{"id":870188,"date":"2026-08-24T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870188\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:32:10","slug":"trump-wants-to-destroy-canadas-auto-industry-carney-says-of-latest-tariff-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870188\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants to &#8216;destroy&#8217; Canada&#8217;s auto industry, Carney says of latest tariff threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford comments are bluster, Trump writes on Truth Socialpublished at 19:34 BST<\/p>\n<p>19:34 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US President Donald Trump has responded to comments made by Canadian premier Doug Ford, who is currently speaking and who said Trump was &#8220;like a bully at school&#8221; as trade talks collapsed over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump characterises Ford&#8217;s scathing remarks as &#8220;lots of &#8216;bluster'&#8221; and calls Ontario&#8217;s premier as &#8220;the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother&#8221; of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who died in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Trump  America has been carrying Canada for decades, but no longer! The USA. will always be far bigger, richer, and stronger than Canada,&#8221; Trump says, adding that, without the US, Canada &#8220;couldn\u2019t survive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It\u2019s where they get all of their money and, because of their current bad leadership, primarily Governor Carney, and his Flunky, Ford, they will not be allowed to keep taking advantage of the United States \u2014 Their key to survival,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Someone should get these clowns to &#8216;fall in line&#8217; or, the consequences for Canada will be far WORSE!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ford comments are bluster, Trump writes on Truth Socialpublished at 19:34 BST 19:34 BST US President Donald Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-870188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870188","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=870188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}