President Donald Trump announced that he will add an additional 10% tariff to Canadian imports due to a negative television commercial featuring a speech by President Ronald Reagan.
Ontario provincial officials have said the ad, which protests Trump’s tariff policy, will be pulled from the airwaves next week; However, Trump said in a social media post that since the ad was shown during the first game of the World Series on Friday night, he is raising tariffs on Canadian products.
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, October 22, 2025.
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“Due to their gross misrepresentation of facts and hostile act, I am raising the tariff on Canada by 10% above what they are paying now,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform.
Earlier this week, Trump said he was suspending trade talks with Canada over the announcement, which was released earlier this month.
The ad features audio with excerpts from a Reagan’s 1987 speech This came as it imposed some tariffs on Japanese goods, but warned of the long-term economic risks of high tariffs and the threat of a trade war.
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the announcement “was Canada’s hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will come to their ‘rescue’ over the tariffs they have used for years to hurt the United States.”
The Supreme Court will hear a case this quarter over Trump’s radical tariff policy.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney listens as Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks during a news conference in front of a simulated reactor at the Darlington energy complex in Courtice, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 23, 2025.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday it would suspend the ads so trade negotiations could resume, but noted it would air during the World Series.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute he said in a statement on social media on Thursday late that the Canadian advertising campaign used “selective audio and video” of Reagan and “misrepresented” what he said in the speech.
The foundation said in a statement that it was exploring its legal options.
-ABC News’ Jack Moore, Alex Ederson and Max Zahn contributed to this report.
