America First VS. the Globalists

**Jillian Michaels** (0:00)
Barack Obama flew to Toronto on May 8th, 2026, and he shook hands with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a closed press gala, and they literally broke the internet. It was officially a speaking engagement. Unofficially, it was a move on a chessboard that most of us don't even really know we're playing.
The visit landed against the backdrop of the most severe U.S.-Canada trade rift in a century.
Billion dollar tariffs, sovereignty threats, a critical trade agreement careening towards a July 1st deadline. But the trade war was almost beside the point. Because what Toronto actually exposed was something much larger. A coordinated globalist network built on Clinton Obama institutional infrastructure, funded by international billionaires, staffed by democratic operatives using foreign soil to organize, strategize, and signal that the nationalist tide sweeping western democracies will be met with coordinated international resistance. This is the story behind the story of globalists versus America First.
Here we go.
Keeping It Real with Jillian Michaels. Mark Carney posted a short video of the handshake with Obama to X, and the caption said, Welcome back to Canada, President Obama. Thank you for joining us for our important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future.
The American right detonated. Calls for Obama's arrest, Logan Act violations, treason, and then the left fired back. Absurd. No crime committed. MAGA is manufacturing outreach from thin air. But both versions are not accurate. The truth is actually far more interesting than either of those stories. Trump's assault on Canada has come in four layers. Fairness requires distinguishing them. First, fentanyl. The White House declared a national emergency over northern border drug flows, but the actual numbers, the CBP seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the US-Canada border in 2024 That is 0.2 percent of all fentanyl seized that year. Virtually all fentanyl entered the southern border with Mexico. The crisis is real, but Canada driving it is not. Then there's the trade deficit. Senator Trump claimed that the US was losing 200 billion annually to Canada, but the actual 2024 goods and services deficit was about 35.7 billion, which was overwhelmingly driven by energy imports. Strip out energy and Canada was running a small surplus. So there's a real deficit, somewhat overstated. Then there's dairy and lumber, and these are genuine bipartisan decades long grievances. Canada's supply management system imposes tariffs above quota thresholds that can reach 241% on American dairy. The softwood lumber dispute, rooted in Canada's below market provincial timber fees, has been litigated through NAFTA, USMCA, and the World Trade Organization for 30 years. And it's important to note the International Dairy Foods Association explicitly thanks Trump for pressing Canada on this. And these complaints predate him. They persisted through Biden. And then there's the fourth reason, which is annexation. The one Trump kept returning to in his own unscripted words. He posted that Canada should become the 51st state.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:39)
Frankly, Canada should be the 51st state, okay? It really should because Canada relies entirely on the United States. We don't rely on Canada.

**Jillian Michaels** (3:48)
He said it in speeches, interviews, and on a private call with Carney that Carney later confirmed to reporters. And when Time Magazine asked him if he was trolling a little bit, Trump replied, actually, no, I'm not. The White House fact sheet said it plainly. Tariffs are a powerful, proven source of leverage, and needless to say, the Canadian people flipped out. Now, by early 2026, 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, 25% on automobiles, escalating to 35% with Canada matching dollar for dollar. A February 2026 Supreme Court ruling struck down broad IE EPA tariff authority, 6 to 3
Trump then pivoted to Section 232, keeping 50% tariffs on metals. Canada then removed retaliatory tariffs as a goodwill gesture in September of 2025
And it lasted three weeks before Ontario's Ronald Reagan baseball ad killed negotiations entirely.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:50)
When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs.
And sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time. But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.
High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens. Market shrink and collapse, businesses and industry shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. America's jobs and growth are at stake.

**Jillian Michaels** (5:44)
A Canadian prime minister apologizing to the American president because a provincial politician ran a Reagan ad during the World Series.