I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.
Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.
Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.
People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.
Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.
He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.
That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.
There is a name for it.
So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.
The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.
And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.
Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.
And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.
Just another joke at our expense.
Donald Trump would see Canada lose $100 to make the United States $1.
Those that argue that's "America First" and what he should do forget that when it comes at the expense of the relationship with your top ally and top partner, that will have consequences.
He lies, cheats, scams, renegs, and makes things up constantly.
It's clear there is no "negotiating"
He says he loves Canadians, yet his actions say otherwise. He has done nothing but attempt to harm us, threaten us, and try to penalize us.
Again, that isn't America First, it's America Only. There is a big difference....
Again, sure, that's fine. But those in Canada that are worshipping him for this? Wow.
Dear @ScottJenningsKY
Let's talk cows.
Canada’s dairy system is not simply a tariff wall designed to keep American milk out. It is a supply-management system designed to keep production roughly aligned with demand, stabilize farm income and preserve a viable network of family-owned farms. Imports are allowed in significant negotiated quantities at low or zero tariffs; the very high tariffs people hear about generally apply only after those agreed import quotas have been filled.
The United States protects its farmers too, often much more extensively, but it uses different mechanisms. American taxpayers support agriculture through crop insurance subsidies, income and price-support programs, disaster payments, commodity programs and direct government payments. Dairy farmers have access to federally supported margin-protection and insurance programs. The U.S. also restricts imports in sensitive sectors. Sugar is an especially obvious example: the United States uses tariff-rate quotas that limit how much foreign sugar can enter at low tariffs, precisely to protect domestic producers and prices. USDA explicitly describes this system.
So there is a real hypocrisy in attacking Canada as a protectionist outlier. Canada essentially says to its dairy farmers: we will control production and imports so you can earn a reasonably predictable income from the market. The United States more often says to its farmers: we will expose you more directly to the market, but protect your income through subsidies, federally supported insurance, price and commodity programs, and, where politically important, import restrictions. In 2026 alone, USDA forecasts federal Dairy Margin Coverage payments, while its broader farm programs continue to provide income, commodity and insurance support.
Both countries protect agriculture. They just write the cheque differently.
And that matters to the family farm. Canada’s system was designed in part to prevent the boom-and-bust cycle in which oversupply collapses milk prices, smaller farmers fail, and increasingly large operations buy them out. Supply management gives a farmer greater certainty that producing milk efficiently can provide a viable living without having to become an enormous industrial-scale operation merely to survive the next price collapse.
That does not make Canada’s system perfect. Quota is expensive and can make it difficult for new farmers to enter. But portraying Canadian dairy protection as some extraordinary trade offence while the United States protects its own farmers with quotas, tariffs, subsidies, insurance and government support is fundamentally misleading.
Canada protects a relatively small number of agricultural sectors openly through supply management. The United States protects agriculture through an enormous, less visible architecture of federal programs and selective trade barriers. Calling one “protectionism” while pretending the other is “free trade” is the hypocrisy.
Hope next time you will fact check yourself.
Sincerely
Glen
Nothing new to use as an excuse?
90% of seized firearms come from the USA.
88% of crime guns recovered in Toronto trace back to the USA.
USA is the #1 source of cocaine and Meth entering Canada, in numbers far greater than drugs going in the other direction. About two-thirds of narcotics seizures involved drugs entering Canada from the U.S., while fewer than one-fifth involved drugs headed to the U.S.
I support better border security to stop these guns and drugs from entering Canada, just as I support the USA’s mandate to do the same.
But if you want to talk accountability, look in the mirror.
In March, 2025, Trump imposed a 25% tariffs on most Canadian goods, including autos and auto parts.
Canada retaliated with a 25% tariff on US autos.
This is the "unfair tariff scheme" Trump is talking about.
At this point, I don’t believe a single Canadian media organisation should give one millisecond of airtime to U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra. Do not give him a sliver of a platform. Let him sit in his office in silence.
American wildfire smoke is drifting into Canada.
Naturally, Canada will respond with tariffs on oxygen, clouds and prevailing winds.
Oh wait, we’re not morons.