Trump boasts of threatening Canada into trade concessions: "We made them nice" - Polidicks

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2019/04/03/trump-boasts-of-threatening-canada-into-trade-concessions-weve-made-them-nice.html WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump boasted again on Tuesday of successfully threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau into NAFTA concessions, claiming that Canada wasn’t “nice” to the U.S. on trade until he intervened and “made them nice.” Trump made the comments at a Republican dinner in Washington. He seemed to believe his rambling speech was private, musing at one point about the possibility that it would “leak.” In fact, it was being filmed by the media. “Canada’s very, very tough. You know, we love Canada. We think of the beautiful song and the ice hockey games. O Canada, isn’t it beautiful. But in the meantime they knock the hell out of us on trade, and they have been doing it for a long time, and they’re very tough, and they’re not at all nice about that situation. But we’ve made them nice. We’ve made them nice,” he said. “Every time I had a problem, I would just take, you know, especially cars — I had a little plastic car on my desk, and I’d have the leaders come over and I’d just take the car out, put it on the front of the desk, they say: ‘OK, we agree.’ Because the big thing is the cars. Canada’s sending us tremendous numbers of cars, they’re practically untaxed, and yet they don’t take our agricultural product,” he said. He's seriously losing it lately

The US has routinely fucked Canada in trade deals for 2 decades due to the fact they have the leverage to do so.

“Every time I had a problem, I would just take, you know, especially cars — I had a little plastic car on my desk, and I’d have the leaders come over and I’d just take the car out, put it on the front of the desk, they say: ‘OK, we agree.’ Because the big thing is the cars. Canada’s sending us tremendous numbers of cars, they’re practically untaxed, and yet they don’t take our agricultural product,” he said. OP has already highlighted it but I want to put it out there again, this is the President of the United States, people take the gaff out of us for Brexit but Jesus Christ.

It's the same speech where he said windmills cause cancer, and he's been having a bit of a hard time with words in general lately.

Trump's never loved Canada, exactly, but he's been a deliberate cunt ever since Trudeau humiliated him after the G7 summit because he was acting like a petulant baby in front of the entire planet. But here's the thing. Those trade concessions are worth absolutely fuck all if NAFTA 2.0 doesn't get ratified. And, well... Pelosi doesn't want to ratify it because it doesn't do shit to raise worker rights in Mexico and prevent US corporations from just moving there. Canada's not going any-fucking-where near ratifying Trump's trade deal while the aluminum and steel tariffs remain in place, which they do. And Canada only has a total of 50 legislative working days this year due to a federal election, and there's zero inclination to spend those few days ratifying a free trade deal that's shittier for us while we're under bullshit metal and automotive tariffs that were applied TO MAKE US SIGN THE DEAL WHICH WE SIGNED. Mexico won't sign the deal while the tariffs are in place either. This is what happens when you elect an idiot who never learned how to do things properly because he always used dirty tactics and his money to get what he wanted when he wanted. He's never had to actually negotiate in a fair setting and he has no concept of how or why "fair" negotiations would exist.

We need a real life Batman to put fear in the hearts of people like this. These types of people have gotten incredibly bold lately.

when I read his words I just get flashbacks to the dude from the apprentice on TV when I was little and my mind gets fucking blown every time

all i can think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XvxDaIwCw This man needs serious help, get him a good nursing home or something.

If Canada doesn't take the US's agricultural products, then why is most of the produce in local grocery stores here in the winter from California, and a good half of it the rest of the year? Oh, wait, I know. It's because Canada is 1/10th the size of the US and we aren't taking 1/10th of the US's agricultural output -- i.e. throwing our own farmers out of business to buy American from A to Z. That's Trump's idea of a fair deal.

dear Canada, Canada, please nuke us. thanks! - eris

I can't see how a 1% increase in dairy imports was a major concession, or why one should boast about something that by all accounts has not happened and will not happen as the revision to NATO is DOA in the house thanks to TrumpCo cutting out democrat representatives from any trade policy.

I'd rather they just annex us.

Not to mention food products are a strategic resource while cars aren't.

Nah, let them burn the White House down again. If we don't learn our lesson after that, then annexation it is.

Stick to fucking your own country in the ass, thanks.

"they don’t take our agricultural product" Of course we don't you fucking muppet. We've got plenty of land to make our own without the need for your stuff.

Thanks, but given that nearly half of the United States is demonstrably bat shit insane, us Canadians would rather not add those people to our voting rolls. Our own conservatives are bad enough as it is without adding Republican voters to the mix.

Isn't US agriculture subsidized to hell and back too?

what the fuck did I just read

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.” He said this.

no fucking way this is the same thing man what the hell was he talking about, this isn't right, this guy can't be a president, he fucking sounds like he's high on crack

"You know the catapult is quite important. So I said, 'What is this?' 'Sir, this is our digital catapult system.' He said, 'Well, we're going to this because we wanted to keep up with modern [technology].' I said, 'You don't use steam anymore for catapult?' 'No sir.' I said, 'Ah, how is it working?' 'Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn't have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going, and steam's going all over the place. There's planes thrown in the air.' "It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it's very complicated; you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said — and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, 'What system are you going to be —' 'Sir, we're staying with digital.' I said, 'No you're not. You're going to goddamned steam. The digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money, and it's no good.'" Also yeah, real quote about Trump talking about aircraft launch mechanisms on carrier ships. Is it illegal to want natural causes to come soon?

Every time I had a problem, I would just take, you know, especially cars — I had a little plastic car on my desk, and I’d have the leaders come over and I’d just take the car out, put it on the front of the desk, they say: ‘OK, we agree.’ Because the big thing is the cars. Canada’s sending us tremendous numbers of cars, they’re practically untaxed, and yet they don’t take our agricultural product,” he said. I don't believe you

jokes on you we secretly rebuilt the White House out of concrete while nobody was looking.

Or the strategic raisin reserve that only stopped existing four years ago. Or the wheat, corn, sorghum, and rice reserve. Also don't forget the fat sugar tariff to protect the corn farmer lobby -- this is why corn syrup and HFCS is in everything in America and you poor fucks have to import Mexican Coke to drink something with real sugar in it. Also don't forget Trump's billions in bailouts to farmers who were hurt by China's counter-tariffs against soy and pork (and other things but those two hit the hardest) after Trump started a needless trade war that's mainly damaged America and its closest allies (hi). This is truly what small government and the free market looks like.

Sometimes one wonders what the world would be like if the New Deal had actually gotten rid of market forces for food production. Government control and regulation of crops and food production were a part of the new deal that never got anywhere but in theory would have looked a lot like Canada's dairy market system

What else would you expect from a syphilitic degenerate?