On Thursday, the White House put out an image of a bald eagle pinning a Canada goose under its talons and added a statement that managed at once to be obsequious, vulgar, and untrue.

“President Trump said it best: ‘Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable. They feel entitled, but they are not a State, and will be entitled no longer!” Canadian leadership chose retaliation over partnership — and America is no longer willing to carry them.”

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That, it seems, is now the party line. Canada had dared to retaliate against previous U.S. tariffs, many of them imposed illegally, so now it must be punished further.

Since some MAGA cheerleaders believe this piffle, it is worth recalling the sequence of events. In his first term, Trump was mainly concerned with scrapping NAFTA. To bring Canada to the table, he imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum.

The Canadian government decided to humor him, accepting various changes and agreeing to replace NAFTA with the new USMCA. Trump strutted, boasted, and crowed. “The USMCA is the........

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