President Trump said Wednesday that he’s having a more difficult time dealing with Canada than China when it comes to trade: <\/p>\n
REPORTER: People say, who’s the toughest one to deal with? Is it China, sir? Is it China? Is it Vietnam? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I said, no, actually it’s Canada. Canada has felt emboldened. They had presidents that didn’t know what was happening – not only the last one, all of them. I mean, our country’s been taken advantage of by Canada. They took 20% of our car industry out. I don’t blame them for that, but if we would have had a president that knew what was happening, nobody would have left. Now they’re all coming back. All they would have had to do is charge tariffs. If you build a car in Canada, you have to pay a 25% tariff. And nobody could pay. And if that didn’t work, you make it 50%. Or if that didn’t work, you make it 100%. And we have everybody coming, or you stop doing business with the nation. You know, when we lose $ 60 to $ 100 billion with Canada, I could say, well, if we don’t do business – because we don’t need to – we have more oil and gas than they do. We have tremendous forests. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need the things they have. They need what we have. They do most of their business with us. I’ve heard numbers, 95%. We do a very small percentage by comparison to that, but they need us. We don’t need them. They’ve taken advantage of us for years, and it’s time to stop. We can’t lose $ 60 to $ 100 billion a year for the privilege of allowing them to make cars. We don’t want their cars. We want the cars to be made in Detroit and in South Carolina and in Tennessee and in all of our places where we make cars. We don’t want them to be made in Canada. So this is nothing against anybody. And this started with Trudeau. Trudeau and I used to have it out pretty good. And now we have this new guy who’s a nice guy, but, you know, he’s just – and then they have the other guy, the slob. I guess some people call him a slob. I don’t want to call him that because I want to be nice. And I did change the name of a certain lake to Lake America, just like I changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And people in this country love it. You know, we have 92% of the frontage, and why was it Gulf of Mexico? We have most of the frontage, almost all, 93, 94%. So we do things like that because we’re fighting for our country. Canada has taken advantage of us. They have ripped us off for years, and now we’re turning the tables – very, very easily turning the tables.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n