Canada Tariffs Hit After Trump's Bombardier Post: GovBrief #585

Donald Trump answered Canada’s tariffs with a Truth Social post, and the tariffs took effect anyway.

Ottawa’s levies on $20 billion in American goods went live at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, matching the 50% he put on Canadian wine, cement and hockey sticks last month. On Monday he posted “NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough!” Bombardier builds jets in Wichita with more than 1,000 workers, a fact the governor of Kansas reached out to the White House that afternoon to point out. Nobody from either government has spoken to the other since the talks collapsed on August 21.

He also posted about Iran that night, promising oil prices “will drop precipitously” once “we WIN the war.” There are no announced negotiations between the 2 governments, and only 7 ships made it through Hormuz on Monday, against 130 a day before the war. Gas was $4.15 a gallon while he typed.

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And I went down. I was building a building in New York and I had a lot of construction workers, and I went shortly after, the following day. You couldn’t go down the same day. But, like the following day. Very quickly afterwards, and we worked long and hard.

Donald Trump on September 7, 2026, describing the September 11 attack in New York. His claim to have worked or paid for others to work the site remains unverified 25 years later.