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What a contrast between a real leader (Trudeau) and a crass demagogue (The First Felon). It took this moron 5 weeks to destroy 160 years of good relations. Its a disaster for both countries. Trump is a spoiled bully who has never had to suffer the consequences of his actions. We will suffer for him.

He's going to turn America into a third world country Trump Elon. They are imbeciles and this is disgusting. This is horrible. They're opening us up for war. They're opening us up for a disaster. People are going to be starving. We're going to be standing in line for potatoes and toilet paper like it's Russia

Trump is no Republican! What a disaster for us Americans!

I wish they would stop saying US and use Trump instead , he is the sole culprit this disaster and all other chaos affecting America and the World.

And Trump is only in office for a month and a half only!!! 4 more years of Chaos and Disaster!!!

Trump confuses power with ability to create. He grossly overestimates himself as a dealmaker and is weakening America like few before him. He can't handle the economy, he can't handle diplomacy, he can't handle security, he can't handle the common good at all. He is a moral and ethical disaster. The world is recognizing it. Why do Americans still believe him when you can watch him fail live?

If you like or dislike Pres. Trump...just do a little research and see if what he is doing overall is common sense and towards more sanity or the reverse. My opinion: anybody with any common sense will see the light that MAGA is the way forward and that the previous Biden administration overall was the way to disaster.

Disgusting actions by Trump and his sycophant supporters. The world hates the U.S. Trumps 18 days in office has been a disaster. He is unfit for office and must be impeached.

We Europeans do not need the USA, in fact without the USA we Europeans are better off. Europeans, stop buying from the USA, stop importing US products, Europe needs China and not the USA, stop giving money to NATO, let's start dismantling the US bases in Europe that are useless and only cause environmental disaster and cancer deaths. No more oil from the USA, does Europe need oil? The answer is Saudi Arabia even if it would be better to eliminate oil for hydrogen. The highest concentration of hydrogen in the subsoil is in Europe. European technology is unmatched, which is why NASA is asking Europe for help in designing, most doctors and researchers in the USA are European. So Trump is the usual clown, if Europe were to close contacts with the USA in favor of Eastern Europe, like China and Russia for gas, the USA alone would be finished, an economic crisis that would destroy the USA. Europeans, stop buying from the USA, let's leave them alone, let's buy from China

Users in the US create the drug trade. Blame the use of drugs. Also US invited illegals in by telling South America we made your Countries too hot to live by global warming from our cars. We allowed them in under Biden with open borders. Trump is wrong on this tariff disaster.

Have you noticed during Biden administration there were minimal catastrophe but as soon as trump becomes president the lefties are doing everything to sabotage his administration with first it was covid lockdowns, now fires in California just happened after the eguraration and now planes collision. I wonder what other curve balls and disasters Biden elites will do next to Trump to complicate his administration terrorism? Mass shootings?The lefties love revenge,chaos and death

This chap, Trump, is a disaster. Never learns.

Trump just revitalized Trudeau… looks like PP, his guy in Canada just went into a nosedive in the polls… and the conservatives are seen now as the Canadian MAGA that just caused such a disaster in their nest… it’s been eye opening for the world….

Colombia does not have to accept these migrants legal or otherwise..trump thinks he can do something and everyone will comply...well the President of Colombia put a stop to that and all the tariffs that Trump puts on Colombia will hurt the american public more than anyone else..four yrs from now America will be in an economic disaster..

Wow!!! What a disaster Biden was. President Trump is trying to clean up the massive mess that Biden left. What a disgrace he was. God bless President Trump!

The Dictator of Columbia literally emptied out insane asylums and prisons to send them North to America. Obviously, we don't want them, why is this so hard to understand?????? My God, Biden has left-behind an absolute disaster for Trump in his team to now clean up

Finally after four years of the Biden disaster we can finally return to normalcy in our immigration policies thanks to President Trump

Thank God for Trump! This is a Disaster!

Let's not fuss about tariffs yet. Trump keeps postponing them, and by the time he gets around to them he'll have massive legal and political disasters on his hands. The lawsuits are piling up.

This is why we need Trump to clean this up!! It's a disaster. And where are they all gonna go? How they going to make money and who pays for their care?? We do! Insane. Just so upsetting

I can't help but feel there is a entirely biased narrative going on here the problem with the pandemic is that it left people who had some mental issues. I bet too much time on the internet and unfortunately fell down the rabbit hole of a lot of Russian push propaganda and that's what I'm feeling here. You're talking about taxes and not benefiting yet. I'm sure you've gone to the hospital several times and are not $300,000 in debt from a month stay the part of having benefits like that. + A decent social net is paying taxes you can look at the Philippines as a place that's as corrupt and remove social services and can see what happens there when there is a disaster. The only aid that comes in is through international charities or expats donating you'll be moving to Bulgaria and you'll notice that European taxes are pretty much on par with Canadians You're far too young to be buying into Trump russian-backed propagandab and I'm hoping with whatever's happened you personally and proves so your judgment can as well too. I wish you well Cheers

CNN You don't see the Disaster at the U.S. Mexican border? Wake up Already ! Trump the Peoples President We don't want it Trump & Team will Fix the it

Enjoy that economy right now once Trump takes over. It’s gonna be a major disaster. We will never see low prices ever again. today a head of lettuce is $1.29 when Trump takes over. It will be $4.99 to $ 5.49. There’s talked about avocados might cost us about five dollars apiece. get ready people to fork out more money.

Tarriff exclusions are a carrot and stick, which will bring businesses and entire industries to heel. Corruption is going to flood the zone, as Trump threatens disaster after disaster, and makes everyone bend kneees and open wallets to get out of it. Bezos' WaPo policy is a canary in the coal mine. DOGE will also be used in this fashion - in addition to being the world's biggest crypto scam: nothing will shoot crypto prices up like cutting tens of thousands of civil service jobs and replacing them with blockchain + AI, forcing mass adoption. If that sounds like conspiracy theory, this is Musk we are talking about - blockchain and AI are two of his favorite techs. The non-agency is named after a crypto that was nearly worthless - until Elon hyped it in 2020, manipulated the market, and is now worth 54 billion while having no inherent value. Much of that came as Trump endorsed crypto and Musk endorsed Trump. If you don't want your Federal funding cut, talk to one of Elon or Vivek's shell companies. If you want a tarriff exclusion. If you don't want your workers' families deported . . . the list goes on and on.

Proud dual citizen Canadian here. Love the country, people and culture. However, the Liberal politics of the last 9 years have been a disaster, from high inflation, uncontrolled immigration, lack of pro business investments, homelessness, housing… this is to list just a few issues. The same thing has been happening in the US and Western Europe. Thank you God for helping elect Donald Trump. Many on this forum may not like the guy, but he was before, and will be good for the country, economy, overall people of the US and indirectly Canada. The Trudeau gang must go, a monkey could do a better job governing this beautiful Canada than that moron Trudeau. Do you all remember him saying…. “ the budget will balance itself”…. WTF… Really Justin???

Going to be a disaster. So who will do the tough jobs?? This economy will implode. I’ve been saying for years penalize the companies hiring them. Do that first and back they go simple. Been saying it for 20 years. Trump hired illegals all the time. Funny how that changed. This guy is a joke. Mandate my ass

Undocumented workers paid 96 billion dollars into Social Security and Medicare through the INT. They are not eligible to collect from those programs but there work help sustains them. They do work Americans do not want to do. Hotels hire them, farmers hire them, meat packing plants hire them, construction companies hire them. Removing them will be a disaster. Banks says the American people have spoken for it, I didn't. Only 51 percent of uneducated voters for Trump wanted it. We Democrats understand they are needed here. Republicans in the red state on Welfare won't go to work and do the jobs immigrants do. What will happen is Trump will cut the taxes for the rich, raise our taxes and do away with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other needed social programs like CHIP, Meals on Wheels, School lunch programs etc... America will suffer and end up losing our allies and pulled out of the NATO agreement, which Russia wants us to do. Trump is friends with our enemies. He is a traitor to America and proved it when he stole top secret documents and refused to return them and showed them to people who had no clearance to do so. Dumb Americans voted him in after every warning from generals and all his staff to his own VP said he is not fit to sit in the oval office. Now all of America and our Allies will pay the price.

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I'm not glad Trump won, it was expected. Biden has been a disaster. I have no regrets for supporting Jill Stein. We have huge issues that Biden and Democrats just refused to address. Thank you democrats for the lgbtq rights. Now I can move away from you and vote the way I want without fear of losing my rights. Bye! ?

America... It is disgusting that so many Americans would throw away their 200 year old Constitution for Republican's project 2025 communist manifesto-! America is now a new Russia with the Trump crime family in charge. Clearly the election fraud is on the part of the Republican cheats-! Those Americans who voted Trump a Convict sex-offender in Office deserve every hardship that Trump's disaster economic plan brings down on them. What side will Trump defend if the EU and NATO engage Russia in a full scale war or nuclear war-? Would it be Russia-? Or will it be NATO and EU-?

I think this woman only likes the border policy because she does not like her relatives. Trump does not like the criminals, sex traffickers, drug cartels & terrorists who were allowed to come into the border. Every past presidents had many deported --- KAMALA was the disaster with the border with the last administration. Americans were harmed. Get Kamala out of the white house.

This lady is just an absolute ignorant. She doesn’t understand why people are coming back here. And I say coming back because Mexican people originally were from here.! Many centuries back migrations were normal and natural as should be. Different groups of native peoples will travel ? north to south or south to north. There was no border.!! Until Europeans came . we the indigenous people had nothing to do with their laws or rules. That shit was between the Spanish conquistadors and the English. That’s how happened. In our DNA ? there’s no borders.! We natives only obey the laws and rules from Mother Nature.! This border fiasco is just an excuse to promote segregation and racism against the original inhabitants of this lands.! Trump is not the indicated person for this border issue. For sure.!!! He is not going to win this Election anyway. And if he does it’s going to be a disaster again just like his 4 years in office.??. Then this lady be eating cats ? and dogs ? under trump presidency.!!

This lady is just an absolute ignorant. She doesn’t understand why people are coming back here. And I say coming back because Mexican people originally were from here.! Many centuries back migrations were normal and natural as should be. Different groups of native peoples will travel ? north to south or south to north. There was no border.!! Until Europeans came . we the indigenous people had nothing to do with their laws or rules. That shit was between the Spanish conquistadors and the English. That’s how happened. In our DNA ? there’s no borders.! We natives only obey the laws and rules from Mother Nature.! This border fiasco is just an excuse to promote segregation and racism against the original inhabitants of this lands.! Trump is not the indicated person for this border issue. For sure.!!! He is not going to win this Election anyway. And if he does it’s going to be a disaster again just like his 4 years in office.??. Then this lady be eating cats ? and dogs ? under trump presidency.!!

They all are going there to save America from a big disaster in November by voting out Donald Trump and making Kamala Harris is there new President... As they have previously done in UK therefore now UK is less favoured destination for them???

Now kamalas campaign ad blames trump for this boarder disaster

The biggest impact on the declining economic productivity coincides with the Trump administrations trade war against Canada. They ripped up the previous trade agreement, and tabled a new one that attempted to devour Canadian industry. No one ever talks about this, and it's unfortunate. That coupled with the pandemic, resulted in a one-two punch to the Canadian economy. On top of that the amount of investment into automation in the energy sector over the past 10 years has reduced the demand for labour. And now with the ever expanding encroachment of AI on nearly every industry, the Canadian economy is facing an uphill battle. Many think that a prime minister is the main reason, when it's not. Canada is at the whim of US economic policy, which I fear is going to get even worse when Trump returns to office. A transition to Conservatives at the Federal level may lighten the load on a few things like Carbon Tax, and Income Tax (maybe), but they won't be the party to introduce limitations and regulations on investors that are responsible for driving up housing prices, by treating the housing market like it's a stock exchange. \nI will applaud Trudeau on winning over the EV battery plant, for pulling us out of bombing Syria and Iraq, for legalizing Marijuana, and for including Dental Care in health coverage (albeit limited...), but some of his decisions should have been better thought through, like the capital gains tax, and should only be targeting investors that have more than 3 properties. While he increased the budget for the Military, he's spent his first two terms ignoring it and that's severely hampered our readiness, and equipment. And while I do think we needed to boost immigration to stave off economic disaster, the current level that its at is problematic, and many bad faith actors are taking advantage of it and enriching themselves like the diploma mills.

There are so many scary things about the US right now. Drugs, crime, mass murders, accessibility to healthcare, terrorism, racial hate crimes, etc. The list is quite long. Not everyone is affected by all of these things (knock on wood). One thing that is disgusting is politics. It is not dangerous per se as the aforementioned so it is probably not fair to say it as a justification against moving to the US. However, it is very commonplace in the US, and it is very annoying. Politics is extremely toxic, aggressive, and divisive right now. One wrong comment out of your mouth in public, and people will be ready to fight you. Or on the flip side, you hear one wrong comment in public, it is best to bite your tongue. \n\nPolitics in the US was not always intolerable. It has always been a strong subject of discussion since forever. However, it became disgusting and overly obnoxious ever since Trump came into the scene. I think his elitist personality gave his supporters a green light to be more vocal about their own divisiveness. Combine that with social media, and you have a recipe for disaster... so much hate, divisiveness, and willingness to not bite one's tongue right now in the States. American politics is really overbearing. And monkey see and monkey do... it will leak into Canada. I guarantee it.

Aren’t we fortunate in the US to have **none** of these problems!\n\nWe have no homeless here!\n\nTake a look at SF, LA (where all “solutions” are rooted in Bolshevism; “Hi, we’re from the government and will be taking over half of your front yard for homeless yurts (Ok, tents)--true story. Take a gander at any large, medium, and even a few small cities.\n\nHave you ever heard of Detroit (once proud home of my beloved Motown music), Baltimore (complete devastation), or Chicago (my home town—don’t make me cry)?\n\nThe entire homeless situation started when mental hospitals were snake pits and certain factions demanded that people be released.\n\nSure, it sounds humanitarian but they didn't bother to consider what would happen to mentally ill patients suddenly left to their own devices on the streets.\n\nThe do gooders actually were foolish enough to believe that the seriously ill patients (schizophrenic, bipolar, borderline, and plenty of others) would take their meds on their own. It doesn't work that way for patients who are not in contact with reality.\n\nNow we add extreme drugs (crack, meth, heroine, ketamine, whatever they hand out at parties, etc) and severe cases of PTSD/PTSS. It's obscene that we have veterans on the streets.\n\nHeath care--?. Pre Obamacare it wasn’t terrible but medicine had become a CYA project. We are so litigious (side eye to John Edwards ) that doctors practice defensive medicine and carry high limit malpractice insurance (guess who pays for that?). Every decision is driven by avoiding lawsuits, not proper patient care.\n\nPost Obamacare, US health care is an unmitigated disaster at every level. We’re short on doctors, too. Many quit and students are losing interest—medicine won’t pay enough anymore to justify $500K in loans.\n\nWe could repeal every bit of Obamacare tomorrow and still not be able to fix it. The leviathan grew tentacles that released toxins into every nook and cranny of the system. Now that they have buried themselves in critical layers, it would be impossible to yank them out.\n\nI have a good PCP who is booked 6-8 weeks out. Specialists? Hah. GI, neuro, and derm? Four to six month wait post referral.\n\nI never thought I would say such a thing but I would probably swap the Serial Sexual Predator occupying the WH for your Little Lord Fauntleroy.\n\nCan Canada compete with us in corruption? Government employees seriously tried to topple a sitting president and not only were there no consequences, they were able to retire on fat pensions that we citizens work hard to provide for them.\n\nOur government is run entirely by K Street lobbyists; our “representatives” don’t even draft legislation, that’s done for them by K ST.\n\nHow about crime? Do we even need to talk about it?\n\nHousing crisis? Prices were already too high when the regime (predictably) created runaway inflation and we saw the end of affordable interest rates. Even 0.25% increase will knock out many buyers; they won’t be able to qualify.\n\nWe are seeing huge jumps; young people have resigned themselves to never being homeowners.\n\nRacism? Again, look to the US. It’s nothing even close to what the make believe media caterwauls about. If white supremacists are behind every tree, where is the evidence? Surely, in 2023 has caught a cell phone video, right? Where are the videos? Show me the proof. There is plenty of footage of BLM destroying property and injuring, even murdering innocents. If we gripe about this behavior, we are raaayyyycccciiiiissssts.\n\nNo rational adult would claim that the US is not a violent country and becoming more so. Nor can we claim to have eliminated racism. That takes time; it cannot be done by force.\n\nOur economy went from smokin hot to dumpster fire in a short span of time. Pre election, head hunters were shaking the trees to find job candidates.\n\nOur unemployment is up as are our taxes with the stomping out of the tax cuts. \n\nDespite the endless sloganeering about how the Trump tax cuts only benefited “rich” people, it’s quite the opposite.\n\nHigh earners lost their pet deductions and lower income taxpayers were quite pleasantly surprised when they did their returns. The cuts were targeted to preserve wealth for the middle and lower classes.\n\nI could go on for another 100 pages but you get the idea and I get crabby writing for free.\n\nI will leave you with the caution that it’s best if you doubt and question any data and any stats coming from our government. Those are seldom legit. If the data comes from a study, always look to see who paid for it. And how large the sample size was; how were the participants selected? We are all on our own when it comes to ferreting out info.\n\nOh Canada!\n\nYou’re welcome.

The biden administration has been a disaster we were better off with Orange man Donald Trump

We need to focus on ourselves before we let anyone else in. Western couples are having less children also. Most immigrants don't pay taxes. We've got a serious problem coming in the next 25-50 years , I believe America will not be able to return itself from its own self made disaster. We MUST vote Trump in 2024

This has to stop Joe Biden Anne Harris in his administration needs to be held accountable for this Joe Budden started this why will they not hold him for all this I can't afford it anymore my taxes have gone up because of Joe Biden spending money giving away money to Ukraine and all these illegal immigrants get free checks and free health insurance I have to pay out $380 a month for my insurance when is the Republican going to hold him for this disaster angry at Joe Biden bring back President Donald Trump

It's a Disaster wao make America great again Trump 2024

Our country is a complete disaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nBring Trump Back please!!!