Every day $1bn worth of goods crosses the river dividing Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two largely blue-collar US and Canadian cities that have come to act as one in the creation of North America’s auto industry.
News this week of Donald Trump’s escalating trade spat with Canada has everyone worried. Political and economic leaders and observers labeled the move an act of “hubris” , blamed Trump’s “ego”, and called the escalation “insanity”.
Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/trump-canada-trade-war-detroit-michigan
9 Comments
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 16h
Are we "great" again yet?
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 20 pts · 16h
Great at fucking losing lmao
Archer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 12h
Just redefine what “winning” means and he was right, we’re so tired of winning
santa@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 16h
In the final deal, Canada should demand lake name needs to be changed back. So petty.
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 15h
The lake name never changed for anyone except the US Federal government.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 14h
For somebody who lived through Bush changing french fries to freedom fries it’s really weird to see people act like Trump can actually do this.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 14h
Yeah. Me too.
Today they would be Freedoom Fries.
abrake@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 12h
In 10 years there's going to be a post like "TIL the US officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario during Donald Trump's second term, but then everyone ignored and forgot about it"
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 16h
We all despair.