Marianne Williamson delivers memo on President Trump's crackdown on the relationship with Canada by imposing tariffs. #Tariffs #Canada #Trump
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00:00Mary Ann, what's in your memo?
00:07Thank you, Robbie.
00:09At the Oscars in 1999, a classic act had the entire nation laughing.
00:14The late comic Robin Williams came out on the stage with a hilarious bit called, Blame
00:18Canada.
00:19Blame Canada.
00:20Blame Canada.
00:21Everything's gone wrong since Canada came along.
00:25Blame Canada.
00:26There were lyrics that referred to serious issues like who gets to own Celine Dion, and
00:30it was all one big joke, see, because obviously we didn't have a beef with Canada.
00:36The idea of blaming Canada for anything was so absurd that the song was received on both
00:40sides of the border as a very funny joke.
00:43Well, thanks to our bully-in-chief now occupying the White House, it isn't funny anymore.
00:50The United States is waging economic warfare on Canada, and even worse, the president is
00:55doubling down on his menacing message that Canada should become our 51st state.
01:01President Trump said that would make all of their problems, tariffs and everything else,
01:05he said, totally disappear.
01:08Canada's having none of that, and why would they?
01:12They're the ones with universal health care, not us.
01:15They're the ones whose schools come in fourth in international rankings while we come in
01:19at 22.
01:21They're the ones who, according to the U.S. News and World Report, rank in the top five
01:25internationally in terms of quality of life, while the United States ranks anywhere between
01:3013 and 22.
01:33Maybe that's why President Trump is insisting on Canada becoming the 51st state.
01:38Many assumed it was a joke at first, but POTUS has been deadly serious.
01:43So much so that their newly elected Prime Minister, Mark Carney, said this.
01:49America is not Canada.
01:50And Canada never, ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form.
02:00Trump justifies his aggressive behavior by saying that Canada is responsible for a large
02:05amount of undocumented migrants and a significant amount of fentanyl coming into the United
02:10States.
02:11But neither claim is supported by fact.
02:14One percent of the number of the people who crossed into the United States came through
02:17our northern border in 2024.
02:20Moreover, only one percent of the fentanyl in our country came from Canada, only enough
02:25to fill a small suitcase, in fact.
02:27In fact, by some estimations, more drugs are flowing from the United States to Canada than
02:33from Canada to the United States.
02:36Our relationship with Canada has been a good one, almost like cousins.
02:39We've enjoyed the world's most comprehensive trading relationship, supporting millions
02:43of jobs in both countries.
02:45We've been each other's largest trade partners, with $2.7 billion worth of goods
02:50and services crossing the border each day.
02:54Most economists would say, you don't mess with that.
02:58Take the win.
02:59Yet, the president doesn't want that win, claiming erroneously that Canada has been
03:04taking advantage of us for years.
03:07So he placed a 25 percent tariff on Canadian steel and aluminum.
03:11And Canada responded with equal tariffs of American electricity, to which Trump responded
03:16with a threat of 50 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum.
03:19So this was yesterday, and after several tense hours, both sides backed down.
03:23But in no way are things now running smoothly, particularly because those tariffs were initiated
03:29at midnight last night.
03:31This is the president's M.O., but Canada will not cave.
03:36It understands that the economies of both nations are deeply interdependent, and a threat
03:41to one carries an inherent threat to the other.
03:45Nor will it ever cede sovereignty, no matter what the threat.
03:49Let's watch what White House spokesman Caroline Leavitt, in typical let's deny the facts fashion,
03:55described all that chaos.
03:57The president has continued to deliver on his promises to the American people.
04:02According to new polling that was released at the beginning of this week by CBS News,
04:06an overwhelming 70 percent of Americans said that President Trump is following through
04:11on what he pledged to do during his historic campaign.
04:16But this is not a win for anyone.
04:18It is dangerous.
04:20Twenty-five years ago, we joked about blaming Canada.
04:24Today, we're giving Canada a very good reason to seriously blame us.
04:30Look, I agree largely with you, Marianne, that we should not have conflict with our
04:40northerly neighbors.
04:42There is a lot about Canada to like, including that they value economic freedom to a greater
04:48degree than us.
04:49In some cases, actually, they've been, by libertarian organizations, routinely rank
04:53Canada above the U.S. in terms of having less regulated markets, actually.
04:59So far from being some kind of progressive dystopia, Canada is in some ways less progressive
05:04than our country in ways I approve of.
05:08I want to have good relations with Canada.
05:09I don't want to do the tariffs.
05:11I've said that very clearly.
05:12I think the tariffs will be toxic for our economy and ultimately hamper the rest of
05:16Trump's agenda, which I do agree with.
05:18I want to trade with Canada.
05:19Now, I will say that Canada, I don't want it to be the 51st state because that would
05:24give more Senate votes to liberals because people there are more liberal.
05:29I would be terrified to have, I mean, they wouldn't, they're hostile, their government,
05:35to our First Amendment values, the kind of debanking and arresting of protesters that
05:42happened during COVID was, I think, just horrifying, and that's most of the American rights animus
05:47toward Canada is now based on how the truckers' protests and the COVID stuff was handled.
05:52I don't want people who were that in favor of lockdowns and violating speech of COVID
05:58dissidents to have any say in our governance, but I am happy to trade with them and be neighborly
06:03and have good economic policies with respect to Canada.
06:07You know, for me, hearing all of your thoughts and your pronouncements about Canada, for
06:10me, the point is you're not Canadian.
06:13It's none of your business.
06:14They are a sovereign nation.
06:17That's the point here.
06:18This is an imperialistic threat that our president is making, and it's not good for Canada, obviously,
06:23but I don't think it's good for us.
06:25One note I had for you though, Marianne, that performance of Blame Canada that you referred
06:30to, so that was Robin Williams performing the song from South Park, which is a terrific
06:38satire, I love South Park.
06:41Many people let me know that, actually, after I had already written the piece, but I had
06:45first seen it on the Oscars, and of course, with great affection for Robin Williams.
06:51It would have been considered inconceivable decades ago that we were having a serious
06:56argument with Canada over anything, and this, once again, is the bullying of our president,
07:02and a lot of people say about things like this, oh, you know, so many people told me
07:05who voted for him, oh, Marianne, don't take him seriously.
07:08He just says things.
07:09He doesn't just say things.
07:10He means these things, and of course, as everybody's saying, during his first administration, there
07:14were people, sane people, sophisticated adults in the room, who were keeping him from his
07:19most outrageous impulses, and today, there are no guardrails, just as people have been
07:24told that there wouldn't, and I think there are a lot of people who voted for him who
07:29have buyer's remorse.
07:30I have to believe that, because I don't think that the American people appreciate a president
07:34who goes around literally bullying the world.
07:35I mean, I don't see a lot of evidence about that, and I think the coming off of the guardrails
07:39is largely a good thing, but, you know, what can I say?
07:42I agree with a lot of the things Trump does, and I don't agree with everything.
07:45I'm not like a mindless pro-Trump partisan, so I'm not going to defend every single thing
07:49he does.
07:50I think the conflict with Canada with respect to the tariffs is going to end up hurting
07:55us just as much as it hurts them, and it is the number one concern of Americans that prices
07:59are too high.
08:00Americans just want the government to hands off the economy so that it runs relatively
08:05smoothly and we have prices brought under control and we have general prosperity and
08:11good trading relationships with our neighbors.
08:13Occasionally they might need to get, you know, smacked into line for some reason and we've
08:17got to be cognizant of the threat of China, but just escalating everything at all times
08:21is, you're right, not good policy, and Trump seems to know that because then when the stock
08:25market crashed, he immediately said, we're not going to do the tariffs, and then there
08:29was recovery and he said, okay, we will do them, and then it crashed again.
08:31So come on, guys, you know what's going to happen.
08:34Let's remember, this is not just tariffs against Canada at this point.
08:37As of midnight last night, we're talking about a global trade war because he's also talking
08:41not just talking, he is imposing these tariffs also on Europe and on Australia, and Europe
08:46as well as Canada has made it clear that they will be placing reciprocal tariffs on us.
08:51So we're often running...
08:52I mean, I'm glad to hear...
08:53And also when you say Americans just want, you can't speak for all Americans, you can
08:57speak for your crowd, but that's about half of us.
09:00So not all Americans want the US government to take their hands off and let unfettered
09:05capitalism in its soulless, unethical form simply have its way with us.
09:09Why are you...
09:11I am glad to hear Democrats so exercised about tariffs being bad, correct, but tariffs
09:17are bad because they're a violation of free market economics and free trade.
09:21That's what's bad about them.
09:22So I'm glad to hear Democrats concede that they're bad, but doesn't that also just suggest
09:26then that the entire progressive economic project is bad?
09:29No, first of all, it doesn't.
09:30But secondly, I think most people, both on the left and the right, recognize that there
09:35are places where, once again, scalpel rather than hatchet.
09:39There can be in negotiations places where an aspect of protectionism, an aspect of tariffs
09:46can make sense.
09:47It's just this broadside on everybody's economy but ours, which is the problem I think any
09:54American should have on the left or the right.
09:56And of course, what the American people need to wake up to is that this is going to hurt
10:00American businesses, American consumers.
10:03And apparently the phones were ringing off the hook with people in the White House yesterday,
10:08business leaders, what the hell are you doing?
10:10An editorial in Wall Street Journal claiming that this is the most absurd, insane thing
10:15that they've ever heard of.
10:17More and more Americans are waking up to the chaos of this administration and the fact
10:21that this president, certainly on the issue of economics, but also on the issue of the
10:24U.S. Constitution, doesn't even know what he's talking about or at very least does not
10:28care.
10:29Up next, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the government has the right to withdraw
10:33an individual's green card.
10:35We will discuss that very controversial action, detention of a pro-Palestinian activist student
10:41at Columbia.
10:42Stay with us.