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President Trump has pulled the plug on trade negotiations with Canada, where the economy relies in significant ways on the United States, over what he has called a "FAKE" ad that appears to be trying to influence the U.S. Supreme Court's looming decision on tariffs.

Further, the ad may actually misrepresent President Ronald Reagan, whose words it uses.

The bigger picture is Trump's use of tariffs to bring about fair trade agreements for American manufacturers, consumers and economy with foreign nations that long have taken advantage of unbalanced practices.

The Supreme Court right now is considering the status of those tariffs.

Canada, of course, has a significant interest in making them go away. And Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who repeatedly has opposed Trump's economic agenda, revealed he was pushing an ad campaign weeks ago.

Now it's out:

It claims, through Reagan's words, edited for the ad, "High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down and millions of people lose their jobs."

He was, in 1987, addressing trade with Japan.

Now Trump has responded to the ad.

"The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HERBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT."

The Hill explained "Trump in August announced a 35 percent tariff on all Canadian goods, though products covered under the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement were exempt. Canada is one of the United States' top trading partners, and their economies are heavily intertwined when it comes to certain products. But Trump has repeatedly argued the U.S. does not need Canadian goods, and that Canada is far more reliant on America for its economy."

In fact, the Reagan Foundation confirmed the ad manipulated Reagan's words, and it announced it was reviewing its legal options"

Here are those remarks, without the political spin from Canada.

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President Donald Trump announced months ago that he had organized a program to design and build a huge ballroom on the campus of the White House in Washington.

The federal facilities there never have had a place to deliver state banquets for more than a few dozen, and the new program, in replacement of the 1940s-era East Wing, will seat hundreds.

Further, Trump has organized private donors to pay the hundreds of millions of dollars, saving taxpayers a lot.

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The driver in a deadly big rig that killed three in a crash in California had been caught sneaking into the United States illegally in 2022, but then released under Joe Biden's open borders policies and practices.

A report from Fox News cites federal law enforcement sources in revealing that Jashanpreet Singh, 21, encountered Border Patrol agents in the El Centro Sector in California in March 2022.

Then he was released into the interior of the country, as per Biden's practices, pending an immigration hearing.

President Trump ramped up his feud with a pair of Kentucky lawmakers on Tuesday, taking shots at Republican Senator Rand Paul (Ky.) over his absence from a White House lunch to discuss the government shutdown, the Daily Mail reported.

Trump hosted Senate Republicans and members of his Cabinet at the Rose Garden, treating them to his usual jokes and a no-frills meal of cheeseburgers with French fries and a Diet Coke.

"We have everybody but one person here. You'll never guess who that is," Trump said.

Rand Paul snubbed

Trump recently renovated the Rose Garden to look more like Mar-A-Lago, dubbing it the "Rose Garden Club."

Speaking to guests assembled on the stone patio, Trump couldn't resist knocking Paul, saying he "automatically votes no" on everything.

Without naming the senator directly, Trump left no doubt of who he was joking about.

"Let me give you a hint - he automatically votes No on everything. He thinks it's good politics; it's not good politics," Trump said.

Indeed, Paul is the only Republican senator who has consistently voted against his party's resolution to end the current government shutdown.

Trump suggested that Paul didn't want to be at the White House lunch, adding, "If he wanted to come, I'd probably let him come, begrudgingly."

Paul, Massie stick together

The relationship between Trump and Paul has turned frosty as the Republican senator opposes multiple aspects of Trump's agenda, from his military strikes in the Caribbean to tariffs to federal spending.

In a social media post, Paul said that he hosted his own "Liberty Caucus" lunch with Rep. Thomas Massie, another Kentucky Republican who has rankled Trump.

I actually wasn’t invited to the White House lunch today, but that’s ok I had a previously scheduled Liberty Caucus Lunch with ⁦@MassieforKY⁩ pic.twitter.com/7IHoQiZ3OR

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 21, 2025

Trump has criticized Massie and Paul - both doctrinaire libertarians - as all-talk, no-action obstructionists.

This week, a Trump-backed primary challenger and former Navy SEAL, Ed Gallrein, launched a campaign against Massie.

Paul and Massie were among the only Republicans to oppose Trump's sweeping policy bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which codified Trump's tax cuts and investments in immigration enforcement. Massie and Paul both pointed to concerns about the national debt.

Paul is again citing budget concerns as he breaks with Republicans during the shutdown battle. He says the GOP's plan to temporarily fund the government would add too much to the deficit, and he wants no part of it.

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The U.S. Department of War on Wednesday announced a newly approved Pentagon press corps after most media outlets balked at a new policy reporters had been asked to sign that would restrict their access to personnel in the mammoth building.

Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell posted to X about the development, saying the new press pool includes more than 60 reporters, "representing a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists." Parnell said the new system will help "circumvent the lies of the mainstream media."

The War Department came under withering criticism when Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the new policy, one that included tighter restrictions on what reporters cover and who they could talk to in the Pentagon without approval.

The Pentagon Press Association called the new set of rules an "unprecedented message of intimidation."

According to the U.K.'s Independent, only one media organization agreed to sign on to the policy: One America News. Included in those outlets that refused to sign are Fox News and Newsmax.

Dozens of reporters handed in the badges and walked out of the Pentagon en mass last Wednesday, carrying their belongings with them.

Thomas Antony responded to the announcement on X, taking issue with Parnell's characterization that the previous press corps "self-deported."

Said Antony: "They didn't self-deport; they were pushed out for refusing to let the Pentagon pre-approve their stories. This isn't a new press corps. It's a compliant one. What happens when the only news you get is government-approved?"

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State education bureaucrats routinely set "standards" for schools to include certain things in their classrooms for students to learn.

But too often, they are reflecting an agenda or ideology, not the simple facts, according to a report at the Federalist.

For instance, even in Republican majority Alaska, its latest iteration of requirements, dated just last year, have no mention of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and even Christianity.

"Alaska's new social studies standards don't mention the Nome Gold Rush. They don't mention the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. They don't mention William Egan, the state of Alaska's first governor, and they don't mention Sarah Palin, who ran for Vice President of the United States. There's a lot more that's missing in the Alaska social studies standards, but you can tell right away that something is wrong when Alaska's social studies standards leave Alaska's children ignorant of the headlines of Alaska's history and the most famous Alaskans," the report explained.

"The names of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln are absent. But so are words like Christianity, Protestantism, and Catholicism; any hint that technological advance might have improved Americans' standard of living; and virtually all of the narrative, events, and heroes of America's wars."

The report noted those bureaucrats appear to be on "radical autopilot" for those social studies standards.

Americans expect such indoctrinations in leftist states like Rhode Island and Minnesota, where materials "strip out factual content, and ignore or slander the history of Western civilization and America, and call it 'social studies instruction.'"

"But radical activists embedded in state education departments do the same thing in red states whenever policymakers and citizens aren't looking. That's what just happened in Alaska," the Federalist said.

The state standards from the Department of Education and Early Development lack "basic facts of American history, much of how our government works, and our foundational documents of liberty. The standards also introduced substantial new amounts of politicized material."

The results came about because state officials outsourced much of the work on the "standards" to "radical activists who have captured the national social studies establishment."

Sources included the extremism of the National Council for the Social Studies, the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework for Social Studies State Standards, and more, the report said.

The result was the injection of politics like the racist Critical Race Theory, after a working group used race categories to discriminate against content advisers.

"And so engaged in illegal racial discrimination in creating its standards," the report said.

So convoluted was the end result that there is a nine-page section on "How to Read the Standards," the report charged.

And it gets worse, the report said, "The standards' subordinate social studies education throughout to 'action civics,' also known as 'protest civics,' which uses the pedagogy of 'service-learning' to substitute vocational training in progressive activism for classroom civics education. They push the narrative that an 'engaged citizen' can only effect change through 'demonstration' (p. 100) and protest, and they also conflate action civics with progressive advocacy: 'Recognize historic inequalities in the United States and Alaska and evaluate proposed solutions to correct them.'"

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Walmart has confirmed it is pausing job offers to applicants who require the special treatment demanded by the H-1B visa program.

A report at Bloomberg said it is the "latest example" of how the Trump administration's $100,000 visa fees are disrupting workforces.

The report cited people "who asked not to be identified discussing private information" to assert Trump's increased fees for the special privileges allocated to H-1B visa holders were reverberating "across technology and other industries."

The Trump administration change to the program was announced to curb abuse of the program, through which millions of American workers have been displaced and replaced by foreigners who often are paid much lower salaries.

"Walmart is the largest user of H-1B visas among major retail chains, employing an estimated 2,390 H-1B visa holders, according to government data," the report said, adding that's actually only a tiny fraction of the more than 1.6 million H-1B visa workers around today.

Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and other tech giants are the biggest users of the program.

"Walmart is committed to hiring and investing in the best talent to serve our customers, while remaining thoughtful about our H-1B hiring approach," a Walmart official said, in the report.

Under Trump's plan Walmart and other employers would have to pay $100,000 payments for workers they want to hire under the program if those individuals are not already eligible to legally work in the U.S.

The report noted the opposition to Trump's plan from those who have been profiteering on the scheme.

"The new $100,000 visa fee will make it cost-prohibitive for U.S. employers, especially start-ups and small and midsize businesses, to utilize the H-1B program, which was created by Congress expressly to ensure that American businesses of all sizes can access the global talent they need to grow their operations here in the U.S.," charged Neil Bradley, of the Chamber of Commerce.

His organization sued the Trump administration over the dispute.

The White House has explained the changes are the beginning of a number of "necessary reforms" in the program.

Bloomberg said, "Critics have said the program — which was introduced in 1990 to address specific labor shortages — undermines employment of skilled U.S. workers."

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Casino gambling was approved by voters for the historic Colorado mining towns of Black Hawk and Central City some decades ago.

Since then, there have been many controversies over the industry that is given to installing Las Vegas landscapes at the 8,000-foot elevations of the Colorado foothills towns.

For example, the historic Lace House, in the way of one casino project, simply was picked up and moved to another, non-historic, location and made part of a tourist stop.

Multiple tall casinos, up to about 35 stories, now tower above the valley in Black Hawk that used to be flooded in the spring, in an "ick" procedure, when, according to local personalities, wealthy Central City residents would release water to flush the sewage that had accumulated on the streets and ditches over the winter, downhill to Black Hawk.

Central City patrons were the elites of their time, patronizing their own opera house, at times used as a stage by some of the elite performers including Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, Fanie Barlow, Buffalo Bill, P.T. Barnum's circus, later Samuel Ramey and Beverly Sills.

Central City, in another controversial move, spent millions annexing land and building an 8-mile-long "main street" to access an exit from Interstate 70 that would have gamblers direct access to their town.

The towns are in Gilpin County, which has its own history of scandalous and offensive behavior including racism. Even after the casinos started appearing, the county paid $700,000 to settle a lawsuit by a black county resident who, stunningly, was identified in official sheriff's department documents as "N***** Roy."

Now it is G3 Gaming, of Raleigh, N.C., that is proposing the Gregory Gulch Gaming Resort project, which would be 100,000 square feet, 1,000 slot machines, 50 gaming tables, gift shops, restaurants, 600 hotel rooms, 2,000 parking spaces and 120 housing units for workers in the very valley that connects Central City's heights to Black Hawk, downhill.

The 27-story project, however, would tick off locals, for sure.

A description of the agenda in the Denver Post noted the building would cut off Central City homes from any sunlight for months out of the year.

The report described how resident Bob Powe sits on his front porch, with coffee, to watch as the sun reaches his house of Casey Street.

"The warmth from the sky, Powe said, is vital in this Gilpin County town that's perched at 8,500 feet, and where during the fall and winter the sun sits low on the horizon and shades Central City for part of the day," the report described.

Even those few hours now are endangered, he said.

"This house depends on the sun to heat it up," the 74-year-old said. "After 160 years, they're trying to take away my sunshine."

Climate change activists appear not to have gotten involved in the dispute, yet.

City officials whose decision on the project is not yet final suggest it gives Central City an opportunity to compete against Black Hawk, where two tall casino hotels already are located.

The issue is money, Central City's boom at the opening of gambling has dwindled while downhill Black Hawk's hasn't. Central City got about $1 million in state gaming tax revenue in fiscal 2025, while Black Hawk got $12.2 million.

Said one Central City official, "My concern is, at this point in time, Central City is dying."

Powe said that the new tower would simply destroy the view from many Central City points.

"He has posted 'No Tower' and 'Not Black Hawk' signs around his home," the Post said.

Even worse, "You'll be able to look right into the hotel windows and they'll be able to look right at me. This will destroy my privacy, the view and the sunshine," he said.

Central City's present height limit for buildings is 53 feet. G3 wants its project to soar 345 feet.

City officials estimate they could collect $8 million a year from G3's work.

Central City was founded in 1859 when gold dust as found, exploding quickly to 15,000 residents. Theaters, hotels and Central City still recognizes its historic prostitution industry with annual Lou Bunch "bed races" on its main street.

Peter Droege, chief of a foundation that works to preserve and restore the historic Belvidere Theater, suggested a project the size of an airport at the town's entrance may be too much.

"I support economic development as long as it conforms to the historic nature of the town," he told the Post.

The title to his home traces back some 150 years to the man who originally discovered gold there.

"Central City just has a historic quality that not many other communities in the country have — where you drive into it and it feels like you are stepping back in time," he said in the report.

Central City's district, where about 300 now live, actually produced some 6.3 million ounces of gold, 200 tons, that would be worth around $18 trillion on today's market. Bob Dylan once performed in the town, failing to launch his later successful career, and Stetson hats were invented there.

Multiple movies and television shows have been created there.

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has delivered a warning to Democrats who boasted they are creating an "ICE tracker" to publicize the locations of federal agents, exposing them to the threat of being assaulted, injured, even killed.

"@RepRobertGarcia and @SenBlumenthal are trying to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs," she explained on social media. "TheJusticeDept has ZERO tolerance for violence against law enforcement – we will prosecute any person who physically assaults our agents."

Her comments followed Garcia and others in a press conference where the boast was made that the "Oversight Committee will be launching on their website a master ICE tracker where we can … essentially [track] every single instance that we can verify that the community will send, be able to send us information on."

One of President Donald Trump's efforts from the White House has been to secure the national borders and deport illegal alien criminals. Already his programs have removed hundreds of thousands of illegals from the nation.

The effort follows years of neglect by Joe Biden and his administration, during which millions of illegals were granted freedom to enter the U.S., illegally.

"The Biden Administration abused America's immigration system and turned parole into a de facto amnesty program, thereby allowing millions of unvetted illegal aliens into the U.S., no questions asked, to the detriment of all Americans," said DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

Garcia claimed that a report from a leftist organization said 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested in the campaign.

He said, "Why? Because they look like me, because they are of Latino origin, or because they are suspected to not be a U.S. citizen, or because they are suspected of crimes that they have not committed," he said.

The actual threat to federal agents has been explicit:

President Donald Trump's administration has moved to cut thousands of employees from the Environmental Protection Agency in accordance with his promise to do so if a government shutdown ensued, Breitbart reported. The federal government has been shut down since Oct. 1 after Democrats failed to agree to a deal that would have kept the government open through the end of the year.

While the EPA does the vital work of keeping America's skies and waterways clean, it is also a bastion of leftist activism. Furthermore, it is also a bloated bureaucracy that consumes taxpayer dollars while returning relatively little in return.

Trump had recommended that the agency reduce its workforce of 16,421 full-time employees to approximately 12,500 by the end of this year. The agency also reduced or canceled grants and other spending by $29 billion, thanks to Trump.

Of course, any time the government is asked to reduce its spending, some make catastrophic predictions. The same applies to this, as some believe that permanently laying off employees who were furloughed during the shutdown is a risky move. However, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has assured the public that a contingency plan is in place.

Open for business

Even with the government shutdown dragging on into its fourth week, Zeldin said that the agency will still be able to meet its core objectives even if the Democrats continue to play games. "The Trump EPA is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring America has the cleanest air, land and water in the world while growing our economy, but Democrats are content to allow our funding to run out," Zeldin said.

"They are preventing us from securing funding needed to continue these important programs and impeding our ability to deliver clean air, land, and water for Americans. They are prioritizing their own radical policy agenda that could undermine both environmental progress and economic stability in pursuit of their $1.5 trillion poison-packed wish list at the expense of the American people," he went on.

"Congressional Democrats can end this shutdown right now by voting for our clean, bipartisan funding extension instead of playing political games," Zeldin concluded. The agency has promised to continue with its operations, including "Protection of EPA land, buildings, equipment, and protection of research; Law enforcement and criminal investigations; Emergency and disaster assistance; Superfund response work; EPA’s emergency response readiness operations," the news outlet noted.

What won't be carried on are functions like "Issuing new grants or interagency agreements; Civil enforcement inspections; Approvals of pending state requests, such as authorized/delegated state-issued EPA permits, SIPs, TMDLs, Water Quality Standards." Nevertheless, the agency has continued to operate despite Democrats' unwillingness to vote to keep the lights on.

Some of the functions successfully carried out include remediation of several "superfund" sites that are tainted with hazardous waste, including Glycerin Traders in La Porte, Indiana, and Berry’s Creek in Bergen County, New Jersey. It has also continued to play an advisory role in wildfire prevention and cleanup.

Worried workforce

It appears that the EPA is performing well, despite having to reduce some services due to the shutdown that Democrats continue to perpetuate. Still, many employees are worried about their jobs, especially since they may be on the chopping block due to Trump.

One employee is concerned about seeing reduction-in-force orders come through for those temporarily out of a job due to the shutdown. "I’m worried that I and other furloughed employees will be RIFed," an unidentified staffer said.

"I’d rather go hungry than lose our democracy. I refuse to stay quiet and let them use us feds as an excuse to accept a bad deal," another employee said, clearly showing the leftist bent that many share in government and the EPA, particularly.

Meanwhile, Trump's EPA spokesperson, Brigit Hirsch, said that they've "been intentional and aggressive in establishing a structure to ensure EPA is focused on statutory obligations & Presidential priorities, not the overreach of the previous administration," she told E&E News.  "There is zero uncertainty at EPA about what we are working on and who is advancing these priorities," Hirsch added.

Regardless of how it gets done, it's always good news for taxpayers when the government workforce is cut in a significant way. The Democrats have decided to play this game of chicken with Trump, and it appears that once again, he has gotten the best of them.