Reagan, Trump and tariffs
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Premier Doug Ford of Ontario (Canada's largest province) raised the ire of President Donald Trump with his ad last week featuring the late Ronald Reagan speaking out against tariffs.
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Trump says a Canadian ad misstated Ronald Reagan’s views on tariffs. Here are the facts and context
The ad features audio excerpts from an April 25, 1987, radio address in which Reagan said: 'Over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.'
Donald Trump announced that he was terminating all trade negotiations with Canada based on their "egregious behaviour". The announcement came over an Ontario, Canada ad featuring Ronald Reagan's tarif
An ad campaign from the government of Ontario featured audio of former President Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs on foreign goods. The video rearranges what Reagan said in a 1987 radio address, and it ignores some of the context.
The anti-tariff ad, which President Trump pointed to in cutting off trade talks with Canada, uses several sound bites from an April 1987 speech, though not in the order President Ronald Reagan said them.
Scott Bessent said Ontario's anti-tariff ad, featuring quotes from Ronald Reagan, was "propaganda" aimed at swaying public opinion.
President Donald Trump shared a fake quote from former Republican President Ronald Reagan on Twitter on Monday. Trump passed along a tweet from an obscure account that called itself "The Reagan Battalion," which appeared to be impersonating a well-known ...
President Donald Trump announced Saturday evening he was pulling trade talks with Canada after an ad, funded by Ontario’s provincial government, quoted former President Ronald Reagan warning tariffs “hurt every American.
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