Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Grills Trump: ‘You’re Tougher With Canada Than You Are With Some of Our Biggest Adversaries’
Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed President Donald Trump over his treatment of Canada relative to the way he treats U.S. adversaries in an interview that aired on the network Tuesday evening.
Ingraham’s interview with the president premiered on Tuesday evening’s episode of The Ingraham Angle. When they got to the topic of Canada, Trump reaffirmed his stance that Canada was “meant to be” the 51st state and claimed the U.S. didn’t need Canada’s lumber or automotive manufacturing exports. That prompted Ingraham to ask another question:
INGRAHAM: But you’re tougher with Canada than you are with some of our biggest adversaries. Why?
TRUMP: Only because it’s meant to be our 51st state, and I mean that.
INGRAHAM: OK, but we need their territory. They have territorial advantage. We’re not gonna let them get close to China, right?
TRUMP: Look, I deal with every country — indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada. The people that now — this was [former Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau — the people that good old Justin — I call him “Governor Trudeau” — his people were nasty, and they weren’t telling the truth. They never told the truth. You know that, you know, they’d say, “Well, we don’t charge.” Well, they do. They charge tremendous, they charge tremendous; and, if you look at dairy products, what they’ve done to our farmers — I’d go up to Iowa, I’d go up to different places, Nebraska — and they would always complain about Canada, how they get ripped off. Do you know that Canada has a 250% tariff? Two-hundred and fifty. Nobody knows that. They charge us numbers that are crazy. We have a very big deficit with Canada–
INGRAHAM: $60 billion.
TRUMP: Much more. We have much more–
INGRAHAM: I don’t think so.
TRUMP: –just so you understand. We subsidize Canada, and I like Canada. I love Canada.
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