Failed politician, aspiring documentary filmmaker and man who is a standing joke in the academic community, Peter Navarro, is furious.
And this time, it’s not at Steve Mnuchin, who Navarro reportedly engaged in a “profanity-laced screaming match” last month in Beijing.
And it’s also not at China, a country which, according to Peter, is literally murdering flyover America.
No, this time it’s at panda enthusiast and man whose penchant for wearing Chewbacca socks to Bloomberg panel discussions is stone cold proof that he can’t possibly be dangerous, Justin Trudeau.
On Saturday, just hours after holding a press conference that found the man who is busy slapping tariffs on every country he can name proclaiming that the world should be tariff-free, Donald Trump took to Twitter to accuse Trudeau of being a back-stabbing villain.
Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2018
PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, “US Tariffs were kind of insulting” and he “will not be pushed around.” Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2018
That is obviously absurd and also seems to amount to Trump suggesting that Trudeau isn’t man enough to stand up for his country in person, but that aside, the reference is to comments Trudeau made at his closing press conference.
Specifically, Trudeau called Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs “insulting” (they are) and said Canada would proceed with retaliatory duties (which disproves Trump’s implicit assertion that Canada isn’t standing up for itself). Watch this clip and tell me what is inaccurate about it (hint: nothing – it’s all completely accurate):
.@CanadianPM @JustinTrudeau says he told Trump that his steel tariffs are "insulting" and that Canada is still planning retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.: "Canadians, we're polite, we're reasonable, but we will not be pushed around" #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/q9esTVVGiY
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) June 9, 2018
Despite the fact that what Trudeau said there is incontrovertible, Trump and co. are trying to pitch it as some kind of epic treachery.
Here’s CNBC personality, Merit Ultra Lights’ version of the Marlboro Man and Gordon Gekko doll, original, in box, Larry Kudlow to explain how “Trump is not going to let a Canadian prime minister push him POTUS around” just before “him POTUS” meets with a murderous, nuke-wielding dictator who once called “him POTUS” a “mentally deranged dotard”:
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau "went rogue" at the G7 summit and is "pouring collateral damage on this whole Korean trip," says White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow #CNNSOTU https://t.co/aTWIJsWtqS https://t.co/RMKSXPFWIC
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 10, 2018
Note how Kudlow says Trudeau “went rogue”. Well not according to Emmanuel Macron, who said this on Sunday:
International cooperation cannot be dictated by fits of anger and insults. [America’s actions exhibit] incoherence and inconsistency.
Now what was that about “going rogue” again, Larry? Want to reconsider that assessment?
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking it would be impossible for someone to come up with something more absurd than what Kudlow says in that clip.
Enter Peter Navarro and, predictably, Fox News.
Peter Navarro: "There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door…that’s what bad faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference." pic.twitter.com/KtqKXizBEc
— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) June 10, 2018
Now American officials are calling the Canadian prime minister an actual hell-dweller who “stabs” U.S. presidents “in the back on the way out the door”.
And remember: all of this comes as Trump is arriving in Singapore for negotiations with a child despot who executes people with anti-aircraft guns, starves his own people into cannibalism and threatened to nuke Guam just nine months ago.
Nothing further.
Trump is a victim; again. Imagine that. The entire right wing is composed of individual who feel like victims. Victimization sells, and almost everybody is buying. As long as each half of the country feels sorry for themselves, the fact that Kim Jong Un has accelerated his nuclear presence, and elevated his status as a result of Trump is disregarded by both halves. Left and Right both = poor little dumbasses!
Indeed – identity politics is the politics of victimisation. Sometimes it has real roots embedded in injustice, but these days most of it’s just attention-grabbing me-tooism. Now we have the global hegemon as victim. It’ll be fascinating to see how that bet gets raised.
POTUS fired off far more egregious tweets about Prime Minister Trudeau just before going to the G-7 meeting than anything Trudeau said, which Trudeau has stated publicly several times before, if POTUS did his homework.
He also just destroyed any hope of defending his tariffs in front of the WTO. It’s going to be difficult to make the case that tariffs against Canada were based on national security concerns when he just tweeted “Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy!”
Hahaha Gordon Chang just got yanked off Bloomberg TV for asserting that Trump is going to get zilch from his meeting with Kim Jong-un except to reinforce the legitimacy of Kim’s rule.
Yeah, but our 5-ball president will just nuke his ass and then blame the fallout (no pun intended) on the 8-ball.
I see that Trump has just tweeted that the the US gives 4% of its GDP to support NATO and defend europe. The actual entire US defence budget for 2018 is 3.5%.
The only way his moron base is gonna see that corrected info is if it is also tweeted back to him so they can read it — they don’t hear anything not on his tweets or Fox. Not to mention, they don’t believe any truths because they don’t want to. When anyone calls him ‘out’ and corrects him, they think he is being attacked, poor him and them. Totally fucked up mess.