Trump threatens not to renew trade deal with Canada, Mexico. "We don't need anything from Canada or Mexico." [View all]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-cusma-usmca-trade-renew-9.7230164

U.S. President Donald Trump is once again dangling the threat of withdrawing from his country's free trade deal with Canada and Mexico, even though his trade officials are in talks on renewing it.

Speaking in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said he is "not looking to renew" the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) when it comes up for a review on July 1, six years after it took effect.

While the agreement doesn't actually expire until 2036, any country can withdraw from it by giving six months' notice.

Trump signed the deal — known as USMCA south of the border — during his first term as president.

"USMCA did one thing that I loved. After six years, it comes up for renewal. I don't know that I'm going to renew it," he said Wednesday, and went on to repeat his long-held complaints that the U.S. doesn't need anything from Canada or Mexico.

Also: https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-says-he-wont-renew
(Much more at link)

A ruthless, fully-sourced fact-check of the dumbest eight words Trump has said this week — delivered the same day US inflation hit 4.2%.
Dean Blundell
Jun 10, 2026

So Donald Trump stood up (sat sickly behind the desk in the Oval in a full diaper, actually) — on the exact same day the inflation print came in at 4.2% — and announced he might walk away from a renewed free trade deal with Canada and Mexico because, and I quote the stable genius directly:

“We don’t need anything from Canada or Mexico.”

Beautiful. Chef’s kiss. The economic literacy of a concussed senior.

Here’s the thing, Donald. I’m Canadian. I’m petty. And I have spreadsheets. So let’s do the thing you and your entire cabinet are apparently incapable of doing: let’s actually look at what happens to America if Canada — the country you “don’t need anything from” — simply… stopped.