This is, of course, utterly without merit. Canada paid for the bridge in its entirety. Hell, Trump was even praising the deal in 2017. This is nothing more than him attempting a shakedowm. It’ll just turn into another thing he loses in court if he persists.Trump orders bridge between Detroit and Windsor stay closed/not open after being built
Trump says Canada, U.S. will ‘immediately’ start negotiations over Windsor-Detroit bridge
Trump says Canada, U.S. will ‘immediately’ start negotiations over Windsor-Detroit bridge
U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada and the U.S. will “immediately” start negotiations over the Gordie Howe International Bridge, which connects Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich.www.ctvnews.ca
Trump administration 2024-2028
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Can’t be bothered to look it up, but isn’t the plan to ban through trucks in downtown Windsor once the new bridge opens?
If it wasn’t petty and childish (and really bad for cross border trade) we could close the road leading to the Ambassador Bridge for as long as Trump keeps the new one closed… I’m sure the tunnel would be fine for locals and the trucks wouldn’t mind going by Port Huron, right?
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A truck shipping parts made in Windsor and going over to Sterling Hgts or Warren, MI is not going to drive to Sarnia, cross at the Blue Water Bridge into Port Huron and then drive the 45mins down into Warren.
This is simply a case of Trump being Trump. If the Fed's can wait him out and not care about the bridge not being open for another 2,5yrs then just leave it closed. The state of Michigan will put more and more pressure on Trump to get it open before then. There is no pressing need, in terms of volume of traffic using the existing Ambassador Bridge or the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel that it can't wait him out.
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The best argument against Trump's tariffs? Trump's first term.
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Oh, I know all that. I should have used <sarcasm>
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Haggis
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Why would that matter? Trump is standing up for all Americans, isn't he?
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Probably not. Probably not even all of the bitter clingers and deplorables.
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Over/under on when he TACOs?
This. Let the Big 3 and little friends be the baddies…
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From our end, meanwhile ....
www.ctvnews.ca
Carney says he spoke to Trump after president threatened to block Gordie Howe bridge
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Donald Trump’s threat to stall the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge will be resolved following a call with the U.S. president Tuesday.
www.ctvnews.ca
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Wait until someone puts "God-President" in his ear.
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A free tariff free agreement between Russia and the US.
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I don't think you understand April Fools jokes. It's supposed to be something fake.
Haggis
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Too believable. It's gotta be something really off-the-wall and aimed at getting Canada all torqued up again.
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My bigger concern with the orange haired asshole's comments and threats over the bridge, is what is he really cooking up? Is this bridge a distraction for something else he plans to throw at us? Does he have some deviant shit up his sleeve we don't know? Think ice berg
Or is this simply a case of somebody pissed in his cheerios? Or the cheese sliding off the cracker a bit (ala Biden) and his mental functioning is going bye bye?
That being said, we can assume for argument's sake that Trump is going to try and steal more and more business from us, he is on a path to take every last dime he can from us.
NOW is the time to stop fucking around in our backyard, get things moving big time. Japan, S. Korea, Europe, lots of business out there for Canadian oil (either use bill C5 and/or repeal the stupid laws hindering what we can do for energy development the NUMBER ONE potential driver of our economy)
Bitching about Trump and stomping our feet is getting what done? Not a thing
Or is this simply a case of somebody pissed in his cheerios? Or the cheese sliding off the cracker a bit (ala Biden) and his mental functioning is going bye bye?
That being said, we can assume for argument's sake that Trump is going to try and steal more and more business from us, he is on a path to take every last dime he can from us.
NOW is the time to stop fucking around in our backyard, get things moving big time. Japan, S. Korea, Europe, lots of business out there for Canadian oil (either use bill C5 and/or repeal the stupid laws hindering what we can do for energy development the NUMBER ONE potential driver of our economy)
Bitching about Trump and stomping our feet is getting what done? Not a thing
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As some people previously speculated, it appears that a member of the Moroun family was in communication with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just hours before Trump went on his rampage about the Gordie Howe Bridge.
www.rawstory.com
Trump's threat to Canada came hours after backroom meeting with billionaire competitor
A Detroit billionaire who owns a major U.S.-Canada border crossing met privately with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just hours before Donald Trump publicly threatened to block the opening of a competing international bridge, according to a report from The New York Times.Matthew Moroun, whose...
www.rawstory.com
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Oh yes, alot is getting done.
He's winning the Attention War, which is all important if you're running the most powerful, but distracted, country in the world...
Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait
Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning
When Donald Trump reassured the world that he would not, after all, use force to acquire Greenland – after days of threatening as much – he was doing what he does best: turning geopolitics into a spectacle. Whether Trump ever truly believed the US should acquire a vast Arctic territory belonging to a Nato ally is secondary to the fact that, once again, he ensured that Europe and the rest of the world were focused on his agenda.
Trump is not a politician who responds to events – he seeks to make them. Not because he is deeply invested in policy detail, but because he understands a defining feature of contemporary politics: attention is power. In an era of information overload, there is no scarcity of data or analysis; what is lacking is attention. And whoever controls that controls the debate.
Steve Bannon once described Trump’s domestic strategy as “flood the zone with shit”. In other words, create so many scandals that opponents no longer know which ones matter. The media chases everything, the opposition is perpetually outraged and no one has the mental space to set their own priorities. This logic and the accompanying tactics are now also being deployed by the US in its foreign policy.
Trump’s threats towards Denmark and Greenland were not isolated provocations, but a form of geopolitical clickbait. Their purpose was to dominate the news cycle, push other governments into reactive mode and crowd out longer-term strategic thinking. Greenland was perfect for this. It is strategically important – located in the Arctic, between North America and Europe – yet remote enough that few voters have much detailed knowledge about it. That made it ideal for attention capture: dramatic enough for headlines, vague enough for endless speculation.
Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries
Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries
www.theguardian.com