# ‘They’re the nicest people’: Obama mocks Trump over tariffs on Canada

https://mins.news/en/item/114328

- CBC News, 2026-10-24 22:18 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/obama-trump-canada-tariffs-9.7394871?cmp=rss

> Barack Obama criticized the Trump administration’s tariff regime on Saturday, saying a trade war with Canada was absurd.

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