24 h. ago TACO Trump hits again: President quietly ignores Canada tariff increase after fury over Reagan ad

Trump has made a habit of threatening tariffs on trading partners, often resulting in a drop in the markets, only for him to walk it back

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26 h. ago TACO Trump hits again: President quietly ignores Canada tariff increase after fury over Regan ad

Trump has made a habit of threatening tariffs on trading partners, often resulting in a drop in the markets, only for him to walk it back

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8 d. ago The Guardian view on a new nuclear age: great powers should not restock a house of dynamite | Editorial

Donald Trump’s remarks on resuming nuclear testing have highlighted the risks. Proliferation must not be considered inevitableWhen Eisaku Satō, a former prime minister of Japan, received the Nobel peace prize in 1974 after committing his country to not making nuclear bombs, owning them or allowing them on its territory, he assured the audience: “I have no doubt that this policy will be pursued by all future governments.”Yet last week, Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister, declined to say whether the country that understands the cost of nuclear war better than any other would stand by its commitment – reflecting the bleak broader outlook. Eighty years after the US dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, incinerating tens of thousands of people, and almost 40 after Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan seriously discussed nuclear abolition in Reykjavik, the spectre looms once more. Last month, Donald Trump ordered the US military to match other countries’ nuclear weapons testing. Continu...

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2 w. ago Trump tariffs and strict US border rules threaten flight of Canada’s ‘snowbirds’

Annual migration from frigid Canadian winter to Florida sunshine could become thinner as travellers look elsewhereThe annual migration of hundreds of thousands of Canadian “snowbirds” escaping freezing temperatures in their homeland and heading to warmer US states such as Florida for the duration of the winter could be about to become noticeably thinner.Many have ditched plans to visit their southern neighbor and are looking to spend their valuable dollars elsewhere, largely put off by Donald Trump’s escalating economic war with Canada and strict new immigration rules that have created fear and confusion. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The ghost of Ronald Reagan has spooked Trump over tariffs | Sidney Blumenthal

The president is lashing out before the supreme court’s impending decision on his absurd policyHalloween came early for Donald Trump. Ronald Reagan spooked him. Trump had a startled reaction to the TV ad that appeared during the first game of the World Series, placed by the provincial government of Ontario, featuring excerpts from President Reagan’s radio talk in April 1987 in which he explained the danger of trade wars. “Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD,” Trump posted. It was, he falsely claimed, a “serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act”. In retaliation, he slapped an additional 10% tariff on Canada.Trump was apparently horrified at the sudden presence of the ghost of conservatism past, who had kept the outlandish bounder at arm’s length and whom Trump regarded warily if not nervously. Reagan was the original, bigger and more successful performer, whose appeal...

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3 w. ago Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney APOLOGISES to Donald Trump over TV ad row after infuriated President hiked tariffs and ended trade talks

The ad uses a 'voiceover' from fellow Republican Reagan - US President between 1981 and 1989 - saying tariffs caused trade wars and economic disaster.

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3 w. ago Canada’s Mark Carney says he apologised to Trump after president was ‘offended’ by Ronald Reagan ad

Trump branded the ad ‘crooked’ and suspended trade talks with Canada

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3 w. ago Trump updates: President shuts down hope of trade talks with Canada after Reagan ad

Trump closed negotiations with Canada after the province of Ontario aired a negative ad about tariffs

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3 w. ago Trump live: President shuts down hope of trade talks with Canada after Reagan ad

Trump closed negotiations with Canada after the province of Ontario aired a negative ad about tariffs

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3 w. ago Trump is often angry but rarely hurt – yet Canada has managed to pull it off | Emma Brockes

Why has an ad quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs triggered such a reaction from the president?One difficulty of a presidency as volatile as Donald Trump’s is separating what makes him angry (almost everything) from what genuinely, revealingly enrages him – what sends him round the bend at the mineral level. For instance, he hates Letitia James, the New York attorney general who in 2022 successfully brought a civil fraud case against him and whom he has since urged the justice department to pursue for mortgage fraud. But that’s just basic revenge – see also his pursuit of ex-FBI director James Comey. More interesting are the fleeting, trivial things that set Trump off, including his meltdown last week over a TV commercial from Canada.On the surface it didn’t seem like a particularly big deal: a TV ad airing on US television, paid for by the Canadian province of Ontario, in which an audio clip of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs ran over inspiring footage of the American wes...

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4 w. ago Carney accuses Trump of being too 'emotional' after president canceled trade negotiations over Reagan ad

Trump canceled ongoing trade negotiations with Carney last week and hit Canada with an additional 10 percent tariff after he was upset by an advertisement.

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last month Trump hikes tariffs on Canada over 'fraudulent' Ronald Reagan ad on World Series

President Donald Trump announced he is raising tariffs on Canada by 10 percent. It comes after Ontario ran a TV ad that used a speech from Ronald Reagan where he criticized tariffs.

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