I can’t, for the life of me, understand why we would suddenly decide that Canada is our enemy. I’d like to believe that most Americans are not on board with this, but then why are we not speaking out? This is FAR from okay.
Serious question: does anyone understand why we suddenly decided that Canada was our enemy?
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We didn’t. Orange monkey did. Do not lump me in with that mouth breather.
Gotta be mad at someone and it’s either the Canadians or my own lackluster marriage which is causing my problems. I choose the former. Thank you professor trump
Well when more than half of your country elects or stands by as a rapist and a nazi gets re-elected to the presidency, begins to act like a rapist and a nazi to other countries they gotta follow along or else their friends will think they are uncool.
What is “WE” ? Canada is not my enemy.
It is very upsetting that the President is picking fights with our allies.
It’s not a thing
Last year, Canada didn’t sign a big starlink contract is my guess. That and we have a lunatic who thinks MUrica can magically turn on manufacturing after decades of world trade that led to almost zero American made goods.
To distract from the decimation of the U.S. republic and constitution.
We? Our?
There’s been a subset of libertarians nationalists that get offended that other countries don’t like our lax food safety laws, so places like the EU Australia and Canada won’t take our milk, beef and pork. The fact that the repeatedly say they will take our produce if we raise it and processes it up to their standards in a verifiable way , doesn’t seem to penetrate the imagination of these anti regulatory zealots.
So, we started a trade war to try to force them to take our surplus diseased beef pork and dairy, and they thought about it and said “Ew, no”
It’s kind of like shooting yourself in the foot. I bet he thought Russia would back him up.
Its only trump and his inner cult. Most people in the US love Canada, especially when them cool air masses come down in July.
Monkey see – monkey doo.
Do you see – poo aloo?
Well it was said that canada is ripping off America for billions…. but if you take away the energy trade surplus then America is winning the trade advantage….. but because canada has an abundance of excess energy they sell it to the usa, also canada supplies a massive chunk of oil and gas to the usa, and retooling the refineries isn’t cheap and shareholders aren’t down for that right now. So since the cdn dollar makes it very financially profitable to buy from them corporations are very happy to buy canadian for huge profits. Isn’t that what people want is massive profits??
Canada isn’t our enemy.
Alright so the popular vote does not elect the president, electoral college does. Trump got a bunch of rich people to support him and get him elected
Now, he is lining their pockets. Everything he is doing is to make the rich, richer. Stock market is crashing, rich buy it at super low prices and then it will rise making them more money
It is corruption and first hand evidence that we are not a democracy, we are an oligarchy
Tucker Carlson, Tim Pool, Jeffrey Sachs…. Grifters in general selling anger. A lot of it goes back to Russia. Russia secretly pays both sides of any schism in America. They probably never dreamed that they could get someone to drive the USA from NATO, Canada, and other liberal democracies.
We The People didn’t. That was the senile orange clown in the White House
We have tons of natural resources.
Admiral Mango tits wants them and he thinks business works by bullying people into giving you want you want.
I actually think this has been a talking point with conservatives for a long time. I remember my aunt saying something negative about Canada a long time ago. I was like 14 or something (I’m 26 now). And I basically had the same reaction as most people on here are having now with what’s going on now. And you know, I am not really political because I don’t research a lot of things to a t. But, there’s kind of this tone that she had and I also sense that in people’s responses against Canada today, where it’s like disgust. Like they are terrible neighbors (someone actually said that on here). And it’s like, not giving us the fairest deal on tariffs or trade (again, can’t confirm, that’s just what some people have said) is very very vastly different from being the worst neighbors ever. I don’t understand how anyone can say that about Canada. Like they could be Russia and we could be Ukraine. But to like pressure them into joining the US and crazy stuff, I mean talk about negotiating better deals if that’s what you want, don’t demonize them.
The Burning of Washington was only 211 years ago. Never forget!
South Park
It’s because his estranged mail order bride made googly eyes at Justin Trudeau years ago. His ego has never recovered. It’s part of his Revenge and Retribution World Tour 2025.
Because daddy Putin wants the entire northern hemisphere, but countries like Canada and Denmark stand in the way.
Remember Trumps last stint as Emperor, he hated the Canadian PM, and then his daughters eyes lit up when she saw Tredau in person, like a giddy schoolgirl gushing… oh my gawd hes so hot…
Yeah… nah probably got nothing to do with it.
WE who ?
Cuz hats are so 1990.
We can’t be enemies with Russia. That’s who Trump is working for. We can’t be enemies with China because Trump idolizes Xi for keeping his thumb on billions of people. Canada is a fair and free country, so he HAS to make enemies out of them, so we’ll wind up hating freedom and democracy. Trump doesn’t want free thinkers. He wants mindless drones that will make him money.
Whose this we? I like our allies. Humanity best chance at getting anything done, is working together. It’s simple minded to fight and exclude
I think he just can’t stand Trudea. He might also see a chance to break Alberta from Canada with all the anti oil and gas stuff the rest of Canada has tried to impose on Alberta.
Because territorial expansion is in the fascist playbook. Go look it up, there’s a whole list.
It was the only way to enact tariffs without passing it through Congress.
The US government is corrupt and hates anyone who makes them look bad.
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I don’t know. I wondered this.
Finally I wondered if it was a distraction. If he’s serious about taking Greenland and is using getting everyone riled up about Canada as a distraction for that. “No, I’m just kidding. We aren’t invading Canada. Never were. We’re just taking Greenland. See, that isn’t so bad, is it?”
The current administration in the US works within a framework that divides the world (outside the US) along different lines to previous administrations. It’s not that these lines necessarily pop in or out of existence. They are mostly always there. It’s just a matter of which ones are (in different contexts) deemed significant, have higher priority, and are used to inform decision making.
The previous framework (used by both Democrats and Republicans in global affairs) typically divided the world along lines such as whether or not a society/group is democratic, supports free speech, supports free trade, etc. Not necessarily without some amount of hypocrisy, mind you.
The current administration:
This is the framework dividing Democrats from Republicans within the US, now being applied to foreign affairs.
Most of the US’ allies are either more progressive or more left than it and so find themselves losing points with the current administration, while foreign conservative and right groups/societies find themselves gaining points.
We are assembling our platoons of moose and beaver warriors at our border so you guys better watch out.
I can only assume you guys suddenly hate us because you realized we gave you William Shatner, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber and Nickelback
Trump decided to put tariffs on countries that have tariffs on US imports. Canada has tariffs on US imports.
Canada is awesome. No enemy of mine, nor do I want the smoke from “it’s not a war crime the first time” Canada!
One sided trade practices. Canada basically acts as a funnel for ccp steel and other goods to bypass the tariffs they’d incur coming direct. They’re also prone to one sided protectionist policies for home industries.
Not very friendly
Here’s the goss that I’ve heard. With climate change, the polar ice caps are receding and rare earth minerals are becoming ‘available’ to mine. The countries that can access them and secure mining rights will reap in the big bucks like there’s no tomorrow. The countries that border this region and have immediate access are….wait for it….. Russia, Greenland and Canada. If the Trumpster can annexe Greenland and Canada, him and his BFF Putin will have the whole shebang in their pockets.
All of this ‘Governor of Canada’ and talk about ‘we really need Greenland and I think we’re just going to take it ‘ bullshit is just pure economic greed. I think the tariffs against Canada are an attempt to bring the country to its knees and beg DT to take them please and spare them more economic angst and terror. Unfortunately he’s either not as stupid as we’d like to think or he has some very Machiavellian advisors. Thankfully, Canadians are pulling together on resisting.
How has not been acknowledged as a domestic terrorist? So busy looking for illegal activity down south that you seem to have forgotten the real terrorist has taken over the Oval Office.
Canada is family, cousins. Never enemies.
Cause their cult leader told them they were. They don’t care why. Daddy said they are enemies and they just blindly swallow.
Melania and Justin made sexy eyes at each other
We didn’t. Trump and his cabal did, and the Republicans backed him because he promised them wealth and power while the democrats did nothing to stop him because they’ve completely forgotten how to do anything after over a decade of only perpetuating the status quo.
All decisions lead to Putin. Canada’s potential annexation is Trumps Ukraine. If America has territorial ambitions it validates Russia’s. As does the desire to take Greenland and Panama. Vlad is whispering in Donnie’s ear. “If we can do it, so can you”. It feeds Trumps ego and Russia gets to do what it wants. Trump is an asset. His job is to bring the US down and allow Russia to expand. Putin and China are playing the long game. They use the system from the inside.
Didn’t you hear? Our overly friendly neighbors are actually EVIL drug lords! Twirling their mustaches and flooding America with Fentanyl. /s
Actually they’re not our enemy… It’d just be really beneficial to invade, I mean “annex” them (Wink) until they see how Great America is and how they’d make a great 51st state. We’ve no plans for dominating other countries of course…/s
Whatever the reason running through Trump’s head, (which seems to never be consistent) it’s a stupid idea. Canada has been and should continue to be one of our closest allies and friends. We’re being the stupid asshole enemy here.
This been building up since they got us all strung out on maple syrup.
We? Canada is our friend, and anyone who says otherwise needs to be sent to a farm…..a literal farm (for now, if it gets worse, then who knows).
Like others have said, who’s this “we”? I’m on Canada’s side here.
MAGA xenophobia and good ole fashion American dipshittery.
Trump’s interest in Canada and Greenland is clear evidence that Republican leaders do accept climate change as fact. Rather than doing something to prevent it, they would prefer to position themselves to be kings in a dying world.
They want to secure the Northwest Passage, the natural resources that will be easily exploited in a warming arctic, and territory to move to when climate change makes places like Houston, Washington and Phoenix unlivable.
In their zero-sum way of thinking, they are afraid if they don’t secure more of the arctic for the US, China or the EU will be able to somehow win the climate change game. The irony, of course, is that the actions they are taking are now are going to make Canada and Greenland create closer ties with everyone except the US.
Canada sure as hell ain’t my enemy. I got a Canadian girlfriend and Canadian friends. I believe you might be talking about the orange man and his minions.
The liberals on here will neatly articulate “orange man bad”, the real story is that illegal immigration was starting to take hold on the northern border, and the cartels are big business. The Chinese and others drug organizations thought it would be easier to get drugs in from the north than the south.
We? Ain’t no we. I didn’t vote for the clown that started antagonizing them.
POSUS and his Orcs do not represent the rest of US
We have always been at war with Canada.
We have never been at war with Russia.
I’m paraphrasing Orwell’s 1984, so do you get it?
Trump fimally got around to watching the southpark movie
Canada isn’t the enemy
But they are slowly becoming England, and England is t in a good place right now. And I personally don’t wanna see Canada go into a civil war like England is about to have
Canada has embraced foreign products to pass through its free trade status.
Apparently it’s also let some fentanyl out, and they generally enjoy the passive protection of the us military without any expense.
But it’s mostly minerals.
China is consolidating territories. Not sure why this is strange to people.
Trump’s actions can always be best explained by asking one question: what would benefit Russia?
Starting an artificial feud with our border state and large trading partner weakens the US economically and diplomatically, which Putin relishes.
In my vast experience at least a majority of Americans have disrespected Canada and seen it as inferior America Jr that should be annexed. Seriously.
Fascism, it’s a pretty common tactic in the playbook. Frankly almost every move he has made is 20 years out of date but at the same time perfectly on brand with standard fascism.
You voted in the orange turd again
Because Canada 🇨🇦 doesn’t want to let Russia run it Bs in their country and pos trump..doing everything in his power to please his precious putin
Musk can’t be president in the US, but he is citizen in Canada via his mother. So if Canada is overtaken, he will most likely able to become president.
It’s part of Putin’s plan to destroy NATO. Same as Greenland and the rift with the EU.
It’s the same way Russia views Ukraine, “that land and everything in it should be available to me”
Because they didn’t embrace becoming part of the US.
The dictator decides. You lot just follow until you can get rid of him.
You ever see how minions do whatever despicable me (gru) says? Meet 👏 🙌 MAGA.
MAGA is beginning to believe that both Paris Hilton and Michelle Obama are actually transgender and have been lying to the world the entire time. For reference.
Bully’s always need someone to pick on so they can look tough to those whose attention they are holding.
Maybe he just found out we burnt down the White House in the War of 1812.
You are assuming we are all American. You are assuming all American are from the United States, and that all from the United States are part of the fraction that think Canada is an enemy.
We? r/usdefaultism
Simple The orange bafoon wants to go down in history as the expander of his empire
Because the president is, quite possibly, the dumbest person alive.
Because trump has dementia and his followers are morons