Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 194
What Just Happened?
“We’re gonna be demanding respect from other nations. Canada, we have a tremendous deficit with Canada. We’re not gonna have that anymore. As you probably know, I say you can always become a state. If you’re a state, we won’t have a deficit, we won’t have to tariff you.”
— Donald Trump, speaking to the World Economic Forum.
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