{"id":913429,"date":"2026-09-29T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913429\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:30:09","slug":"donald-trump-calls-canada-one-of-the-worst-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913429\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Calls Canada ‘One of the Worst Countries’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump predicted that Canada will apologize to him for engaging in a trade war<\/a> with the United States.<\/p>\n

Trump was asked about US-Canada trade relations during an Oval Office announcement Monday about the US steel industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to have a deal with us,\u201d Trump said of Canada. \u201cThey call us all the time. The problem is, they have treated the United States very unfairly. They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world. We get along with China, we get along with people, we make good deals, but Canada has been really very difficult to deal with, actually, and they charge our farmers 400% tariffs and more. They take advantage of us. They feel entitled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump continued:<\/p>\n

And, you know, 95% of the business they do, they do with United States. With us, it\u2019s a tiny fraction of that number. It\u2019s not a big number at all. And yet, you know, we give them military, we give them icebreakers. They want icebreakers. We work with them, we buy icebreakers. We have 11 of them right now under construction. And they want to know if they can use our icebreakers, so many things. And they feel entitled. They are not a state. There\u2019s nothing they have that we need<\/a>. We have more energy than they have. We have all the lumber you could possibly use. Everything we have, we don\u2019t need. And they have to treat our country with respect. They have been very bad with our farmers, in particular.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s economic adviser Peter Navarro piped up to call Canadian traders \u201cthe most difficult and arrogant\u201d that he\u2019s dealt with.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey cheated on just about everything they can: lumber, aluminum, steel, dairy, down the list,\u201d Navarro said. \u201cAnd the worst part now is they are in bed with China, trying to play China against us, and they are giving away their country. They like to beat up on Donald Trump. They think politically that works. The only people hurt by that are the people of Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd many, many people are going into Canada right now from other parts of the world,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not a good situation. They\u2019re coming in totally unchecked. Totally unvetted.\u201d<\/p>\n

A reporter asked, \u201cHow does this end?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what\u2019s going to happen is, over the next three or four weeks, they\u2019re going to come to us and they\u2019re going to say, \u2018We need to get rid of all the tariffs,\u2019 Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to win everything. We even have Lake Ontario<\/a> is now Lake America, And that\u2019s been done, by the way. That actually just got done. They told me it was just completed. But they\u2019re gonna come in and they\u2019re gonna say, \u2018Sir, we are sorry.\u2019 They treated the United States very, very badly. I think a deal will be made, but it\u2019s gotta be a fair deal,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.<\/p>\n

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