After sitting together with Prime Minister Mark Carney during Sunday’s World Cup final in New Jersey, U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t letting up on his threat to tariff Canada over wildfire smoke.
Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday night, Trump said he has a good relationship with Carney, but the fires need to stop.
He said the fires are poisoning U.S. air, and that maybe Canada should pay damages, or the U.S. should impose tariffs.
Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney watched the soccer from a glassed-in suite.
With them were Trump, his wife Melania Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
American officials have complained about Canadian wildfire smoke blanketing parts of the U.S., and Trump threatened last week to increase tariffs on Canada due to the smoke.
“I told them. I mean, you got to stop these fires from coming in and you know poisoning our air. Our air has been poisoned,” Trump said Sunday at Joint Base Andrews, near Washington, D.C.
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“If we can help them, we’ll help them. But maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or we should do some tariffs.”
Smoke from Canadian fires has been triggering air quality warnings across Ontario and in multiple states, including Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, New York and Indiana.
Trump last week said he would call Carney to discuss the issue, accusing Canada of “wilful negligence” and claiming a lack of forest management and debris removal is costing the U.S. billions of dollars.
It is unclear under what authority Trump would rely on to impose new tariffs on Canada.
Carney has brushed off the U.S. criticism, saying Thursday that Canada is pursuing investments in clean energy, while the U.S. is actively working against clean energy.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, meanwhile, said over the weekend that the U.S. detractors have a “very short memory” and spoke about Canada and Ontario’s efforts to support California during the state’s devastating wildfires in January last year.
“That’s what neighbours do. You don’t get on and start threatening and criticizing because guess what? One day, it’s gonna be your turn. And we’re gonna be down there without hesitation to support our neighbours,” Ford said.
Trumps 100% accurate again. Do some research goons!
Maybe the President can look at the wildfires in US states that are closer to the Capitol than blaming Canada for the smoke. The fires that are also burning in the US are considerably closer than Canada. No one can help MotherNature. The jet stream flows and sometimes doesn’t work with us. We just need to accept and work to move forward in these trying times. We also are suffering the smoke and hopefully the weather will be forgiving.
Ever fought a forest fire, Curtis Tillman?
No?
Shut up, then.
Do we have a problem with dried underbrush not being removed? If so, then we should institute programs to remove dried wood debris. Can we just stick to facts, if what I am asking is indeed true/
CO2 has nothing to do with forest fires Canadians have no brains.
Canada is dropping the ball with fires. Total incompetence shown by Ford, Eby, carney allowing them to burn out of control.
We have helped with many US fires. I know of some Canadians in the states helping with fires right now. We get some in Alberta from southern neighbour’s fires all the time.
Ha ha ha ha!!!! He wanted us to spend more money on defense. Let’s just tell him this is the new national defense strategy!! Smoke ’em out!
What does he expect Carney to do, tell the wind to stop being mean?
Hugh,
Your comment was the only one that had any merit.
MICHIGAN MAKES CARS
CARS POLLUTE
POLLUTION CHANGES CLIMATE
THIS CAUSES FOREST FIRES
I BOUGHT A CHINESE EV
HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE AMERICA
Tell the pumpkin to stop letting the smoke from the Washington state fires into southern BC.
Oh, I’m sorry, does that not make any sense? Hmm, look in the mirror moron.
Also, it’s a well known fact that Washington doesn’t have the resources to fight fires so they just let them burn because most of the time the fires are so remote they don’t threaten structures – the southerly winds just push the smoke into Canada.
Just when you think the pumpkin can’t possibly be more stupid, he says moronic things about our annual wildfire plight.
What a continued embarrassment!
F / K TRUMP !!! KISS MY A S S ! U WILL NERVER BE A PREDIDENT AGAIN. I PROMISE YOU
OK Colin, why don’t you get busy and count those water bombers and get back to everyone on how many are needed to deal with the current 800+ fires across Canada. And of course everything is Carney’s fault that Trump is making insane threats. And who’d be better, maybe Polly the Trump wannabe.
How many water bombers did Trudeau and Carney buy to fight climate change? Forest fires are an existential threat right? Where’s the water bombers? Oh wait… Gotta fund Ukraines war, gotta launder money thru the ‘Democratic’ peoples Republic of Congo… Some gender sensitive farming in Asia… Maybe a few bucks for rainbow mafia for Palestine….
This is a problem that can be solved with common sense
This man that said he was going to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine well guess what it didnt happen and now he’s going to put tariffs on Canada because of the smoke going over there we’ve got it worse than them.
Anyone have a slightly used straight jacket for myself?
I’m a stooge. Total donkey with severe TDS
Me need diaper changed and if not changed in 5 minutes more tardrifs
Damn you libturds are dumb as a bag of rocks, just saying
gimme a break Trump who is the biggest polluter of everything in the world today.
Canada should be punished. The incompetence of Carney and Ford is on full display. Canada has weak leaders that take no proactive action.
Okay Donny. Send us a bill for the smoke, and we’ll send you a bill for Canada’s freely-given responses to 1. 9/11, 2. Hurricane Katrina and several other natural disasters in US states, 3. wildfires in the US including California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc. In every case Canada provided, sent or offered assistance, WITHOUT CHARGE! Donnie, everything the coumes out of your mouth these days serves only to diminish your credibility. Mercifully, your blatherings do not represent the majority of the American people. Can’t wait for your mid-terms.
Boy. Canadians sure love giving excuses for the incompetence of Carney, Ford, and Eby.
Carney is a weak and spineless leader. He promised a trade deal to be completed basically a year ago. He has nothing to show for.
Perhaps Donald Trump should consider paying Canada damages to our environment. Acid rain in our lakes from American industries smoke stacks comes to mind!
I guess Carney went down to the FIFA final to bootlick Trump and kiss the MAGA ring. What a joke.
@Marilyn- Alberta has minimal forest fires burning currently.
@Shane,
Canada has way more hectares on fire than the USA. You rather give excuses than demand action from Carney and Ford.
Trump sure can stir the pot then watch everyone go bonkers
@Ali, instead of buying water bombers our government send it to Ukraine and spends it towards supplements for newcomers on a rolling basis. They never did anything to prepare for the ClimateChange ™ they engineered.
How do you drain the swamp when you ARE the swamp, Donnie?
My favorite part is how the US has 20,000 more wildfires burning than Canada right now.
I also love the fact that the majority of US fires are actually accessible and fightable.
How are we supposed to fight wildfires in Canada that are 2000km away from the nearest city in the heart of the boreal forest?
Smoke your fault, losing war everybody else’s fault and so on …
I guess we could install really big fans and power them from the electricity that would normally be sold to the US.
Or we could Tariff the bombastic babble that spews from POTUS.
So much for the billions spent of preparing for global climate change. why isn’t the money spent helping with dealing with the annual problem of forest fires? Too busy lining the pockets of the friends of Liberals?
@Trump is a Leader, follow the Leader Canada – ’tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. Unfortunately, it’s too late for you. Go back under your rock, troll.
@ Wayne:
Are you being stupid and ignorant on purpose?
Fires are a provincial responsibility.
Danielle Smith and Doug Ford.
Not impressed with Carney. He is a man of talk and no action. He has been MIA on the Forest Fires. He can hang out at soccer games and flip pancakes at the Stampede but does little else.
Bill Roach is the most demented liar on here. Must be a PP drinker.
America is free and sovereign and the best country in the world because they fought for their independence; Canada is not independent and the Governor General (NOT the prime minister) is the Commander in Chief of the Canadian “army”. The Governor General directly reports to King Charles III, as his federal representative of Canada. So you see, all the Trump haters are really King Charles supporters up north here, and we are NOT a free nation, we still pay tributes to the Monarchy in the UK, $50 million per year!!!!
Why is Carney anywhere near Trump if he isn’t talking about reducing the tariffs that Canada is paying. Trump has Carney right where he wants him under his thumb and doing whatever he wants. Carney is weak and Trump knows it. Trump won’t be president forever but others coming along will see Canada having a weak leader.
Maybe canada should look fo compensation for the pollutants in the air from there willful neglect what there manufacturer’s are putting in the air. And doing nothing about it , even increasing the pollutants inthe air. Compensation would be in the trillions.
Trump and his minions are total idiots that know nothing about the vastness of Canada’s boreal forest. Actually many do, but they are gutless self serving excuses for humans. Baffles the mind.
Carney has become Trumps lapdog
A manufactured storyline to protect the fact that Carney was smooching with Trump in New York after telling Canadians to boycott everthing US and not travel there hypocrisy at the highest level.
Time to put this baby to sleep forever! Braindead idiot! IRAN!! Do Your Thing!! Help the world!!
Trump, Musk and the Doge donkeys cut the science programs that would’ve monitored and predicted these wildfires…when you’re bigly and orange, you always blame everyone else for the mess you made.
Someone put some extra American lettuce in the fat taco’s next burger.
“Wendy” the troll azz.
Next time when a hurricane comes up from the states and damages property on the east coast of Canada. We should send Trump the bill.
Seeing as BC is now getting smoke from the upper western states, maybe we should consider reciprocal ones.
@Wendy (if that is really your name) – ’tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
So If you are all so smart What would you do with a mentally incompentent man with nuclear codes who lives next door?
Dumpy is just waiting for a reason to invade! So it is a fine line we walk until he is put out to pasture Hopefully by November that happens.
Doug Ford says that the USA should help us fight the fires. Again we are relying on the USA to do things we should be doing. So much for a sovereign Canada…
Canada has 20% more forests than the USA but 80% less forest fire fighting equipment.
Skid Mark Carney cuts the perfect figure of Mr Burns
Carney has been MIA and has done nothing on this issue. Poor and weak leadership.
And if you eat American produce you’ll be zhitting yourself all summer with the trots.
Someone give the orange taco extra lettuce on his next burger.