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Posted on 02/11/2026 5:50:12 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President Donald Trump spent years promising to make Mexico pay for a wall at the US southern border. Mexico did not.
In a strange twist, Trump is now threatening to block the opening of a bridge at the northern border that Canada actually already paid for.
This is either next-level negotiation or a misunderstanding of the facts, or both, but an ultimatum Trump made on social media is the latest in a string of erratic moves that have confused his fellow world leaders.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge is basically completed
Trump should have previously known that the brand-new Gordie Howe International Bridge, which connects Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, is set to open early this year, since his first administration tried to speed up construction in 2017.
The bridge is entirely funded by Canada, which decided to foot the bill after years of waiting for buy-in from the US. Conservative groups in the US have opposed spending taxpayer dollars on the bridge.
Canada wants a better tie-in to its freeway system and more capacity for trade than what’s offered by the nearly 100-year-old Ambassador Bridge. But the billionaire Moroun family, which owns the Ambassador Bridge, opposes the competition the publicly owned bridge will pose to the tolls it’s been raking in for decades. The Morouns’ company also operates tax-free concessions and fuel sales at the port of entry. In 2018, they lobbied, unsuccessfully, for the Trump administration to stop construction, according to reports at the time.
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CNN type thinking is why America is in such debt.
Trump thinking is why we just might have a chance.
Let’s think of one...just one...thing that CNN has done to improve our lot? Just one. Think...keep thinking....................................
So Canada pays for the entire bridge and now Trump wants half of it for free??
I don’t understand the joke here.
So you believe CNN?
“Let’s think of one...just one...thing that CNN has done to improve our lot? Just one. Think...keep thinking....................................”
Dale Murphy. Too easy.
But the thing is "what's in it for us?"
How devoid of common reason does one have to be to watch CNN?
Canada wants access to our lucrative market. Of course, they were willing to pay their bridge so they sell their goods in America.
But the thing is “what’s in it for us?”
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Ahh… the bridge does go both ways, doesn’t it? Just sayin’.
per chatgp:
What Trump actually said
On February 8, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on social media that he would not allow the Gordie Howe International Bridge to open “until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them” and that Canada must treat the U.S. “with fairness and respect.” He also said the U.S. should negotiate to own “perhaps at least one half of this asset.”
Trump’s comments were tied to broader trade disagreements with Canada — including complaints about tariffs on U.S. products and Canadian trade talks with China — rather than any specific legal process for opening the bridge.
It’s called leverage. The U.S might benefit from the bridge but how much really whereas Canada REALLY wants it. I guess it sucks to watch but it’s just hard nose business. You want access to this Market, what’s it worth to you? If the bridge is blocked Trump has 100s of companies at the door ready to invest in America. The U.S has a major competitive advantage and Trump is there first President to actually act like that is true.
Sit on it, CNN.
Built right over the neighborhood my Grandpa settled into:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delray,_Detroit
He and my Grandma (Magyars both) upgraded to the city of River Rouge where my Mom was born...
As I said, it must be a joke.
But the thing is “what’s in it for us?”
>>>>>>>>>
Well, the US has already slapped Canada with tariffs. Right?,
Speaking of which… the U.S. hit Canada with higher tariffs than against Communist China, even though the trade imbalance with China is way bigger…
There is something weird going on here. Or maybe we are nicer to China because they have nukes and rare earths materials America desperately needs…
This, with two thumbs up.
But honestly... CNN doesn't bother to think as they are nothing but stenographers for the democrat/rino/uniparty.
Spoken like a true Macron dic& sucking frog.
Trump is making it harder for Canada to export manufactured products. For good reason. Canada is high tax, high regulation, high labor costs. When you add in tariffs, why should they export their manufactured products to US? Make the stuff in the US and expand the domestic market.
If US economy grows at 4% more than Canada, it can create economic growth equivalent to Canada in an only few years.
CNN is still trying to play the same “Orange Man Bad” meme.
Trump is trolling Mark Carney every week.
Soon Canada will know that Carney’s sicko anti American hoodwinking game is horribly bad for Canada.
I hope the Donald continues sticking it to the Liberals of Canada, and causes the liberal minority government to fall
in parliament, thereby Bringing an election so CANADA CAN RID ITSELF OF CARNEY’S CARPET BAGGERS.
Trump knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
Sadly, the joke is in the White House.
I posted a similar comment to the following, on a separate thread.
Your comments, is a personal attack. It is what leftists do, when they can’t make a rational argument.
Here at FR, we can do better. Argue against his comment. There’s no need for personal insults and attacks, FRiend.
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