Irate Trump rages after Canada REJECTS trade deal as bitter economic feud escalates: ‘No more!!!’

Donald Trump took Canada to task in a blistering late night tirade, blasting the nation for wanting ‘the benefits of a state without being one,’ as the bitter trade war with the America’s historic ally reached a boiling point.

Trade talks collapsed on Friday night, when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney withdrew from negotiations hours before Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of goods were due to take effect. 

Carney cited ‘last-minute changes in the US proposed terms’ which were ‘unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal’ for the withdrawal, while setting September 8 as the start date for retaliatory tariffs.  

Trump hit back just after 1am on Sunday, writing on Truth Social: ‘Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!! They have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of Tariffs. No more!!!’ 

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer also said in a statement that ‘Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week’.

‘Despite the US offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market, new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days,’ he added. 

Speaking about the latest tariffs on Canada, Greer also told Fox & Friends Weekend that the US was compelled to act after a year of retaliation by its longtime partner.

‘We’ve said enough, and so we’ve taken countermeasures. Our interest is in protecting American workers and protecting American supply chains,’ he said. 

Donald Trump has blasted Canada for wanting ‘the benefits of a state without being one’ in a late-night Truth Social post, as the bitter trade war with the country reached a boiling point

Trade talks between the countries collapsed on Friday night, when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (pictured) withdrew from negotiations hours before Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of goods were due to take effect.

Trump’s import taxes will impact about five percent of Canadian goods shipped to the US each year, ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors.  

Carney said Ottawa would respond with targeted tariff protection for industries exposed to the new US duties, including some steel products. 

He also mentioned the dairy, appliance, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper and electronics sectors. No further talks were planned. 

Carney accused Washington of using ‘economic integration as a weapon’ and said ‘its signature was written in pencil.’ 

Resorting to the language of battle, he said his country had been ‘attacked’ by the new American tariffs. 

‘You’re at war when you get attacked,’ he said, adding that Canada had the reserves, resilience and plan to respond. 

Trump hit back at Carney just after 1am on Sunday with the Truth Social post shown above 

Carney said Canada had been willing to drop remaining retaliatory tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos if the US substantially lowered its own, and to encourage provinces to restore US alcohol sales. 

However, he said Washington’s final demands went too far. ‘They asked too much and offered too little,’ Carney said. 

The breakdown in negotiations marked a sharp reversal from two days earlier, when officials from the two countries sounded as if they were headed toward a compromise.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who leads Canada’s most populous province, praised Carney for rejecting the deal, saying it would have hurt Ontario’s auto, steel and manufacturing sectors. 

Ford urged Canada to use ‘every tool in our toolbox’ to fight the US tariffs.

The moves also call into question the future of a North American trade agreement covering the United States, Canada and Mexico that is crucial to industry in all three countries.

Carney said the breakdown was ‘certainly not good news’ for the review of that agreement and that the failed negotiations had given Canada ‘a new perspective’ on what Washington wants from the broader economic relationship.

Some $880 billion worth of goods and services were traded between Canada and the US last year.

The US and Canada have wrangled for decades over trade, poking each other over sore spots such as Canadian softwood lumber imports and US access to Canada’s protected dairy market.

Somehow, they still managed to remain friends, allies and trading partners. Canadian soldiers fought alongside Americans in Afghanistan after 9/11. 

The 5,525-mile U.S.-Canada border is undefended, and nearly 330,000 people and $2 billion worth of goods cross it every day. The US is home to 800,000 Canadians.