{"id":36868,"date":"2025-01-06T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36868"},"modified":"2025-01-06T20:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:11:20","slug":"trump-cites-tariffs-in-call-to-merge-canada-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36868","title":{"rendered":"Trump cites tariffs in call to merge Canada, US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">President-elect Trump on Monday raised the idea of a&nbsp;\u201cmerged\u201d&nbsp;United States and Canada after Prime Minister&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/justin-trudeau\/\"><u>Justin Trudeau\u2002<\/u><\/a>announced his resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social site that, if both nations were&nbsp;<strong>to become one<\/strong>, \u201cthere would no Tariffs\u201d and that \u201ctaxes would go way down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He also said Canada would be \u201cTOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them,\u201d and argued many Canadians would \u201cLOVE\u201d the idea of being the \u201c51st State\u201d of the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump added that the merger would be&nbsp;<strong>beneficial<\/strong>&nbsp;for the U.S., because it would \u201cno longer suffer\u201d from \u201cmassive Trade Deficits\u201d and subsidies that it provides to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trudeau, who has served as Canada\u2019s prime minister for nine years, announced Monday that he would be resigning before general elections later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His Liberal Party, which Trudeau has led for 11 years, is&nbsp;<strong>polling poorly<\/strong>, and the leader has faced mounting crises, including the resignation of a top minister and a confrontation with Trump\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>25 percent tariff plan<\/strong>, among other issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/business-economy\/5070401-trump-cites-tariffs-in-call-to-merge-canada-us\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Trump on Monday raised the idea of a&nbsp;\u201cmerged\u201d&nbsp;United States and Canada after Prime Minister&nbsp;Justin Trudeau\u2002announced his resignation. Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social site that, if both nations were&nbsp;to become one, \u201cthere would no Tariffs\u201d and that \u201ctaxes would go way down.\u201d He also said Canada would be \u201cTOTALLY SECURE from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":36869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[3401,27419,3616,1230],"class_list":["post-36868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-canada","tag-merger","tag-tariffs","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36870,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868\/revisions\/36870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}