# US Dopers - how do you feel about Trump's threats to Canada? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 24, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348 "2025-01-24T18:19:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/141 "2025-02-02T04:37:01Z")
Thank you. Again, please feel free to copy, improve, and send. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/142 "2025-02-02T05:08:35Z")
Thanks for this. I have borrowed it and sent it to Sens. Schiff and Padilla, as well as my representative, who unfortunately is Rep. Funny how the only website I have problems with is hers 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/143 "2025-02-02T05:24:55Z")
I crafted my own email and may send hard copies next week. I kept it brief. Explained my dissatisfaction with the reckless government and the harm it is creating here and in the world. Then explained how it impacts me personally. Not much more I can do at this point. I also experienced more of a “wall” to get to the message portion on my Republican representative’s website. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/144 "2025-02-02T05:41:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > My email to my House and Senate representatives: > > > Donald Trump is already performing illegal acts as President. His threats to use military force against our allies violates Congress’s authority over treaties and declarations of war. Donald Trump is systematically dismantling the very fabric of the United States. There is ample evidence that he is allied with Russia and wishes to withdraw from NATO. He is a clear and present danger to our democracy. For these reasons, Donald Trump must be impeached, convicted, and removed from office. > > I encourage everyone to contact their Senate and House representatives. Very well stated, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/145 "2025-02-02T05:51:05Z")
Donald Trump is a monster. That’s how I feel about his threats. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/146 "2025-02-02T07:20:44Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Listening to CBC. They are saying this has something to do with fentanyl Close to 10,000 kg of fentanyl entered the US in one year, I heard, of which 20 kg came from Canada. That’s like less than a quarter of one percent. Donald, you got some ‘splainin’ to do. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/147 "2025-02-02T13:09:20Z")
As usual, he’s just lying. He needs to say that there’s an emergency of some sort to trigger his power to impose tariffs. So he lies about fentanyl to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/148 "2025-02-02T13:36:03Z")
The Prime Minister began his remarks yesterday, not by speaking to Canadians, but by speaking to Americans. Thought you might appreciate a link to his speech and a transcript. > _Tonight, first I want to speak directly to Americans. Our closest friends and neighbors. This is a choice that, yes, will harm Canadians. But beyond that, it will have real consequences for you, the American people._ > **[Read the transcript of Trudeau’s response to U.S. tariffs on Canada - National...](https://globalnews.ca/news/10993376/trudeau-trump-tariffs-us-canada/)** > > U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday, imposing tariffs on Canadian goods and spurring Canadian retaliatory tariffs. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/149 "2025-02-02T14:16:43Z")
If Trump cared about fentanyl distribution hurting Americans, why did he pardon the founder of Silk Road? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/150 "2025-02-02T14:17:08Z")
He lies. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/151 "2025-02-02T15:08:11Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Donald Trump is a monster. Recently out of bed, and with only one cuppa joe in me. I read that as ‘mobster’. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/152 "2025-02-02T15:10:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Recently out of bed, and with only one cuppa joe in me. I read that as ‘mobster’ That too. In fact I believe that is what Trump aspires to, to be a feared mob boss. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/153 "2025-02-02T15:13:36Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@Baker](#): > > > > Donald Trump is a monster. > > Recently out of bed, and with only one cuppa joe in me. I read that as ‘mobster’. I am in a similar sate of caffeination and had a good chuckle at this. Mobster indeed. All monsters are not mobsters. But all mobsters are monsters. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/154 "2025-02-02T16:03:14Z")
DJT recently posted this. Ths is real. > [@](#): > > We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS! He needs to be impeached! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/155 "2025-02-02T16:13:32Z")
Trump is of the opinion that nobody needs friends. Friends are for suckers and losers, unless they’re rich friends. All others are to be bullied, mocked and vilified. Threatening Canada is childish and stupid and will only alienate a country that has always had our back. They won’t forget this, and rightly shouldn’t. A side question: what is with the random capitalizing of words by this idiot? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/156 "2025-02-02T16:28:27Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > He needs to be impeached! That’s what I told my House and Senate representatives (before the tariffs). ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/157 "2025-02-02T16:31:25Z")
> We don’t need anything they have. - DJ I have to wonder who is advising Trump. Certainly not economists, and _certainly_ not anyone who understands the differences between light and heavy crude oil (and the refineries that can process them). He appears to have a grade-schooler’s understanding of this. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/158 "2025-02-02T16:41:39Z")
And even less in relation to trade deficits. We have stuff that AMerican industries want. We offer to sell it to them. American industries pay us fair market value for the stuff. We buy stuff from US industries at fair market value, but overall, we sell more than we buy. It’s all at fair market prices, paid by private industries. That’s not a subsidy. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/159 "2025-02-02T16:46:09Z")
Or, he could just be lying. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348/160 "2025-02-02T19:47:23Z")
@Aspenglow @Johnny_L.A @WOOKINPANUBv.2 @Ellecram and any of the other US dopers who have written their representatives over this issue - thank you for your support! It is really appreciated! Strange day in church this morning - the minister made a point of saying ‘This congregation does not support discrimination in any form against the LGTBQ community.’, then in the sermon, told the story of a friend in Georgia who has just been picked up by ICE - the church is doing what they can to help in the situation. But not a word about Canada, to the point where I said to a fellow choir member that last night had been pretty rough, and he said ‘Oh, that’s too bad. Why?’. I said ‘Well, I got sucked into the news and social media because of the tariff announcements.’, to which he said ‘What tariff announcements?’. Oh, dear… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-how-do-you-feel-about-trumps-threats-to-canada/1013348.md?page=9)