This is a really good explainer.
1. Dear @jkenney, to understand President Trump’s position on Canada, you have to go back to the 2016 election and President Trump’s position on the NAFTA renegotiation.
If you did not follow the subsequent USMCA process, this might be the ah-ha moment you need to understand… https://t.co/qXF4WHl3O3
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) October 24, 2025
Threadrolled here.
@sunlorrie – Only in Ford’s Ontario would Reagan explaining his reasons for imposing tariffs on Japan be transformed into an ad about Reagan defending free trade…
It actually takes gall to be so dishonest @benryanwriter
“Here is the full video of Reagan’s remarks about tariffs”???
Wow.
You literally cut out the last 55 seconds, which was the most important part in which Reagan speaks of the need for a President to have the power to… https://t.co/QRjyqPrkvf pic.twitter.com/mKrcQkqx4h
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) October 24, 2025
Updates.
Update: To that end, I am pleased to see Ontario’s ad campaign is being suspended…
@LaurieScottPC – See my statement below regarding the announced closure of Holsag’s manufacturing facility in Lindsay, Ontario.
Meanwhile…
Score another hit for Fat Trudeau.
The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
If Kamala Harris were proposing that the federal government take ownership stakes in private companies, I can hazard a guess that Republicans would loudly oppose it. What’s going on with a party that has traditionally opposed government ownership of the means of production?
The Trump administration is in talks with the likes of Rigetti Computing (RGTI), IonQ (IONQ) and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) to take equity stakes in them in exchange for federal funding, according to the Wall Street Journal.
I thought our new PM was just the guy we needed to stand up to the Americans. Oh, well…..
American truck maker Paccar Inc. is laying off 300 more factory workers in Quebec ahead of a 25 per cent import tariff to be imposed by the U.S. next month.
The factory in Sainte-Thérèse, a Montreal suburb, manufactures Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks and relies heavily on revenue from the United States.
EXTENDED VERSION: The Chairman and I felt the need for speed with TOPGUN at Naval Air Station Fallon. Incredible Americans! pic.twitter.com/i6O1tjnRyW
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 22, 2025
Here’s a very insightful video. More & more people are starting to notice.
How the shutdown enabled the Trump administration’s mass firing spree;
The White House is using the government shutdown as an opportunity to fire thousands of people — furthering the aims of Elon Musk’s DOGE effort earlier this year.
Why it matters: This time the stated focus isn’t efficiency or eliminating fraud. It’s all about shrinking the federal government — and doing away with programs that run counter to the administration’s ideologies.
The big picture: This is the first time an administration has used a shutdown to terminate federal workers.
The firings appear to be in line with the overall goal of bringing the federal government under the president’s control and shrinking its size, as OMB Director Russell Vought laid out in Project 2025.
…for all the Whitetail on Southern BLVD, located directly across the street from Palm Beach International Airport, in the median of a major highway… directly facing the Air Force One stairs (200yds).
I can’t share the details on how @michaelgwaltz & @SecRubio have, in just a few days, organized the greatest opposition to UN policy since the Cold War and blocked this UN Carbon Tax.
I can say it was a knife fight to the end.
“I’ve been in this industry for 30 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” one shipping executive told me today. “You just don’t say NO to these guys. It’s unheard of.”
It’s unclear who “these guys” are, but I suspect the European families with shipping investments and net wealth that far exceeds Elon’s.
Absolutely none of the maritime experts I interviewed early this week thought the US could pull this off. Zero. Massive amounts of money, NGO influence, diplomatic threat and media manipulation were behind this… and the American media (except @gCaptain and Fox News) was dead silent.
And yet Trump did it.
“That Trump Truth Social post sent shockwaves through the building,” one UN delegate in London told me. “NOBODY expected it. The Secretary General @IMOSecGen looked like a deer in the headlights this morning.”
Incredible. Simply incredible work by team Trump and a massive blow to the European deep state who planned to use this tax as a slush fund to plug holes in US Aid funding for globalist NGOs.
Promises made. Promises kept!
Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign to Derail Global Shipping Emissions Tax
KASH PATEL: “For the first time, Antifa-aligned anarchist extremists have been hit with federal terrorism charges after a July 4th attack on an ICE facility in Texas.”
Trump Rule Sidelines 6,000 Truckers Over English Tests
The Trump administration’s enforcement of a strict English-proficiency requirement for commercial truck drivers forced about 6,000 drivers off the road this year amid rising tensions with state governments over compliance, The Washington Post reported.
Under a May 2025 policy issued by Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy, roadside inspections must now begin in English, and drivers suspected of lacking language proficiency may face a two-step evaluation. Failure results not just in a citation but immediate out-of-service designation.
BREAKING: The U.S. posted a massive $198 BILLION surplus in September — the largest September surplus on record, according to Scott Bessent.
“September’s monthly surplus of $198 billion was the largest surplus of any September on record and 147% higher than last year.”
— Jack (@jackunheard) October 17, 2025
Dear Jon:
Hi, my name is Cynical Publius. While you may know me from X, I am also a sometimes-published commentator on matters of importance. In fact, you may recall my work in The Federalist during the 2024 election revealing Tim Walz' military cowardice. I'm pretty proud of… https://t.co/QkEwU693uf
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 16, 2025
Stellantis just told laid off Brampton workers, they’re going to stay laid off.
This is why: They’re not expanding, they’re moving production to the US.
Canada auto manufacturing is done.
This is what “the best deal in the world” looks like to Carney.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 14, 2025
While historic changes are occurring in the Middle East, the petty grudges of ignorant Canadians are still ongoing and some are noticing:
Canadian officials went so far as to ban American spirits from their store shelves, a prohibition that still exists in many provinces today.
“This was all about some ugliness that we’re not part of,” Moore said. “We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims.”
Canadian visitors by land to the United States have plunged 31% so far this year through the end of September, according to the most recent data from Statistics Canada. Air travel by Canadians is down by 13%.
“The tough thing for us is, it’s nothing we’ve done. We’ve worked hard to grow our business and lure folks who want to come across the border,” Dame said. “Canadians just aren’t happy. It’s not economic policy. It’s these hurtful things said about their country.”
Trump won this war in June, when he made an unapologetic decision to intervene with military strikes in Iran. Those strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities completely shook up the order in the region, which had settled into an Iranian track toward dominance. Israel had already done most of the damage by wiping out Hezbollah’s upper echelons and their banking system, which led directly to the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the rise of a new Syrian regime that detests the mullahs in Iran. However, the strikes by Trump on Iran forced everyone to reconsider their assumptions and recalculate for a president who had no problem ordering military force to defend and protect American interests.
However, the strike by Israel on Hamas facilities in Doha played a role here too. Trump claimed to be angry over that attack, and the White House made it known that he supposedly forced Benjamin Netanyahu to apologize to the Qatari emirate. However, that also sent a signal that both US and Israeli impatience over the Hamas Hokey Pokey and the uselessness of the Billionaire Boys Club in Doha had reached a critical moment. With both the US and Israel willing to throw down against terror networks and their sponsors, time ran out for Hamas.
