Trump’s Big Fat Lie About Canada: Another Step in His War on Truth, Trade, and Democracy

Trump Lies. Again. This Time, It’s About Canada.

Donald Trump doesn’t care about facts. He cares about domination. On May 6, during a staged Oval Office photo-op with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump dropped yet another flaming bag of disinformation: “We don’t do much business with Canada. They do a lot of business with us. We’re at like 4%.”

Let’s be clear: that’s not just wrong. That’s a dangerous lie. According to official U.S. government data—not some partisan blog or think tank—Canada is the #1 buyer of American goods and services. In 2024 alone, Canada imported $440 billion worth of U.S. products. That’s not 4%. That’s 17% of our total exports.

And Trump knows this. Or at least, the people who feed him talking points know it. This wasn’t a slip-up—it was a strategic distortion meant to undercut our partnership with a democratic neighbor while feeding his base a toxic brew of nationalism and fiction.

The Authoritarian Playbook: Lie, Isolate, Control

When fascists want to consolidate power, the first thing they do is rewrite reality. Trump’s manipulation of trade facts isn’t just economic ignorance—it’s a page right out of the authoritarian playbook.

By downplaying our economic ties with Canada, Trump is laying the groundwork for something bigger and uglier: an America cut off from its allies, tied down by lies, and ruled by one man’s ego. He wants to replace economic diplomacy with economic domination. He wants to make enemies out of our friends. He wants Americans to believe that we’re always getting cheated, that only he can fix it, and that the world is out to get us.

This isn’t trade policy. It’s gaslighting at a national scale.

The $200 Billion Lie—and the Myth of “Subsidizing” Canada

Trump also regurgitated another favorite fantasy: that the U.S. is “subsidizing Canada to the tune of maybe $200 billion per year.”

That number? Made up. Pulled from the same deep void where he stores his empathy.

The real trade deficit with Canada in 2024 was $36 billion. If you squint and only look at goods (ignoring services, where the U.S. actually runs a surplus), the deficit was still only $71 billion—a far cry from Trump’s delusional $200 billion claim.

And let’s be blunt: a trade deficit is not a subsidy. That’s not how trade works. That’s not how economics works. That’s not how reality works. But in Trump’s world, numbers are weapons, not facts.

Why He’s Lying—And Why It Should Terrify You

Why lie about Canada? Because Trump is on a mission to demolish multilateralism, smash democratic norms, and replace truth with loyalist fiction. Canada—progressive, democratic, economically entangled with us—is inconvenient for his narrative of victimhood and “America First” paranoia. So, he rewrites the story.

This is about more than trade. It’s about truth. It’s about the ability of one man to alter reality with a microphone and a cult of enablers. And if we don’t push back hard, this won’t stop at Canada.

🚨 Join the Resistance Before Reality Disappears

Trump is building a wall of lies, one falsehood at a time. And this time, he’s trying to sever ties with one of our most important allies under the guise of “protecting” America. Don’t let him get away with it.

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