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Digital billboards will be installed in Washington and other U.S. cities that Ottawa says will be 'hardest hit' by tariffs 'due to their heavy reliance on trade with Canada.'

Summary

Canada launched an ad campaign in the U.S. denouncing Trump’s tariffs as a “tax on hardworking Americans.”

Billboards in 12 states, including key Republican areas, urge Americans to oppose the tariffs, which could cost households over $1,200 annually.

Polls show most Americans fear economic harm from the tariffs, despite Trump’s claim they are a “tax cut.”

Canada is also preparing retaliatory tariffs while rejecting Trump’s repeated calls to annex Canada as the 51st U.S. state. Officials labeled the annexation rhetoric “absurd.”

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    42·
    6 days ago

    I really wish the signs didn’t say “paid for by Canada” on them, or at least not so prominently. Because I just know some people are going to read it as “tariffs are a tax on Americans paid for by Canada”.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      31·
      6 days ago

      I also wish it didn’t say that, but for entirely different reasons.

      It’s an ad. Paid for by a foreign government. MAGA morons aren’t going to do much other than interpret it as Canada being scared and spreading lies, which obviously means it’s working and Trump is doing a tremendous bigly job making Canada “pay” the tariffs.

      It might get some Republican Trump voters to actually attempt to understand the consequences of tariffs, but it’s going to empower the vocal cultists that live in disinformation la-la land.