“CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!!They fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Ronald Reagan did not like Tariffs, when actually he LOVED TARIFFS FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND ITS NATIONAL SECURITY. Canada is trying to illegally influence the United States Supreme Court in one of the most important rulings in the history of our Country. Canada has long cheated on Tariffs, charging our farmers as much as 400 percent. Now they, and other countries, can’t take advantage of the US any longer. Thank you to the Ronald Reagan Foundation for exposing this FRAUD. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Orange Grandpa posted on his social media site Friday.

It’s so stupid yet requires some explanation. Last week Ontario Premier Doug Ford posted this:

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

Then this week the Reagan Foundation said “The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his ‘Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade,’ dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan’s unedited video on our YouTube channel.”

Note how they didn’t say it was “fake,” just that it was a “misrepresentation” due to the editing.

Basically what Ford’s team did was select all the parts where Raygun was talking about tariffs in general as being economically harmful to Americans while leaving out where Gipper said he was imposing them on Japan’s semiconductor sector despite his reluctance because something something that has no bearing on the US-Canada relationship roughly four decades later.

Targeted, surgical application of tariffs on specific products. Not literally fucking everything another nation exports to the United States. Kind of metaphorical of the situation itself in that the charges of “misrepresentation” and “CHEATING” are selective since Raygun made VERY plain throughout the address that he’s opposed to tariffs as a general policy matter and especially universal ones.