Justin from Canada travels to the White House for a conversation with President Trump about the USMCA deal, ratification, and a request from Canada for assistance in their conflict with China. The relationship between President Trump and the arrogant Justin from Canada is tenuous at best. [Video and Transcript]
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[Transcript] 12:10 P.M. EDT – PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. We had some good news. The market hit a all-time high today. The S&P just broke its record, so we’re very happy about that. The stock market continues to do well. Jobs have been literally through the roof. And, speaking of jobs, we have the USMCA with Canada, with Mexico. And we’ve come a long way. It’s a great agreement. As you know, Mexico, yesterday, approved it.
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: Yep.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: — through the very positive vote. And you’re doing very well, I understand, also.
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: We are.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: But it’s an honor to have the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. He’s been a friend of mine. We’ve worked hard together. We worked, in particular, on the USMCA. And we hope to have bipartisan support. I think, Justin, you’re going to be making the rounds at Congress later on?
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: Meeting a few people.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s a terrific thing. But it’s great to have you.
So, we’re going to be talking about that. And, generally, we’ll be talking trade and other things. And we’re then going to have lunch and some meetings. And it’s an interesting day, but it will be, like, a positive day, I think, like usual. That’s the way we want to have it. We want to have very positive days. We only have positive days.
So I want to thank you very much, Justin, for coming to the White House.
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: Thank you, Donald.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you. Please.
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: Thank you, Donald, for this meeting. It’s an opportunity for us, as you say, to keep talking about how we’ve worked hard to build a great trade deal that’s good for Canadian workers, good for American workers, good for Mexican workers as well.
We’re moving forward on the ratification process aligned with you. Obviously, today, as well, on top of the great news on the Canadian and American economies, we’re continuing to work on a broad range of global issues. Obviously, there’s news today we’re going to be talking about as well.
But this is just a really great opportunity for us to continue to work and to develop and to build on the closest alliance in the world, between Canada and the United States.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, this will be the largest trade deal ever made, and it won’t even be close. If you take a look at the numbers, second is so far away, you don’t even call it second. So it’s very exciting. And very exciting for Mexico; very exciting for Canada.
And I have to also thank the President of Mexico because he’s really been doing a job on the border and a job in Mexico. A lot of very positive things have happened. And the flow has very substantially slowed down. They have 6,000 Mexican troops on their southern border. And it’s been — it’s really been a tremendous difference.
So I want to thank Mexico and the people of Mexico. Now, this has only been for a short period of time. Our country has been asking for this for 45 years, approximately. And they’re doing it now. And we very much appreciate that Mexico is doing that. It’s going to have a big impact. It’s already had a big impact.
So, with that, I thank you very much. And we’re going to get on with our discussions. Thank you.
This is the new —
(A model plane is presented on the table.)
Q Mr. President, how will you respond?
Q On Iran, sir —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I was going to say this is the new Air Force One, which we ordered, which they’ve been trying to order for a lot of years. We were able to shave $1.5 billion off the price. When I got here, they were going to spend a lot more money than we spent. And I would say the plane basically is an upgrade over that model. We actually are getting things that they didn’t get. We’re saving about $1.5 billion. So it’s going to be terrific. It’s under construction, right now, by Boeing.
Go ahead. Question?
Q Mr. President, how will you respond to Iran?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Iran made a big mistake. This drone was in international waters, clearly. We have it all documented. It’s documented scientifically, not just words. And they made a very bad mistake. Okay?
Q How will you respond, Mr. President? How will you respond?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You’ll find out.
Q Does that mean you’re planning to do something?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You’ll find out. You’ll find out. I mean, obviously — obviously — obviously, you know, we’re not going to be talking too much about it. You’re going to find out. They made a very big mistake.
Q Mr. President, what are your concerns about China and the Canadians who are detained, sir?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No concerns. We’ll be discussing that. It’ll be one of the issues that I think we’ll be discussing right now with Justin.
Q Mr. President, the Fed made no change to the interest rate.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Say it?
Q The Fed made no change to the interest rate yesterday.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I guess they indicated they’re going to be lower. He should’ve done sooner, but what are you going do? Can’t win them all. He should’ve have done it sooner, but you can’t win it all. And, eventually, he’ll do what’s right, perhaps. Let’s see what he does.
Q Do you intend to bring (inaudible)?
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: Obviously, we’re very concerned about the escalation by Iran recently. We have significant presence in the area, including leading on the NATO mission in Baghdad, in Iraq.
We look forward to discussing with our closest ally — their perspectives on this — and how we can move forward as an international community.
Q Will you help Justin Trudeau get a meeting with Xi Jinping at the G20 next week to talk about the detained Canadians?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I don’t know that he’s trying to meet. Are you trying to get a meeting?
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: We’ve got a lot of things to discuss.
Q He wants one, but Xi won’t meet with him.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, otherwise, I’ll represent him well, I will tell you. We have a meeting set up with President Xi, and it’s obviously on the big transaction that we’re talking about and negotiating. Our people are actually speaking now, and we’ll see what happens with that. But anything I can do to help Canada, I will be doing.
Q Are you planning to bring it up with President Xi when you meet with him?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Excuse me?
Q Are you planning to bring it up with President Xi when you meet with him?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I would. At Justin’s request, I will absolutely bring that up.
Q When the USMCA is ratified, sir, will that be the end of tariffs?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Don’t say “when.”
Q When it is ratified. “If” it is ratified.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Don’t say “when,” because, so far, I have to get the Democrats to approve it. So, I like your positive thinking. But if — and the “if” is really subject to the Democrats. Let’s see what happens.
But I really believe that Nancy Pelosi and the House will approve it. I think the Senate will approve it rapidly. It’s going to be very bipartisan. It’s great for the farmers, manufacturers. It’s really great for everybody. And unions. It’s great for unions. I mean, we have tremendous union support too. It’s a tremendous — it really is; it shows a partnership between three countries.
And it’s sort of three countries — in a trade sense, we’re competing with the European Union. We’re competing with China. It gives us a bigger dialogue. It gives us a much bigger platform. It’s really good for all three. It’s something that’s very popular. I hope, politically, they can do what they have to do.
Now, a day after the election, it would win with tremendous support. But we have an election coming up. But I think Nancy Pelosi is going to do the right thing.
Q And will that be the end of tariffs on Canada and Mexico?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, we’ll see. I mean, you know, they have to do what they have to do. We understand that. We can’t have big, tremendous shipments of certain products. So we understand that very well.
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: We were very pleased with the lifting of the tariffs on steel and aluminum.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: They’ve been lifted, as you know, and there won’t be, hopefully, transshipping. If there’s transshipping, I’ll call Justin and I’m sure he’ll take care of it. And if he doesn’t take — I’ll probably call him a second time. And if he doesn’t, then we’ll have to talk, right?
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: We’re going to be fine.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: But I think that that situation is very well taken care of. Very important for both countries and for all three countries: the farmers. Very, very important. More so in that case, from us and Canada. But the farmers are really happy with it. The manufacturers are very happy. Mexico is thrilled. You saw the vote. It was a very lopsided — in a positive way — vote. A great vote. And I think it’s going to be something very special.
Again, it’s the largest trade deal, by far, ever entered into. And we’re very close to having it finalized. This means a lot of jobs for our country; a lot of wealth for all three countries. And we’re really competing against the world. You know, we’re not competing with each other so much. This brings us into a position where we’re not competing with each other; we’re competing against the world. And that’s what we’re doing.
We’re competing against big sections of the world, including Asia and including other areas. And I think it’s going to be very special. I think it’s going to end up being a very important deal, but the biggest ever made.
Q Will you invite the Toronto Raptors to the White House, sir?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Say it?
Q Will you invite the Toronto Raptors to the White House? I’m from the Toronto Star. I have to ask.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, we thought about that. That’s an interesting question. They played phenomenal basketball. I watched a little bit of it. They were really terrific. Congratulations, by the way. That was a great job by a great team. So we’ll think about that. If they’d like to do it, we’ll think about that.
We have a lot of other folks coming. And the presidential medal — I just spoke to him — we’re going to be presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Roger Penske. Roger Penske is a great gentleman who has won 18 Indianapolis 500s. He’s won — just won Daytona. He won Daytona. He won Indianapolis. He won probably more than anybody in the history of racing. I can’t imagine anybody even being close.
But Roger Penske is going to be getting the Medal of Freedom, and he’s very thrilled to be getting it. And that’ll be announced over the next little while, but, I guess, actually, I’m announcing it pretty much now. But they’ll be — (laughter) — they’ll be putting something out. They’ll be putting something out in a little while.
He’s very deserving. He’s a great gentleman. I’ve known him a long time. And a very brilliant guy. When you think of all the countries that want to win Indianapolis and Daytona, and they fight and they spend — even Canada; they spend a lot of money and they —
And, you know, when a man wins Indianapolis, when he wins it 18 times — and he just won the Daytona. And he won many things over the course of years, and he’s become a very successful man.
We talked about electric cars today. I think nobody knows more about that subject, in terms of common sense, than Roger Penske. So Roger Penske will be getting and receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Q Mr. President, you said Iran is a “different country.” Do you still hold that opinion?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Oh, absolutely. When I came here, Iran was in 14 to 18 different sites of confliction. They were extremely hostile. They were hostile when they signed the deal. They were screaming, “Death to America.” And I think, probably, Iran made a mistake. I would imagine it was a general or somebody that made a mistake in shooting that drone down.
And, fortunately, that drone was unarmed. It was not — there was no man in it, and there was no — it was just — it was over international waters; clearly over international waters. But we didn’t have a man or woman in the drone. We had nobody in the drone. It would have made a big difference, let me tell you. It would have made a big, big difference.
But I have a feeling — I may be wrong and I may right, but I’m right a lot. I have a feeling that it was a mistake made by somebody that shouldn’t have been doing what they did. I think they made a mistake. And I’m not just talking the country made a mistake. I think that somebody under the command of that country made a big mistake.
Q Are you still open to talking to Iran’s leadership?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Let’s just see what happens. You just — let’s see what happens. It’s all going to work out.
Q (Inaudible) to strike the drone?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Say it?
Q Are you saying you think it wasn’t intentional to strike the drone?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I don’t know. I find it hard to believe it was intentional, if you want to know the truth. I think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid that did it. But we’ll be able to report back, and you’ll understand exactly what happened. But it was a very foolish move, that I can tell you.
Q Do you feel like there are members of your administration who are trying to push you into conflict with Iran?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, not at all. Not at all. In fact, in many cases, it’s the opposite.
But I will say — look, I said I want to get out of these endless wars. I campaigned on that: I want to get out. We’ve been in Afghanistan for 19 years. As you know, we’ve reduced very substantially in Afghanistan.
We beat the caliphate. We took back 100 percent of the caliphate. When it was 99 percent, Justin, I said, “We’re going to get out. We’re going to start peeling back.” And everybody went crazy because it was 99. So I said, “All right. So we’ll finish it up.” So we got 100 percent, and we’re pulling that back, out of Syria. We’re pulling a lot of people back.
But this is something — this is a new wrinkle. This is a new fly in the ointment, what happened shooting down the drone. And this country will not stand for it, that I can tell you.
Thank you very much.
Q (Inaudible.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I can’t hear you.
Q (Inaudible) Hicks testifying yesterday?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, she was terrific. I heard she was terrific. Really great. She’s a great — she’s a great person, and I heard she was terrific yesterday.
Thank you very much.
Hands gently clasped in lap, feet crossed at the ankles – Justine must really look up to Melania Trump as a paragon of grace.
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I’m a senior. My grandma who had my mama later in life than usual at the time was a very proper Victorian lady – born in the late 1800’s. She howled if I crossed my legs and so always made me cross my legs at the ankle. Imagine my shock when I saw Justine of Canada behaving in a way to make my Grandma proud. WHAT A WIENIE. Canada, you deserve better!
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I’m a guy, so I don’t really pay much attention to these things.. but why is Trudeau wearing light tan shoes with a blue suit?
Shouldn’t he be wearing black shoes with a navy blue suit?
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It’s a hella thing with the Canadian’s patterned socks. Every photo of him with those cute patterned socks… I used to love kitty socks, and froggy socks, etc. when I was in grade school ;>}.
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It’s the new[er] style with Trudeau’s and younger generations. Brown shoes with powder/lighter shades of blue suit:
https://www.theadultman.com/fashion-and-style/blue-suit-brown-shoes/
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remember when obama trotted out the “tan” suit? one and done
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I was wondering why he wasn’t wearing a more moderately heeled pump.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Actually tan shoes with a blue suit is very fashionable these days, I am 64 and very conservative and I wear that.
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It’s what ALL of the well-dressed feminists are wearing this year.
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I was thinking the same thing!
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Justin’s ladylike pose was the first thing I noticed about the picture. He’s extremely thin, ankles crossed, thin shoulders, he looked like a lady sitting there next to the larger than life President Trump! I sure hope Canada does better next election. I can’t imagine why they elected Justine.
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Just in from Canada had a favorite bedtime story as a child , “The Story of O”.
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@lasy4trump: ^^^^^^^^^This!
A picture is worth a thousand words. Trudeau is not comfortable at all and rather tense.
Having said that after all the niceties with the press I am positive that president Trump had a stern discussion with Trudeau and their role in the uranium one saga. After all the culprit in this is none other than Bill Clinton’s buddy – billionaire Frank Guistra – who has sole ownership of the uranium mines.
I wouldn’t want to be Trudeau at this moment who colluded with the coup plotters that included Canada as the country having facilitated and participated in that transfer of uranium.
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OMG I am so sorry Americans have to look at Justine next to PDJT. As a Canadian I am so embarrassed. What a pansy in all ways.
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Justin from Canada sat like Elf on a Shelf.
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LOL
That’s exactly it!!!!!
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Appropriate posture for someone who was probably told “Damn-it Justin, you act like an insolent 3-yr old child, please… just sit there and try not to f*ck-things-up more than you already have with the USofA …geesh!” (ha)
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That image is nauseating…that’s the only term I can find to describe it because I feel nauseated just looking at it.
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He’s sitting EXACTLY the way Nancy told him too …
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You left out the socks and brown shoes.
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Can’t find anything on the reason for Georgia coup attempt
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I know, that photo is actually a bit disturbing. I would have preferred a more muscular fella as an ally.
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By “muscular” I mean masculine. I know, I know there are fine, bold women warriors. They don’t want Justin either.
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Give me a woman Warrior all day long … but I have no use for a poofter excuse of a man.
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That was the first thing I noticed. Meanwhile the BOSS is sitting like an ALPHA MALE>
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Look at the handshake at 1:13. Justin presents his hand like a true lady. No kissing, though.
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Total Beta Cuck.
Good grief, Canada.
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Looks like he’s in the principal’s office.
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These posts are highly entertaining. Thanks to all.
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Justine’s pose is jarring to the eye. He looks like a man, sometimes talks like a man, and always sits like an old woman at tea. Is that part of his “transitioning”? I know he want to have Jordan Peterson jailed for not calling him Ms. Trudeau … but I hope he doesn’t expect MY President to bend genders with him.
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Any body language experts out there?
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OMG that’s funny. But it fits (pun intended)
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The Douchess slant. Oops. I meant to say Duchess slant.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duchess+slant&bext=msl&atb=v1-1&iax=images&ia=images
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Misspelled, but you got it moistly right.
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How can you take a man seriously who wears goofy socks, and light brown shoes with a blue suit?!
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And skinny suit pants.
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Black shoes go with EVERYTHING!
Justin’s trying to dress like the Bieber methinks……
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Neutered. That’s all I see. He will never be anything but a neutered sorry excuse for a man.
I am embarrassed for him.
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I forgot to say that he’s looking at that airplane on the table like he’s afraid of it.
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He seemed confused at the concept of negotiations to save taxpayer money.
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LOL! Good one, CB!
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I think Justin and Macron are a couple.
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@PInky1920-I suppose that’s how I feel…embarrassed for Sparlke-socks. Whatever I feel it’s a weird emotion. Nausea, embarrassed?
IDK when/where I grew up, Justin would have taken a beat down every single day until he grew a pair. Every.single.day.
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Trying to dress like Celine Dion
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Ahhh but his shoes are from Ron White a mediocre designer that sells on our Shopping Channel and brags that Justine and Sophie wear his shoes. Yuk.
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Canada has had some great Designers, but don’t about a designer called “Ron White.”
..architect, Moshe Safdie
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Looks like a lot of Amazon boxes stacked haphazardly.
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My Amazon is delivered much better organized
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They having problems with this structure. In Canada’s climate you don’t want the water and waste pipes running too close to the weather and only insulated by cement. Expansion, contraction cracks things, just ask the Pantheon renovators who now have to replace steel rods with titanium.
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I’m just here to check out his socks. They are Bullwinkle. Bahahahaha
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Was not too confrontational. Justin kept both his eyebrows in place.
BTW, loved it how SD refers to him as “Justin From Canada” in the lead in.
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Notice how every single one of them now come to the WH with hat in hand. After they thought they could beat time. May out…..Merkel shaking…..Macron looking at the door…..and Sparkly lookin’ pretty humble.
#Winning.
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Yes…everytime I read that in any Canada post, I howl.
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Within Canada there is much uncertainty as to his actual father. So it was a hoot when POTUS first referred to his friend Justin from Canada because that meant POTUS must have known about the uncertainty and Canada was doomed because of Justin’s globalist arrogance.
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Trudeau…sheesh, what an effete little twit.
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USMCA wins Mexican approval…O Canada on the clock! lets see Dimms deny American Workers better benefits and better salary!!
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If they think it will give Trump a black mark against his record they’ll screw the American worker in a heart beat. Without a problem since they’ve been doing that for the last 30-40 years.
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As usual, Justin’s hands try to hide his little fellow while POTUS cradles his enormous set.
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LMAO!!!
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Ditto!
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Clangers!
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You must mean brain lobes……
Surely!
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Dee: Isn’t that the first thing we all notice 🙂 Barry used to be able to cross his legs. Our President can’t. 🙂
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What a graphic image of what you portend…LMAO!!!!!
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Justin smartly placed his “little raisins” in his purse
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If MY President has little hands … Justine has micro digits and micro junk
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First time Trump met Justin, you know he had to say to himself: I own this BITCH.
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Alpha male President Donald J. Trump and Beta male Justin Trudeau sitting in chairs in the White House.
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President Trump to Twinkle Socks Trudope: Son, you voluntarily got into bed with the Dragon, now you’re going to have to get rid of your own lice and fleas.
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Not quite. The entire reason why PDJT invited Canada into the deal was to give us a position from which we could work together with the US and others to position China into acting like a responsible trading partner instead of a national crook.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: But it’s an honor to have the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. He’s been a friend of mine. We’ve worked hard together. We worked, in particular, on the USMCA. And we hope to have bipartisan support. I think, Justin, you’re going to be making the rounds at Congress later on?
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: Meeting a few people.
HAHAHA! This trip POTUS has him drumming up USMCA support, from D’s, instead of one prior trip where he made the rounds stabbing PT in the back, IIRC. HAHAHA!
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That’s rich isn’t it.
Globalist poster boy Trudeau having to drum up votes in DC for USMCA – against the illegal alien president Obama’s marching orders…..
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You quoted the one part that I was going to quote in a comment. GMTA!
I was also amused by PDJT’s next reply to Justin:
PRESIDENT TRUMP: That’s a terrific thing. But it’s great to have you. [bold emphasis mine]
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On one of the news channels it showed Justin from Canada meeting with Speaker Pelosi, so wondered if his main intention was to work out some changes with the Speaker that Canada wants to see inserted into the USMCA that Pelosi will push to be included before bringing it to the House for a vote.
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“Nice to see you, Mr. Trudeau. Now, if you will excuse me, can’t you see that my number-one concern is impeaching the President?”
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IIRC, under “fast track” rules, it’s up or down vote, House and Senate, no changes or amendments. Pelosi wants to deny PDJT a win but as he has said, either way it’s a win for USA. Mexico and Canada really, really don’t want to go back to pre-NAFTA rules.
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Bessie, just a quick note. Yes, Dems want mods. But they aren’t allowed. USMCA was negotiated under the Congressional ‘Fast Track’ trade negotiation authorization. For obvious reasons, it requires a simple up or down vote. No mods, no do overs–for obvious reasons, because else a negotiation to eternity doom loop. I made a longer ‘more legal’ post here about this some months ago with all the proper references. Googling ‘Fast Track Trade’ should take you to all the specific references should you be so inclined.
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Thanks again ristvan.
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Thank you. I’ll use those keywords to look that up.
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OMG! – This is like a delicious irony! President Trump used the TPA authority that Congress granted to Pres. Obama’s administration in creating the USMCA!
Thank you for those search keywords!
Here is a link (it’s 28 pages), a PDF, explaining how this fast track trade negotiations work.
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33743.pdf
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It won’t stop Pelosi & company from insisting on some. Because TRUMP.
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Dutch anti-Trump media said that Mexico would have to redo the ratification proces if the Dems succeeded in making changes. Medicin prices were given as an example. Delaying tacticts by the globalists, me thinks.
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ristvan, thanks for the details. I remember your post outlining the process in detail, just did not remember the details.
Must be detail memory loss. Anything I can take for that?
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Debbie Dingle (aka Nancy’s more coherent mouthpiece) is always on the Sunday shows talking about the things that aren’t covered in the USMCA: climate change, LGBTQ, union/worker’s pay, etc.
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Things that Canada wanted and got kicked out of negotiations on their ass trying to get.
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Bessie, I saw the Piglosi gift pressed before the Oval Office presser so I thought the same. After realizing the OO presser occurred first and knowing Mexico already ratified the agreement, I don’t think it will be changed. To take one from he whose name shall not be said:
👍🏻 or 👎
But then again anything can happen in Miss Piggy’s house.
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Xiao Tudou- Little Potato-looks like his mom took him to a little rich girls Finishing School to learn how to sit when he was a kid.
How can he NOT know how ridiculous he looks? IDGI.
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Gee, I don’t know
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So his true calling is chorus boy?
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Ivanka was really fond of Justin and showed it in his earlier visits. How can ivanka be attracted to Jared and Justin (2 peas in a pod) when she grew up with an all-man father like The Donald?
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Even more inexplicable is how anyone could think up such an absurd question and then go ahead and post it here.
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And what is beyond inexplicable is how someone can’t see what lady4trump is suggesting-so goes ahead and calls it absurd.
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Not going to argue with you, Defanged. Maybe I did miss something of value. We see according to who we are.
What I see are three people insulted based on nothing and for no good purpose.
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lol wut
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He raised her to be alpha.
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Well, this new trade agreement is an improvement over NAFTA in some important ways but it’s certainly not the game changer that it is (ahem …) “trumped” up to be. It does close some of the more egregious loopholes that allowed foreign nations to use Canada and Mexico as sally ports into the US economy, and it should probably be approved for that reason, but it falls well short IMHO of what it really should have been. Poco a poco, I suppose.
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Isn’t USMCA actually doing what the liar Globalists claimed NASTY….ER NAFTA….was supposed to do?
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M.R.
Lets see what happens. DJT made it clear, at the outset that he preferred
BI-LATERAL trade agreements.
The ‘argument’ he puts forth in this video is that EU is negotiating trade as a large block, so U.S. needs to do the same.
Not sure I’m buying it. The U.S. is where EVERYBODY wants to sell. WE don’t need Mexico and Canada to give us more ‘weight’ in negotiations, they need us.
After reading this transcript, I’m putting my crow back in the freezer, canceling my order for ranch dressing.
I THINK he is challenging Pelosi’s resistance position of refusing to give “Trump” any political victories. She is going to gag and choke, passing USMCA as much as she would giving him Wall funding.
And, since he has already ‘started the clock’ to cancelling Nafta (which may have been the real purpose of USMCA) he can make a show of ‘lobbying’ for USMCA.
When House fails to pass, its ANOTHER thing he can hang around “do nuthin Congresses” neck. Then we go back to PRE-NAFTA, which is even better.
And, down the road he can negotiate a SEPERATE agreement with Mexico, seperate agreement with Canada, based on the unique relationship and trading issues with each.
Not to worried about tons of fentanyl coming in thru Canada, for instance.
Long term goal is “mirror tariffs” with ALL countries. Yeah, I think I persuaded myself I am not optimistic about the odds of USMCA passing, nor am I rooting for it.
The beauty is, the beltway mentality wouldn’t understand a POTUS who doesn’t CARE about the short term optics of having a trade deal ‘fail to pass Congress’. Used to egotistical, insecure President pretenders who are terrified of the optics, narrative and 24 hour news cycle, such a manuever as I am suggesting would NEVER occur to them.
So,..We’ll see what happens,…
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DM, a simple observation. PDJT cannot lose, and Pelosi cannot win.
IF she doesn’t pass USMCA, PDJT can unilaterally cancel NAFTA on 6 months written notice–and Pelosi can do nothing about it. PDJT already has said many times that he is OK with either outcome. No NAFTA and no anything else still puts America first. But USMCA really is better than no NAFTA.
The timing is interesting. Mexico has just passed USMCA. Now PDJT needs Trudeau to pass it before he is ousted in October. Once both countries have ratified, PDJT can sign the NAFTA withdrawal and put a ticking 6 month ‘gun’ to Pelosi’s head. The closer to the election, the better.
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I believe I read on CTH, that cancelling Nafta is a multi-step process, and that PDJT initiated the first step, recently.
IF thats correct, I assume the 6 month countdown has already started. Now THATS a tick tock I LIKE.
Unsure exactly what ‘pre-nafta’ looks like, or why USMCA would be ‘better’?
Also, in the scenario where USMCA fails to pass, and Nafta expired, nothing would PREVENT PDJT from making SEPERATE, bi-lateral deals, right?
That MIGHT be the best outcome of all….
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PDJT started the process by informing Congress he was not going to renew. I believe he has to notify Congress again to start the 6 month clock. No matter, NAFTA is done.
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It has to be “done” to the point that IF USMCA isn’t ratified by Congress, we go back to PRE-NAFTA, rather than NAFTA. Then, and ONLY then, is it “done”.
I just don’t know precisely when that point is reached. Are we there yet? Are we close but no cigar?
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PDJT sets the date NAFTA ends when he notifies Congress. I don’t believe PDJT has started the clock yet by notifying Congress. If USMCA is ratified a start date is set.
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Please do not forget that a free trade deal with Canada or the lack of one will make a major difference to a great many people in blue wall states. Will Nancy and Chuck/Mitch opt for putting those people into an economic downturn in order to say: “there are no real economic gains under Trump” before the election or will they realize that a woke electorate will know who to blame?
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I don’t think the Dem leadership cares a whit about ‘their’ traditional constituents, or even about APPEARING like they care. Terminal TDS, is the end stage, when it gets Sooo bad that you literally slit your own throat, just to spite Trump and his deplorables.
And Nancy and her crew are THERE!
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Muzzies and Illegals are their natural constituencies now. Along with the ‘woke’ zombies and COC beneficiaries.
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Love the AF1 model. Finally done in USA colors.
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Boeing got the message. They give those ‘livery’ models out to their customers.
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Somebody get Sparkles back to Ottowa before they realize he’s left and can lock the gates.
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They may be too far gone, just like Eaton’s Department Store…….
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The media is begging Trump the Adult to bail Sparkly Socks out because Xi the Other Adult is ignoring him. Lol, I don’t even…
Is it humiliating or what?
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Did anyone else notice that VSGPDJT referred to Trudeau as Prime Minister Trudeau and he referred to the President as “Donald”?!? Even the fake news in their Q&A refer to him as Mr. President. If I’m Trump, I don’t say anything publicly, but I certainly delay the lifting of the tariffs for a few weeks as a result of that disrespect. What a (disposable feminine hygiene product). Come here to beg help with China and disrespect your host. He should be genuflecting.
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Actually they both referred to each other on a first name basis. I only read the transcript but I believe POTUS intro’d him as PM but then referred to him later as Justin.
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Think about the Trump Orlando rally—thousands of people, inside and out. Think about Sparklesocks White House visit—looks like a decent crowd. Now, think about a Biden rally—not a fundraiser but a rally. Think about Branco—who’s been on one heck of a roll lately.
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Is Justine going to ask Nancy to bring the USMCA to the floor for a vote?
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Nervous Nancy just got a reason to get,….nervouser?
She is sitting on the horns of a dillemma; give “Trump” a win, and she has ‘caved’ on her vow of resistance.
But, if she DOESN’T allow it to pass, she p.o.’s a bunch of people and entities, and its TERRIBLE political optics. Coarse Nancy doesn’t CARE about political optics, and her party doesn’t CARE about farmers,…or Unions.
So go ahead Nancy, stick your thumb in PDJT’s eye, and don’t allow USMCA to come to a vote,…please? THAT will show him!,…snark, snark.
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President Trump really is a slick negotiator. I admire his tactics on a daily basis. No wonder he wrote the book on it, “The Art of the Deal”!
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now that Justine McTurd is down there, could you people do us Canadians a favour, and keep it down there????
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Ship it to the Philippines.
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Nah, y’all need him back so you can fire him in October! ‘You’re FIRED!’
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We’re afraid he’d become the next Communist mayor of NYC. I’d prefer he be dropped off the back of a C-130 into Cuba so he can spend time exploring his roots. We’ll be nice and give him a sparkly parachute.
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G. I was right with you until you suggested a parachute. To paraphrase the famous line from Treasure of the Sierra Madre: He don’t need no stinkin’ parachute.
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A little twit who is supposed to be your friend stabs you in the back and publicly double crosses you. So … you kick the little twit’s ass but good. Just beat the crap out of him.
Then you pick him up, dust him off, buy him a drink, and state clearly so that everybody hears you that the little twit is still your friend, and that you’re going to have a word with this other guy who’s been messing the little twit and whose ass, coincidentally, you also just kicked. And everybody gets the message that the little dust up was a private matter between friends, and nobody but you had better mess with the little twit.
And there you have our relationship with our neighbor above the snow line. On occasion, everyone just has to be reminded how things are.
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Sounds like family. We can say anything we want to and about each other but God help anyone outside the family if they dare…lol
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Trudeau is such a little twit; kind of prissy.
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I think you misspelled the last word in your sentence.
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Anyone here remember Mark Steyn ( guest hosting Rush Limbaugh right after the Canadian Election) stating that “Canada just elected a Socialist Twit”!
And he was so right!
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They should use a bull-whip to keep the press in line. If they shout, crack the whip. If they don’t move their asses fast enough when told to leave, crack the whip.
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nice touch joe 🙂
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I’d like a trap door with a slide down to the dumpster and as soon as Enemy of the People Acoster gets out of line you pull the lever behind the podium.
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Can’t we please crack the whip just for the hell of it?!
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‘Justin from Canada’ – I think you may win a prize for this phrase Sundance. Each time i read it, perfect images conjure in my mind – and they very much resemble him sitting on that couch with his legs so tightly clamped and laid delicately out like a ballerina. “Justin from Canada”. I must then work very hard to read the seriousness of his visit.
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be gentle Justin is in transition.
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Q Will you help Justin Trudeau get a meeting with Xi Jinping at the G20 next week to talk about the detained Canadians?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I don’t know that he’s trying to meet. Are you trying to get a meeting?
PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: We’ve got a lot of things to discuss.
Q He wants one, but Xi won’t meet with him.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, otherwise, I’ll represent him well, I will tell you. We have a meeting set up with President Xi, and it’s obviously on the big transaction that we’re talking about and negotiating. Our people are actually speaking now, and we’ll see what happens with that. But anything I can do to help Canada, I will be doing.
Q Are you planning to bring it up with President Xi when you meet with him?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Excuse me?
Q Are you planning to bring it up with President Xi when you meet with him?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I would. At Justin’s request, I will absolutely bring that up.
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This segment is hilarious. We now have POTUS negotiating o/b/o Sparkle Socks for the release of the Canadians from China b/c Socks can’t get a meeting with Xi. Daddy is going to have to handle Socks job too b/c he just doesn’t have what it takes to be a leader. If that wasn’t an endorsement for who ever is Socks’s competition I don’t know what was! Socks should do himself a favor and resign before he brings on further humiliation to himself. Revenge on the way out the door…just like Socks did when POTUS left that big meeting and attempted to humiliate PT. That didn’t work out very well.
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Apologies for posting this twice but it now belongs here. ‘Leader’ Justin looking rather invisible at the G20 and trying to hitch a ride on POTUS’s coat tails.
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I laughed through the whole clip.
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I thought that was stunningly embarrassing for Trudeau (and I liked it).
PDJT just breezed right through that reply making him look super-magnanimous and Trudeau look helplessly dependent. Just stunning.
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This was my favorite section of the presser too, MaineCoon. Just hilariously putting Justine in her place–pecking order well established now. No psychodrama middle school mean girl tricks from Sparkle socks this time because he needs POTUS to bail him out of detention with the other mean bully, Xi.
Methinks Xi saw the ridiculous Indian “dance” video with Justin and took his measure. Our terrific Pres. Trump has long since judged Justin to be a prepubescent adolescent.
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You would think Justine from Canada could afford a suit that fits…
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realistically, (S)he oughta be wearing a dress.
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Daddy Trump please help me with Chyna! I sure hope Trump makes this backstabbing weasel beg for help and if given I hope extracts much from this empty suit
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Heck not even sure what if anything justin has to offer
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I kind of hope PDJT would not ask President Xi to help Justine, because if he was able to get those two out of jail, Justine would tell all of us in Canada it was his strong stance that did that. Let it sit and if Andrew Scheer gets elected, and I pray he does, perhaps then if help is needed PDJT could help. I don’t want Justine to look good and brag in any shape or form especially before October. Those two can sit in jail a few months longer. We here still don’t know what the reason was.
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Justin should be able to get this done once Xi finds out how much admiration he has for his regime:
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Justin from Canada’s TwitTwat photo looks like he’s wearing his bathrobe.
He’s such a f*g.
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Justine’s Twatter feed reads like a social justice snowflake list, with rainbow flags outside parliament and all, instead of any news about important stuff going on around the world.
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It makes sense to me for Trudeau to ask Trump for help with China. Canada arrested Huawei’s Meng because Trump wants her extradited to the U.S. China retaliated by arresting two Canadians.
That’s how China rolls. It’s how communists think. I keep thinking it would be possible for Canada to do the same thing. Arrest two Chinese for whatever reason Canada chooses, eh, make it four. The difference is Canada values its citizens and rule of law and China does not. Or hit them in the only place they feel anything. The pocketbook. Trade. Trump would use economics to goof up China even worse. Maybe Trudeau could do something similar by threatening Chinese trade. It would hurt Canada a bit, but China worse. And it puts a price on that despicable Communist practice. Let’s watch and see what they do.
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Trudeau strikes me like the 14-year-old amongst the adults – simultaneously outrageously disrespectful and desperate to be acknowledged and praised.
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—–a 14 year old GIRL—
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I liked him better as the guy in the Obamacare ad.
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Pajama boi
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Is/was that a real ad?
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Amazingly, yes. The Pajama Boy ad was targeted at millenials to pressure their parents into supporting Obamacare, but Pajama Boy sparked a hilarious backlash.
Jussie Trudeau is the Pajama Boy of Canada
https://thefederalist.com/2013/12/17/dozen-funniest-variations-obamas-pajama-boy-propaganda/
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Now the Ds want to get involved? Course, it’s on the war card. I’m sure PT knows it’s just another entrapment play on their part.
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Oops..wrong thread….sorry
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So I’m wondering… will it be a MOAB or Rods from Gods?
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Who’s the leader of the club
That’s made for you and me
D-O-N-A-L-D T-R-U-M-P
Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there
You’re as welcome as can be
D-O-N-A-L-D T-R-U-M-P
Donald Trump!
(Michael Pence)
Donald Trump!
(Michael Pence)
Forever let us hold our banner
High! High! High! High!
Come along and sing the song
And join the jamboree!
D-O-N-A-L-D T-R-U-M-P
Donald Trump club
Donald Trump club
We’ll have fun
We’ll meet new faces
We’ll do things and
We’ll go places
All around the world
We’re marching
Who’s the leader of the club
That’s made for you and me
D-O-N-A-L-D T-R-U-M-P
Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there
You’re as welcome as can be
D-O-N-A-L-D T-R-U-M-P
Donald Trump!
(Michael Pence)
Donald Trump!
(Michael Pence)
Forever let us hold our banner
High! High! High! High!
Come along and sing a song
And join the jamboree!
D-O-N-A-L-D T-R-U-M-P
(yay Donald)
(yay Donald)
(yay Donald Trump Club!)
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I got my MAGA hat on instead of my old mouse ears from 1955….
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Hands clasped, patiently waiting like a little boy for the right moment to tell Daddy about the
“paper, uh, juice, drink, um box bottles..”
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I wonder how sock-boy managed in the Lion’s den today? I bet not great!
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I’ll take the Trump man spread leadership style over the effeminate leg crosser any day!
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Such enthusiasm!
Such forthrightness!
Such direct speech!
Such reckless abandon at achieving solid advances for citizens!
One would think that the spoiled disobedient child got soundly spanked and sent to bed without dinner.
One loves that topics princess twinkle-toes should have broached with President Trump, instead get asked by reporters. In other words, more sulking and pouting by “justin from Canada”.
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What no French? 🙂
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In Canada Justin is toast.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/justin-trudeau-tongue-tied-cutting-plastic-waste-video
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Even if Trudeau wanted to be more openly friendly and co-operative with P Trump, (which I doubt) his Liberal MP’s and all the other MP’s, 98% of Canadian media and a majority of Canadians would erupt into a chorus of condemnation.
The U.S. Democratic Party has successfully duped most Canadians unless they are among those that make an effort to shop around the internet for insightful contrary opinions. If Canada was a more formidable or significant ally, it would be wise for someone in the USA to demand or request that pro Trump advocates and contributors be given a reasonable opportunity to voice contrary opinions on the CBC or write columns in the National Post in order to balance the malicious anti Trump Americans that appear regularly.
But contrary opinions in Canada are being increasingly discouraged and Justin’s stooges have tabled a report to Parliament that laid out nine recommendations including a request that government should provide a “civil remedy for those who assert that their human rights have been violated under the Canadian Human Rights Act, (CHRA) irrespective of whether that violation happens online, in person, or in traditional print format. This remedy could take the form of reinstating the former section 13 of the CHRA.”
Trudeau is attempting to reinstall a former Liberal Gov’t law that was removed by the Harper Conservative gov’t because of its many egregious abuses including the CHRA’s quasi-judicial enforcement and tribunal system that had significant punitive powers but the process lacked fair due process and was run by lefty ideologues.
The cartoon is from a critical National Post article today on Justin’s visit. I will link it in the reply section but be warned, it is the usual anti Trump spin as is the outrageous anti Trump WaPo article written by Salvador Rizzo that was welcomed in the “Conservative” NP newspaper.
https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/gary-clement.png?w=590&zoom=2
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https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-justin-trudeau-at-the-white-house-too-many-divas-and-too-little-stage?video_autoplay=true
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wow, Trump 2020 all the way. He totally rules.
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Once upon a time, president Clinton, riding the wave of Reagan’s prosperity, the catch phrase was ‘how is your 401k doing’ and of course, 401k plans were riding high.
How is your 401k plan doing today Americans and why haven’t we heard that from the MSM….and you know the answer.
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Really just in?
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I just started this video, and will try to finish, but why does Justin from Canada seem to be trying to protect his vagina?
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Serious “Man-Spreading by the VSGPOTUSDJT
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I just love how PDJT brings the key issue of trans shipments straight to the top of the discussion while looking at Justine essentially saying “Were going to behave now aren’t we Justin…”
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Justine is so effeminate.
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