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Trump threatens to block new bridge in latest tirade against Canada

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Trump threatens to block new bridge in latest tirade against Canada
President says Gordie Howe Bridge will open only when US is ‘fully compensated’ – and makes bizarre hockey claimAs Democrats
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President says Gordie Howe Bridge will open only when US is ‘fully compensated’ – and makes bizarre hockey claim

As Democrats prepare to force a vote in the US House this week on Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, the president posted a lengthy diatribe on his social media platform in which he threatened to block a bridge connecting the US and Canada and made a bizarre false claim that increased trade between Canada and China would include a ban on Canadians playing ice hockey.

Trump began his latest screed against the US’s second-largest trading partner by claiming that “everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades”.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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