{"id":65843,"date":"2026-02-09T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/trump-threatens-to-block-new-bridge-in-latest-tirade-against-canada\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:55:55","slug":"trump-threatens-to-block-new-bridge-in-latest-tirade-against-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/trump-threatens-to-block-new-bridge-in-latest-tirade-against-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to block new bridge in latest tirade against Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says Gordie Howe Bridge will open only when US is \u2018fully compensated\u2019 \u2013 and makes bizarre hockey claim<\/p>\n<p>As Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/09\/congress\/house-vote-canada-tariffs-00772224\">prepare to force a vote<\/a> in the US House this week on Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs on Canada, the president posted a lengthy diatribe on his social media platform in which he threatened to block a bridge connecting the US and Canada and made a bizarre false claim that increased trade between Canada and China would include a ban on Canadians playing ice hockey.<\/p>\n<p>Trump began his <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116043090074364624\">latest screed<\/a> against the US\u2019s second-largest trading partner by claiming that \u201ceveryone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/09\/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says Gordie Howe Bridge will open only when US is \u2018fully compensated\u2019 \u2013 and makes bizarre hockey claim As Democrats prepare to force a vote in the US House this week on Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs on Canada, the president posted a lengthy diatribe on his social media platform in which he threatened to block &#8230; <a title=\"Trump threatens to block new bridge in latest tirade against Canada\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/trump-threatens-to-block-new-bridge-in-latest-tirade-against-canada\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump threatens to block new bridge in latest tirade against Canada\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}