Transcript of Charlie Angus on Trump's Threats and Canada's Response

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Canada is absolutely furious at the despicable Trump regime, and Canada is preparing to defend itself from a possible Trump invasion. Canada sees what Donald Trump is doing in the Western Hemisphere, what Donald Trump is doing in the Middle East, Donald Trump's catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran, Donald Trump's threats to Cuba, Donald Trump's threats in the Western Hemisphere, the way that Donald Trump is currently constantly mocking and attacking Canada while Canada suffers from horrible climate-related wildfires, and how Trump and MAGA are using the wildfires as a pretext to attack Canada and try to take Canada's sovereignty to pursue Donald Trump's 51st state conquest of Canada. This isn't hyperbole. You know, international audiences may go, oh, well, he's not going to do that. The people of Canada Canada, Prime Minister Carney, are not taking chances. Okay. They are building up their military defenses. They are building up their drone manufacturing. They are ensuring, and the Canadians are ensuring, that they produce their military equipment in Canada, that their alliances are increasingly focused on Europe and certain reliable countries in Asia, uh, and elsewhere, and not the United States. And Canada remains vigilant. And if you've been watching Prime Minister Mr. Carney's recent press conferences, or I should say his press conference, really throughout the year, it has been about Canada ensuring that it has the military to defend itself from anything, to also build up the kind of Arctic strength and alliances as well, to defend in the Arctic and to defend at home.

And the subtext, or the not so subtle subtext in this, is that if the Trump regime attempts to do anything, Canada is ready. And Canada will be strong. And, you know, just a glimpse into how despicable this Trump regime is, is just look at what's happened this week. I mean, in addition to Donald Trump trying to further shake the Canadians down over a bridge project that was always agreed to, I mean, just look at the response to the wildfires, right? Climate-related wildfires, whereas Canada and Canadians would always come right to the defense of, uh, people in the United States and help put out the fires. I mean, recently a Canadian man was identified as a helicopter pilot fighting the Gold Mountain fire. I mean, literally sacrificing their lives for people in the United States. Donald Trump has been threatening to raise tariffs over Canadian wildfire smoke. Donald Trump posted a deranged social media message. We're holding Canada responsible for the fact that they're not properly maintaining the forest and brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous and totally unacceptable. I will call the Prime Minister during the day to find out what they are going to do about it.

The cost is incalculable. Canada has refused to engage in basic forest management and debris removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly this result. This is willful negligence and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States billions of dollars. Which the cost of pollution must of necessity be added to tariffs Canada is currently paying. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. By the way, everything that Donald Trump is saying there, you know, is absolutely false. But Donald Trump is using the wildfires as a pretext to basically attack Canadian sovereignty, which Donald Trump has been trying to do since day one. And then the MAGA sycophants like MAGA Republican Tim Sheehy says, as a former water bomber pilot who used to lead an aerial firefighting fleet, I can tell you send help is an extremely dishonest framing by the Canadian government. I mean, just think about how sicko these MAGOs are. Send help. What a dishonest framing. A dishonest framing. Canada, which used to be and should have, should always be as close to the United States as possible, is saying, hey, can you send help? What a dishonest framing. This is why these MAGAs are just horrible and disgusting human beings.

Human beings. Send help. What an awful framing of the issue. How about you just do what neighbors have always done? Why don't you do what Canada does here for the United States? And then Donald Trump, this sicko scumbag, goes, Tim Sheehy is great, a winner, DJT. It's the cruelty, it's the evil. I've been reflecting more on this, and by the way, I put this in the book WTF America. Pre-order it right now because I look at this stuff and I go, WTF. And I think about how for some of the younger folks out there, this is all they've seen, this Nastiness. What terrible framing is that? Send help. No, no. Helping people, having empathy, caring for each other, and not this ridiculous 51st rhetoric. And then it's also paired with the whining, right? When Canada stands up, in the United States, all of a sudden, you know, sees our hospitality jobs are decreasing. The Canadians don't want to travel here. Canada— Canadians don't want to be in the United States. They don't want to buy American boos. Then what happens? You've got all the Trump officials are like, that's so unfair. Why are they doing that?

Why are they behaving like that? Because Trump regime, you're literally trying to torture the Canadian people and you're trying to invade and take over their land. That's why. Then you have people like, uh, Senator Bernie Moreno from Ohio. Um, and he tells state regime media Fox, he goes, and now as a result of this, We will be sanctioning Canada. We will be holding their assets, making sure they don't have visas, and we will put tariffs on them. Just think about that. When I say the U— the Trump regime is talking about invasion, I mean, think about what they're saying right here. You're gonna take away the visas of Canadian people because there's a climate-related wildfire and the Canadians help the Americans, and you want to, uh, use a wildfire as a time to behave like absolute deranged terroristic maniacs, Americans? Here, play this clip of what he says. Play this clip.

And when I hear politicians like Carney and Ford say that we should help when they could have avoided this problem, it's disgusting. We're gonna put sanctions on them. That means holding their assets, making certain that they don't have visas. We're gonna put tariffs as President Trump talked about it because we have to make certain that the people who are suffering get compensated. This is an abject avoidable disaster and the left, Who, by the way, talks about climate change every single day. This is the worst environmental disaster you could ever imagine. Every car in America for a year, pollution in 3 weeks dumped on the Midwest.

And then you have our propaganda network, state regime media, which calls itself Fox. You know, then they go out there and they're like, they're like, you know, they said, you never hear about the Canadian dream. And then you always just— the American dream. Once you get a taste of our freedom here, you don't want to go back. You know, no one talks about the Canadian dream. I mean, again, what imbecilic show is this? The stupidest thing I've ever even heard. What are you talking about? People love living in Canada. What do you— what does it even mean?

Here, play this clip.

Um, there's a lot of people that talk about us, but once they get to experience freedom, they love it. And so it's just interesting that we have so many people invading our border to get here because they want this American dream. You know You never hear about the Canadian dream. You never hear about the UK dream. You never hear about the Venezuelan dream.

Yeah, preach.

Right.

But you never hear about it. It's a wait 30 days for a medical appointment. That's what the Canadian dream is. And of course, earlier this week, Donald Trump was posting weird AI photos of himself, or AI photos of the poster board of the Western Hemisphere with Canada having the American flag over it as Donald Trump talks about taking over Canada. And he creates this scene where he's speaking with NATO allies. It was a real meeting from last year, but the poster board was of Ukraine and Russia, not of Donald Trump showing NATO allies a poster of him conquering Canada. And this is where you have the whining to Jameson Greer on the Canadian-US-Mexico agreement negotiations, on the CUSMA negotiations. I mean, this Jameson Greer guy too, he's the US Trade Representative, such a weasel. He's like, well, I think that we should, you know, Canada likes to talk. I mean, who are these losers? As I always say, freaking WTF? Who is this guy? Jameson Greer is such a freaking loser.

Here, play this clip.

I'm in contact with my counterparts on a weekly basis. Over the past year, like with other countries, I've given lots of proposals to the Canadians on things that could be done immediately to put us in a better position. The Canadians are always willing to talk, right? Like many countries, they were happy to talk.

Talk.

That's fine. I'm happy. You're always happy to talk. That's not a concession. That's just what we do as, as, uh, you know, diplomats or, you know, economic negotiators. So to me, that's not really— it's not a concession, that's not movement, that's just describing what we do now, which is talk. So we had— we just haven't seen a lot of movement. They had— there are a couple things that Canadians have done, you know. They had a digital services tax they proposed, then rolled back. They had an Online Streaming Act where they wanted to force American companies to fund Canadian companies that they rolled back. I'm glad they did that, but they don't really get credit for doing something bad and then undoing it, right? That's just, that's just, you know, good practice on their part. So you don't want to give an under-over of how long it's going to take with the Canadians? I, I don't know. I don't want to get ahead of them. I mean, the reality is if, if the, if the president, Prime Minister Carney, you know, have an understanding, I'm sure we can put together something that makes sense to get us over, over the hump.

We're always going to trade some with Canada, right? I mean, they're, they're just because they're, they're there, right? Um, the reality is the president's quite focused again getting the trade deficit down with Canada, which it is down by 25%, uh, and he wants to listen. It's less about being anti-any country and just more pro-America and making sure we have as many of these supply chains here in the United States.

Now contrast that to Prime Minister Carney, and Carney talks about, you know, if for a stronger, safer world we need a stronger Canada.

Play this clip.

If we are to assert our full sovereignty in the Arctic, and if we're to defend and promote our values of freedom, democracy, peace, we must do so from a position of strength. If we want a stronger world, if we want a safer world, we need a stronger Canada.

And at this, uh, press conference that Prime Minister Carney had, he talks about again new fleets being announced, being made 100% in Canada. I'll play this clip for you right here.

And the new fleet order that we're announcing today will continue that legacy, serving our women and men in uniform at bases across the country. Every single one, every single one will be built right here at GDLS Canada's factory right here in London. Our new partnership with GDLS Canada will create and sustain over 6,000 high-paying Canadian jobs every year over the next 8 years.

I want to bring on the leader of MIDAS Canada, Charlie Angus, to talk about this moment, about how, you know, Canada has increased the size of its military, its defense readiness. By the way, it's defense. Canada is ready to defend itself. Canada doesn't want to go, you know, to war with the United States, but Canada sure as hell ready to defend itself. And if you know anything about Canadian Canadian history, when Canada has to fight fascists, they've been first. And MapleMidas knows what I'm talking about. All right, let's bring in my interview with Charlie Angus, former member of Parliament, leader of Midas Canada. Let's bring in Angus now.

I want to bring in Charlie Angus, leader of Midas Canada. Charlie, great to see you as always. Now, the Trump regime continues to use new tactics to try to implement their 51st state invasion of Canada. When something doesn't work, they use something else. I mean, even right now, thinking about how the Trump regime is using these horrific and tragic fires in Canada as also a tool to try to sanction Canada and attack Canada. You're seeing Trump and MAGA plot that way. You know, also when it comes to the Gordie Howe Bridge, also, you know, when it comes to secession, also when it comes to, you know, again, pulling out of of the trade agreement. I mean, it's still a relentless barrage. And then, Charlie, it is the Trump regime playing victim. If Canada stands up for itself, then you'll hear the Trump people go, oh my God, can you believe it? They're doing this, or Canada's boycotting this, or they don't want to show up. I mean, what do you make of this moment?

Well, Ben, I think this is the real issue here, is to recognize that this is constant, constant pressure where our sovereignty is always on the line. So, you know, there's been a lot of talk here about with the fact that Donald Trump basically ripped up the agreement that had been in place for over a dozen years to build that Gordie Howe Bridge, saying that America had been ripped off when Canada put the money up. There was an agreement with Michigan. There was an agreement with both governments going back for years. This was all about intimidation. And the day after, they got the agreement to get the bridge opened. Donald Trump has a meme of Canada with the American flag on it. We have Elridge Colby, the guy who threatened the Pope, warning us that, you know, if we try this middle power stuff, it's going to cost us. Well, I think the cost was, yeah, we'll shut down the bridge, we'll take you on. So now the fire catastrophe that's unfolding is in some ways it's ridiculous, but I think it's also very, very, very dangerous right now. We have, you know, these MAGA politicians basically threatening our sovereignty that they're going to come over the border if we don't fix the climate catastrophe.

Well, great. That's how things have always been done. We've always crossed the border to help each other. Right now, we're mourning the loss of Nicholas Dale, who died in Aspen, Colorado. A Canadian firefighter was over on the American side helping put out an American fire and died. Yet this is now going to be the latest tactic for threatening the sovereignty of our nation. And we've got to keep our eye on the ball and understand what they're up to all the time.

You know, you see Donald Trump continue to make the posts where he'll do AI images of himself and NATO leaders, where he'll show the flag, you know, show the American flag over Canada and Greenland. You know, it is relentless. And I think that one of the things— and you've studied authoritarians and, you know, Donald Trump in the same mold, you know, yes, it is psychotic and dangerous, but he doesn't stop. You know, he'll just come at you with a new tactic. He'll take you from there. You know, if you think about it, I mean, on Thursday he was ranting and raving about the 2020 election. And it's easy to say, look, He's psychotic, he's an idiot, he's deranged, he's a lunatic. But when you study authoritarians like you have your entire life, you know, you repeat the same thing over and over and over and over again. Sometimes the reaction from people is, all right, what do you want from me? Fine, just take this. And then they keep on taking and taking and taking. Speak to that moment of what you're seeing in Canada.

Well, what really worries me, Ben, is I think because this is dragging on and on, Certainly the average Canadian is not bending. This is why we're seeing the rage, Claudia Tenney, the Republican mega gal, demanding that we do something to put the booze back on the shelf. It doesn't matter what they do, people are not going to drink it. So the boycott remains really strong. But we see, you know, Marco Rubio holding this forum that anybody who's not a fascist, if you're an anti-fascist, you're somehow tied with terrorism. And the strong arming that went on to have Western allies attend end this. And I'm, you know, very concerned. Canada sent somebody. I figure Canada sent somebody because we just want to, you know, not always be fighting with them. But here's the thing, you know, you don't, um, go along with fascism. What this Antifa summit is about— criminalizing dissent in the United States. That's what it is. It's about using the power of the state against the American people to crush dissent in the midterms. To do this on the international scale and expect Canadian officials to attend, to me is very worrisome. It goes back to the crocodile metaphor of Winston Churchill who said, you know, the collaborator is the person who figures if other people are being eaten by the crocodile, he'll be eaten last.

It's this constant, constant pressure, this constant demanding that we go along to survive so that Otherwise they're going to hit us harder. That's my concern right now. And I think this thing with the wildfires is really concerning. It— at some levels, it's absolutely ridiculous. I mean, there's 45,000 wildfires out happening in the United States right now. Donald Trump has trashed the clean energy regs. But you just need sometimes a symbol to get people angry. Certainly we see how they're using this against us and they're threatening our sovereignty. Over the fact that climate fire doesn't care what side of the border you're on. And we can't just think, well, we'll explain to them climate science because they don't believe climate science and they don't care about climate science.

You know, whether it's the NATO summit, ASEAN, G7, wherever, I mean, we see Prime Minister Carney, uh, with his delegation inking deals. I mean, we're seeing, you know, the Bombardier Gripen, uh, the Bombardier Saab, you know, the, the Global Eyes that are being sold And so, you know, there's a real emphasis. I mean, we've always known that when there have been major world wars and when it's fighting fascism, Canada's always not just stepped up, but really has been first to lead. And it's important that, you know, people throughout the world recognize that because it's part of what makes Canada so incredible. But no one thinks about Canada or no one thought about Canada in modern times as, you know, okay, well, Canada's got to arm up and build up its military. But I think what we're seeing is while Trump is escalating the war in Iran and Trump has, you know, this genocidal war crime agenda in the Middle East, he then uses that to go around the Western Hemisphere to make these threats, whether it's in Cuba, whether it's with extortive measures working with the Bolsonaros in Brazil, whether it is, you know, putting in his proxies in Colombia, etc.

And you've been covering that a lot. Talk to us about both of those things, Charlie. Arming up, military, and then the overall Western Hemisphere dynamic you're seeing?

Well, certainly it's been very impressive how Prime Minister Carney— I mean, I disagree with many of the things happening on the home front because I am very, very concerned about the total picture on the international stage, the role Canada is playing with NATO, with our allies, and this whole push to create a middle powers alternative. I think in Washington they see this middle powers this move as somehow an attempt to create a power bloc to oppose the United States. It's not. It's about creating an alternative so we're not being threatened constantly by the United States. I mean, Donald Trump says he doesn't want to have anything to do with NATO, he doesn't want to have anything to do with Canada. So we say, fine, okay, we'll start negotiating with the Europeans. And then they say, hey, whoa, what are you doing? You belong under our umbrella. And I think the Gordie Howe Bridge debacle was very much trying to teach us a lesson because right after you had again Colby come out and say this middle power stuff has got to stop, it's going to cost you if you pursue this, it's going to cost you in time and it's going to cost you in money.

And so what did they do? They blocked the Gordie Howe Bridge. So they see the real threat from Prime Minister Carney's Middle Powers Initiative. The issue for the Canadian people is to recognize, and we've talked about this, Ben, many times, they're coming for us because they can't have us standing up to them. They're gonna give us only so much runway before we end up in a confrontation moment. So is it the confrontation gonna be over whether we send somebody to their Antifa as Terrorism conference, or is it going to be because they demand that we stop the climate catastrophe that's unfolding, even though, Oh, heck, I'm just going to throw this in. The New York Times is reporting that the big fires in northwestern Ontario came over the border from Minnesota, but hey, that's okay because people in northwest Ontario and Minnesota are good friends and we'd help each other out. But what's it going to be for the next level of threat? And we can't lose sight of the fact that as authoritarians, they never ever shift. They don't become nice down the road. And you don't get to sit down with them and try and talk them down.

I mean, that was always the mistake people thought. Thought with Hitler in the early '30s. They didn't think he was that serious. They thought they could bedazzle him with their smarts. Uh, these guys are playing on a whole different, uh, level of menace, and that's something we can never lose sight of.

Charlie, we've been speaking with each other now for close to 2 years. Um, as we always end these interviews, I ask you— we know that You know, we know that the Trump regime watches these interviews. I mean, they've reached out to you before. So what's your overall message to Trump and his regime right now?

Well, Donald, you know, we're watching what's happening with Vladimir Putin and his war going down the tubes. And you backed him 100%. We know that the road is running out for Benjamin Netanyahu, one of your fellow monsters in terms of the massive damage he's done. And the road is running out for you towards the midterms, for whatever comes next. You have never lost sight of your hatred of the Canadian people, but the thing— the reason you hate us, Donald, is because we are democratic, because we don't buckle and bend, and because, you know what, we're basically decent people. We don't go and hang out on Epstein Island. We don't vote for sexual predators. We don't go along with the crooked oligarchs that you look up to and that you worship. So you are going to threaten us. Is it going to be on the Gordie Howe Bridge? Is it going to be on the evacuations and fire zones that are happening? Hey, because you and your government and your oligarch friends thought that getting rid of all of the renewable strategies to lower emissions was going to somehow save you, save your ass. It ain't going to happen, Donald.

So we know what's coming. We know that the threat remains. And the idea that we're ever going to buy your booze again, you should go to Kentucky and explain why you continue to fight with us. And you should explain to the American people why you to betray them because it's coming for you, Donald. Your days are running out and we will be there to dance when you go down.

I mean, it's a really sick and twisted perspective on everything. I mean, their view is if we abuse people more, if we harm people more, they will want to do deals with us. And, you know, Trump may see that as an accurate— that's their view on everything. And just abuse people and then they'll, then they'll fall in love Yeah, it's—

they're shocked that because they abuse us, we're not kissing up to them, and it's not going to happen. So we just got to keep holding our ground here and— but pay attention to the level of crazy that they're trying to stir against us.

Everybody subscribe to the Midas Canada YouTube channel. Charlie does at least one video pretty much every day on Midas Canada, and that channel's rapidly grown. It's probably one of the biggest, you know, channels and podcasts out there in Canada right now, and certainly being noticed there. And after this video, subscribe to Midas Canada.

And hey, Pete Hoekstra, we— Ben and I'll interview you. Or if you just want to go for a beer, anytime, anyplace, Pete, I'm ready for you. Let's, let's talk.

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