Fox News Embarrassed As Canadian Ambassador Exposes Trump’s Tariff Defeat
Canada's UN Ambassador Bob Rae went on Fox News and exposed Trump's tariff defeat.
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Fox News keeps doing Fox News things. After what appeared to be a massive Trump cave on his tariff threats, Fox tried to spin the Trump failure as a success by leaving out a key piece of information.
Fox’s Bret Baier said, “The administration sees it as a movement today with Mexico and Canada promising a lot that they weren't promising before.”
Canadian UN Ambassador Rae said:
Not true. In our case, I mean, can only speak very directly on this. We've had candid conversations with the administration for a long time on what we felt we could do and what we felt needed to be done, not just for you, but also for us.
And many of those expenditures were already announced by the prime minister many, many weeks ago.
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The Canadian border plan, with billions of dollars in spending, was announced in December of 2024. What Trump got was Canada to issue a new intelligence directive and a promise that Canada would name a “fentenyl czar,” which isn’t a real thing.
Every other leader in the world knows how to play this game with Donald Trump. The US president is uninformed, so all they have to do is put on a show and promise him things that they are already doing, and Trump will think that he won.
If the stakes were not so high and the person being tricked wasn’t a malevolent convicted felon, it would almost be cruel to fool someone of such limited intellectual capacity like this.
As for Fox News, for once, someone came on their airwaves and didn’t sugarcoat it. What loyal Trumper and sometimes Donald Trump golfing buddy Bret Baier did was lie to his audience. It was a flat-out untrue statement.
The person who moved backward in this negotiation was Donald Trump.
Trump didn’t get anything of value that would have been worth causing a downturn in global markets.
Donald Trump played this same game all through his first term in office when he would threaten tariffs, then back away and proclaim victory after getting nothing.
The 30-day “pause” is meaningless. The tariffs are not happening as it relates to Canada and Mexico, and if Europe wants to avoid them too, all it will take is telling Trump that what they are doing already is new.
Trump falls for it every single time.
What do you think of the Canadian Ambassador calling out Fox News lies? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
So glad. He is an idiot and all he wants is deference and flattery. These folks also hate being shamed socially like how he took VP Harris’ bait in the debate. Chump is literally like a petulant toddler. He wants to be a king, but not actually govern. He is leaving that up to the South African technocrat.
I don’t watch Fox News/State media but, I am so glad they got called out on the lies on the air!