Trade deficits tend to happen when you’re the richest country in the world. It just means we buy more from them than they buy from us. Trump either doesn’t understand that or thinks you don’t. Also: “$200 Billion with Canada” is, of course, a lie. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... - ThreadSky

thetnholler.bsky.social • 25 days ago

Trade deficits tend to happen when you’re the richest country in the world. It just means we buy more from them than they buy from us. Trump either doesn’t understand that or thinks you don’t.

Also: “$200 Billion with Canada” is, of course, a lie.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/14/trump-canada-subsidy-claim-false/

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ckingpeace.bsky.social•25 days ago

Also the U.S. has 8 times the population of Canada. Of course they buy more stuff!

othercat.bsky.social•25 days ago

Worse still, he's spreading his ignorance widely to create resentment and animus against Canada and others.

halltline.bsky.social•24 days ago

When a child gets their math wrong you correct them, you don't try to make their mistake work.

That boy was improperly raised from the git go.

pino-fotus.bsky.social•25 days ago

vintagemuckabout.bsky.social•25 days ago

I’m shocked Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Shocked I tell you. 😐

okgrown.bsky.social•25 days ago

So sick of this fat orange lying sack of shit.

sherrychef.bsky.social•25 days ago

More accurate calculations put the trade deficit with Canada closer to $68 Billion and it's erased when the energy needs of America are taken out of the equation.

Donald is nothing but a liar who repeats his lies consistently.

hawkandhare.bsky.social•25 days ago

It's also erased if services (not just physical products) are included on the ledger.

vmcguire.bsky.social•25 days ago

Remember Trump is a serial liar. He just makes stuff up. Did you forget the 30000 lies in the first term?

canadianbacon66.bsky.social•25 days ago

Basic math here in Canada, you guys are 10 times the population we have ! We can’t spend the same amount in your country than you do here !

thomhense.bsky.social•25 days ago

Also
"Quick facts
Canada is the top customer for U.S. goods and services exports and a critical supplier of goods and services integral to the U.S. economy, with Canada buying more U.S. goods than China, Japan, France and the United Kingdom combined."

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/03/canada-announces-robust-tariff-package-in-response-to-unjustified-us-tariffs.html

thomhense.bsky.social•25 days ago

"Of the U.S.’s top five trading partners, Canada is the only country with whom the U.S. has a trade surplus in manufacturing (US$33 billion in 2023)."

monaagent99.bsky.social•25 days ago

I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say Trump is the one that doesn't understand trade deficits.

rlab53.bsky.social•25 days ago

Since he does NOT have a clue how tariffs work why would he have a clue about trade deficits?

4purpose.bsky.social•25 days ago

Why doesn’t someone on his staff, Suzy Whiles for example, sit him down and explain what a trade deficit is, he doesn’t understand, it’s so obvious when he talks. Everyone is pretending not to notice the POTUS is a moron.

hawkandhare.bsky.social•25 days ago

He's absurdly arrogant and thinks he knows everything. He's extremely fragile. Therefore, he's simultaneously utterly dismissive and deathly fearful of anyone who knows more than him (i.e. almost everyone).

sigil0.bsky.social•24 days ago

They'd have to explain it using a fourth grade vocabulary and no math. He doesn't keep people who can do that around.

michaelcpaul.bsky.social•24 days ago

If you’re just making up numbers, why 200 billion? Why not 784.279156666666666 billion? Why not 15 bazillion?

markjack16.bsky.social•25 days ago

The US doesn’t “need” anything from Canada but Trumpty wants to take it over. The man is a loon.

jenniloumack.bsky.social•25 days ago

1-smallthing.bsky.social•25 days ago

His brain has shriveled to a tiny raisin.

reagansghost.news•25 days ago

Every time I see an article from WaPo I think "this should be worth a read" until I remember it's no longer the same newspaper it was a year ago. It's a hard reminder of the times we're in

suzyevans.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yet it still has some great reporters fighting the good fight- for now.

richinottawa.bsky.social•24 days ago

There are 10 times as many Americans as there are Canadians. Of course you buy more of everything than we do.

okayverycool.bsky.social•25 days ago

on the wapo? interesting

thetruerotstift.bsky.social•25 days ago

He's got the IQ of a jar of pickles, what did you expect?

richinottawa.bsky.social•24 days ago

I prefer to call him IQ47.

marzbarz523.bsky.social•24 days ago

It’s all lies. The average Canadian spends many times more $ on American goods than Americans spend on CNDN goods. Canada’s population is way smaller, how would Canadians spend more total $? The USA buys lots of energy too. Take that factor away and the USA has a trade surplus.

fubarspeaks.bsky.social•24 days ago

There is only a trade deficit because Canada sells a shit ton of oil to the US.

Take that out of the equation and there is actually a trade surplus with us. We buy more from you than we sell to you.

Well, substantially LESS now

cfaller96.bsky.social•25 days ago

Donald Trump is the only person in the world who doesn’t understand this.

maitrijen.bsky.social•25 days ago

It’s like WaPo has decided to start teaching econ in its pages.

butterfly10001.bsky.social•25 days ago

Stop the lies.

seanale.bsky.social•25 days ago

I have a trade deficit with Best Buy

susancampe.bsky.social•25 days ago

Why does America's main stream media repeat his Lies and headline his statements without FACT checking them? Turning the attitude against a country filled with citizens who have been customers, tourists and friends in world issues by repeating the gaslighting is shameful and complicit.

itwasthehusband.bsky.social•24 days ago

It's so insane right! I went on a few websites run by the US government, and it took all of 45 seconds to disprove his tariff claims. But his cult followers don't care. They think it's hilarious, just repeat and follow blindly.

teedogg.bsky.social•25 days ago

Totally true. We buy more because we can afford to. They sell to us because they need to. That simple. He's an Evil money-monger who is never, ever satisfied with anything. How can he be? He sold his soul in youth to become the demon he is. And he's operated this way until now. Good trumps Evil.

blbarden.bsky.social•24 days ago

And if Canada stopped selling its energy then the figures are flipped and it looks like Canada is subsidizing the US

tylerloring.bsky.social•25 days ago

They also tend to happen when you lack the resources to manufacture your own stuff.

canadiancreed.bsky.social•25 days ago

At this point anything he says is a lie. Dont' know why media has a hard time with that. It happens so often it's not news at this point.

naturisthippy.bsky.social•24 days ago

Trump speaks with a 3rd grade vocabulary & has the mentality of a 3rd grader.

julietebo.bsky.social•25 days ago

He clearly does not understand how tariffs work. Peter Navarro reinforces his ignorance. You’d think Ludnik and Bessent would set him straight, but they treat him like the emperor with no clothes.

hawkandhare.bsky.social•25 days ago

He's absurdly arrogant and thinks he knows everything. He's also extremely fragile. Therefore, he's simultaneously utterly dismissive and deathly fearful of anyone who knows more than him (i.e. almost everyone).

grumpyzeus.bsky.social•25 days ago

All Republicans everywhere lie all the time about everything.

This is why Democrats should NEVER vote in favor of any Republican budgets, ever.

rhino-33.bsky.social•25 days ago

I have a $130 per week trade deficit with my local grocer. Maybe I should annex them?

matts1967.bsky.social•25 days ago

If you take Canadian oil out of the picture, you have a trade surplus with Canada. 70% of our trade with you is raw natural resources.

hoppy75.bsky.social•25 days ago

I love that people still believe that this person (Trump) can do math or economy:
6x Bankruptcies (3 Casinos!)
13+ Failed Businesses
39x Felony convictions
1x Porn star paid for sex
1x Sexual Assault & Defamation
1x Failed Coup
3x Wives (no Christian values)
1x Wholly owned subsidiary of Elon Musk

hoppy75.bsky.social•25 days ago

By 'love', I mean that I find it dumbfounding and completely appalling that our education system failed to reach those unable to critically think for themselves.

kleinline.bsky.social•25 days ago

💯
I was raised by parents who always told me to "look it up" in the dictionary, encyclopedia, or at the library. Yet these same people buy every word out of a conman's mouth.
It boggles the mind.

sisuthefin.bsky.social•25 days ago

He lies

toxbill.bsky.social•24 days ago

Those wanting different trade arrangements are acting bc their greed makes them think things are not "fair". They haven't realized they have the better side of the agreement and thus a higher standard of living. The trade war is going to make it more fair and less beneficial for them.

doktor-x.bsky.social•25 days ago

And he's angry that the 5.3 million people in Ireland don't buy as much as the 347 million people in the US..

george-furious.bsky.social•25 days ago

Trump says that Canada expects the US to defend us. The only one threatening our sovereignty is Trump. It’s like the guy has a pattern of abusive relationships.