'Hit him back twice as hard': Canadian leader puts Trump on notice over threats
Source: Raw Story
January 25, 2025 10:47AM ET
While Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the face of Canadian opposition to President Donald Trump in his first term, that role now appears to belong to Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
In a lengthy interview with Politico magazine, Ford made it clear that while he hoped for good relations between Canada and the U.S. over the next four years, he wouldn't hesitate to be combative with Trump should the second-term president antagonize the United States' northern neighbor. Politico's Alexander Burns noted that Ford often sports a blue hat with the same serif-style font seen on MAGA hats that reads: "CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE."
Ford, who is 60 years old, accepted comparisons of his political style to professional wrestling. He likened himself to a "brawler with a reflex for combat," according to Burns.
Im a street fighter in politics, said Ford, who is the brother of the late former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. If someone throws a punch at me, Im going to hit him back twice as hard.
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Joinfortmill
(16,985 posts)msongs
(70,467 posts)tableturner
(1,771 posts)msongs
(70,467 posts)PatrickforB
(15,144 posts)AOC, Crockett, Warren.
I'm still mad at Pelosi for putting a 76 year old with esophageal cancer on Ways and Means instead of AOC because apparently we 'need' an institutionalist in that post. God forbid we get people in there who fight tooth and nail and never give an inch. Fuck working across the aisle.
We need to be using the same strategy the GOP used on us beginning in January 2009 - they opposed EVERYTHING the Dems proposed in lockstep. That is what we need to be doing. Make them fight, fight, fight for every single inch. Every. Single. Inch.
msongs
(70,467 posts)al_liberal
(436 posts)You beat him by punching him in the nose.
GreenWave
(9,858 posts)True story.
Then he tried to challenge me (Original problem. He was taking two seats on the bus and my sis needed a seat)
Little green Wave: If you'[re so tough why don't you come over here and knock me down?
So he charged like an enraged bull but at the last split second I ducked and he went face first into the sticker bushes, He cried out for help, but none came.
Later at home my mom was doing her thing, sharpening knives. A loud knock at the door. I am Mr. Christianson and both your daughter and son beat up my boy and I...
He must have noticed the butcher knife... Mom "Well I don't care if you are Christianson or Atheist daughter, you get off my property before I skin you alive and teach that boy of your some manners."
Javaman
(63,275 posts)homegirl
(1,621 posts)Donald has been given his orders and he obeys!!!
hamsterjill
(15,592 posts)n/t
SomewhereInTheMiddle
(430 posts)Maybe Trumps version of Great America is when everything bought in America was produced in America. By starting trade wars with every possible supplier/market, he will force the US to return to self-sufficiency. Because, of course, we have all the necessary resources here that we use in building all our tech and other high-end products. And what resources we dont have, we can annex territories that do have them.
I dread the next few years.