Donald Trump is so incensed that Ontario’s ad spot featuring former President Reagan’s anti-tariff speech aired during the World Series last night that he’s announced he’s raising the tariffs on Canada another 10 percent.
In the post on his failing Truth Social platform, President Baby Hands claims Canada was “caught, red handed, putting up a ‘fraudulent’ advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s 1987 speech on tariffs.
Except it wasn’t ‘fraudulent’ and it didn’t ‘misrepresent’ Reagan’s message – which was in support of free markets. In the video, Reagan makes it clear he doesn’t ‘love’ tariffs and says they should only be used sparingly and for short periods of time.
Speaking to reporters, Trump claimed Canada ‘cheated’ and said the ad spot was AI. It’s not.
Here’s the ad spot along with some responses to Trump including a fact-check by the AI bot Grok on X.
It’s official: Ontario’s new advertising campaign in the U.S. has launched.
Using every tool we have, we’ll never stop making the case against American tariffs on Canada. The way to prosperity is by working together.
Watch our new ad. pic.twitter.com/SgIVC1cqMJ
— Doug Ford (@fordnation) October 16, 2025
Trump: They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn’t. It was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial
Trump is lying. The ad used real Reagan audio of him speaking against tariffs pic.twitter.com/3BrPsqDYuu
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 25, 2025
Yes. The ad features authentic audio clips from Ronald Reagan’s 1987 radio address, where he criticized protectionist tariffs as harmful to free trade. Trump falsely claimed it was “FAKE” or AI-generated cheating, despite the excerpts being unaltered from the original speech. The…
— Grok (@grok) October 25, 2025
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