Obama on tariffs and Canada:
“Our current president loves tariffs. Now, he was warned. At the time when you impose tariffs, consumers pay the tab. Because it's, it's not just the goods that you use directly that have been imported from someplace else. It's also the car you build here in America. They might need a part from somewhere else and now suddenly there's a #tariff on it, so the prices go up. He was warned about that. No, no, no, that's not what's going to happen. It's going to be great. Everything's going to turn out great. No, that's not what happened. In fact, tariffs helped contribute to rising prices and, and The big trade war he's starting now is with that well-known evil empire, Canada. #Canada, I mean, these are the people who gave us maple syrup. And Martin Short. These are the Canadians are, they're the nicest people. they're so nice. They're like our, our, our friendly neighbors to the north. And he's he's like picking a fight with them.”
https://www.c-span.org/program/campaign-2026/former-president-obama-campaigns-with-ohio-democratic-candidates-in-cleveland/686941