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RSS FeedsTalking to Americans about Trump´s attacks on Canada
(The Star Environment)

 
 

15 june 2018 14:46:40

 
Talking to Americans about Trump´s attacks on Canada
(The Star Environment)
 


ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.—Wayne Batchelor, a 72-year-old in northern North Carolina, tries to “love everybody,” and he would like you to know that he has nothing but love for Canadians, who are, it goes without saying, “fine people.”He does, however, strongly object to Canada’s milk tariffs, whose existence he has recently become aware of, via Fox News and other television stations, because of the complaints of President Donald Trump.And, therefore, he has no problem with Trump’s bashing of Canada and its prime minister.“As far as Trudeau: I don’t think it’s right what they’re charging for the milk,” Batchelor, a retired IBM employee wearing a Tractor Supply Company baseball cap, said Monday at a Walmart. “The 270 per cent. I think he’s dead wrong doing that. I think what Trump is after, and I think eventually we’ll get it worldwide, is fair and equal trade. So I’m all for what Trump’s trying to do.”Derrick McNeil, an off-duty Walmart freight handler, was sitting on a bench nearby. He was dismayed by Trump’s words about Canada.“That’s one of our allies,” said McNeil, 44, who was dressed in Rastafarian symbols. “He’s so far up Putin’s tail, he don’t know the difference: he go after our allies but buddy up to our enemies.“And when everything hits the fan, our enemies ain’t gonna be with us — our allies are gonna be with us. But he’s makin’ it hard for them to be with us.”Trump’s regular grumbling about Canadian trade practices has taken a vitriolic turn this week. The barrage of personal insults from Trump and his aides has alarmed politicians on both sides of the border and raised questions about the immediate future of the bilateral relationship.Last Saturday, the president called Trudeau “dishonest and weak.” On Sunday, two of his top advisers went on television ...


 
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