Fact check: What Trump got wrong and left out while threatening to block the new US-Canada bridge
President Donald Trump threatened in a Monday social media post to block the opening of a major new US-Canada bridge over the Detroit River.
But Trump’s post about the Gordie Howe International Bridge included misleading claims and important omissions – even if you ignore his laughable claim that, if Prime Minister Mark Carney makes a trade deal with China, “The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup.”
Here is a fact check of Trump’s assertions in the post. Perhaps coincidentally, some of them are similar to claims previously made by the family that owns a nearly century-old toll bridge over the same river and that has fought for years to stop the opening of the new bridge – including, in 2018, by running an ad on a Fox News morning show Trump was known to watch.
Trump endorsed the new bridge during his first presidency
After delivering a series of criticisms of the Gordie Howe bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, which has been expected to open early this year, Trump wrote in the Monday post: “Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just ‘take advantage of America!’”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-trump-got-wrong-233503345.html
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