tariffs and talk
00:03:30.800 of turning Canada into the 51st state, but apparently has not turned most of his ardent
00:03:35.680 supporters against Canadians. They write, self-described MAGA Republicans are more
00:03:40.300 likely to view Canadians positively than not. And we'll come back to this to wrap things up in just
00:03:45.900 a moment. But the conclusion I come to after reading these poll numbers is this. Trump owns
00:03:51.720 you. He lives rent-free in your brain. Are you proud of that? Because look at it this way. 0.95
00:03:58.380 you want to punish or are punishing a whole country of 340 million people because of one man,
00:04:09.380 because of the actions of one man, because of the threats of terrorists from one man,
00:04:13.380 because you dislike one man. How do you feel about that? I'm just wondering,
00:04:17.620 think about it for just a moment. And let's just break it down to make it easier. Let's say half
00:04:22.440 of the people in the United States, and it's pretty close to half, don't support Donald Trump
00:04:27.420 and probably hate him more than you do
00:04:29.480 because he's their president and they don't like them.
00:04:32.560 170 million people in the United States,
00:04:35.820 you are punishing them because of one man.
00:04:39.020 How do you feel about that? 1.00
00:04:43.380 Frankly, it's rather stupid. 1.00
00:04:45.000 We can go back to the Carlin quote again. 1.00
00:04:48.080 You don't think some of the 170 million people
00:04:50.920 in the United States who probably hate Donald Trump
00:04:53.660 more than you do sell booze?
00:04:55.560 you don't think some of them are in the tourism industry you seem to hold these things up like
00:05:01.840 they're great ways to get back at the united states of america all you're doing is getting
00:05:06.000 back at people a lot of people probably who hate donald trump more than you do like these nuts
00:05:11.540 laura babcock and charlie angus crazy you're going to put the booze back on for what canadians run
00:05:21.280 the boycott. We stood up. You don't negotiate that away to Trump unless you come back with a
00:05:26.320 comprehensive trade deal. These people aren't thinking smart. They're not thinking logically.
00:05:30.560 They're thinking emotionally. Donald Trump lives rent-free in their brains. He owns Laura Babcock
00:05:35.920 and Charlie Angus. Here's what Angus had to say in this clip you're seeing on the screen.
00:05:40.120 You're going to put the booze back on for what? It's really important Canadians to be reminding
00:05:44.500 our MPs, wait a minute, we run the boycott. We stood up. You don't negotiate that away unless
00:05:51.200 you come back with a comprehensive trade deal now you're probably maybe one of the people watching
00:05:56.160 this thinking but we can't put the booze back on because we got to get trump why not use booze
00:06:01.680 as a negotiating opportunity huh that would be the smart thing to do that would be the logical
00:06:08.240 thing to do you're thinking emotionally you're not thinking logically why not use it as a tool
00:06:13.440 i believe it's one of the things that's been requested by people in the trump administration
00:06:18.800 put American booze back on the shelves? Because let me put it to you this way. If they put booze
00:06:23.680 back on the shelves, you can still boycott it. Or is it you don't want to deal at all because
00:06:28.960 Trump, because he lives rent-free in your brain, because he owns you. Like this doesn't make any
00:06:34.960 sense. And here's another conclusion I'm coming to, folks. Here's another conclusion I'm coming
00:06:41.380 to, folks. The Liberal Party owns you as well. You voted for the Liberal Party of Canada. Many
00:06:49.020 of you voted for the Liberal Party of Canada because of one man. Because Donald Trump lives
00:06:55.920 rent-free in your brain because he owns you. That's what you've done. You're punishing Canada
00:07:02.160 because of one man. I don't blame 40 million Canadians for the predicament that Canada is in
00:07:07.820 right now. But I do blame stupid liberal voters that put this party back in power, that's doomed 1.00
00:07:15.920 our country. Let's go back to the original article and let's see what the conclusion is. 1.00
00:07:20.620 They came to the conclusion quite early in this article. The pollsters chalk up much of that
00:07:24.920 difference to an attention gap between the two countries, meaning Americans don't think as badly
00:07:30.000 about Canadians as Canadians think about Americans. Noting that Canadians are far more likely than
00:07:34.640 Americans, 91% versus 69%, to be following news of the latest tariffs due to take effect on August
00:07:41.360 19th. This is the conclusion they came to. I don't come to the same conclusion. Americans don't think
00:07:46.740 much of Canada. I hate to tell you this, but they don't see tariffs as an issue. They probably don't
00:07:52.540 think this consciously, but they see us as insignificant. And when it comes to the United
00:07:58.120 States economy, the Canadian economy is pretty insignificant. Donald Trump owns you. The Liberal
00:08:05.100 Party owns you. I saw more people jumping on this bandwagon yesterday. I talked about this early
00:08:09.600 yesterday. Mark Carney turning blind eye to Canada by vacationing now. Wildfires rage. Job
00:08:15.620 losses mount in Canada. But anyone wanting answers from the PM on these pressing matters will have
00:08:20.740 to find him in Italy. Yeah, he can always depend on the stupidity of his voters. 1.00
00:08:28.780 What's he got to worry about? Back to the Carlin quote. 1.00
00:08:34.900 Did I ever think that Donald Trump was going to make Canada the 51st state? Of course not.
00:08:40.960 But because of a large group of stupid people, it sure does seem that way. 1.00
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