Late Breaking: Trump Nukes Trade Negotiations After Canada Creates Fake Reagan Recording to Create Attack Ad Targeting US Policy

President Donald J. Trump has halted ongoing trade discussions with Canada after Ottawa aired an aggressive, misleading television ad attempting to weaponize the legacy of President Ronald Reagan against U.S. tariff policy.

The ad, reportedly funded at $75 million Canadian ($53.5 million U.S.), used audio of the late President Reagan criticizing tariffs — but without approval from the Ronald Reagan Foundation, which confirmed the audio had been manipulated and deployed without authorization. According to the reporting, the advertisement was planned to run on Newsmax and Bloomberg in the United States before being rolled out more broadly over the next two weeks.

Trump, who has made fair trade and economic sovereignty central pillars of his second-term agenda, blasted the stunt in a forceful statement on Truth Social late Thursday.

“The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000,000.”

He continued:

“They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A.”

The president left no room for ambiguity about consequences:

“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”

The move comes just days after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney boasted that Canada would shift its export priorities toward other nations in retaliation for U.S. tariffs — a threat that may have sounded tough in Ottawa, but holds little real-world leverage. The United States is overwhelmingly Canada’s largest trading partner, accounting for over 76.9% of Canadian exports. If the U.S. market vanished, Canada’s economy would collapse virtually overnight.

For context, more than 85% of trade between the two nations is already tariff-free. Where tariffs do apply, the U.S. imposes an average rate of just 5.6%, the lowest Canada receives from any major partner. Contrary to globalist talking points, Trump’s tariff policies have not been protectionist for protectionism’s sake — they have been a tool to restore equilibrium in trade relationships long structured to America’s disadvantage.

Attempts to undermine Trump’s tariff strategy by selectively quoting Reagan are misleading at best. Reagan did champion the ideals of free trade, but he also emphasized that trade must be fair — and supported using tariffs when foreign countries manipulated markets or exploited American industry. His position, in other words, was far closer to Trump’s than to Canada’s.

The Canadian advertisement’s deliberate context-stripping was not a historical argument. It was propaganda — and foreign interference aimed at influencing U.S. political and judicial outcomes.

Rather than respond with bluster, President Trump responded with power.

America has learned from history: great nations falter when they outsource their strength, dilute their identity, and allow foreign pressures to dictate domestic policy. Trump’s move signals that the United States will not follow the path of once-great empires that crumbled under complacency, open-border ideology, and globalist appeasement.

The message to Canada — and to the world — is unmistakable:

The United States will remain the world’s leading economic power on its own terms, not by permission of weaker nations dependent on American prosperity.