Trump: EU allowing Canada to become associate member could be 'hostile act'

No, you can't be friends with them, if you try I'll beat them up.

Pitiful.

This is going to be the hardest lesson of Trump's ridiculously sheltered, silver-spoon life. I suspect he'll fail to learn it:

Shut up. Just shut your mouth.

The U.S. has a long history of easily pushing Canada into new and more disadvantageous trade agreements. There's usually not much you can do when the 800 pound gorilla takes your banana. However, this time around, Trump's constant yapping about annexation and economic domination have given the Canadian government something they almost never have: A strongly unified Canadian public that wants them to push back for a deal that's actually fair. Canadians are so fired up that signing even a marginally bad deal would spell certain doom for the Carney government.

If Trump had just kept quiet on the Canada front for the last year and a half, we'd likely have a new trade deal signed that set significant tariff's on Canadian goods in stone. Now, mainly thanks to Trump's big mouth, what is typically a snooze-worthy affair for most Canadians is a dire matter of national sovereignty. The Carney government doesn't even have to ban goods to push back. Canadians are boycotting American goods all on their own!

Now Canada's leaders are doing formerly unthinkable things at unprecedented speed because Trump still hasn't learned to shut up.

Trump needs to just close his mouth. His incoherent lip-flappings are only hurting himself and his nation. Does he really think these threats will have any impact on Canada-EU relations other than to drive them closer together even faster? What a fool.