Trump says he's holding Canada responsible for wildfire smoke and threatens higher tariffs
Source: CNN Politics
PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2026, 4:49 PM ET
President Donald Trump said Friday he’s holding Canada responsible for wildfire smoke hovering over much of the Midwestern and eastern United States and vowed to call Prime Minister Mark Carney, suggesting that the “cost of this pollution” could be added to tariffs Canada is already paying.
“We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
More than 100 million people in 18 states and the District of Columbia are under air quality alerts. “Very unhealthy” and “hazardous” air quality stretches from northeast Minnesota to southeast Virginia. “I will call the Prime Minister during the day to find out what they are going to do about it,” Trump continued.
“This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying,” he added. Tensions are already thick between the two countries. After the Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not use emergency powers to levy tariffs, the president has resorted to using other statutes that require investigations and public comment periods.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/17/politics/trump-canada-wildfire-smoke-tariffs
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They're going to have to set the entire country on fire, I fear. 
Of course Alberta province is trying to break away from the rest of Canada thanks to their RW loon provincial government.
Those wily Canadians control all the weather!
They're the reason we have winters.
They control the tilt of the planet on its axis.
They control the jet stream.
They're decades ahead of the U.S. in weather control, and I fear we may never catch up to them.
And everyone thinks they're so likeable with their free health-care, gun control, maple syrup and beavers. 
They're obviously out for total world domination, and they're bloodthirsty war mongers.
Is this 
really necessary?
...right on top of those poor conservatives in North Carolina to influence the election in 2024.
I mean, it is "ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can't be done."
https://web.archive.org/web/20241004145737/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marjorie-taylor-greene-hurricane-helene-conspiracy-1235124836/
How will MAGA ever recover from this shattering of their belief system?
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Those boreal forests in Canada, Minnesota, Russia, and Scandinavia that are now burning in a large part it is because the bottom layers of those forests are drying out they used to be covered in snow* for 4 to 6+ months of the year plus there was lots of water in wetlands, streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds, along with the forest floors is made of wet stuff such as; mosses, ferns, rotting timber, blueberries, lichens, fungi, and moose poop.
“This is Willful Negligence .. “ Gee Donny a lot of the Canadian bush is 50 to 250 miles from the nearest road.
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Just when you think he goes lower he’s getting into Marianna Trench level!
I'd like to hear Sir David Attenborough narrating the moment that Elon Musk panics and runs from a brown bear straight into a colony of hornets that sting him millions of times and cause him to stumble into a den of rattlesnakes.
