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What does this have to do with the price of pickles?

Yesterday Trump made a series of posts about the Canada/US trade war. The following one confuses me because can’t see what it has to do with how much I will be paying for pickles tomorrow.

"Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh' Canada!!!" .

 

Cheers and happy weekend!

Posted - July 31

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  • 11893
    I thought the PM might have meant when Trump makes sense. That hasn't happened in a long time.
      August 6, 2025 8:27 PM MDT
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  • 11872

    Yeah I was just trying to be humorous.
    Our PM knows that trying to reach a fair deal with Trump doesn't make sense and if a deal is reached Trump will likely break it on a whim.

    This year was the first year in many - many years that BC didn’t bother to export it’s Bing cherries to the US because it didn’t make economic sense – but Canada did find another market for those cherries that made sense and cents. Cheers!

      August 7, 2025 8:37 AM MDT
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  • 17311
    Aluminium too. Canada has just shipped tonnes of it to Europe and Japan that had originally been earmarked for export to the US, tariff free and getting a better price for it - and US industry is screaming.
    Tariffing a product that cannot be produced locally, or not in sufficient quantity to meet demand, is beyond stupid - they'll just sell it elsewhere and you'll miss out. This post was edited by Slartibartfast at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM MDT
      August 10, 2025 12:20 AM MDT
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  • 11872

    There are Americans waking up this morning that will be be paying $6 more for a pound of coffee – thanks to Trump. For the past 4 months Canada and a lot of other countries have been working together to continue trade without Trump. Cheers!

      August 10, 2025 8:44 AM MDT
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