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Trump says ‘Canada thinks they’re a state’ as he defends bitter trade war with US neighbor

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In a separate post, he argued that Canada, America’s second-largest trading partner, was also one of its worst, despite the two countries conducting almost $900 billion in cross-border business every year, according to the U.S. trade representative.

Amid a war of words with Canadian officials, notably Ontario Premier Doug Ford , Trump announced he was renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” just as he renamed the Gulf of Mexico last year after falling out with America’s neighbor to the south.

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