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None of this ever had to happen. A whole bunch of people are going to suffer because of this dumb thing. People in both Canada and the US will suffer and it has no benefit, certainly not to us tax revenue

Donald you are a smart man but this is a dumb thing to do sounds like sugarcoating to me lol

Yes DUMB DONALD!! If I'm a Canadian, I'm not buying any thing made in AMERICA PERIOD!!!

As an American, we are friends of Canada. I am sorry the tariffs will harm both sides. It is a dumb thing to do. We repect your need to defend your interests. Mr Trudeau well spoken.

Canadians are pretty dumb. There is not one single thing you guys have we don't already have. We were being nice buying your stuff. \n\nHave fun starving.

trump is a very dumb man doing very dumb things.

Trump is dumb, and he's doing dumb things!

There is only one thing the canadian prime minister got wrong. Trump is an ABSOLUTE STUPID MORON and that is the reason he does dumb moves like tariffs. Plus, trump is a criminal that should have been put in prison years ago

trump is a dumb man doing a dumb thing

Telling a dumb person this is a very dumb thing to do sounds more like it.....

Trudeau ❤? 100% ...Dumb is who does dumb things = Trump

Correction...A DUMB man did a DUMB thing!!

Trump do today a lot of dumb things.

This made me laugh. ''This is some of the strongest language we have heard yet from the Prime Minister'' and ''He was using that harsh language'' ''All things that we have heard him say and maybe more nicer or friendlier terms before, but now your hearing a very direct harsh language from the Prime Minister'' Referring to Justin calling him by his first name and telling him he is a very smart guy but it's a very dumb thing to do. Really? mmmm Double standard ?

Germany here: Donald,,, how would your Citizen like 100% tariffs on German - European Cars ? Porsche Mercedes Audi BMW Ferrari Lamborghini RR Bentley and so on and so on .... I guess they will love it :D we could give this tariff money to UA and they will recover. DJ Trump thinks he is Batman, but he is just a dumb version of the Joker. America will go back to wild wild west and citizen which im very sorry for will not like this i guess. \nJT is right, this actually is a very dumb thing to do :D hahaha

Also Justin Trudeau didn’t think Donald Trump was smart he said he agreed with the whichever newspaper it was Washington Post I think that even though Donald Trump is a smart guy this was a dumb thing. I don’t think he really agreed with the part about Donald Trump being a smart guy. But he definitely agrees with this being a dumb thing. He just had to say thatto stroke Cheetos ego

Only thing I disagree with president Trudeau is\nDonald is not smart \nEverything he says and does is dumb

Mr. Trump you don’t run a country like your business. Like Canada PM said it’s a dumb thing to do.

Great press conference ! The one dumb thing Trudeau said is : « Donald you are a very smart guy » ?

Yes I think that is a dumb thing done by one person abondoning and hurting allies and friend.

Yes I think that is a dumb thing done by one person abondoning and hurting allies and friend.

One needs some of the other leaders to do same speech about the other dumb things Trump and company are doing.

Lets see Trump talk like this to his people....It's hard to deal with someone who is constantly changing the goal-posts on the fentanyl crisis (whatever that is...)to other petty things. Trump is a very dumb person, who really is not in control of his administration. Musk is the real guy running the show going by what he's been doing. As a Canadian, Americans have always been looked at as my friends who I would have no problem standing beside if things went real bad. your Mussolini dictator is not doing anything good for your country, he is trashing it before your eyes.\nSo long comrades, enjoy the free vodka provided by Russia.

No, Donald is NOT a smart man. He has a long history of doing dumb things.

I voted for Trump, but it's hard not to agree with Trudeau on this even though I find this guy to be extremely unpleasant. There's no reason to start trade wars all over the world and in particular with our neighbors. It's one thing to threaten tariffs and a very different thing to actually apply them. If you do it has to be accompanied by a lot of diplomacy so that the other country is not overreacting, but Trump has been super combative prompting our neighbors to respond in kind to save face. While past deals may not have been great for US, this is not the way to handle our differences. Billionaires like Trump and his friends will be fine, but the majority of ordinary folks in the US and Canada will suffer. Very dumb, indeed.

You are very smart This is a very dumb thing to do. That is SUGARCOATED

It’s a dumb thing to do because it’s he’s a stupid dumb ………

Well telling trump he’s doing a dumb thing to do isn’t gona help

The orange turd isn’t a smart man and doing dumb things is all he knows.

Calling Trump smart is stroking his ego. Hès a dumb guy doing a dumb thing. Just like getting involved with the Russian mafia and the kremlin as a younger man

It's only a dumb thing to do if you aren't a grifting sociopath.

Trump is not smart at all, he is dumb and dumb people do dumb things. Prime Minister Trudeau is very polite to Trump.

DONALD this is a very Dumb thing to do

Apparently Donald fooled Justin also smart people don't do dumb things

Smart guy, dumb thing. Might've got those switched up but it's gotta be spelled out and this was a smart move.

One things for certain : All of this is Kremlin approved ! A fractured relationship between two Western heavy weights !? Way to go, Donny boy. There is an education crisis in your country ( ?? ) No educated and articulate populous is dumb enough to have this Orange clown as a major party candidate, let alone actually winning. You guys are fundamentally undermining the entire post WWII peace that you yourselves shaped.

Donald you’re a very smart guy but this is a dumb thing to do

Nope, Donald Trump is a dumb man, but this is still one of the dumbest things he's done.

Americans have families and relatives in Canada and vice versa so this is a dumb thing to do by Donald

“This is a Dumb thing to do”. That says it all!

Mr. President Trudeau! Well spoken. It makes NO SENSE that two allied partners have a wedge driven between them based on falicies fed to the USA public from their leadership. As you said, … “this is a dumb thing to do”

Yeah, ?-for-brains Trudeau saying that what Trump is doing is a dumb thing. The irony. Meanwhile, nobody can name ONE thing that Trudeau the narcissistically Indoctrinated alt-left Woke neo-Marxist dictator wannabe has done that wasn't a dumb thing. Trudeau the incompetent, incoherent, unethical, immoral, corrupt douchebag is throwing stones

The WSJ was correct in saying that this is a very dumb thing to do, but Trudeau was wrong when he said Chump is a very smart guy.

What??..very dumb thing to do...that's very trump thing to do...if not see the war Trump is starting against all the countries that have not a communist dictator

This IS A VERY DUMB THING TO DO DONNY!!!!! So who’s surprised ???????

Canada elected a leader who wears Blackface.... then they elected him again.... Then elected him again.... Economy is trashed so he is abandoning the ship to make the new leader his financial advisor (Mark Carney)..... Canadians are so dumb they will elect the old leaders finance advisor and things will get even worse. SMH

When you fraud the immigration system then this would be the consequences. So many Indians come on false intention of studying and then doing more work hours than studying. Pakistanis and Indians wherever they go they think people of other countries are dumb and they can do all the wrong things and no one will do or say anything, which is not true. I am not talking about all the Indians who do this but majority of them.

The most irritating thing is, these dumbs spent lakhs of lakhs rupees to get USA soil illegally. They could easily establish a business in here with that amount of money.

Somalia is the land of pirates. Just saying! They all got to go! God Bless Donald Trump for finally turning things back in American taxpayer's favor placing American family safety as a priority. Democrats are a complete disgrace for what they have done to America! They all thought this would never happen with them taking total control of America, just dumb! MAGA is the beat!

CNN just can't accept they suck, Trump crushed them like the bugs they are, and just accept it, and stop trying to get people on the smallest of sentences or words where they say 1 thing wrong. Kaitlan collins specializes in asking irrelevant questions to anyone she interviews who is republican, to try and catch them out on the smallest detail she can find about absolutely anything. Whilst for 4 years the dumb democrat absolute scum of the earth party has ruined the country. CNN must be the most delusional news station to exist. I hope Trump takes action against CNN heavily in the coming years.