Posted on 06/07/2018 9:23:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
During a testy phone call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. president Donald Trump reportedly cited the War of 1812 in order to justify seeing Canada as a security threat.
“Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?” he told Trudeau, according to sources cited by CNN.
The reason for the call was the U.S. imposition of tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, which Trump has justified on national security grounds.
The new tariffs, announced last week, sparked disbelief from across the political spectrum in Canada. For more than a century, the United States has had no problem building military equipment out of Canadian raw materials. Most famously, the country’s first atomic bombs were fuelled in part by Canadian uranium.
“Canada is a secure supplier of aluminum and steel to the U.S. defence industry, putting aluminum in American planes and steel in American tanks,” Trudeau said last week. “That Canada could be considered a national security threat to the United States is inconceivable.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland made the same argument in a CNN appearance, saying “do you really think Canada … represents a national security threat to you?”
Trudeau was apparently arguing Canada’s loyalty directly to the U.S. president when Trump fired back about the Burning of Washington.
In August of 1814, the U.S. federal capital was indeed invaded and burned by troops based in what is now Canada. Facing little to no resistance, the soldiers destroyed both the U.S. Capitol and the presidential mansion in one day of looting and destruction.
The current-day White House, from which Trump was likely taking Trudeau’s call, had to be mostly rebuilt as a result of the fire.
However, the soldiers who sacked Washington were all British.
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That’s our Trump. LOL
You know, after the milktoast sellouts, I’ll take this for a while.
Foreign nations, you’re barking up the wrong tree with this one.
Wonder if this has anything to do with a certain 2016 security conference in Halifax and Spygate....
bttt
I doubt that was his intent.
Go TRUMP
Canada is part of the British Monarchy. They did indeed burn down the Whitehouse in 1814 which was an action of the War of 1812.
>>That’s our Trump. LOL
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If Canada participated in Spygate, Canada is indeed a national security threat.
The national security element would be building up our own steel and aluminum capability. That’s all. No aspersions against Canada.
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So the FBI is wiretapping the WH and providing transcripts to CNN?
https://twitter.com/BoyerMichel/status/1004427364925956096
“After speaking to three very high level sources in the government, all are telling me the call between Trump and Trudeau on May 25 was not testy and the “burning down the White House” comment was clearly intended (and received) as a joke.”
Canada wasn’t even an independent country then, they were a British colony as we had recently (at that time) been. Canadians were generally northern-living Loyalists at that time. And yes, British forces made up with a significant number of British subjects from the colony of Canada were involved in the action that led to the burning of the White House.
This is really not complicated. We all know Canada will not attack USA militarily. What Canada is doing is killing Aluminum and steel industries in US. And that is the security threat. No war is possible to win if we have to depend on imports of steel & Aluminum.
Sometimes history does repeat itself
Our President has a great sense of humor. Much like Reagan.
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