Trump reiterates tariff threat, calls Canada ‘nasty’ on trade [Video]

U.S. President Donald Trump is once again taking shots at Canada as he claimed that the country was being “very nasty to us on trade.” 

At a briefing in Asheville, N.C., on Friday, the president’s first stop of his second term, Trump said he had asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau what would happen if the U.S. “didn’t subsidize Canada.”

The president made those comments immediately after being asked about the U.S. trading with the United Kingdom.

He alleged that during a conversation with the prime minister, Trudeau replied Canada would be a “failed nation” without the U.S. 

Trudeau visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in November, shortly after Trump initially threatened a 25 per cent tariff on all goods from Canada entering the U.S.

The day of his inauguration, Trump suggested that those tariffs may be deployed as early as Feb. 1.

In North Carolina, Trump repeated that the U.S. …