Perhaps due to timing, or maybe content combined with the pragmatic answers dropping all pretense; or maybe, it’s just the two interviewers representing the globalist opposition and Greer facing them both down with easy dispatch. I’m not sure why, but this is one of the best discussions/interviews with USTR Jamieson Greer ever.
Soup to nuts Greer explains the policy, issues, friction points and pragmatic approaches that apply to economic adversaries like China. Greer just cuts to the chase, you cannot truly negotiate with China because nothing about them is going to change, ever. So, you manage your relationship with them, limit your exposure and limit as much risk as possible. Greer is exactly correct and makes no excuses. Pure economic pragmatism.
The same outlook applies to Canada. Again, Greer isn’t playing the pretending game, and the panelist inquisitors are left jaw-agape while trying to frame a headline capture. Listen to the conflict issues as outlined by Greer. Canada is “doubling down on globalism”, the USA is not. That means we can never reach agreement, period – full stop, end of it!
Greer comes back to this point several times, including at the end when he outlines all the reasons why President Trump will terminate the USMCA trade pact. This is a must watch interview:
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This interview is like kryptonite to Canadians who are so caught up in their pontificating arrogance (Bloomberg) that they just cannot fathom the weakness of their position. Canadian’s have bought the lies and nonsense from Carney, and it is very challenging to remain respectful of the Canadian position.
Greer is one of the wolverines… He and Bessent are the lead wolverines…..
“Greer facing them both down with easy dispatch”
(about 90 secs long_
Where’s your head at? Not where yours is girlie.
Once again the chest pounding tough act of feminism showing it’s stupidity.
Canada (like Great Britain and honestly, most of the world!) have never really been friends of America.
They use and abuse us and only like us if we’re giving them $omething. No more…
Note to world: 80 years of sucking America dry is over!!!!
For sure it’s the old give them an inch and they’ll take a mile. It’s getting to be so obvious how corrupt ideologies travel, on the back of good intentions and somebody else’s hard work. Canada being the poster child.
Yes, I agree. I have lived 5 years in Germany, visited France several times 60’s & 70’s, visited Mexico several times 2020’s, lived in Asia and visited Japan and others. My opinion is everybody always has been jealous or hated America. The world treats USA as a benefactor to provide resources, donate aid and protect their well being. I disagree that sucking America dry is over. The current administration is refreshing and may only be a blink in time. Giving away USA aid/resources/assets continues…bill
“may only be a blink in time” before the uniparty returns — a very dismaying, sobering thought.
When I was at high school, each student had their own locker. The lockers were in rows of 3. Mine was on the top row, on an end. The beautiful, tall, blonde, tanned, Vicki Smith, had her locker 2 below mine, on the bottom.
Between classes, the lockers were like a New York traffic jam. People everywhere, yelling, pushing. But, being on an end and at the top, I simply leant in, grabbed my books and went. Vicki didn’t have it so easy down at the bottom – being tall, she had to lean over or squat down, getting pushed in the mayhem.
I didn’t know Vicki well but she started paying me some attention – fluttering her big, beautiful eyes at me. And my teenage hormones were paying attention.
Then one day, fluttering her eyes, Vicki asked me to swap lockers with her. Vicki said, after 3 years of having our lockers, it would be fair if we swapped, so she could have my top locker. She touched my arm.
I said ‘No’.
Vicki tried some more sweet talk and eye flutters. I said ‘No’ until my tongue bled. Vicki then went nuts.
Vicki was like Canada. She was never really my friend. She was only acting as if she liked me so I could give her something of value to her. And then, Vicki, literally, began abusing me. Vicki had been ‘Vicki Smithing’ me to get her own way.
Decades later, if I see someone sweet-talking a person to get their own way, I still call that ‘Vicki Smithing’. Canada has been ‘Vicki Smithing’ the United States…and the United States is saying, ‘No’. And Canada is going nuts.
Rocket – nice job at a tender age standing up to manipulation.
My moment of truth was taking the first punch of my life, at a man who grew up to be someone the world should have ignored. He eventually went into politics, held elective office as a D, and his career is now mostly finished.
I reflect back and put my aggression on the Holy Spirit. It had never happened before and never since. But at key points in our lives the Holy Spirit lets us know we are protected, He intervenes, and He gives us power we wouldn’t normally evoke.
The best part of that episode was that this man eventually formed a clique around him which persists to this day. Staying away from that clique because I was never invited in was the better path for my life.
Margin Call is a movie about an investment bank, which has two computer analysts, who discover that the bank can and possibly will go bankrupt, because too many of its assets will drag the firm under.
The company decides to try to sell the problematic assets, knowing that the assets are highly risky now and will probably go out of business soon.
Their lower-level agents are tasked with the moral quandary of the used-car salesman selling a known lemon to a naive teenager.
A few are disgusted that they will be forced to choose between resignation or performing this patently immoral activity on unsuspecting people who trust them to be honest.
The Globalists right now are the top management of a dying firm, whose computer models are sending signals that they are about to drown.
Their minions are scrambling to sell their losing assets (e.g. Canada) a dream-world, which cannot be sustained short of a dictatorship, which even then will eventually fail (rf. Soviet Union).
We shall see what happens!
To extend your analogy, dying firms, or those with flawed or defunct business models, often use mergers to try to solve their accumulated problems, by giving a wholly artificial bounce to their future prospects. The potential rewards are over-sold whilst any risks are downplayed, often leading to a break up that’s accelerated by the whole process not retarded or reversed, as intended.
Reality beats fantasy in the long run, always has, always will, for people thinking they can wait out President Trump, one question. Can your existential model survive that long?
Good analogy, but the margin call is centered on to much leverage to squeeze out the most profits. Both the EU and Canada are over levered, and have nothing to sell to save the firm. So as Constant states, let’s do a merger and put a Band-Aid on all the ills in these two failed partners.
Perhaps a bit off topic, but now that the Greenland deal is done – the one all the MSM were saying was a non-starter – I would not be at all surprised to see Alberta become our 51st state.
Don’t know if he has political aspirations for the future But Greer is a bear, Wolverine and no BS kinda guy that MAGA could get along with very easily. Let us pray! 🙏🏽
Or a honey badger who doesn’t GAF! 🙂
>Zero growth plus zero growth STILL EQUALS zero growth< ROFL!!
I’m loving USTR Greer more and more each day!
I found the show interesting as two interviewers took turns firing questions to Greer as he responded like a champion…bill
Greer has the patience of Job to deal with these people. The U.S. is in good hands with people like him representing us. Also explains why our economy is doing as well as it is in spite of the EU and Canada trying to crash it.
Get the deal done on POTASH with Belarus, the send the notice on the CUSMA and Blockade Canada! Finally, cut the ties in Ukraine, no more American $$ or Military supplies to NATO or Ukraine!
NONE of the above can call themselves Allies, PERIOD! Lastly, reinforce our border to the north, look into how many Canadians are in this country illegally and deport them also!
Mineral
Approx. Canadian share of total U.S. requirement
Key point
Potash
~73%
Very high dependence
Aluminum
~30%
Canada is the dominant foreign supplier
Zinc
~35–40%
Canada is a major source
Nickel
~20–25%
Important Canadian contribution
Niobium
~25%
Canada is an important supplier
Tellurium
~20–25%
Significant Canadian contribution
Vanadium
~10–15%
Smaller but strategically important
Cobalt
~5–10%
Canada supplies part of U.S. requirements
Graphite
~5–10%
Canada is growing as a supplier
Indium
~5–10%
Send this out to just show that Potash is one of several items we get from Canada where their share contributes a lot to the U.S needs. Find other suppliers and Canada is Canucked!
It’s been over ten years and the lady on Bloomberg still hasn’t figured out mean tweets.
This is the only place where I’ll watch a Bloomberg segment, even if I feel dirty afterward.
A mean-tweeting MAGA wolverine beats the heck out of a polite, patronizing globalist snob any day of the week. And twice on Sunday.
ROFLOL!!!
Yes! It WAS sort of a jaw-dropper for me when she resurrected that thoroughly debunked topic here in late September of 2026. I was thinking – wait, did she actually try to use the old “mean tweets” attack line??
Yes, toward the end. She was very concerned Trump’s use of 51st state language and other mean things is the reason Canada is struggling to make a deal.
Agree.
Today’s Promethean Action update on YouTube (presented by Susan Kokinda addresses the fake news purpose, and raison d’etre.
I think that can be applied to the media‘s response to Trump and trying to use the “mean tweets” whining.
I think “mean tweets“ really means “unvarnished truth“.
Wow, that’s a lot of non- pretending. “ I live in the real world” astute and succinct responses.
How about a real world notification that Xi and PDT come out of their meetings to announce China will now take the lead in UKRAINE for security guarantees in a Russia/Ukraine peace deal? Maybe that’s one of the things PDT slaps the little Ukrainian cokehead globalist puppet with this week since his blowing up diesel production in Russia also impacts China
Those two media clowns doing the interview seem to believe that all of the issues between Canada and the United States stem from “mean tweets” and jokes about a 51st state.
President Trump and USTR Greer are the non-pretending adults living in the real world.
The interviewers and Carney The Clown are the little children living in their make believe world. If they had a lick of sense they would be embarrassed.
Keep speaking truth Mr. Greer, and God bless you!
And those mean tweets and jokes worked exactly as intended. Trudeau is a girly-boy who reacted emotionally instead of staying cool, calm and collected. Carney has masterfully used Trump’s unpopularity in Canada to distract Canadians from what Carney was installed to accomplish. Carney was installed to strip Canada clean for the benefit of the globalists who are running out of collateral.
Educated Liberals make pee poor journalists, imho!
The Canadians can’t understand Trump because he doesn’t say “eh” after he’s done speaking.
<The Canadians can’t understand Trump because he doesn’t say “eh” after he’s done speaking.>
Spell Canada:
C, eh N, eh D, eh 🙂
Greer seems like the perfect person to take over from Lighthizer.
Either that, or he just explains things better to laypersons like me.
It is such a joy to watch Greer explain international trade to these jarheads in terms even i can follow.
These people aren’t marines. They’re round heads.
Excellent!
He never stumbles when he talks.Very well spoken and honest.She got a little huffy there for a minute
Yes! – looks this 2-on-1 format was setup so the he could keep to script while someone in the booth typed the next zinger on her screen.
But the zingers were barely apparent. Greer was the Energizer Bunny.
Not just beating a drum, though.
Articulate, responsive, common-sense, understandable. In a word, trustworthy.
There are a few candidates for 2028 other than Vance or Rubio.
The challenge is to find someone who is closest to Trump’s worldview in more than one field.
I’d like to see a Trumpian “Council of Foreign Relations” organization to teach and expand on the above mentioned Trump world view. An America First, MAGA, Council of American Relation kind of.
I fully believe that Trump’s “mind” needs to be preserved in such a Council. Perhaps Trump can be its first founder and organizer. It will be an incubator of future leaders. And these leaders are to take control of the agencies too, and the media.
Without such thing Trump’s economics will be subverted and removed within years or a decade the same as the Hamiltonians or the American System (as the Prometheans say) was.
Good idea! 2029 and beyond without DJT leadership are a worry, even if a nominally MAGA Republican wins. The America-First policies have to continue and the Globalists have to be kept out.
They all continue with the Trump 51st state offhand comment. Trump didn’t plaster it all over when it occurred, the TDS media and poor Canada did.
It should be pointed out that even Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who attended, later called it a joke in a light-hearted setting.
But Carney then used it to win the election. Poor Canada. Cry some more.
President Trump also said we would buy Greenland and make it a state. Ultimately, we got what we wanted…permanent control militarily. For free.
Let’s sit back and watch him cook.
It was due to Idiot King Castro-Turdeau stating that Canada cannot survive without America. I’m Canadian and I’m absolutely terrified about the future.
EU is like a crazy farmer that lives downstream from the rancher, Boris. Crazy EU gets mad and decides to poison Boris’s water supply. Stupid is as stupid does.
“We pulled out of TPP”
Yes! This is the thinking and action to put America first.
Such a contrast between MAGA and the globalization of the Commonwealth – drawn right here across our northern border.
Pullin out of the TTP is a big deal for the future of USA. And every other Country who depends upon us to survive.
Yes. Just having USTR Greer say these sensible and honest things in public is a good antidote for TDS.
The more of this, the better.
Side note — I wonder if any of this sort of thing filters back to regular Canadian citizens.
I just wish regular American citizens would hear it.
Look,
The world is moving towards a Multipolar future and unfortunately for us, our politicians have destroyed what built this country to become the Financial Capital of the World and why our currency is still the World’s reserve currency but they destroyed it. They created policies that was beneficial to them not you or I.
I’m not defending China but the writing is on the wall. When China created CIPS back in 2015 it was nothing of importance until the Biden administration removed Russia from the Dollar system (SWIFT) by confiscating their reserves and Europe, their private assets, which they call reparation payments to Ukraine.
China along with many other countries took notice and the CIPS program took off and is now a way to circumvent the dollar altogether. Bessent making threats to countries who support Iran by removing them from the dollar system, only encourages an even quicker escape to the CIPS program.
Bessent just went to Japan to tell the Prime minister that Japan needs to get their fiscal house in order but cannot tell our politicians the same?
Now, look around the globe. Whose manufacturing base is rising? India, Mexico, Vietnam, Indonesia and others that are clamoring to do the same. So why is our country any different? China is the #1 Manufacturing country in the world and what other countries are striving for.
I believe we are going to see a basket of currencies in the near future take hold because these countries realized that the Dollar was a weapon, not a friend, and why the rush to CIPS.
All countries need to realize that David Ricardo’s Comparative advantage, is still as strong today as it was back then. But not one country own it all!
Unfortunately for us, we have the dumbest politicians who have ever existed. So, until we realize this but do nothing to change the political landscape, this will continue until our country becomes just another 3rd world country.
We’ve become a country of consumers rather than innovators and suppliers. That’s because of laziness and money that has been earned through prior hardwork of prior generations that has allowed us the opportunity to sit back on the couch and watch TV a lot more than most people and other countries could ever dream of doing
On days when I’m down I can watch an interview like this and feel completely refreshed. The level of intelligence contrasts so markedly with Canada, the EU, the rest of the globalists and especially the decidedly dumb Democrats that you hope more mid-term voters would vote with their brain not their emotions. I have confidence in this administration if only they were not continously fought against by all kinds id people not having the US best interest at heart.
How many in Congress will have heard this interview?
Likely as many congress critters as Canadians! None of them would understand it either.
Greer epitomizes the level of intelligence and competence that the Trump cabinet demonstrates throughout.
Exactly — and that’s where the training in Trumpism is occurring on a daily basis.
The All-Star Cabinet!
So true. Better than first term to be sure. I believe Trump realized his circle of trust had to be very small this time around. He chose perfectly.
I understand that they have lots of black snow up there in Canada, eh?
Who are those two clowns interviewing him? Pretending that the real world doesn’t exist? It’s a bit frustrating to listen to their dumb questions.
After Greer talks with these two nitwits I’ll bet he risks lowering his IQ by about a point or two.
Isn’t that the greatest conceit – that we can change peoples to be like Us. How refreshing to hear someone say the Chinese communists will Never change – but that we can still work with them. Now will someone say the same about Africans and Muslims. This is the next step in human history – acknowledging that different peoples have different belief systems, that we don’t have to blow up their countries to get them to change – and that while we can find a way to coexist as separate peoples, that may not work as integrated peoples.
Thank you, Sundance. It was very informative. The one thing I noticed about these two should I say news people asking questions? It’s always a one-sided gotcha to the Trump administration. They never seem to be on the United States side these globalist they never ask a Democrats such loaded questions and expect a truthful answer.
Mr. Greer is substantially more intelligent than the two talking heads at Bloomberg. It makes me wonder why anyone would listen to bloomberg for financial or trade advice.
”Tanker companies are booking record profits, as a result of the re-routing of the global energy trade.
The chaos after the closures of Hormuz and the Red Sea, and severe weather problems at the Panama Canal, are a boon to shipping companies who earn $1 million per day making longer transits.
Shipping firms are scrambling to find ships, and used vessels are selling at tens of millions of dollars above new builds, delivered under old contracts.
Orders at Chinese shipyards are booming, up 2.7 times over last year, as China is the sole shipbuilder with sufficient capacity.
Skyrocketing transport costs are fueling inflation, as $26 per barrel is spent just to move crude to refineries.”
There is no sense in pretending that Carney is stupid. He’s not.
They already admitted that their rules based order is dead. They have publicly acknowledged it and moved forward.
The Crown (via Carney) is doing what they did in Israel and Pakistan, etc. They are creating a failed state to prevent losing control.
Our Northern border is porous and long. It’s perfect for trafficking and smuggling. .
They already have many, many corrupt and compromised members of our government in their pockets and just announced they intend to start a grand campaign to get even more.
Let’s stop pretending that creating a failed state for the Canadians is stupid. It is THE GOAL to make Canada a failed state so “The Crown” can retain its control using terror and trafficking and our taxes.
The baby may be ugly, but it isn’t stupid.
Great!!