This whole thing came out of accidentally calling Trudeau ‘govenor’. Trump made a simple mistake, but it’s the reaction he got that caused this to keep going. Trump is a bully and bullies thrive on getting reactions. It could have been stopped early if we ignored his dumb ass then, but now it is too late and we need to show strength to get him to back down.
No, it didn’t. This whole thing came out of Trump randomly deciding to punish Canada with huge tariffs for no apparent reason* and he made the insinuations against Canada’s sovereignty in furtherance of that.
This whole thing came out of accidentally calling Trudeau ‘govenor’. Trump made a simple mistake, but it’s the reaction he got that caused this to keep going. Trump is a bully and bullies thrive on getting reactions. It could have been stopped early if we ignored his dumb ass then, but now it is too late and we need to show strength to get him to back down.
No, it didn’t. This whole thing came out of Trump randomly deciding to punish Canada with huge tariffs for no apparent reason* and he made the insinuations against Canada’s sovereignty in furtherance of that.
(* actually, to manufacture casus belli)