Argh. There's two people in charge of TAFKATUS (the Traffic Accident Formerly Known As The United States): at home, Agent X; abroad, Agent Orange's controller. Meanwhile, Beijing is quietly delighted.

For light relief, this is copy/pasted (with apologies to Librarians everywhere) from the comments section of an ElReg article on US stocks slipping in response to the tarrifs:

This is the funniest bit. Trudeau was, electorally speaking, a dead man walking, together with his party.

The Canadian version of MAGA heads were looking at a cakewalk. Had Orange-Utan just waited a few months, he would have had a bunch of sycophants in power up north. They might have handed him the whole country on a platter.

FFS, he made the Quebecois feel Canadian! That takes some doing.