Trump threatens to delay opening of Gordie Howe Bridge, demanding "at least" half ownership
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Source: Windsor Star
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Monday to indefinitely delay opening the Gordie Howe International Bridge, while also demanding at least half ownership of the massive infrastructure project that Canada paid for.
I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve, Trump wrote on Truth Social. We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical.
Trump made the threat Monday on a rambling Truth Social post that also falsely stated Canada built the bridge with virtually no U.S. content including American steel. He claimed that former President Barack Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act.
The post is certainly unhinged, moving from a lot of misinformation and untrue statements, Windsor Mayor Dilkens told the Star. Of course, U.S. steel was used in the construction of the bridge on the U.S. side. Thousands of U.S. hands went into the construction of their bridge. And this was a project that was worked on together by the U.S and Canada through successive presidents and prime ministers over the course of almost 25 years.
Read more: https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/trump-threatens-to-delay-opening-of-gordie-howe-bridge-demanding-at-least-half-ownership
I know were all tired of the craziness. Youre being attacked internally and he threatens to attack everyone else externally. Morons arent smart enough to be idiots and hes surely a moron.
May we find sanity and protection from this mad man.
And everything he says in the article (and everywhere else) is total bullshit.
johnnyfins
(3,604 posts)$$$ in his personal accounts. Fucking thief.
bucolic_frolic
(54,536 posts)Now it seems it's really him. Nobody could invent that sort of posturing.
Enter stage left
(4,411 posts)You have 0% responsibility with your $750.00 income tax for years.
Fucking grifting SOB!
Deuxcents
(26,094 posts)He wants revenue and he wants his name on it. Is there even a description for this malady?
paleotn
(21,862 posts)BidenRocks
(2,967 posts)Not open due to trump being a whiny little bitch!
Out of spite I would close the border and airspace.
Good thing I don't run Canada, eh?
Pas-de-Calais
(10,275 posts)multigraincracker
(37,207 posts)Alaskan Highway between Washington State and Alaska. No more veggies and fruit for Americans living there. Itd be rotten if shipped by boat. No more Republicans again in Alaska. Or even a stiff tariff on trucks.
blue blues
(30 posts)groundloop
(13,646 posts)Canada paid all costs for the bridge, even reimbursing Michigan for land and engineering costs. The bridge is jointly owned between Canada and Michigan (the last time I checked Michigan is still a part of the US). Canada will collect tolls, once the costs are fully recovered Canada will share toll revenue with Michigan.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/fact-check-canada-paid-for-gordie-howe-bridge-but-doesnt-own-it-alone/
progressoid
(52,830 posts)alfredo
(60,273 posts)schoolyard bully allies to him.
niyad
(130,630 posts)JudyM
(29,672 posts)Discussion continues in this earlier LBN thread: https://democraticunderground.com/10143613937
