Would someone care to explain the strategic benefits to tormenting and antagonizing Canada?

Someone has “Small hands” and other things . . . !

It’s to get a statue made of a most detested American president, so Canadians can accurately appreciate normal American citizens, the way normal American citizens appreciate Canadians.

Someone needed some attention & just happened to have been in Canada last & couldn’t insult Kim Jong Un & he needed his daily insult fix; so POOF Canada gets the luck of the draw!!! Sorry to disappoint you; but, there is NO benefit!!!

Small hands…small brain. There is also NO apology that can make up for stupidity…plus, I’m tired of feeling the need to apologize for someone that I can’t respect!!!

HE is not in need of your respect @LadyMarissa just send your cash to Eric and Donnie JR.

He wanted to look like a tough guy before his rendezvous with little rocket man. He’s a selfish bastard.

I also don’t respect either of them & I don’t send cash to those I can’t respect!!!

Canada has tariffs that take advantage of the U,S. For instance, the tariff on dairy is 270 percent, These cause significant economic “tormenting and agonizing” for the U.S.

@Yellowdog

Explain to me WHY I want to pay an EXTRA 25% on my next car or more !

Oh Donnie Jr and Eric bought stock in coal and steel companies.

I understand now.

Safe target when you’re showing off for an Asian dictator whom you’re anxious to impress.

Did you see where Fox & Friends called Trump a dictator. Wonder IF he’s alienating them too???

I highly recommend David Brooks’s column in today’s New York Times. “Wolves”: is there a better way to say it than that?

Bullies prefer easy targets. Ones that are likely not to retaliate. I don’t really think there’s any strategy. Trump treats most people like shit. I think he just likes being “that guy.”

Trump is a man whose own wife won’t even hold his hand. That doesn’t mean people with bad marriages are bad people. But if you can’t manage diplomacy with your wife, you may struggle as the leader of the most powerful country on Earth. A post that requires tact, thoughtfulness, guile, and the ability to work with others.

It’s one thing to disagree with some business decisions. Quite another to simply insult people who are/were our allies. I honestly thought that some of the only benefit of having Trump at the wheel, was that he may actually be an asset in trade. He’s quickly proven that not only is he a terrible negotiator, but he is making things far worse.

Truth is stranger than fiction. Never in my wildest, most paranoid nightmares about Trump, would I have seen this coming. I suspected he would screw up with our enemies, and countries on the fringe. I had no idea that he would go after our closest allies.

@Yellowdog . I have to wonder how you could find any silver linings here. I sincerely hope that Trump somehow repays you for your blind/misguided support. I would think that even his biggest supporters are growing concerned about his behavior.

When having these tariff conversations I wish amounts were not only stated in percentages. You need the owcenrage AND the actual dollar amount for it to really mean anything. 100% tax on a $4 item is way different that a 20% tax on a $10,000 item.

Snowflakes were running out of things to pout about and worry over.
He did Americans a good deal, and gave the haters something to chew on.
Okay, I am a Trump supporter, that is a fact…
but my gosh, when they showed him shaking hands with Kim, all I could think was, “It’s a tie, for worst hair in the world.” his looked lemon colored and stood straight out in front as far as a ballcap bill, and Kim, well, cookie cutters.

Okay @Yellowdog – - -Who is going to pay for the tariffs on steel and aluminum?

It will not Canada or Brazil. It will be the consumer in the good old USA, anything with steel content will increase in price, USA companies are not going to absorb the increases it will go to the person purchasing it. About half the steel used in the USA is for infrastructure like I-beams for buildings, bridges and pipes. Can you see tax increases or will it be fewer repairs.?

Look beyond what is occurring presently and one will see that he is antagonizing Canada and other Countries in order to get out of NAFTA, by any means.
He wants to have NAFTA kick out the U.S. so that he can go after his real agenda..and that is Mexico. He is trying in the long run which is his objective to get Mexico to in the end pay for his wall between U.S. and Mexico. He is planning on manipulating Mexico through charging massive tariffs (to thus pay for this wall).
Trumps signature means nothing in any negotiations as he will not compromise.
In short, he is not to be trusted and thus a blot on U.S. and the World.
He is destroying his allies trust in the U.S.

It doesn’t appear to me to be ‘tormenting’, just tough negotiations- which is what Trump promised to his voters btw.

Trump doesn’t negotiate; he only intimidates and threatens.

He can’t get his wife to hold hands in public.

Does Trump do anything other than torment and antagonise? There isn’t necessarily any point to it. It is just Trump’s style. And it is very destructive.