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the US president is a deranged man who lacks sensibility and wisdom on such a level that he is competing with Putin on madness.

Putin will be one happy bunny

Clearly and eloquently put by Mr Trudeau - a man morally superior to Trump and also, of course, of Vance. By the way Trump, are you going to put any tariffs on Russian goods whilst they continue to attack Ukraine, or are you going to continue treating your pal Putin with kid gloves? Canada, we stand with you ?? ??

It all makes sense when you realise Trump doesn't see Canada or Europe as friends any more. He's completely lined up with Putin, someone I believe he desires to emulate. He is perhaps considering Canada as his Ukraine.

Everything Trudeau said is true. The problem is trump is acting to destroy America as a functioning nation, likely out of love for OR fear of Vladimir Putin. Nothing else makes sense.

Why does he talk to trump as if he were an ally of Canada? It should have become clear by now that trump is an agent of Russia. Putin’s puppet. Trump is carrying out Russian instructions.

Putin: lying, murderous dictator\nTrump: lying, rapist, felon, wannabe dictator\n\nI can see why they're friends\n\nNot a fan of Trudeau but he got this speech right ??

Trump dreamed of being a dictator & Putin is his favorite idol

The thing is:the clown of trump wants to follow putins crazy idea to take other countries.But trump is making it with no invasion so far.

Trump's only friend is Putin. And he only likes him so he won't show the pee-pee tapes.

im from england and so proud our leader and other world leaders are saying no to putin and trump i cannot believe what i have witnessed the last few days never mind the inhumane atrocities in Ukraine the past years, make me so scared for my children and grandchildrens futures but we should not give in to bullies!! SUPPORT UKRAINE!!!

Trump is Putins puppet - Trump is KGB sleeper agent

You were wrong at one point only, Trump is not smart, he is as dumb as his actions. In a few weeks he messed up the free western world holding hands with Putin?! Used to love the US and went there every year for holidays.. now we will go to Canada.. as a Swede I think I would like both the land and the people. Your president seems to be great?

look at him talking about putin while on theother hand he is supporting the genocide of israel and putting journalist reporting on palestine in jail . hypocrisy and stupidity in canada is baffling

Trump chose to attack just like Putin chose to attack Ukraine

We're sick of the orange menace. He's a danger not only to us but America and the free world. Americans should be livid at his behaviour, not only with tariffs, but more so to his cozying up to Putin. Trump has disrespected all the men and women that made the ultimate sacrifice to defend freedom and democracy. This draft dodger that calls them suckers and losers. I've got news for you folks, he thinks you're all suckers and losers. It's up to you to stand and fight.

at least President Putin had an election-has zelensky?

Trudeau well done, dont show fear like Trump have from Putin???

Canadian military full alert!!! Putin to the south , Russians loose!!

We have a Russian American president and I’m ashamed to be called an American along side these criminal forgivers who elected this Putin controlled No good piece of ? President

Right at the beginning he gets the American Democrats talking points, Putin puppet, Russian friend etc.

Trump is a criminal and Putins puppet

Trump aka „Krasnov” is alone with his only comrade Putin, world, time to wake up and stand up from knees!

Trump treats friends as enemies and enemies as friends. Its stunning how quickly he is burning down America. USA will be a pariah state within 6 months and then Trump can hang out with Putin and lil Kim. Its stunning

As A Canadian I will call on my government to cancel buying the 88 F-35’s. We can’t trust America anymore. Our forefathers sold out our great aerospace industry like AVRO because we had A partnership with Americans. No more. I call on Bombardier to take the initiative and start developing our own military aircraft. I will NEVER step foot in America as long as Putin is running your country.

What's wrong Russia did wrong to Canada then why scold putin, you and others aligning with Benjamin is that justification ,US puts tariff on you too do ,why this step you are terming as wrong, simple business rule

1939 Stalin & Hitler tried to destroy Europe , 2025 Putin & Trump are willing to do the same...USA is no longer a Reliable Ally for Democratic countries...(so sad !)

Am I dreaming or do we leave on a parallel world\nIt was not long ago I watched the handmaids tale I’m sure I saw jd Vance in there\nWhere is the USA going I am fed up with narcissists ruling our world they popping up everywhere and trump is the worst\nNow I did think that trump may have been the answer to peace not with Elon musk and jd Vance at the helm the real power trump on Friday looked week an old man losing his temper while the son Vance winding him up\nHe should have shut Vance down abit like the godfather with his son\nThe back lash shows that weather we like it or not live in a global world not a war one but an economical one\nSo where do we go well putin is the enemy to his own people I bet if you went round the world and asked young people families do they want to fight no of course not they wake up on morning go to work believe there god have good times where they can they just want fair governments to protect there interests Donald you have got this wrong big time

He has decided to side with Putin and are government has tried telling the people in America since his first term in office what would happen. Well here we are. Now the world is going to pay.

So the accusations of him being a Putin simp from the start was not a lie after all....\nwell well well America u played yourself once again or was it the Russians ?

the allies must stop sharing top secrets with the us , surely president traitor is handing it over to putin .

Putin get what he want now he be popping the champagne ? ??? ?? ??

i do not support what trump and elon are doing, what can i do, i would like trump impeached, i want peace and to raise my children, i want to be able to feed and house them. what is going on America we must stand up for Freedom and our rights!! we must unite and fight against this communist oligarchs. I do not support putin or trump's views.

His comments are well taken to heart.But for this administration to side with Putin / Russia is plain wrong.

I am a military veteran from midwestern United States and a former intelligence analyst from the end of the cold war... we are friends with Russia now? F*ck you Trump and f*ck you Putin! God bless Canada, Mexico, Europe, and especially Ukraine! I hope to see my true friends resume good relations with us when this f'n cartoon of a president is out of office.

I said it from beginning Trump is the puppet..he will discarded at the end its elon and putin..elon shmewesd trump .

As an American I am disgusted and ashamed. This is not the end of the madness coming out of Trump's small, unpatriotic, destructive mind. Prime Minister Trudeau and President Zelensky did not roll over and let Trump bully them. Trump should look at these men as leaders, and stop playing with Putin's peter. Trump and Vance should resign immediately.

Everything makes perfect sense if you accept that TRUMP is a Russian asset, paid by Putin

Putin, Trump, Vance, Tutsi .. welcome to idiocracy ..

Dismantling U.S. democracy day by day, losing democratic allies, letting a billionaire to performer unlawful things, bowing to the bloodthirsty dictator Putin—aren’t there enough red flags? Why aren’t Americans protesting in mind-boggling numbers? The streets should be full of protesters by now.

It isn't about Putin! TRUMP IS TRYING TO BE PUTIN. He's trying to crash Canada's economy so oligarchs can swoop in. JFC I cannot believe no one gets this! You people aren't in the same park much less observing the playing field!

Fellow Canadians, and Americans too, you have to open your eyes and realize that Putin put Trump in power in America. This was all predicted, just watch all the ex-KGB agents discussing that this was a 20 year plan by Russia to divide & conquer the west economically and politically, in parallel to military invasion.

Between criminals they understand each other perfectly that's why trump loves Putin. They're both criminals

The border is just a smoke screen. Trump wants to cripple your economy so that he can move in and make you the 51st State of America. He is a dictator who, like his hero Putin, wants to build empires.\nI'm in Europe. I've already stopped buying anything American and if you export to us in Europe, I will buy Canadian.

The Executive Branch of the United States is occupied by the biggest f*ing elites on the entire planet, Putin's pet kleptocrat Trump, his foreign oligarch boyfriend Elon and a clown show of a cabinet. The most incompetent US administration of all time. Thanks Mitch McConnell and Merrick Garland. Lindsay Graham. Josh Hawley. Chuck Grassley. Canadian born Ted Cruz, who doesn't even defend his wife, much less the country. Leadership like that does not belong in NATO, it's what NATO was meant to protect us, Canada and the United States, from.

The scourge also that is russian propaganda and the ideals of the dictator Putin , trumps love interest

To all who voted Trump you will get why you deserve unfortunately for the rest of us who have integrity and want peace something trump has no desire for he’s becoming Putin’s bitch!

you know we americans are pathetic. throw some unwarranted tariffs against canada and it bonds all Canadians together ready to fight. take a foreign born, unelected billionaire who takes a chainsaw to our government after a reactionary think tank wrote a document saying they were going to destroy our government an create an autocracy--- a think tank composed of people who are now in the trump administration----and now we are aligning with Putin and we americans do nothing. this is sad. we are losing our country

Trump is the biggest liar about everything! He has the communist propaganda! Lie and rule on everything! He was recruited by KGB in 1987 with his Czech ex wife Ivana, so no one can’t trust trump, orban and Slovakian president, now I see Meloni the Italian leader, it sounds the same, so all of them are Putins agents

AMERICA HAS THE WORST GOVERMENT TRUUMP GOVERMENT IN WORLD HISTORY NEXT TO PUTIN, KIM, PING, OBAN,YAHU, TRUUMP GOVERMENT FRIENDS. TREASON.