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orangecrush

(28,145 posts)
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 08:45 AM Oct 24

Man baby has shit fit over Reagan ad, cancels talks with Canada

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was terminating trade talks with Canada, effective immediately.

Trump accused Canada of trying to interfere with an upcoming Supreme Court case about the legality of his "reciprocal" tariffs.

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social after the Canadian province of Ontario began running a television advertisement in the United States featuring a speech from former President Ronald Reagan.

“They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts,” Trump wrote, referring to the high court’s scheduled Nov. 5 oral arguments on legal challenges to a significant part of Trump’s tariffs. They include the country-specific rates at the heart of both his foreign policy and economic agendas.

The ad, which Ontario's premier, Doug Ford, posted on X, begins with Reagan saying, "When someone says, 'Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,' it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs, and sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time."

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-canada-trade-ronald-reagan-rcna239508


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Man baby has shit fit over Reagan ad, cancels talks with Canada (Original Post) orangecrush Oct 24 OP
It's a sad day when I agree with R. Reagan. MarineCombatEngineer Oct 24 #1
Same orangecrush Oct 24 #3
I feel dirty. greatauntoftriplets Oct 24 #6
Likewise orangecrush Oct 24 #25
I had a R. Reagan hat made back in 2015 KS Toronado Oct 24 #11
No doubt this ad triggered trump, as he has a bizarre fixation with Reagan, and tries to mimic his mannerisms. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Oct 24 #2
Trump is such an idiot, if he didn't want people to see or notice the ad, he has just blown that up. Bev54 Oct 24 #14
go the end of the reel. It was cut off. Baitball Blogger Oct 24 #4
I would not be surprised orangecrush Oct 24 #5
I'm assuming Ford expected this reaction. At least I hope so... Fil1957 Oct 24 #7
Yeah, Ford is always looking for attention and the fact that he got Trump to react the way he has Bev54 Oct 24 #15
Good point. The ad has now gotten much more exposure as a result of Trump's overreaction. I'm guessing the trade talks Fil1957 Oct 24 #20
Yes, I would say there is a lot of Canadians that don't believe Trump was ever going to come to a deal Bev54 Oct 24 #22
Historians will note the man baby the Republicans worship Champp Oct 24 #8
History will not be kind to TSF RainCaster Oct 24 #10
Speaking of Canada, Trump is a loon. Botany Oct 24 #9
How in the hell could Canada interfere with our Supreme Court? KS Toronado Oct 24 #12
Exactly, SCOTUS does not even listen to federal judges, let alone a Canadian Premier's ad. Bev54 Oct 24 #16
Hard to argue with that! KS Toronado Oct 24 #19
I don't think Ford is that forward thinking, after all if you listen to him, he thinks Reagan was Bev54 Oct 24 #23
We've known for years... GiqueCee Oct 24 #18
Anger is fear in translation. littlemissmartypants Oct 24 #13
Please, please tell me the ad will run during tonight's game Brother Buzz Oct 24 #17
I am not sure if they will be on tonight but Ford has said they will continue during the world series games. Bev54 Oct 24 #24
Both the Alzheimer's patients are wrong Farmer-Rick Oct 24 #21
He'll Be Damned If He is Ever Going to Admit That Yet Another of His Fever-dreams Was a Mistake, Like The Roux Comes First Oct 24 #26
With today's GOP... Xolodno Oct 24 #27
I love this ad. Here is the original Reagan telecast LetMyPeopleVote Oct 24 #28
He is Mr. Tariffs. moondust Oct 25 #29

KS Toronado

(22,946 posts)
11. I had a R. Reagan hat made back in 2015
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:32 AM
Oct 24

TEAR DOWN
THIS WALL
R. Reagan

Some of his potential voters didn't like my hat, but no one would argue that dumpie's wall
idea wasn't a big waste of money.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,731 posts)
2. No doubt this ad triggered trump, as he has a bizarre fixation with Reagan, and tries to mimic his mannerisms.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 08:51 AM
Oct 24

Trump sees Ronnie as a Saint, but himself as a god/GOD.

Bev54

(13,161 posts)
14. Trump is such an idiot, if he didn't want people to see or notice the ad, he has just blown that up.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:53 AM
Oct 24

Now everyone is not just looking up the ad but they are going to the original video of the Reagan speech and will notice that the words are true. Also on the video it shows that there are no restrictions at all of people using the video.

Baitball Blogger

(51,641 posts)
4. go the end of the reel. It was cut off.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 09:04 AM
Oct 24

What I heard was "the uncertainty caused by American dic--"

Did he mean to say, the uncertainty caused by American dictator Donald Trump?

Bev54

(13,161 posts)
15. Yeah, Ford is always looking for attention and the fact that he got Trump to react the way he has
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:55 AM
Oct 24

just played into his hands. I thought the ad would be a waste of money but it certainly is getting a lot of attention now.

Fil1957

(514 posts)
20. Good point. The ad has now gotten much more exposure as a result of Trump's overreaction. I'm guessing the trade talks
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 11:28 AM
Oct 24

were going nowhere and the ad was a way to shake things up and educate the American public

Bev54

(13,161 posts)
22. Yes, I would say there is a lot of Canadians that don't believe Trump was ever going to come to a deal
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 12:04 PM
Oct 24

and even if he did, he would never honour it, and Carney has, right from the start, said we would rather have no deal than a bad deal.

Botany

(76,289 posts)
9. Speaking of Canada, Trump is a loon.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:27 AM
Oct 24


The man is bat shit crazy. So Canada (Ontario) is working to get the SCOTUS to give an opinion on a
U.S. Constitutional question by running a t.v./social media spot showing Ronald Reagan?

KS Toronado

(22,946 posts)
12. How in the hell could Canada interfere with our Supreme Court?
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:39 AM
Oct 24

Thought the only ones capable of doing that was the Heritage Foundation & Moscow Mitch.

Bev54

(13,161 posts)
16. Exactly, SCOTUS does not even listen to federal judges, let alone a Canadian Premier's ad.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:56 AM
Oct 24

KS Toronado

(22,946 posts)
19. Hard to argue with that!
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 11:05 AM
Oct 24

But MAGAts will back dumpie's decision.

Wonder if Doug was deliberately baiting dumpie so he'd do something stupid?

Bev54

(13,161 posts)
23. I don't think Ford is that forward thinking, after all if you listen to him, he thinks Reagan was
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 12:06 PM
Oct 24

the greatest American president. Doesn't show a lot of intellect. He is more like Trump than people realize.

GiqueCee

(3,329 posts)
18. We've known for years...
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 11:00 AM
Oct 24

... that Orange-boy ain't wrapped too tight, but now the wheels are comin' off, and his mind has achieved escape velocity. NOT a good sign. Cancelling trade talks with one of our nearest and dearest neighbors? What the absolute FUCK was he thinking? I know... "Maybe Vlad will love me NOW!"

Bev54

(13,161 posts)
24. I am not sure if they will be on tonight but Ford has said they will continue during the world series games.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 12:25 PM
Oct 24

Farmer-Rick

(12,420 posts)
21. Both the Alzheimer's patients are wrong
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 11:33 AM
Oct 24

Reagan had a robust manufacturing economy that could have been strengthened with a few well placed tariffs. But he was a deregulatory "free" trader.

He was a racist that hid his hate behind economic and political rhetoric. He wanted to do away with the idea that government should help the little guy, not just the filthy-rich. And he did a good job of it. He tore down useful and effective regulations allowing for monopolies, union busting and moving most manufacturing to foreign countries.

Pedo Trump, as a result of Reagan's and other Republicon's actions, got a low wage service economy with very little manufacturing. Tariffs do NOT help if you have NO INDUSTRY to support. Service economies rely on imports because they make nothing, they just sell other people's crap. But Republicons and pedo Trump don't understand economy and think they do. One size doesn't fit all.

The Roux Comes First

(2,134 posts)
26. He'll Be Damned If He is Ever Going to Admit That Yet Another of His Fever-dreams Was a Mistake, Like
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 02:33 PM
Oct 24

Virtually all of the others! Time to re-open Trump University and get some scholarly shit going.

moondust

(21,183 posts)
29. He is Mr. Tariffs.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 12:10 AM
Oct 25

He's always sounded to me like he got it in his mini-brain decades ago that tariffs were paid by other countries so they were a way to punish them and make money doing so. And of course he's ALWAYS right so the facts don't matter.

I wonder if the ad will cause some old Reaganites to break away from the MAGA cult.

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