The US of A is a lunatic asylum

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25.8.2026
The US of A is a lunatic asylum


The great lider of the US of A, still not put behind steel bars, where he belongs, is running wild. Other words just do not fit.

Just look at what the Whitest Nuthouse on Earth calls a press release:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/08/president-trump-is-finally-ending-canadas-free-ride/

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President Trump Is Finally Ending Canada's Free Ride

The White House
August 25, 2026

Canada has been ripping off the United States for decades — and President Donald J. Trump is done letting them get away with it. Last week, the U.S. offered Canada the most preferential market access of any country on Earth, with deep cuts on steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, and more. Instead of partnership, Canada chose unreasonable demands, walk-backs, and flat-out rejection.

The record of Canadian abuse is clear and deliberate:

FACT: Canada is joined only by the People's Republic of China in choosing retaliation over negotiation. Their continued discriminatory treatment of U.S. commerce has burdened American workers, farmers, and businesses.

FACT: Canada alone imposed discriminatory 25% tariffs and company-specific quotas on U.S. motor vehicles — measures applied to no other country. As a result, U.S. vehicle exports to Canada crashed 22% over the last year.

FACT: Canada banned American wine, beer, and spirits in nearly every province and territory — while other countries have faced no such restrictions. As a result, U.S. alcohol exports to Canada collapsed 81% in a single year.

FACT: Canada locks out U.S. dairy with tariff-rate quotas far more restrictive than those given to Europe, plus over-quota tariffs of nearly 300% — rates so extreme they function as a near-total ban and rank among the highest agricultural tariffs in the developed world.

FACT: Canada has extracted a persistent average annual goods trade deficit of roughly $50 billion from the U.S. over the last decade — while refusing reciprocal access.

FACT: Canada targeted American aerospace manufacturer Gulfstream for years. They effectively prohibited the sale of its G500, G600, G700, and G800 models while shielding its own competitor — until President Trump intervened.

FACT: Canada's protectionist barriers — discriminatory auto quotas, alcohol bans, and dairy lockouts — have hammered American companies. This has cost U.S. producers billions in lost sales, forced layoffs, and driven market share to foreign competitors who face none of the same restrictions.

FACT: Without the United States, Canada could not survive. Canada sends roughly three-quarters of all its goods exports to America — and the U.S. market is where Canada gets the overwhelming majority of its money and economic oxygen.

FACT: Canada's failed trade policies are driving its own manufacturers south. A recent survey found 42% of Canadian manufacturers have already moved or are planning to move production to the U.S.

FACT: Canada is doubling down on tariffs targeting American workers. Canada just announced an additional $27.6 billion in tariffs on American businesses — including a 50% tariff on American steel and aluminum, a 25% tariff on American fish, and a 25% tariff on American tools.

FACT: The U.S. economy is approximately 13 times larger than the Canadian economy and home to over eight times as many people. The United States has the clear leverage.

President Trump said it best: "Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable. They feel entitled, but they are not a State, and will be entitled no longer!" Canadian leadership chose retaliation over partnership — and America is no longer willing to carry them.

Related
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes Additional Tariffs on Canada
Fact Sheets July 20, 2026
Imposing Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages
Presidential Actions, Proclamations July 20, 2026
Temporary Suspension of Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Alcoholic Beverages, Dairy, and Motor Vehicles
Presidential Actions, Proclamations August 18, 2026
Imposing Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Motor Vehicles
Presidential Actions, Proclamations July 20, 2026
Imposing Additional Duties to Offset Canadian Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States with Respect to Dairy
Presidential Actions, Proclamations July 20, 2026
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Insanity on stilts, to say the least.

Dean Blundell took the crap apart. The following quote is from his Substack site, but without the images and the embedded URLs. To get the full picture, go there and read there. And join Dean Blundell. Have fun!


https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-the-white-house-just-published

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Dean Blundell

BREAKING: The White House Just Published A Twelve "FACT" Manifesto About Canada That Hitler Would Be Proud Of....

I checked every one of Trump's Goebbels Inspired bullshit propganda facts about Canada. Here's How Many Survived.

Dean Blundell
Aug 25, 2026

August 25, 2026

Let me tell you what landed on the White House website this morning, because it's going to be read on Fox by tonight as if it were handed down on stone tablets, and it's garbage.


It's called "President Trump Is Finally Ending Canada's Free Ride." It has the word FACT in capital letters twelve times. In my experience, the number of times somebody types FACT in caps is roughly proportional to how nervous they are about the facts.

So I did what the U.S. press corps should have done before lunch. I pulled every claim, followed every link, and checked it against the sources they used, the sources they skipped, and what Mark Carney actually said Saturday when he sent the negotiators home.

Here's the scorecard.

Twelve claims. Real numbers on most of them. And a story wrapped around each number that falls apart the second you touch it.

The "most preferential market access of any country on Earth"

That's the framing at the top. The offer of the century, and ungrateful Canada spat on it.

Here's the offer, in Jamieson Greer's own words on CNBC Monday: cut the steel and aluminum tariffs in half, "extensively" reduce autos, and give a little on softwood lumber. Bloomberg had the auto number at 15 percent, down from 25.

So the greatest deal on Earth was 25 percent on our steel, 15 percent on our cars, and a maybe on lumber. Nineteen months ago, all of those numbers were zero, under an agreement called CUSMA that Donald Trump negotiated, signed, and called the best trade deal in the history of the world. The generous offer was to charge us less than he'd started charging us last year. That's not a gift. That's a mugger offering to give back your watch if you hand over your wallet.

And the wallet, per Carney, was auto production, our ability to sign deals with other countries, and French-language protections in Quebec. They asked too much and offered too little. Greer's version is that Canada "wanted more." Both things can be true. That's called a negotiation, and only one side walked into it thinking it was a hostage exchange.

"Canada is joined only by China in choosing retaliation over negotiation"

This is my favourite one, because Canada has been negotiating for eighteen straight months with a government that changes its terms every time the president gets near a phone.

Yes, Canada matched the first tariffs in March 2025. Then on September 1, 2025, Ottawa dropped the counter-tariffs on most American goods as a good-faith move, keeping only steel, aluminum and autos because the Americans kept tariffing those three sectors with no CUSMA exemption. The EU threatened retaliation and folded. Mexico threatened and never fired. Canada hit back, then de-escalated, then kept sitting in Greer's office until Friday night.

Also missing from the fact sheet: the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the original emergency tariffs earlier this year. That's why the new ones are built on Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Smoot-Hawley. The law your economics prof used as the example of how to turn a downturn into the Great Depression. The country that "chose retaliation" is being hit with a Depression-era statute because the first round was illegal.

"Canada alone imposed 25% tariffs and company-specific quotas on U.S. vehicles, applied to no other country"

Correct. That is what a counter-tariff is.

Trump put 25 percent on Canadian-built vehicles on April 3, 2025. Carney announced a matching 25 percent on non-CUSMA-compliant American vehicles the same afternoon. Germany didn't get it because Germany didn't tariff Oshawa. The "company-specific quotas" are remission relief for automakers who keep building here, which the White House has rebranded as discrimination.

The 22 percent drop in U.S. vehicle exports is from the White House's own July fact sheet and I have no reason to doubt it. It's what happens when two countries put 25 percent on each other's cars, and one of them started it.

One more thing on this, courtesy of the CFIB: the American Section 338 tariff list titled "Motor Vehicles" contains no motor vehicles. It's cement and hockey sticks. They named a list of hockey sticks "Motor Vehicles" so the proclamation would sound like a policy.

"Canada banned American wine, beer, and spirits"

There is no ban. There is no federal law. What happened is that the provincial liquor boards, which are the retailers in most of this country, pulled American product off the shelves starting in February 2025, right around the time the president of the United States started calling us the 51st state. By December, two of ten provinces were selling it. David Eby's "not a chance in hell" is still in effect.

The 81 percent collapse is real, and again the number is the White House's own, March 2025 through February 2026. Why did "other countries face no such restrictions"? Because no other country's leader spent a year threatening to annex the customer.

And here's the part they leave out: Doug Ford spent last week getting ready to put Jack Daniel's back on LCBO shelves as a goodwill gesture. Carney told the provinces to restock as part of a deal. That offer was on the table when the Americans rewrote the terms and walked.

"Canada locks out U.S. dairy with tariffs of nearly 300%"

The over-quota tariffs are real. Somewhere between 250 and 315 percent, depending on the product. Now go read the source the White House linked for that number. It's the U.S. dairy lobby, the IDFA, and their own statement says those rates only kick in if American exports blow past the quota negotiated under USMCA. Which they usually don't. American dairy sales to Canada hit US$1.18 billion in 2024, up from $697 million in 2016. That's what a lockout looks like, apparently.

The real dispute is about how Canada hands out quota licences, and it's gone to a USMCA panel twice. The Americans won the first in January 2022. Canada won the second in November 2023. That's the dispute process Trump's own deal created, doing exactly what it was built to do.

Yes, the EU gets different quota terms under CETA. Different trade deals have different terms. And the United States runs its own dairy quotas, which the fact sheet somehow forgot to mention. Supply management was protected by a unanimous vote of the House of Commons. Carney still offered administrative changes on dairy licensing. Wasn't enough for them.

"Canada has extracted a $50 billion trade deficit from the U.S."

The USTR's own country page says the 2025 goods deficit was $48.3 billion. The same page, two sentences later, says the U.S. ran a $27.7 billion surplus with Canada in services. Add it up and the Bureau of Economic Analysis lands at about $27 billion for 2025, and it's shrinking.

Now take out energy. Canada supplies roughly 60 percent of American crude imports, 85 percent of its electricity imports, and nearly all its natural gas imports. Strip that out and the United States runs a surplus with Canada. Scotiabank put it at plus $63 billion in 2023.

Nobody extracted anything. Americans bought oil, then complained about the bill.

"Canada targeted Gulfstream (Major Trump Donor) for years"

I'll give them this one halfway, because this newsletter doesn't do the thing the White House does.

Transport Canada sat on the Gulfstream G500 and G600 for a long time. The FAA certified them in 2018. That's a legitimate gripe about a slow regulator. Trump posted on January 29, threatening to decertify Bombardier jets and slap 50 percent on every aircraft built in Canada. Ottawa cleared the G500 and G600 on February 15 and the G700 and G800 on February 23.

What they don't tell you: the FAA itself gave the G700 and G800 conditional certification in 2024 with an exemption on de-icing rules. Transport Canada says it runs cold-soak and freezing-rain tests on every aircraft, foreign or domestic, which in a country where the runway is ice four months a year is not a conspiracy. Gulfstreams registered in the States could always fly here. "Shielding Bombardier" is an accusation the White House made and never proved.

Slow, yes. Sabotage, no.

"Without the United States, Canada could not survive"

Three-quarters of our goods exports go south. True. Now the other half of the sentence. Canada is the number-one export market for 36 American states. Americans sold nearly $600 billion of goods and services to Canadians last year. We buy more American-built cars than the U.K., Japan and China combined.

They're describing an integrated economy and calling one half of it a freeloader. Ask Maine's lobster boats and Ohio's appliance plants who's carrying whom on September 8.

"Canada's failed trade policies are driving manufacturers south. 42% have moved or plan to"

The KPMG survey exists. 275 firms, polled in May. 29 percent say they've moved some or all of their production; 13 percent plan to. No margin of error published.

And what did those manufacturers say was pushing them? American tariffs and American trade uncertainty. Same survey: 61 percent say they can't survive without the U.S. market. So the White House is citing a survey of Canadian companies wrecked by Trump's tariffs as evidence that Canadian policy is the problem. It's the arsonist standing at the fire pointing at the building code.

"Canada just announced an additional $27.6 billion in tariffs on American businesses"

Sequence matters, so here it is. On Saturday at 12:01 a.m., the Americans imposed 50 percent tariffs on $27.6 billion in Canadian goods. American outlets say about $20 billion in U.S. dollars. Same pile. Tuesday, Ottawa released a list that matches it dollar for dollar, with each product taxed at the same rate Washington is charging on the Canadian version. The 50 percent on steel and aluminum mirrors the 50 percent the Americans have had on ours since June of last year.

"Doubling down" is the White House word for "answering."

"The U.S. economy is 13 times larger, with eight times the people. The U.S. has the clear leverage."

The arithmetic is fine. A big country is bigger than a smaller country. Congratulations.

Leverage is a different question. Trump announced Monday that Canadian cars and steel go to 50 percent on January 1. A trade lawyer told CBS that the first invoice lands in a Michigan showroom, not in Ottawa. That's who pays a tariff. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce put a 13-million-jobs number on this pact last week and Trump did it anyway.

The footnotes
One more thing, because it tells you everything about who wrote this. The sourcing on the twelve "FACTS" is mostly the White House citing its own July fact sheet, and the USTR citing its own tweets. The two that don't cite the White House cite a Truth Social post and a link to a Grok conversation. A Grok conversation. The official position of the United States government on Canadian auto market share is "I asked the chatbot on X."

Here's the deal

Strip out the adjectives, and this is the whole story. The Americans tariffed us. We matched. We dropped most of it to keep talking. The Supreme Court tossed their tariffs. They found a law from 1930. They offered to charge us less than they'd been charging us since last year, in exchange for our autos, our trade independence and Quebec's language laws, and when Carney said no, they went home and typed FACT twelve times.

And we simply don't GAF anymore because we ALL know it's political theatre for his braindead domestic audience.

Canadians aren't that stupid. Angus Reid had 76 percent of this country behind the walkout by Sunday. Doug Ford was on X within the hour. That's the part the fact sheet can't fix.

Trump's quote at the bottom says we "are not a State, and will be entitled no longer."

He's right about the first part. Took him nineteen months.



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