HALIFAX—It is old news that United States President Donald Trump is a bloviating, malignant wind-bag who remains a stranger to the truth after years in the White House.  

The hope amongst those who have to deal with the Liar King has always been that Trump’s tasteless belligerence would somehow bottom out, that he would arrive at a point from which even he couldn’t go lower.  

Some thought that he might have reached that point when he publicly talked about grabbing women by their genitals.   

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Others believed he might have hit rock-bottom when he claimed that immigrants were “poisoning” the blood of America before setting out on a path of industrial-scale deportations.  

Many were sure he could go no lower after he threatened to wipe out Iran’s critical civilian infrastructure unless it opened the Strait of Hormuz. If Trump were to make good on such a threat—as it appeared he did after a strike on an Iranian water facility plant—that would, of course, be a war crime.

All of the observers who hoped Trump would bottom out with these and other excesses were wrong. Recent events have proven that Trump’s instinct to insult, abuse, and threaten even his closest allies is in embedded his genes.  

With negotiations for a new CUSMA closing in on a July 1 deadline, the president’s contribution has been to denigrate his two most important trading........

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