{"id":769030,"date":"2026-07-17T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/769030\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:39:10","slug":"trump-blames-canada-for-wildfire-smoke-says-hell-add-cost-to-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/769030\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke, says he\u2019ll add cost to tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Canada for wildfire smoke spreading across the United States and said he would add the \u201cincalculable cost\u201d \u200cof dealing with the pollution to existing tariffs on Canadian goods.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Heavy smoke from hundreds of Canadian fires enveloped a swathe of the US from the Midwest to the Northeast on Thursday and Friday, prompting warnings to residents to stay indoors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Detroit on Friday remained the most polluted city in the world, according to tracker IQAir. Washington and Chicago were not far behind, and officials warned against spending unnecessary time outside.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In New York and neighbouring New Jersey, where the World Cup football final will be played on Sunday in an open stadium, the metro area was experiencing air that could be unhealthy for sensitive groups, an improvement after smog on Thursday made the Manhattan skyline barely visible.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But the National Weather Service (NWS) warned the smoke may thicken overnight into Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Jersey City skyline is seen through a cover of wildfire smoke on Friday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/48457340-7874-4be9-8523-e6ed0ecf79d2_595de0ff.jpg\" title=\"The Jersey City skyline is seen through a cover of wildfire smoke on Friday. Photo: AP\"\/>The Jersey City skyline is seen through a cover of wildfire smoke on Friday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tournament organisers are \u201cmonitoring closely\u201d, White House World Cup task force executive director Andrew Giuliani told a briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Canada for wildfire smoke spreading across the United States and said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,276777,103,144485,157,2120,12,59503,8640,70506,24030,1997,2005,3,93027,2432,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-769030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-andrew-giuliani","tag-canada","tag-carney","tag-chicago","tag-detroit","tag-donald-trump","tag-great-lakes","tag-maryland","tag-midwest","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-northeast","tag-ontario","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}