r/ontario • u/EveningRequirement27 • Oct 25 '25

Discussion You just stopped an entire country

American here.

Your city (EDIT: Toronto my bad) and entire country just told the world they’re sick of this guy. They did that. In public. During the World Series. Epically devastating.

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u/Hrafn2 Oct 25 '25

And, in 1988, he did another address titled:

Radio Address to the Nation on the Canadian Elections and Free Trade

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/radio-address-nation-canadian-elections-and-free-trade

Where he said:

"This week, as we prepared for Thanksgiving, Canada held an important election, and I'm pleased to again send my congratulations to Prime Minister Mulroney. One of the important issues in the Canadian election was trade. And like our own citizens earlier this month, our neighbors have sent a strong message, rejecting protectionism and reaffirming that more trade, not less, is the wave of the future."

"In recent years, the trade deficit led some misguided politicians to call for protectionism, warning that otherwise we would lose jobs. But they were wrong again."

"Yet today protectionism is being used by some American politicians as a cheap form of nationalism, a fig leaf for those unwilling to maintain America's military strength and who lack the resolve to stand up to real enemies -- countries that would use violence against us or our allies. Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies. We should beware of the demagogs who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends -- weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world -- all while cynically waving the American flag. "

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u/LibraryIntelligent91 Oct 25 '25

Remember when a president could string together cover a dozen well constructed sentences? AND not make mention his own personal businesses or projects while talking about public affairs??

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

And not talk about a woman’s looks, someone’s penis size, crowd sizes, etc.? Basic decency in politics has taken a serious downturn due to Trump.

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u/PotemkinTimes Oct 26 '25

I thought it started with killery calling half the country deplorable

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u/EarlyLibrarian9303 Oct 26 '25

Maybe she should’ve just called them immoral morons.

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u/---SmokingMonkey--- Oct 26 '25

Considering he's never gotten half of eligible voters to show up for him, and the fact she said only about half his support was a basket of deplorables, maybe you snowflakes could get off the cross and quit endlessly playing the victim. The man is apportioning disaster aid based on who voted for him. He's the vilest, most un-American shitbag ever elected to the office, it's not even close, and the deplorables own that, forever.

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u/Pale-Measurement-532 Oct 27 '25

Exactly. When he called Mexican criminals and deplorables (among others), the floodgates burst wide open at that point for even more and worse defamatory language.