A few days ago the Obese Orange One ordered 3M to stop shipping medical masks to Canada and Latin America. Today, Secretary of State Mike PompousOne walked it back with a statement about "....because we are a good and generous people".

Right, Mike....it had nothing to do with:

* the fact that you can't make the masks without a special pulp that you get from Canada

* the fact that 1,600 Canadian Nurses cross the border at Windsor every day to work in Detroit hospitals

* the fact that Canada manufactures rubber gloves and test kits shipped into the U.S. daily

* the fact that, if Canada pulled the plug on the above, President Bonespur have to eat a giant portion of crow

Someone needs to sit Trump down and explain that Free Trade is a two-way street.

Last edited by ryck; 04/07/20 07:29 PM.
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