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Mirror: Canada just humiliated Trump and exposed arrogant America’s decline

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Canada’s rejection of Trump is far bigger than one man or one election. It marks a sobering turning point in the world’s relationship with the United States of America

Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed titan of global deal-making and nationalist bravado, just got humiliated by the very country he loves to insult – Canada.

With the election of Mark Carney as Prime Minister, the Canucks delivered a roaring rebuke not only to the US leader but to the hideous version of America he represents – arrogant, unstable, and dangerously delusional. Let’s be honest, this wasn’t just a Canadian election. It was a referendum on Trumpism and, by extension, the States.

Canadians, America’s closest and most loyal ally, have had enough. Enough of the trade wars. Enough of being branded the “51st state.” Enough of being treated like a doormat for Trump’s latest tantrum. What happened at the ballot box was less a Liberal Party recovery and more an international gut punch to a discredited figurehead.

Trump triggered this backlash himself. He kicked off a pointless trade war against Canada, wanting tariffs on steel, aluminium, and dairy with all the subtlety of a barroom brawl. He smeared a peaceful, democratic neighbour as weak and subordinate, then expected diplomatic loyalty in return. He misread Canada completely – mistaking kindness for submission and partnership for dependency.

Canada just humiliated Trump and exposed arrogant America’s depressing decline
Canada’s rejection of Trump is far bigger than one man or one election. It marks a sobering turning point in the world’s relationship with the United States of America

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/christopher-bucktin-canada-just-humiliated-35138043

Mediaite: ‘American Betrayal!’ New Canadian PM Mark Carney Torches Trump in Victory Speech After Election Win

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“President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never — that will never, ever happen,” Carney declared Monday night in Ottawa, the same day Trump made a further jibe at the country joining the U.S.

“As I have been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country: never,” he said. “But these are not idle threats: President Trump is trying to break us, so America can own us. That will never, ever happen.”

He continued, condemning the Trump administration for what he called an “American betrayal” and warning Canadians that “the system of open global trade anchored by the United States is over.”

“We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons,” he said, continuing to say that any “future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations” will be overshadowed by the “full knowledge that we have many, many other options than the United States to build prosperity for all Canadians.”

Future talks with Trump, he said, would reflect Canada’s full sovereignty and a willingness to “build, baby, build” with other global partners.

Carney added that said Canadians will “need to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations.”

‘American Betrayal!’ New Canadian PM Mark Carney Torches Trump in Victory Speech After Election Win
Carney used his election night victory speech to shred Trump’s threats against Canadian sovereignty which he said would not “break” the nation.
‘American Betrayal!’ New Canadian PM Mark Carney Torches Trump in Victory Speech After Election Win

Moneywise: ‘We want them back desperately’: US border communities losing millions in sales tax revenue as Canadian shoppers avoid US travel due to Trump’s tariffs and ’51st state’ rhetoric

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Cars traveling across the border into the U.S. are down significantly in 2025, and counties like Erie and Niagara are paying the price through a drop in sales tax revenue.

In February and March of 2025, 35,619 fewer cars crossed the Peace Bridge that connects Canada to Buffalo, NY, compared to the number of cars that crossed the bridge during the same months in 2024. During the same period, 29,537 fewer cars crossed the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.\

Thanks to President Trump’s ongoing trade war with Canada, Canadians seem to have significantly reduced their interest in traveling to the U.S. and the financial ramifications are hard to ignore.

But it’s not just the backlash to Trump’s antics that’s had a negative effect on Canadian tourism in the U.S. In recent months, several foreigners — including a Canadian woman — have been detained while attempting to enter the United States.

Dump Trump and resume treating visitors respectfully. It really is that simple!

‘We want them back desperately’: US border communities losing millions in sales tax revenue as Canadian shoppers avoid US travel due to Trump’s tariffs and ’51st state’ rhetoric
Did Trump take it a bridge too far?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/we-want-them-back-desperately-us-border-communities-losing-millions-in-sales-tax-revenue-as-canadian-shoppers-avoid-us-travel-due-to-trump-s-tariffs-and-51st-state-rhetoric/ar-AA1DL1kN

Mirror: Karoline Leavitt [Bimbo #1] called out for propaganda stunt that would make ‘Kim Jong Un blush’

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt [Bimbo #1] was called out on social media for a video that showed mugshots of undocumented alients accused of committing crimes like rape and murder lining the White House.

The youngest press secretary was joined by ‘border czar’ Tom Homan at a press conference early Monday morning, where they talked about the “100 days of promises made and promises kept” by U.S. President Donald Trump in the first 100 days of his presidency, largely focusing on the deportation of undocumented migrants.

My question is how many of these people were actually tried and convicted in a court of law? That’s key point that Bimbo #1 and her crowd of gagglers tend to overlook.

Karoline Leavitt called out for propaganda stunt that would make ‘Kim Jong Un blush’
The White House Press Secretary held a press conference in the White House with reporters early Monday morning with ‘border czar’ Tom Homan, where they discussed the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/karoline-leavitt-called-out-for-propaganda-stunt-that-would-make-kim-jong-un-blush/ar-AA1DLHJj

Alternet: ‘Another Trump in the future’: Why international allies may ditch the US for good

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The global community is reportedly concerned about the potential emergence of another leader like President Donald Trump after the end of his term in 2029.

The New York Times reported that given these concerns, international allies are forging trade partnerships and security alliances independent of the United States, with the European Union and South American nations recently establishing a significant trade zone.

Ian Goldin, a professor at Oxford, told the Times that he believes Trump’s MAGA following and its motivations — rooted in economic insecurity and inequality — will persist beyond Trump’s presidency.

“The MAGA base and JD Vance will still be around long after Trump’s gone,” Goldin said. ‘No matter who next occupies the White House, the conditions that propelled the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement — widening inequality and economic insecurity — remain. For the rest of the world, there is still a worry, he said, that there could be ‘another Trump in the future’,” he said.

‘Another Trump in the future’: Why international allies may ditch the US for good
The global community is reportedly concerned about the potential emergence of another leader like President Donald Trump after the end of his term in 2029. The New York Times reported that given these concerns, international allies are forging trade partnerships and security alliances independent of the United States, with the European Union and So…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/another-trump-in-the-future-why-international-allies-may-ditch-the-us-for-good/ar-AA1DNcDr

Telegraph: Trump’s attempt to upend the global order has already been defeated

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America has emerged from the trade war as an international laughing stock

Characterised by screeching handbrake turns, made-up policy on the hoof and mixed-messaging on steroids, it’s been another week of chaos in Washington.

If anyone knows what on Earth it is that the US is trying to achieve on trade, and much else besides, then I’d like to hear from them, because having come to the US capital in the hope of garnering some insights, I’m none the wiser.

What’s now increasingly obvious, however, is that Trump is in ragged retreat; he’s compromising all over the shop, such that if the plan was to upend the established global order, one can almost definitely say that, beyond the rhetoric, it is already over.

Rank lack of professionalism and organisation has defined the endeavour all along, and now it’s coming apart at the seams. Sensing an administration on the run, no one is any longer hurrying to do a trade deal with the US. From Britain to Canada and beyond, getting the right deal rather than a quick one has become the new mantra.

Trump has in the meantime made himself – and the US – into an international laughing stock, never mind the damage that policy uncertainty is inflicting on the global economy. You’d be forgiven for thinking that chaos is itself the policy goal.

Repeatedly forced to row back on its demands and aspirations, the White House has been left looking back-footed and ridiculous.

Trump’s attempt to upend the global order has already been defeated
America has emerged from the trade war as an international laughing stock

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/26/trumps-attempt-to-upend-the-global-order-defeated

Fear and Loathing: Ranjani Srinivasan, Fulbright scholar, doctoral candidate

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Ranjani Srinivasan didn’t think the knock would come so soon.

A Fulbright scholar. A doctoral candidate. She spent her days studying how cities displace the poor — and nights convincing herself it wouldn’t happen to her.

Then came March 5, 2025.

An email. Cold. Clinical. The U.S. Consulate in Chennai revoked her visa from halfway across the planet, citing alleged “support for Hamas.” No evidence. No hearing. No appeal. Her real offense?

She shared a protest flyer on Instagram.

ICE showed up soon after. Agents visited her New York apartment multiple times — initially without a warrant. On a later visit, they returned with a judicial one. No charges. No formal deportation order. Just pressure.

So she did what people with no choices do.

She left.

On March 11, Ranjani boarded a one-way flight to Montreal. DHS later claimed she “self-deported” using the CBP One app — but her attorney disputes that, saying she simply complied with the law after her visa was revoked.

Her friends smuggled her laptop across the border days later. Her cat, Cricket, she left behind — safe with a friend, but missed in every moment.

Now she’s in Canada. Stateless. Stunned.

Her belongings? Confiscated or inaccessible.

Her research? Interrupted.

Her future? Dangling by the thread of a refugee claim.

She’s no radical. No operative. She liked and reposted human rights content. That’s it. And for that, the country that once welcomed her turned cold and suspicious — as if brilliance were a threat and dissent a crime.

This wasn’t deportation.

It was coerced exile.

Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge
Ranjani Srinivasan didn’t think the knock would come so soon. A Fulbright scholar. A doctoral candidate. She spent her days studying how cities displace the poor — and nights convincing herself it…

https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/665318476137458

Say their names! Remember them!

Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata Velásquez. Jerce Reyes Barrios. Francisco García Casique. Andry Hernández Romero. Jessica Brösche. Alireza Doroudi.

These are the names they are trying to vanish.

We won’t let them.

Not today. Not ever.

If they can disappear them, they can disappear you.

Associated Press: US and global economic outlook deteriorates in Trump trade war, IMF says

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The outlooks for the U.S. and global economies have significantly worsened in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the uncertainty they have created, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.

The IMF said that the global economy will grow just 2.8% this year, down from its forecast in January of 3.3%, according to its latest World Economic Outlook. And in 2026, global growth will be 3%, the fund predicts, also below its previous 3.3% estimate.

US and global economic outlook deteriorates in Trump trade war, IMF says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and global economies will likely slow significantly in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the uncertainty they have created, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. The IMF said that the global economy will grow just 2.8% this year, down from its forecast in January of 3.3%, according to its latest Wor…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-global-economic-outlook-worsens-in-the-face-of-trump-s-tariffs-imf-says/ar-AA1Do9li

New York Times: A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where?

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The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.

Ricardo Prada Vásquez, disappeared Venezuelan immigrant

In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful.

The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela.

That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world.

But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.

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Raw Story: ‘Nonsense numbers’: Washington Post delivers math lesson to smash Trump claims

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As President Donald Trump’s tariffs begin to kick in around the world, The Washington Post analyzed two of his claims: “we were losing $2 billion a day [under President Joe Biden], and “now we’re making $3 billion a day.”

In an analysis, Glenn Kessler wrote, “both the Treasury Department and the data released by Customs and Border Protection show Trump is way off the mark.”

‘Nonsense numbers’: Washington Post delivers math lesson to smash Trump claims
As President Donald Trump’s tariffs begin to kick in around the world, The Washington Post analyzed two of his claims: “we were losing $2 billion a day [under President Joe Biden], and “now we’re making $3 billion a day.” In an analysis, Glenn Kessler wrote, “both the Treasury Department and the data released by Customs and Border Protection show T…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nonsense-numbers-washington-post-delivers-math-lesson-to-smash-trump-claims/ar-AA1DnViC