...sessions was right..

The Mexicans can't complain about being forced to build their own wall, and the Canadians never complain about anything. Donnie Two Scoops gets what he's always wanted -- a country isolated from the rest of the world -- and the other two countries don't have to build walls between themselves and the U.S.

That seems like a win-win-win situation to me.

Now, about those pesky international airlines flying in people who aren't real Americans ---

... l would expect Mexico to object rather strenuously to that plan.

Just when you're convinced he is the dumbest president in history, you start to realize he's in the running for one of the dumbest people in the entire world.

There is no evidence "Canada" (the entire country as a unit) is smuggling shoes. tRump is making up crap to fling. This is beneath the office of POTUS.

be sure to write an effective and legal pre-nup.

called Premium Outlets. It has every imaginable brand of stores. When Canadian dollar was stronger, we used to see mall full of Canada auto license plates. Now Canadian dollar is weak and don't see so many Canadians anymore.

I remember hearing the Canadian accent. Being a Californian it was so strange to me.

No Canadians are doing this, he is breaking down in psychosis now making shit up.

This was the first thing that occurred to me, too. In a recent WaPo oped, the conservative-but-Trump-hating columnist Max Boot called Trump the "most unethical, unhinged, and racist president in American history." Yup, all of the above.

At a book signing a few weeks ago, a psychiatrist (noting how intelligence agencies draw up psychological profiles of world leaders) asked James Clapper what he would write if he were drawing up a profile of Trump. He demurred (having already that day been on the back end of one of T's tweetstorms), but said, "If I were a foreign intelligence agencies, I'd focus on his unpredictability."

He is a madman. And one with no ethics, no understanding of what really makes our country great, or any sense of responsibility to anyone or any cause except his own selfish interests.

What is alarming is that now he has an entire political party acting upon them.

Trump is a lunatic

Just like Joni Ernst, the Canadians are using bread wrappers when they should be buying Ivanka's shoes.

I keep thinking he couldn’t be a bigger idiot but he proves me wrong every time.

According to my web search Canada charges no duty/tariff on shoes brought in from the US. Hmm, could it be that NAFTA prevents tariffs on US imports to Canada? I guess that President Grifter is making up shit once again.

Truly a bunch of animals...

We make you guys bring over the shoes and we trade you cheap drugs for them.

Making up facts to justify what he wants to do is a regular past time of this illegitimate president . I don't believe much from this corrupt criminal , and he has a plan against Canada, which I fear its putin wanting to annex again using trump to do it, or egging him on while he invades Georgia, and trump goes after Canada, or Mexico. We're seeing just the tip of the ice burg right now how he'' escalates this to do as he pleases using made up excuses , again.

those nasty Canadians are out to sabotage our economy one pair of shoes at a time.

for us to go down there and buy stuff and yeah, take the tags off and shove it in a bag. And there are people who secure US postal addresses or friendly mail drops there, it's true.

It was more common when the dollar was closer to par though.

But it wasn't about tariffs. Stuff is just cheaper there and Canadians, like anyone else, like to save money too. It's not a conspiracy, Donald.

theory be due to the cost of a tariff being levied upon the final price in Canada?

Granted in reality the stuff you're talking about is probably almost never an actual 'made in the USA' item, but if it were ... I'm not sure you could rule out the possibility that the price is lower in the US due to the lack of paying tariffs. It's kinda exactly the effect you'd expect a tariff to have. Just sayin' ...

Prices here are higher because of taxes (multiple layers including carbon taxes) and supply and demand. We have far fewer people so fewer items that cost more.

Most of those shoes are not made in the USA, they're Asian imports, so Trump is complaining about Canada's tariffs on Asian products. Also, if Canadians are going down to the USA to purchase those shoes, they're pumping money into US retailers, at the expense of Canadian retailers, so really this is a net benefit to the USA.

There is a thread about it here:

Link to tweet

Go to the airport in Bellingham, WA and you see mostly BC plates.

Again, Canadians like to save money too.

Like, every few days was a news item about Cross Border Shopping! *gasp!!*

Hey Mexico! Trump is coming for your kids!

Please! Take him!

If any sneaking is going on it is Americans crossing the boarder to buy lower priced goods and sneaking them back without declaring them. Our money is, at this moment, worth more then theirs. At least you don't have to declare your full tank of gas, winkwink Americans.

Last couple of trips were to Victoria, and each Canadian dollar we spent was actually around $.75 US. I'll take a 25% discount, any day! We don't usually buy a lot of goods to bring back, but our lodging, travel, and food expenses are quite nice.

Uh, it's not the country that we're worried about.

I predict that sometime today, carloads of lumber from lumber from the Evil Empire of the North will pass WITHIN THE VERY SHADOW OF THE CAPITOL (assuming that we are somehow transported to the Southern Hemisphere, so that shadows from buildings to the north of the railroad tracks will fall up trains to the south of those buildings).

Now all of Trump's cult members are going to have to start complaining about Canadian smugglers. There's going to be memes of Trudeau wearing Han Solo's costumes, including scuffed up shoes.

I wonder which Fox News show had this "fact" on it or was it from another
make believe site like Information Wars?

... then charge them Trump's tariffs and then send the money to the US Treasury?


The man is nucking futz.

He has a "Stay Classy America" T that he wears in a sarcastic fashion. He bought it after Trump was installed.

If people applaud the shirt, he laughs at them.

He also enjoys going up to missionaries who are proselytizing and attempts convert them to atheism. "Have you heard about Reason?" is his opening line.

...by avoiding the massive tariffs, and we're bothered by this? How is this bad for the US again?

If anything you think he'd be happy about Canadian shoppers.

And had him wear them home over the border. I'm a One woman Shoe Smuggling Ring.

don't think that is reality

The shoes you buy and wear or the food in your stomach.

Isn't one allowed an allowance of things that can be imported personally on a vacation type trip? Or is this more of a European thing? Hitting the "Duty Free" at the airports is usually a big thing in international airports. Yeah it's normally stuff like cigarettes, alcohol, etc but when I worked retail in the UK I'd often have requests for VAT paperwork so when the customer left the European Economic Area they could claim back the VAT they paid on their purchase.