Trump humiliated by fact-check after claiming Canada used AI for Reagan ad
www.irishstar.com
The fact-check features a link to a transcript of Reagan's address from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as well as full audio

President Donald Trump was once again fact-checked following an embarrassing tantrum over a Canadian advertisement.

The ad quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 38 years ago criticizing tariffs – a policy tool Trump frequently employs. The commercial includes audio clips from an April 25, 1987 radio address where Reagan stated: "Over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.‘’

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      123·
      8 hours ago

      Days that the majority of America did anything meaningful to deal with Trump: 0

    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I’d argue there are too many structural issues, all too established to ever fix. Trump is just abusing these with abandon instead of papering over them like often happened in the past.

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        The only hope at this point is that it’s so broken by the end that no amount of “tweaking” the current plan/formula is worth doing. Would at least be nice if the light at the end of the tunnel is that a whole new modern way of life will be possible to rebuild from the ashes. Even without trump breaking it further, the current plan wasn’t going well, long term. It’s going worse now, but in an unsustainable way. The old plan would have taken much longer to get this much worse.

        • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          will be possible to rebuild from the ashes

          The problem is that the billionaires are thinking the same thing and their ideas for a "new modern way of life* are a bit different from the rest of the population.