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U.S. President Donald Trump slammed Canada for playing “dirty” connected Friday (October 24, 2025) arsenic a enactment implicit an advertisement featuring erstwhile person Ronald Reagan that prompted Trump to scrap commercialized talks showed nary motion of abating.
The Canadian state of Ontario said it would propulsion the offending anti-tariff advertisement connected Monday truthful that negotiations could restart, aft Mr. Trump alleged that the advertisement misrepresented the views of chap Republican Reagan.
But Mr. Trump showed nary motion of backing down, saying Ontario should not person fto it aerial during the archetypal 2 games this play of baseball’s World Series.
Adding other spice to the row, the World Series features a Canadian team, the Toronto Blue Jays, facing a US team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Blue Jays thrashed the Dodgers 11-4 successful the archetypal crippled connected Friday (October 24, 2025).
“Canada got caught cheating connected a commercial, tin you judge it?” Trump told reporters earlier heading connected a travel to Asia.
“And I heard they were pulling the advertisement — I didn’t cognize they were putting it connected a small spot more. They could person pulled it tonight,” Mr. Trump added.
After a newsman said the advertisement would beryllium pulled connected Monday, Mr. Trump replied: “That’s soiled play. But I tin play dirtier than they can.”
Mr. Trump announced connected his Truth Social web connected Thursday (October 23, 2025) that helium had “terminated” each negotiations with Canada implicit what helium called the “fake” advertisement campaign.
Less than 24 hours later, Ontario premier Doug Ford said helium was suspending the ads aft talking to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney astir the spiraling enactment with Washington.
“In speaking with Prime Minister Carney, Ontario volition intermission its U.S. advertizing run effectual Monday truthful that commercialized talks tin resume,” Ford said successful a station connected X.
‘Crooked ad’
The Canadian advertisement utilized quotes from a vigor code connected commercialized that Reagan delivered successful 1987, successful which helium warned against ramifications that helium said precocious tariffs connected overseas imports could person connected the US economy.
It cited Reagan arsenic saying that “high tariffs inevitably pb to retaliation by overseas countries and the triggering of fierce commercialized wars,” a punctuation that matches a transcript of his code connected the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s website.
The Ronald Reagan instauration wrote connected X connected Thursday (October 23, 2025) that the Ontario authorities had utilized “selective audio and video” and that it was reviewing its ineligible options.
Mr. Trump said connected Friday (October 24, 2025) nighttime that it was a “crooked ad”, adding that “they cognize Ronald Reagan loved tariffs.”
Mr. Trump and Mr. Carney are some acceptable to beryllium astatine a meal connected the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) successful South Korea connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025) .
But Mr. Trump said helium had nary plans to conscionable Mr. Carney.
The latest twist successful relations betwixt the United States and Canada came conscionable implicit 2 weeks aft Carney visited Trump astatine the White House to question a relaxation of stiff US tariffs.
On Friday (October 24, 2025), Mr. Carney had sought to calm the situation, saying that his state was acceptable to resume “progress” connected commercialized talks “when the Americans are ready.”
Canada has “to absorption connected what we tin control, and recognize what we cannot control,” helium added arsenic helium headed to Asia.
Mr. Trump’s planetary sectoral tariffs — peculiarly connected steel, aluminum, and autos — person hit Canada hard, forcing occupation losses and squeezing businesses.
For now, the United States and Canada adhere to an existing North American commercialized woody called the USMCA, which ensures that astir 85 percent of cross-border commercialized successful some directions remains tariff-free.
But successful a code connected Wednesday, Mr. Carney said that the United States has raised “its tariffs to levels past seen during the Great Depression.”
“Our economical strategy needs to alteration dramatically,” Mr. Carney added, saying the process “will instrumentality immoderate sacrifices and immoderate time.”
