{"id":30258,"date":"2018-06-12T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T00:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30258"},"modified":"2018-06-12T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T00:02:29","slug":"build-that-wall-up-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30258","title":{"rendered":"Build that wall &#8230; up north!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Leave it to Fox News&#8217;s Shepard Smith to add a peculiar twist to the burgeoning war of words between Donald J. Trump and Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>The news anchor wondered out loud whether we need to build a wall along our northern border with Canada, to complement the wall Trump wants to build along our southern border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Trump left the G-7 summit in Quebec after leveling threats against our major trading partners. He and the Canadian prime minister got into a particularly angry exchange, with Trump accusing Trudeau of double-crossing him after he left the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau responded with threats of retaliation against the United States over the tariffs Trump has leveled against Canadian steel and aluminum. A Trump economic adviser, Peter Navarro, said there is a &#8220;special place in hell&#8221; for anyone who stabs the president &#8220;in the back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/fox-news-shep-smith-snarks-at-trumps-trudeau-feud-maybe-we-need-a-northern-wall?source=articles&amp;via=rss&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">As the Daily Beast<\/a> reported: <em>\u201cOur biggest trading partner in all the world, our best friend from way back in World War II and every time in between, Canada\u201d Smith added, laughing for a moment before dropping this suggestion: \u201cMaybe we need a Northern wall.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you get my drift here?<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced his presidential campaign by declaring that Mexico is &#8220;sending rapists, murderers and drug dealers&#8221; into our country. He said he would wall off the country from Mexico and make the Mexican government pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>Is there another such threat awaiting the Canadians now if Trump and Trudeau keep exchanging heated insults across the world&#8217;s longest unsecured border?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to Fox News&#8217;s Shepard Smith to add a peculiar twist to the burgeoning war of words between Donald J. Trump and Justin Trudeau. The news anchor wondered out loud whether we need to build a wall along our northern border with Canada, to complement the wall Trump wants to build along our southern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Build that wall &#8230; up north!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,1788,7183,4252,6965],"class_list":["post-30258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-shepard-smith","tag-trade-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30259,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions\/30259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}