My bad ~ $1.3 Billion on pallets in the "dead of night" so nobody would know about it. And then a shitload of "frozen assets". How much was that again? We didn't have to lay out a dime. The "comprehensive document" was a great deal, put together primarily by Mike Pompeo, you know first in his class at West Point, the guy who they tried to embarrass for his stance on Christianity. Cory Booker tried to embarrass him, but the only one who was embarrassed by the ugly display was Booker himself. Hope he runs in 2020. Trump will demolish him. It will be ugly for the left. As far as embarrassing his allies, if they don't want to play ball, screw em.

Pretty much. Just a carryover from our favorite Marxist/commie, Barack Obama. Getting Trump elected, best thing that ever happened to this country. And last night? Amazing. Since when did you guys ever come even close to a sit-down with Chairman Kim? Oh that's right ~ nobody has even called him on the phone. Trump has got him by the short hairs because until he gets 20% of the denuke on the way, no removing the sanctions...which are crippling what's left of the NK economy. Kim wants that to be "OVER". Trump will keep the pressure on until Kim shows "good faith". I know you don't believe in any of that, but who cares. That's just the way it is. Trump IS NOT beholden to anybody....not even Schumer or Pelosi. LOL The Left is so skeptical with the details when they couldn't get to first base (if they Kim's bra off).

It is not the anti-trump media, it is the pro-American media..

I never said the Canadian farmers were better then American farmers.. I gave you the reason for that tiny part of the trade that was cherry picked by the orange thing to define the total trade with Canada..

I will point out once more that the US had an 8 billion dollar surplus in trade with Canada.. They are our very best trade partner.

In Minnesota, Canadian trade is very important in a great number of goods and services.. We do not want that damaged by an orange fool running his mouth for attention..

I do know a bit about dairy farming.. born on a farm, we did indeed milk cows.. about 20 of them..

Yes, the consolidation of milk processing was near disaster for the farmer.. the amount paid to farmers forced many to give it up.. With no alternative to the large creameries they went under.

even today, most states have laws against the farmer selling his own milk on the public market..

trade has slumped under the trump banner..

we are booming in large part because the rest of the world caught up to our recovery from the recession..

I see no upside to a trade war.. so far it is mostly talk but if these tariffs and counter tariffs go into effect, it will hurt the country a great deal..

You keep keep running out that " 8 billion dollar surplus in trade with Canada.." shpiel. Well that seems to be largely a matter of opinion.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/trump-may-actually-be-right-about-the-trade-deficit-with-canada

At any rate, whether it is accurate or not, it only takes in one year. According to the article I posted, between 1994 and 2016 by any measuring stick Canada ran an accumulated C$1.2 trillion surplus with the US.

Geeeeee, so lets us look at figggurs. $ 8 Billion MAYBE for 2017. C$1.2 trillion accumulated over 1994-2016.

Maybe it's me or maybe something is lost in the conversion from American dollars to Canadian dollars, but off the top of my head I am guessing C$1.2 trillion is just a tad larger than $ 8 Billion.