Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday June 11th 2018 that

birthday of my daughter Shayna who turns 14 happy birthday Shayna I'm John

Pothoritz the editor of commentary the 77 year old monthly of intellectual

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year with me is always a greenwald or senior editor high-ape hi John no

arothman are associate either hello Noah hi John and senior writer sore

of amari hi sore up hi John so it was a fun weekend for the leaders of the

west who gathered in Canada and when the dust settled our president was

abusing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Twitter and was getting

abused back by various Canadian political figures and most of the

intelligentsia and two issues seem to be at play one whether or not Canada is

screwing America with its trade policies and the other whether Justin Trudeau

delivered an illegitimate late hit to Trump after he left in a press conference

so Trump of course had to hit back does anyone can anyone come up with a

defense of the president's conduct this weekend a but you you tried and failed

I think earlier today no I don't know well not exactly I mean I have no

defense of his conduct I agree with it in every sort of every instance my my

question is to what extent this is a severing of alliances as we're sort of

reading here and there or is this a speed by significant speed bump but but

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