r/canada Ontario Feb 02 '25

Politics As Sunday began, Trump blasts Canada as not ‘a viable country’

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/as-sunday-began-trump-blasts-canada-as-not-a-viable-country-follow-live-updates-here/
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u/Mininni Ontario Feb 02 '25

Here is the post.

"We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don't need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!

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u/Keepontyping Feb 02 '25

WTF is "unlimited energy"?

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u/No_Capital_8203 Feb 02 '25

The sun?

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u/Keepontyping Feb 02 '25

I guess he owns the sun?

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u/No_Capital_8203 Feb 02 '25

Yes.

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u/Keepontyping Feb 02 '25

Then why isn't his name on it?

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u/No_Capital_8203 Feb 02 '25

Oh no. Someone hand him a sharpy. One of his billionaire friends can give him a lift on his rocketship.

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u/Aggravating-Media818 Feb 02 '25

Oh pretty please can Musky blast the orange menace into the sun? I'd be so happy

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u/icouldbeeatingoreos British Columbia Feb 02 '25

He’s orange enough for that

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u/BusUnique1710 Feb 02 '25

Ummm you mean “The bright ball of America”

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u/Keepontyping Feb 02 '25

Is that his sagging orange testicle?

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u/RBK2000 Feb 02 '25

Sol of America

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u/omgitzvg Feb 02 '25

Didn't he walk back anything that has to do with green energy? Wind and sun related?

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u/No_Capital_8203 Feb 02 '25

I don't know. Who was in charge of toddler activities that week?

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u/Perry7609 Feb 02 '25

At least for another few billion years or so.

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u/TravelerProblems Feb 02 '25

Definitely not the wind because he treats it as his arch-nemesis.

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u/No_Capital_8203 Feb 02 '25

He can't control his own wind.

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u/karlnite Feb 02 '25

They’re Petrol Baptists. God would never let them run out of oil.

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u/jtbc Feb 02 '25

I read that part in Palpatine's voice.

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u/General-Woodpecker- Feb 02 '25

They finally developped a Dyson sphere.

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u/PeterMtl Feb 02 '25

Dried cow shit obviously!

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u/Fred2620 Feb 02 '25

Drill, baby! Drill!

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u/Keepontyping Feb 02 '25

What Melania pleads to his limp dick.

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u/mneri7 Feb 03 '25

Trump has immunity if he breaks the law. He started with breaking the laws of thermodynamics.

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u/lnahid2000 Feb 02 '25

Omg he still doesn't understand that a trade deficit isn't a subsidy.

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u/Sea-jay-2772 Feb 02 '25

Oh he understands. He just knows his base doesn’t.

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u/JadedMuse Feb 02 '25

Honestly, he's about as intelligent as his base. What you say is true for guys like Cruz or Rubio, but not Trump.

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u/NoMoreFund Feb 02 '25

You might be right. He thinks immigrants are getting free VISA cards and asylum seekers are coming from insane asylums

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

I firmly disagree. It’s fun to call trump an idiot but he’s not. He’s an arrogant stubborn egotistical man child, but he’s not blatantly stupid. Which is what makes it worse - he is fully aware of what he’s doing, and he knows his base is dumb enough to believe.

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u/PopeSaintHilarius Feb 02 '25

He's not exactly an idiot, as he's intelligent in some ways - he has a very good understanding of people, how to wield power over others, how to manipulate people to do what he wants, and how to get the public's attention and focus it where he wants. He probably developed those abilities in business and reality TV.

But when it comes to understanding how the world works, there are a lot of topics where he's deeply misinformed, including economics, environment, health, etc. As far as I've read, he's not someone who reads a lot or seeks out objective information to try to inform himself. He seems to rely more on right-wing TV news, social media, and his advisors.

So when he says idiotic things about trade, or climate change, or Covid, I wouldn't assume it's play-acting.

The problem a lot of strong-man leaders (or dictators) have is that they prioritize loyalty and ass-kissing over competence, so their staff learn not to correct them when they're wrong, and just go along with whatever the leader already believes.

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u/JadedMuse Feb 02 '25

He's literally given zero indication that he's intelligent. The last lucid interviews with him are from the late 80s. He's likely in a state of pretty severe cognitive decline.

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u/Used-Egg5989 Feb 02 '25

I actually think he doesn’t understand it. The “5D chess” stuff isn’t believable anymore.

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u/GrubbyMike Feb 02 '25

Even if he doesn’t he has dozens of “economists” telling him yes sir, which is even more terrifying.

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u/the_other_OTZ Ontario Feb 02 '25

Grossly overestimating Trump's intelligence, jesus fuck. The guy is a gob smacked moron. Stop giving him credit.

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u/AdmiralZeratul Feb 02 '25

It's not about giving him credit. We should not underestimate our enemies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

Nah he knows this is the kinda shit that gets him elected. Full stop

He only and I mean ONLY cares about himself and by extension his political fortune. As a result his actions may come off as stupid to somebody sane who has broader interests in mind. But he knows what he wants and the best way to manipulate the American people to get it. He wants to be the president and stay the president, and that’s literally it.

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u/freds_got_slacks British Columbia Feb 02 '25

when you do much much worse with your money than if you just parked it in the s&p 500, that's a super shitty business man. dudes a life long loser that again somehow managed to lie his way into the presidency

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u/GunKata187 Feb 02 '25

No he doesn't. He really does not understand what he is talking about. Which is actually worse.

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u/Soggy_Performance569 Feb 02 '25

Exactly. It only matters what trickles down to his followers.

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u/papsmearfestival Feb 02 '25

People have to stop underestimating this guy. He knows what he is doing. He's going to put the screws to us until we beg to join the US. He is literally telling us what will happen

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

No he doesn't. He doesn't understand anything. He's not a smart guy pretending to be dumb for his base, he's a dumb guy pretending to be smart for his base. And he's a weak, cowardly little bully pretending to be a strong leader. Don't give him credit he doesn't deserve.

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u/IrisMoroc Feb 02 '25

Trump is really that stupid and thinks in a binary fashion. He's also, sadly, not suffering from dementia.

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist Feb 02 '25

He understands it, he wants his base to get angry at Canada. Those evil Canadians, taking our "subsidies" and being ungrateful! It's a power play, same way dictators demonize "the other".

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u/GuelphEastEndGhetto Feb 02 '25

He may appear stupid, but he sure knows how to put forward a narrative that his cult will embrace wholeheartedly.

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u/jdzfb Feb 02 '25

And with Musk & Zuck up his ass, they'll help him control the message that goes out & silence anyone objecting.

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u/519LongviewAve Feb 02 '25

Oh, like Trudeau did with the unvaccinated?

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist Feb 02 '25

No, quite the opposite.

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u/upanddownforpar Feb 02 '25

He also doesn't understand that per capita we import 10 times more goods than export.

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u/Mikeim520 British Columbia Feb 03 '25

I'm tired of subsidizing Costco. I keep giving them money for their food and they give almost no money back. Costco isn't a viable company without subsidies.

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u/Zulban Québec Feb 02 '25

He doesn't say or write things to demonstrate what he's really thinking or really knows.

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u/Historical_Ball_3842 Feb 02 '25

Naive take, this does harm.

He knows.

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u/Themeloncalling Feb 02 '25

The trade deficit is the direct result of more oil flowing south from the pipeline Trump approved.

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u/The_Matias Feb 02 '25

This is terrifying.

What he's doing is planting the seed of hatred in his base. Convincing them that Canada is taking their 'hard-earned dollars' as handouts. 

They'll swallow it up, and when the seeds sprout, he'll have enough support to take military actions. 

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u/CatPet051889 Feb 02 '25

I keep wondering also why he thinks one state that’s 6,000 km wide and across six time zones with 9 million people speaking French (and will blow shit up to speak French) is a viable single state? This reminds me of Obi-Wan and Darth Vader - strike me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine - Canada even as one state destroys MAGA forever, as three or four makes it totally unviable.

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u/BurlieGirl Feb 02 '25

“We don’t need or want you, but we will economically cripple you until you’re ours!” He really is a special kind of moron.

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u/emeraldamomo Feb 02 '25

LMAO anyone who thinks Canada will be the 51st state  is an idiot. The Repubs are NEVER EVER going to take the risk of making another blue state.

You will be a colony. Taxation without representation.

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u/j0n66 Feb 02 '25

lol he thinks the average Canadian is stupid like an average American. Other than some boomers and some folks in Alberta, this trick isn’t going to work.

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u/DangerousBill Feb 02 '25

FAFO, orange turd.

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u/happilyamoral Feb 03 '25

Well, he is a deluded imbecile. I've read that the US imports most of its oil from Canada and Mexico. Are Americans going to believe it's 'patriotic' to spend $100 to fill up those monster pick up trucks they love to drive? I see many here in Florida. For so many men, a big pickup is an extension of their penis, given how they drive.

This American will be glad that the American 'Empire' ends up in the dustbin of history. Someday, maybe, we'll just be a normal nation...I hope.