US President Donald Trump announced that he was suspending all US trade talks with Canada after the government of Canada’s most populous province, Ontario, aired an ad in which US President Ronald Reagan spoke negatively about tariffs.
Trump’s announcement came after the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute reported that the Ontario government’s ad distorted a presidential radio address given by Reagan in April 1987 and that his statements were edited without permission.
The foundation did not specify what was misleading, but encouraged people to listen to an unedited video of Reagan’s speech on its YouTube channel.
“The Ronald Reagan Foundation just announced that Canada fraudulently used an ad, which is FAKE, in which Ronald Reagan speaks negatively about tariffs. The ad was worth $75 million. They did this solely to interfere with the decision of the US Supreme Court and other courts,” he wrote.
