President Donald Trump solutions questions from reporters throughout a roundtable on prison cartels within the State Eating Room of the White Home, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump mentioned late Thursday that he was ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada due to a tv advert opposing U.S. tariffs that he mentioned misstated the information and referred to as “egregious behavior” aimed toward influencing U.S. court docket selections.
The publish on Trump’s social media website got here after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney mentioned he goals to double his nation’s exports to nations exterior the U.S. due to the menace posed by Trump’s tariffs. Trump’s name for an abrupt finish to negotiations might additional inflame commerce tensions that have already got been constructing between the 2 neighboring nations for months.
Trump posted, “The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs.”
“The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts,” Trump wrote on his social media website. “TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
Carney’s workplace did not instantly reply to a request for remark. The prime minister was set to go away Friday morning for a summit in Asia, whereas Trump is about to do the identical Friday night.
Earlier Thursday night time, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Basis and Institute posted on X that an advert created by the federal government of Ontario “misrepresents the ‘Presidential Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade’ dated April 25, 1987.” It added that Ontario didn’t obtain basis permission “to use and edit the remarks.”
The muse mentioned it’s “reviewing legal options in this matter” and invited the general public to observe the unedited video of Reagan’s deal with.
Carney met with Trump earlier this month to attempt to ease commerce tensions, as the 2 nations and Mexico put together for a evaluation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Settlement — a commerce deal Trump negotiated in his first time period, however has since soured on.
Greater than three-quarters of Canadian exports go to the U.S., and almost $3.6 billion Canadian (US$2.7 billion) price of products and providers cross the border every day.
Trump mentioned earlier this week that he had seen the advert on tv and mentioned that it confirmed that his tariffs had been having an influence.
“I saw an ad last night from Canada. If I was Canada, I’d take that same ad also,” he mentioned then.
In his personal publish on X final week, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, posted a hyperlink to the advert and the message: “It’s official: Ontario’s new advertising campaign in the U.S. has launched.”
He continued, “Using every tool we have, we’ll never stop making the case against American tariffs on Canada. The way to prosperity is by working together.”
A spokesperson for Ford did not instantly reply to a request for remark Thursday night time. However Ford beforehand obtained Trump’s consideration with an electrical energy surcharge to U.S. states. Trump responded by doubling metal and aluminum tariffs.
The president has moved to impose steep U.S. tariffs on many items from Canada. In April, Canada’s authorities imposed retaliatory levies on sure U.S. items — but it surely carved out exemptions for some automakers to deliver particular numbers of automobiles into the nation, often known as remission quotas.
Trump’s tariffs have particularly harm Canada’s auto sector, a lot of which relies in Ontario. This month, Stellantis mentioned it will transfer a manufacturing line from Ontario to Illinois.
