The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a “bad person” and “not to be trusted” and urging Canada to keep fighting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said Canada has leverage in the talks even as his province weighs restoring U.S. alcohol sales at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s urging to help secure a deal that would avert threatened 50% U.S. tariffs.
“Everybody knows the American president by now, he’s erratic, he’s irresponsible, and he’s not to be trusted. And this is the person that we were supposed to make a deal with, and we’re going to make additional concessions for it. That’s why I say you can’t make a good deal with a bad person, because who’s to say it’s not going to be undone?” Kinew said.
Wab is the man
We should clone him! I really hope he starts something.
Ok, but he needs to shut the fuck up until a deal is signed, he can politically posture later.
Why? Deals with Trump mean nothing. The best thing to do is strengthen our border and ignore that pants-shitting rapist.
Or we can tell Trump to shut the fuck up and let him politically posture later. When he tries to hurt us, endure the pain, because every second of it makes us stronger and makes him weaker. Do not negotiate with terrorists.
I disagree. We need a good deal or none at all. And we are certainly not going to get a good deal between the narcissistic incompetent and Ol’ Schrodinger’s Elbows.
Wab smells B.S. and I’m here for it.
Nah, the only problem with what he said was he should’ve called Trump a “nasty person”.
When you’re negotiating, it’s courteous to speak the language of the people you’re negotiating with.
And I’m not kidding, either. JD Vance called Trump “America’s Hitler.” Trump chose him to be his running mate. Nothing Trump says is meaningful, it’s all just for show. So he thinks everyone else only says things for show. Insulting him won’t hurt a deal, if anything it’s make him want to make a deal more.
Hard agree, as someone who voted for Wab as my MLA. I wish he and Ford would stop fucking around and just let the federal government retain the jurisdiction over foreign affairs. Ford’s Reagan ad was factual and “felt good” for Canadians to see but really stirred the pot.