{"id":237533,"date":"2025-10-24T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237533\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:34:09","slug":"trumps-no-1-canadian-enemy-doug-ford-relishes-antagonist-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237533\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s No. 1 Canadian Enemy: Doug Ford Relishes Antagonist Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The premier of Canada\u2019s most powerful province \u2014 and arguably the country\u2019s most successful politician today \u2014 has gotten under Donald Trump\u2019s skin again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">An anti-tariff ad launched by Ontario Premier Doug Ford\u2019s government prompted Trump to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-24\/trump-says-all-trade-talks-with-canada-are-terminated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">lash out<\/a> Thursday night, announcing all trade negotiations with Canada had been halted. The ad uses excerpts from a 1987 speech by former President Ronald Reagan, in which he defended free trade and criticized the idea tariffs lead to economic gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The premier of Canada\u2019s most powerful province \u2014 and arguably the country\u2019s most successful politician today \u2014 has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,19953,14208,9383,10864,893,100,44,714,112149,3302,14212],"class_list":["post-237533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conservative","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-exports","tag-free-trade","tag-government","tag-markets","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-ronald-r-reagan","tag-toronto","tag-u-s-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}