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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. In his speech to Congress this week, President Donald Trump kept on lying about his tariffs

and made it clear that in coming weeks he's only going to ramp up the trade wars further.

He kept on falsely claiming Canada is letting huge amounts of fentanyl into our country

and pretended that we'll reap huge revenues from tariffs when in fact they are a tax paid by

U.S. consumers.

Then, at the White House media briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Caroline Levitt said

very directly that if Canada wants to avoid tariffs in the future, they can merely become

the 51st U.S. state. She came right out and said it. Trump's tariffs are actually about

getting Canada to submit to Trump's will. None of this is okay. It's not okay for the American

President to lie relentlessly about our allies and threaten them

with economic Armaged to force them to submit to his deranged passing whims.

One person who's been saying this lately a lot is Asawan Subzbang, senior political reporter

at Rolling Stone. So we're talking to him about this today. Thanks for coming on, Swin. Thank you so much for having

me. And yes, I concur with you that it is not okay. It sounds very quaint nowadays as if I'm

holding up a, this is not normal placard. But no, it is very much not okay. And Jesus fucking Christ, man.

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