An open letter to the President & U.S. Congress

Stop Enabling Trump's Petty Attacks on Our Allies

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Renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" with a Sharpie is not foreign policy — it's a tantrum. While families are still struggling with the cost of living that drove voters to the polls, the president is picking fights with Canada, one of our closest allies and trading partners, over imaginary slights. This is embarrassing, and your silence on it is becoming its own statement. The damage here is real. Canada has responded to Trump's tariffs with retaliatory levies, a trade war that hurts American workers and businesses on both sides of the border. Canadian defense forces are now reportedly modeling responses to a hypothetical U.S. invasion for the first time in over a century. These are not the outcomes of strength — they are the consequences of reckless provocation. Calling Canadian officials "nasty people" and demanding protection money from a sovereign ally is not a strategy; it's a liability. Speak up. Push back on these stunts publicly and demand that this administration return to serious, good-faith trade negotiations with Canada. The relationship between our two countries is too valuable to be sacrificed for a social media moment.

▶ Created on August 27 by Jeffrey Barlow

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