This one’s a U.S. Senator
Markwayne Mullins on Meet the Press this morning:
SEN. MARKWAYNE MULLIN:
What everybody needs to know, and I think they already know this about President Trump, is he doesn’t bluff. His words have meaning. And when he’s done, he is done and he’s moving onto plan B. The president is always looking down the road. He always has alternative plans. He wants to do plan A, plan B, plan C. But if that doesn’t work, he’ll go to plan D. And where we’re at right now is diplomacy with Russia hasn’t been working because Putin hasn’t been negotiating on good terms.
The president now with you, and the American people, he’s putting Putin on warning, saying, “Hey, listen. You better pay attention here. If you don’t come to the table and negotiate an end to the killing like I said I wanted to do, then we’re going to have alternative plans here and this is the first alternative. And by the way, we have three more plans behind this if this doesn’t work.”
KRISTEN WELKER:
We also talked about tariffs, the president saying these auto tariffs that he has just announced are permanent. And, of course, he’s continued his vows to make Canada the 51st state after imposing these new auto tariffs. I want to play for you a little bit of what Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had to say in response to these tariffs.
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PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY:
The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economics and tight security and military cooperations is over.
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KRISTEN WELKER:
Senator, has the United States lost Canada as an ally?
SEN. MARKWAYNE MULLIN:
No. We haven’t lost ally – Canada as an ally. They need us more than we need them. The fact is we have been subsidizing their economy by the tunes of billions of dollars every single year and they know that. What President Trump is saying is, is enough is enough. Right? If you want to have a relationship with the United States, it’s going to be an even playing field, a two-way street. We want reciprocal tariffs. We want to be treated the same. We want to have access to your economy like you have access to us. And if you want to have fair and balanced trade, then that’s fine. But our economy is not subsidizing your economy anymore. What Canada knows is that the United States has given them a sweetheart deal for them to have access to us, access to our economy. At the same time, we protect them.
Now they do fight with us. They are an ally of us in every war that we’ve had. We appreciate that. But at the same time, we need to be treated equally. And if they don’t want to come to the negotiating deal and realize that we are in this fight together, our economies, our border, national security means national security for all America, not just – not just the United States. And if they want to have that type of negotiation and that type of deal with us, we’re willing to do that.
But they’re not wanting to. They’re wanting to keep the same old sweetheart deal they’ve had in place and President Trump is willing to say, “Enough’s enough.” It’s about time. Because what President Trump is doing is he’s protecting America’s future. America’s economy going down the road. Our workers have suffered, our farmers have suffered, our manufacturers have suffered because we’ve had weak leadership in the White House and President Trump isn’t putting up with it anymore. So, thank goodness we have a tough leader finally that’s standing up against these people.
A tough leader who is finally standing up to “these people.” The Canadians.
God Bless Dear Leader.
By the way, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s worth watching the whole interview if you have time. The stuff he said about the Signal security breach is unbelievable.
I am sure that Oklahoma could do better than this. This man is very, very dim.