The Daily Populous Wednesday May 7th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by StyleSerenity

“Respectfully, Canadians’ view on this is not going to change, on the fifty-first state,” Carney said as Trump grimaced beside him. “Secondly, we are the largest client of the United States. In the totality of all the goods, we are the largest state. We have a tremendous auto sector between the two of us.

“You know, 50 percent of the cars that come from Canada is American, that’s unlike anywhere else in the world,” the prime minister continued, gesturing to the reporter who inquired about tariffs. “This will take some time and some discussions, and that’s why we’re here, to have those discussions, and that’s represented by who’s sitting around the table.”

Trump was quick to respond. “See, the conflict this—and this is very friendly; this is not going to be like, ‘We had another little blow up with somebody else,’ that was a much different—this is a very friendly conversation,” he said. “We want to make our own cars, we don’t really want cars from Canada.

30mil on May 6th, 2025 at 17:37 UTC »

"“We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market, we don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market. They want a piece of our market,” Trump rambled."

So he's saying that Americans aren't interested in buying things from other countries.

TheRustFactory on May 6th, 2025 at 17:25 UTC »

But! But! But! But I thought he made a deal with each country! 195 countries and 200 deals!

HE EVEN MADE DEALS WITH FIVE COUNTRIES THAT DON'T EXIST!!!

That's a dealmaker if I ever saw one!

Sarcasmgasmizm on May 6th, 2025 at 17:21 UTC »

And he won’t! All countries know he has no plan, let alone a concept of a plan. They also know they have nothing to gain in negotiating with a mad men over false pretences.

Countries will wait out the 90day pause while the consequences keep piling up and hitting Americans, bringing Trumps approval rating lower by the day and having him lose any leverage whatsoever