Canada’s Doug Ford Calls Trump A ‘Dictator’ As ‘Economic War’ Escalates

Aug 25, 2026 03:05 AM - 1 hour ago 1

Topline

Ontario Premier Doug Ford blasted President Donald Trump successful a searing property convention Monday, calling him a “bully” and “dictator” arsenic the U.S. and Canada speech progressively stark blows amid a trade war that has resulted successful tit-for-tat tariffs.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks during a property convention astatine Canada's Premiers Conference successful Toronto, Ontario, December 16, 2024.

Photo by Geoff Robins / AFP) (Photo by GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images

Key Facts

Ford told reporters Monday that Trump is simply a “bully” and “dictator” who he would not “take immoderate proposal off,” referring to the president arsenic the “king of bankruptcies,” a jab astatine the six business bankruptcies Trump’s casinos and hotels revenge for successful the 1990s and 2000s.

When asked astir a remark he made connected the power Monday greeting successful which he told Trump, “Kiss my a–,” Ford doubled down during the property conference, adding, “I person a batch of existent property connected my a–, truthful he has a batch of room to buss my a–.”

Ford said Trump is underestimating Canada, which is “all in” connected an “economic war,” and said, “We request to propulsion everything and the room descend astatine them.

Ford’s comments came aft a Truth Social station successful which Trump said the U.S. “has been carrying Canada for decades,” pinch the president later calling Ford a “Flunky.”

Trump threatened Monday to slap 50% tariffs connected each cars, trucks and parts from Canada starting adjacent year.

Ford besides said reddish states successful the U.S. would beryllium “hit hard” by Canada’s retaliatory tariffs.

What To Watch For

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Saturday Canada will enact dollar-for-dollar tariffs against the U.S. starting Sept. 8. Sectors targeted by those tariffs see steel, agriculture, dairy and electronics, according to Carney.

Key Background

The broader waste and acquisition warfare betwixt the U.S. and Canada is rooted successful Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs announced past year, erstwhile a 25% cosmopolitan tariff was placed against Canada and Mexico. However, Trump concisely exempted the mostly of waste and acquisition by delaying penalties for equipment compliant pinch the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The Trump management declined to renew the woody during a associated reappraisal successful July, opting against a 16-year hold complete concerns it would not rebalance waste and acquisition deficits aliases amended manufacturing jobs successful the U.S. The waste and acquisition warfare reached a fever transportation this period arsenic U.S.-Canada waste and acquisition talks grounded past Friday. Following the illness of negotiations, the Trump management imposed 50% tariffs connected immoderate Canadian products and impacted astir $20 cardinal successful Canadian exports, according to CNBC. Carney past announced Canada’s dollar-for-dollar tariffs, telling reporters Saturday, “You're astatine warfare erstwhile you get attacked. We sewage attacked.”