Trump announces that all trade negotiations with Canada have been terminated because of a stupid ad that was put out by the Ontario government. I explain why this is a good thing and what Trump actually thinks about it. I also talk about the Ronald Reagan Foundation and what they actually think about this.
00:00:03.300So Canada's leaders are incredibly, incredibly stupid.
00:00:08.720I'm going to break down this controversy over President Donald Trump ending trade talks with Canada over this Doug Ford ad,
00:00:16.280but what I want to say at the start is what people say is not actually sometimes what they mean.
00:00:23.440Trump ending the trade talks over an incredibly stupid ad that Doug Ford was running in the U.S. is not actually what Trump cares about.
00:00:32.340Trump cares about getting concessions out of Canada, and he knows that our leaders are incredibly weak and will make concessions just to get back to the negotiating table.
00:00:42.540But obviously in this video, we should start from square one.
00:00:49.260And what stupid things have happened since then?
00:00:52.400But before I get into it, guys, I do just want to say that if you like the channel, make sure to leave a like on this video, subscribe if you are not yet a subscriber,
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00:01:09.120And then, of course, leave a comment on what you think about all this objective nonsense.
00:01:14.980But let's start off with this Doug Ford ad.
00:01:18.020And so they were using the voice of Ronald Reagan here to try and make a point against tariffs.
00:01:25.360And they were playing this in the American market.
00:01:27.480When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs.
00:01:37.940And sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time.
00:01:44.820But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.
00:01:51.780High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars.
00:02:01.440Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs.
00:02:08.460Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition.
00:02:20.360America's jobs and growth are at stake.
00:02:23.220And so this ad, of course, as it was alluded to, because I said it was Doug Ford ads, Doug Ford's ad was run by the government of Ontario.
00:02:33.400And I want to get into some stuff a little bit later about what firms were used to run this ad.
00:02:39.380Because as Mario Zadea had posted on X, it actually looks like this firm was connected to Corey Tanike, a Ford ally's brother or something like that, or a family member.
00:02:51.840And so we're dumping really stupid ads into the U.S.
00:02:56.220It is benefiting PC Party insiders to do this sort of thing.
00:02:59.560If anything, Trump's probably very happy they're running these ads because, hey, we're subsidizing the American advertising market to run stuff that will not hurt Trump in any way, shape, or form.
00:03:09.020By the way, I agree with the words of Ronald Reagan.
00:03:47.000The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is fake, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
00:05:40.220He's pressing a button that every time he presses it, he gets another concession from Mark Carney and the liberal government.
00:05:45.260And my goodness, all the elbows-up liberals out there who are fear-mongering that if Pierre Polyev was the prime minister, oh, he would just give away everything to Donald Trump.
00:05:55.120Well, I don't know if he would or not.
00:05:59.520But right now we have Prime Minister Mark Carney and we are giving everything away.
00:06:04.220And I'm not framing this as, oh, my goodness, he's conceding to the big evil orange man.
00:06:09.780You can't concede anything to the orange man because you get liberals out there and you even get some conservatives who, like, I guess what you would say is concern troll.
00:06:20.340Well, why is Carney giving away the country?
00:06:22.920Guys, it's actually not wrong to give concessions to the United States in order to get to a better trade deal.
00:06:28.640The problem is that we're stupid the way we've been doing negotiations.
00:06:32.940We make concessions for nothing and then we thumb our nose at them, giving Trump a perfect opportunity to flip the table in which we then give more concessions just to get back to the table to repeat the process again.
00:06:43.320If we were serious, we would have been negotiating five months ago.
00:06:46.400More than six months ago, Carney should have wrapped this issue up before even calling a federal election.
00:06:51.820It would have been politically intelligent to do, but he is just so anti-American.
00:06:55.880I just don't think he's capable of actually negotiating with them properly.
00:07:03.520We will be getting to the aftermath of what's happened after Trump made that post.
00:07:08.000But if we were trying to negotiate a real deal that would have benefited us,
00:07:13.220we should have basically been ready to put concessions on the table, like getting rid of our supply management system or at least severely weakening it.
00:07:20.280It's not even good for Canadian farmers.
00:07:22.280It actually is good for a select few Canadian farmers while keeping the rest of them out of the market and increasing costs on consumers.
00:07:28.820So we should have had some concessions on the table.
00:07:31.380We should have had our own demands on the table, by the way.
00:07:33.540We should have had the ability to make threats that if they won't do this, well, then we will do this.
00:07:39.820We will target a few states and we will basically cut off certain big trade goods from them that they 80 percent trade into Canada.
00:09:35.300But this is what the Reagan Foundation had put out in their own post.
00:09:39.380They said, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the government of Ontario, Canada,
00:09:45.200created an ad using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan's delivering his radio address to the nation on free and fair trade dated April 25, 1987.
00:09:55.260The ad misrepresents President Reagan's radio address, and the government of Ontario did not seek or nor receive permission to use the remark.
00:10:05.300The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.
00:10:10.380We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our YouTube channel.
00:10:15.580Now, even then, I actually don't think they're right on this.
00:10:18.340Reagan is not arguing in favor of the sort of protectionism that the U.S. has engaged in.
00:10:23.380And, again, but my thing is that different situations are different.
00:10:29.300So trying to use Reagan's words for now just don't really make sense.
00:11:01.320It's probably one of the best ads I've ever seen, and it's coming from Ronald Reagan's voice.
00:11:05.380And it's going to be focused right across the country, but also in Republican-held areas, because what I feel, the Reagan Republicans are going to be fighting with a MAGA group.
00:11:36.300I was kind of dragging my feet to make this video, but good thing I did, because, my goodness, Doug Ford talks so tough, and then he walks stuff back so quickly.
00:11:45.500Here is from an hour ago from Premier Doug Ford.
00:11:49.260And, my goodness, I have people from the last provincial election this February saying,
00:11:53.900Wyatt, you can't support the new Blue Party of Ontario.
00:12:25.680Our intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of economy that Americans want to build and the impact of tariffs on workers and business.
00:12:33.820We've achieved our goal, having reached U.S. audiences at the highest levels.
00:12:38.240I've directed my team to keep putting out messages in front of Americans over the next weekend so that we can air our commercial during the first two World Series games.
00:12:47.180In speaking with Prime Minister Carney, Ontario will pause its U.S. advertising campaign effective Monday so that trade talks can resume.
00:12:55.180The people elected our government to protect Ontario, our workers, businesses, families, and communities.
00:15:25.940We inform Trump that he's wrong with the picture of Jon Hamm from Mad Men making an advertising pitch.
00:15:31.740Like, yes, guys, the way that we're going to best Trump in this is how about we go to him and call him stupid and that he doesn't understand Ronald Reagan.
00:18:43.600At least the Doug Ford's friends potentially are getting a lot of money for all this.
00:18:50.080And the American advertising industry is getting a lot of money too.
00:18:54.020Now, I just wanted to respond to this.
00:18:57.640My friend Jared Yeager from the Western Standard, also works at their subsidiary, the West Coast Standard, said this.
00:19:05.500And I just wanted to use this because I get his point, but it was just a good way for me to say what I think on this whole tariff issue and what Donald Trump is doing.
00:19:14.080So Jared Yeager says, Look, I'm no fan of Carney, but let's be real for a sec.
00:19:19.080How can anyone properly negotiate with a president whose trade policies are motivated not by any semblance of reason, but solely by how he feels at any given moment?
00:19:28.500Now, I know people think that about Trump because, well, look, he says one thing one day and another thing another day.
00:19:34.860I don't think it's just based on feeling, though.
00:19:36.920I think that this is all more calculated than you think.
00:19:39.660I don't think that Donald Trump, like some people will always joke, is playing upside down 4D chess, underwater chess.
00:19:47.380No, I think that what he's doing is he just looks for weakness and he pushes on that weakness.
00:19:53.900And that's why I responded to Jared saying this, because I think this is a more clear version of what is currently going on.
00:20:01.020So I said what people are missing is that Trump doesn't actually care about the Reagan aspect of this controversy.
00:20:06.500He knows Carney is a weakling, and every time he walks away from the negotiating table, Carney and the liberals offer him concessions just to start talking again.
00:20:16.800If Carney was smart, he would have engaged in a real negotiation where he first got into office and put a combination of concessions,
00:20:24.560demands threats and avenues of cooperation on the table to get as low of a tariff percentage as possible.
00:20:29.940Proposing an alliance against China would have been a very smart move, but Canada was too busy playing footsie with the CCP, despite them also tariffing us.
00:20:38.080So yeah, I think that's a generally succinct view of what is going on right now.
00:20:43.340Like, I know my friend J.J. McCullough is not a fan of Trump, but I find that he is a very realistic person when it comes to what is going on here.
00:20:52.340I just wanted to grab up some of his tweets that he's been putting out today.
00:20:56.360I didn't save any of them in my bookmarks, but he's been putting out a lot on this stuff.
00:21:00.380And I thought this was a good way of putting it when it comes to why everything's been performed so badly,
00:21:07.020everything's been done so badly on the tariffs from the Carney side of things.
00:21:12.160Because without putting too fine a point on it, I think at some core level, Carney is basically a globalist snob who doesn't really like the U.S.
00:21:19.520and is excited by the thought of being the prime minister who steers Canada away from America and into the orbit of the EU and the UK.
00:21:28.320And part of it is also just that there's a lot of political incentives to be obstinate right now if you're from Canada,
00:21:35.960because there is a lot of anti-American Canadian voters.
00:21:39.980Now, I don't think there's actually enough to win the next election in the same manner Carney won this last one.
00:21:45.440But it is still a powerful force in liberal circles.