Trump Makes Bonkers Threat as Smoke Blankets Swathe of Country

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President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to slap Canada with additional tariffs and claimed the U.S. was being “invaded” due to the thick smoke blowing across the border.

Canada is experiencing hundreds of raging wildfires, which have resulted in plumes of smoke stretching as far south as Washington, D.C., and some of the worst air quality on record in the U.S.

“We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday.

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