US President Donald Trump once again sharply attacks Canada, claiming that this country is “very unpleasant in trade.”
On Friday at the briefing at Asheville, North Carolina, who was the first stop of the president in his second term, Trump said he asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau what would happen if the United States “did not subsidize Canada.”
The president gave these comments immediately after asking about US trade with Great Britain.
He alleged that during a conversation with Prime Minister Trudeau replied that without the USA couldada would be “the nation of the bankrupt”
Trudeau visited Trump in his MAR-A-LAGO estate in November, shortly after Trump initially threatened to apply a 25 % duty to all goods from Canada introduced to the USA
On the day of his inauguration, Trump suggested that these duties could be introduced on February 1.
In North Carolina, Trump repeated that the United States does not need Canadian “cars, wood or food products, because we produce the same products on the other side of the border.”
He also said that if the country joined the United States, Canadians would have “much better” health care
“I think that Canada citizens would like it,” said the president.
On Friday, during a conversation with reporters in North Carolina, US President Donald Trump still threatened to impose duties on Canada.
Trudeau said on Tuesday that Canada is ready to impose dollar duties on American products, if the United States implements the promised tariff system – a program that may result in the imposition of duties on American imports worth hundreds of billion dollars.
“We don't think he wants it,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa about remedies.
CBC News contacted the prime minister's office to get a comment on whether Trump's information about this exchange of sentences is accurate.
However, this would not be the first time the president shared a misleading relationship with the conversations he had with the prime minister.
While recent interview with msnbc Inside with Jen PsakiTrudeau noticed that Trump omitted the prime minister's answers, publicly mentioning their conversation in Mar-a-Lago.
Trudeau said that in response to Trump's proposal to make Canada “51. Stan “he suggested that” maybe there could be an exchange of some parts with Vermont or California. ”
This answer “made Trump decided that it was not so funny anymore, and we went to another conversation,” Trudeau told the host Jen Psaki.