John Bolton - January 23, 2025


Trudeau's Ketchup Diplomacy - Canada is effed


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

178.84344

Word Count

634

Sentence Count

59


Summary

We now have ketchup diplomacy in Canada. That's how far we've fallen. Canada's trade relations with the United States are at an all-time low, and it's time to do something about it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 11.32 a.m. on Thursday, January 23rd.
00:00:05.900 I do have my big blue mug of coffee, a late cup of coffee this morning, and I'm going
00:00:12.600 to put it to you bluntly here.
00:00:14.020 If you live in Canada right now, we are absolutely f***ed, and I call this Ketchup Diplomacy.
00:00:22.400 I had a long video planned for tomorrow morning, but I wanted to do this today because I'm
00:00:28.360 very concerned, and if you're a Canadian right now, you should be extremely concerned with
00:00:32.640 what's going on.
00:00:33.560 Things are more dire than you think.
00:00:36.120 And as you saw by the card and by the title of this, we now have Ketchup Diplomacy in this
00:00:41.900 country.
00:00:42.760 That's how far we've fallen.
00:00:45.240 I'm going to show you two quick videos, one from Donald Trump, the other one from Justin
00:00:49.340 Trudeau.
00:00:49.900 Watch them both.
00:00:50.780 I know you don't like the Trudeau clips, but watch them both.
00:00:53.960 And then I'm going to show you a tweet from the Conservative Party of Canada because I
00:00:57.860 think they're clueless as well.
00:01:00.000 We are absolutely f***ed right now.
00:01:03.100 Here's Donald Trump.
00:01:04.080 Canada, we have a tremendous deficit with Canada.
00:01:06.940 We're not going to have that anymore.
00:01:08.160 We can't do it.
00:01:09.180 I don't know if it's good for them.
00:01:11.740 As you probably know, I say you can always become a state.
00:01:15.260 And if you're a state, we won't have a deficit.
00:01:17.520 We won't have to tariff you, et cetera, et cetera.
00:01:19.460 But Canada has been very tough to deal with over the years.
00:01:23.340 And it's not fair that we should have a 200 billion or 250 billion dollar deficit.
00:01:28.940 We don't need them to make our cars and they make a lot of them.
00:01:32.060 We don't need their lumber because we have our own forests, et cetera, et cetera.
00:01:35.840 We don't need their oil and gas.
00:01:37.440 We have our we have more than anybody.
00:01:39.480 Canada needs to respond with equivalent tariffs on imports from the United States.
00:01:45.600 Those would be paid by Canadian consumers.
00:01:49.580 That's why we will look, as we have in the past, at things that have replacements.
00:01:56.600 The example from last time was Heinz's ketchup being replaced by French's ketchup.
00:02:01.960 Donald Trump's rhetoric is like a thermonuclear weapon for this country.
00:02:06.700 And the prime minister of Canada is waving around a bottle of ketchup.
00:02:10.940 I'd like to grab him around the neck, just like a bottle of ketchup and shake him a little bit.
00:02:15.600 But what's even worse, and here's some criticism coming in for Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party.
00:02:20.860 Here's a tweet.
00:02:23.240 Where's Carbon Tax Carney?
00:02:25.200 He's been missing for a whole week now since his campaign launch.
00:02:29.780 Where's Carbon Tax Carney?
00:02:31.620 Are you kidding me?
00:02:33.100 This is all by design.
00:02:34.740 He's just sitting back and allowing all this to play out.
00:02:37.900 This is all being done to rebuild the Liberal Party.
00:02:41.320 Look, I'm Justin Trudeau.
00:02:42.820 I'm going to fight back against that evil Donald Trump.
00:02:45.900 That's what this is about.
00:02:47.760 Carney knows that.
00:02:48.880 I know that.
00:02:49.840 Obviously, Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party don't understand what the hell is going on here.
00:02:54.220 And we all know, we, the smart people, all we have to do is to negotiate on the border.
00:03:02.400 That's all that has to be done to fix this whole problem.
00:03:05.160 And all we've got is the Team Canada types screaming and yelling, threatening the United States of America in a fight that Canada cannot win.
00:03:14.420 Discussion, diplomacy, discussion, close the freaking border down.
00:03:20.060 That's all that needs to be done.
00:03:21.820 I mean, it's just so maddening.
00:03:25.020 Anyhow, I appreciate you watching.
00:03:26.780 Thanks so much.
00:03:27.680 If you like the video, please give me a thumbs up.
00:03:29.920 Subscribe to the channel.
00:03:31.680 I'll see you in the next one.