Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called American tariffs “very dumb” and said that U.S. President Donald Trump is appeasing Russia while launching a trade war against Canada.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs “very dumb.” Trudeau also called out Trump for appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin while launching a trade war against Canada.

In a pointed barb, Trudeau said the US was starting a trade war with its closest allies at the same as it was “appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator”.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called American tariffs "very dumb" and said that U.S. President Donald Trump is appeasing Russia while launching a trade war against Canada.

Experts say the US president likes to brag about his ties with the Kremlin chief because he 'sees Putin as almost an aspirational figure' In the fiery clash between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,

Mike Pompeo stressed that Russia did not take an inch of Ukrainian land during Trump's first administration, calling it the "best evidence" that the US President was never soft on Putin, even during his first term in office.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked directly into television cameras to call out President Donald Trump for his 25 percent tariffs against his country as a “very dumb thing to do” as he announced retaliatory tariffs on $155 billion of American goods.

Americans would never accept another nation threatening our country the way Trump insists on doing with Canada

President Donald Trump warned that he may implement tariffs on Canadian dairy and lumber as early as Friday, in what amounts to the latest broadside by his administration in the brewing trade war between the United States and Canada.