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Victor Davis Hanson on Canada — A MUST SEE! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Video transcript 14:25

Here's the official Canadian and left-wing version. The United States is back again, bowling portal to Canada. And we are a liberal EU progressive nation, and now they're in the dark ages. So what they did to us, we were going to have a trade agreement. And then they said we want to destroy indigenous culture and the French language. And we said we're going to stick up for the little guy. And then they said we were no longer sovereign. And they were going to come in here and tell us with whom we could trade. Can you imagine that? And if you don't believe me, look at all the names that Trump has called us. And that's what we're in. I'm in here to save you as Carney. That's the narrative. And now they're all ginned up, and they're like lemmings, and they're all headed over a cliff. So here was the reality. The reality is that the United States is nine times larger than Canada in population. And it has an economy 13 times larger, not nine times, 13 times larger. And Canada sits on the third largest gas and oil reserves in the world, and probably of the top 20 minerals, potash, precious, has in the top five natural resources. And probably has, along with Russia, the greatest timber resources. So it's one of the most naturally blessed countries. And this country, in World War II, used those resources and supplied the British Empire when no one else did, from '39 to '41. And they had one of the best per capita militaries in the world. And they had their own beach at D-Day. And then they became socialists. And they're not utilizing these. So of all the 30 industrial states at Economic Forum, they ranked the last in per capita income, 1.1. They have let into their country so many immigrants from so many poor places, 45% of the Canadian population was either not born in the United States-- excuse me, in Canada, or their parents were not born in Canada, 45%. And they come from Latin America, Africa, Asia, India, with enormous needs for public health, for public food, for public housing, for public legal, everything, education. And that socialist economy, which by the way, the population of Canada at roughly 41 million is about the same as California, the worst run state in the states. Everything is-- all the data show unemployment, taxes, product, it's the worst. And yet, its GDP is double Canada's. So in other words, Trudeau and Carney have this wonderfully rich state. And they decided that they were going to basically shut down the fossil fuel. So they have this Alberta that's got all of these minerals, and that's where most of the oil is. And they will not let it ship across lines to-- they can't export it. And it's heavy, sulfurous oil. So we come along and say, well, we don't-- we're not going to be like your own provinces. I know we're a foreign country, but we'd like the oil, and we'll pay top dollar. So you can send it right across, and we have the only refined reason in the vicinity that can refine this tar state. So we'll do it. And you'll benefit, and we'll benefit. And then you know what we'll do? If you need a pipeline to supply Quebec, and you need a pipeline for Ontario, you can go-- we'll just tap in here, and then you use it there, and it'll go through the United States back to those provinces. For there, we find fuels. We're happy to do that. We'll charge you, of course. And then we're all in a free trade zone. That's the spirit. So Trump comes along and says, if we're all in a free trade, why are they running 50 to 20 billion trade surplus, and why is Mexico running 200? And I can tell you why, and he tells everybody why. So he says, you have a 250% tariff on agricultural goods over a certain level. And they say, no, we-- yeah, but you never-- we never really inflict it. And we say, we don't inflict it, because we don't go over your little level. You know, I don't know what it is, 10 or 12 billion or 2 billion. After that, we just voluntarily restrict our exports to you. And you-- we're not impinging on our-- your sovereignty. It says in the agreement that a non-market economy, you cannot import things below the cost of production for a non-market economy. That was a euphemism for China. In other words, the United States said, we are trying to deal with this crooked China that dumps product below the cost, violates copyright, violates patent, has slave labor. And one of the ways they get around it is, they dump cheap aluminum and steel into Canada and into Mexico, where it is assembled, and that assembled truck or car or refrigerator comes into the United States cheaper than what we can produce it domestically. And they claim it is indigently made, but they don't even use their own steel and aluminum. They try to import it from Canada. And as far as culturally insensitive, our digital media companies, if you look at software, digital media, AI, you name it, eight or nine out of the top 10 countries are American, not because we made them that way, because they are the best. So naturally, they have world global markets, and they offer a service. You don't have to buy it. You charge income, tax, on all their revenues in your country. But now you want to come along and say, well, you're so successful, and we love your product so much, we feel that we don't have enough French stuff, and we don't have enough Native American stuff. So we're going to tell you what you can put on social media, and we're going to charge you an additional, sir, an extra tax of 5%. And the American said, wait a minute, we operate all over the world, we let you do that every single country is saying that you're impinging on our Welsh people or Gaelic people or Saxon people who need their own culture. So we're going to make Facebook and Amazon have a little, they're going to pay us money so we can subsidize a bunch of these activists so that they can get paid so their culture doesn't die out. Nobody's going to do that. And by the way, we're not going to let China leverage us by using you because and why would you want to do that anyway, there are, you're already running up a $50 billion surplus, and they are a communist godless country that swallowed to bed has a million people in a work camp has forced abortion, harvest organs, and you want to lie themselves with them against us to undermine our tariffs. And by the way, why did you walk out Mr. Carney on a Friday afternoon, and I can tell you why you did you had elections coming up in Quebec, and Ontario, Alberta, excuse me, and there were nationalist movements in Alberta, they were sick and tired of supplying the energy for Canada and they couldn't export it on pipelines, because your environmental regulations and these various provinces would not allow them to go into their province. And you didn't tell the Canadians that only the Americans allowed you to build a pipeline into our foreign country, and they your own country wouldn't let you go anywhere else. If you want to go build a pipeline to, you know, British Columbia, go ahead and do it. We are we're the biggest producer of oil and gas in the world will be fine, and then try to export it but you don't do that do you and who's stopping you not us. You are and that is basically we said that and then we said and Mr. Carney, you know, you pick this date, not just so that the Quebec people and the Alberta people would vote for semi or complete independence. He wanted to gin up a public enemy the orange man is now back at it calling and now everybody hates him they boo when the American National Anthem is played at sporting event we get that and they're all going to vote for you and you ginned it up and then as soon as this is over you're going to come crawling back and saying well the August job reports came in and unfortunately Canadians the last week these tariffs were included and we lost forty one thousand jobs and I told you we were going to hurt the Americans worse but they got a hundred and sixty thousand new jobs so it didn't quite work out what I wanted and now that we stopped the Nationals movement in Quebec and the National Movement in Alberta and I targeted Michigan Minnesota Maine Wisconsin with special tariffs to hurt Americans and I got useful idiots like Gavin Newsom to cut videos that Trump was worse than I am and that Republicans lost the midterms and they want to impeach Donald Trump and they want to cut off funds for the Iran war now I want to have a deal yeah that's my plan so let's go let's be friends and I oh by the way I want my fifty billion dollar yearly surplus to and Trump said he said I don't like I don't want to deal with you anymore I like Canadians but you're the most dishonest people in the world and by the way you know as he said thirty two NATO nations had promised for ten years to spend two percent of their GDP on defense but you never did you tried to last year and you may or may not we'll look at your bookkeeping it looks a little fishy but for nine straight years you wouldn't even do that you know why you wouldn't do that because you were depending on the US military and norad and our missile defense and our huge Air Force to protect you so you could shoot your mouth off about Ukraine and Russia and if Russia ever said to you we're gonna take icebreakers right through the northwest path each and spit on you you knew the United States Navy which was the biggest Navy in the world would stop it and when somebody just said you know what we'll send a missile over northwest Canada just just give them a message you know that we would stop it unless you want with your 79 jets 779 and we have five thousand and so we're gonna you know we're going to piggyback on you we want you to carry you but you know what we're gonna do we're gonna attack you everywhere about the Iran war everything but you because you're so strong and you're so powerful and you're such a big bully you owe us to protect and subsidize our defense and you have to subsidize our socials economy by running up surpluses so we can let in 45 percent and this is the killer because we have a project and it's called the centennial initiative and we want to have 100 Canadian 100 million Canadians within 15 years that's their goal wait hold on I'm so sorry Baker wait I've never heard I bet that's a yes yeah I think you just said they had like 40 million people yes they want 100 million because they want to rival the United States I was gonna ask you why the open borders when because they think that I think that the Canadians because they're socialist and they don't really have to worry about anything or not having children and they're not there their fertility rate is about 1.4 1.3 like Europe and they're static or shrinking and they've let in all these people and their population has grown dramatically and they think the more people from India the more people from China the more people from Latin America the more people from Africa we're gonna get this huge population they're gonna be all left-wing it'll never be a conservative Canada again and then we'll have a hundred million people with all these resources then we're really gonna be tough on the Americans and it it's just like they're committing suicide because they all come over there and they hate the Canadians and they have enormous social needs and the economy in its socialist mode won't support it okay but it's it's it's so it's not the Canadians though and Mark Carney has got to be a pawn for the globalists correct because this is got he's got a passport until recently in three different countries right right so he's about as Canadian as I am and so I mean he was ran the Bank of England for a while I think and so yeah he's a globalist and he hates everything about Trump and he thought that he would just punch in like Trudeau and there would be a Biden or Obama there and say your surpluses don't matter because you're a good old leftist like us and we're going to make a leftist North America together okay and we'll we'll subsidize your trade we'll subsidize your defense we'll subsidize everything yep and that's what we did and Trump came along and said you know the free rides over sorry I'm gonna play the bad guy and the same thing I'm not picking on you I'm doing the same thing with Mexico

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Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-09-24. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level
None
Narcissistic State
Grandiose
Authorship
Self-Written
Intensity
25%
Authorship Analysis
Self-Written
Indicators:
  • All-caps enthusiasm burst 'A MUST SEE!' — characteristic amplification idiom
  • Honorific third-person signature 'President DONALD J. TRUMP', matching same-day 'President DJT' sign-off
  • No outlet name, segment title, or air date — vague attribution typical of his shares rather than staff precision
  • Em-dash-plus-exclamation cadence in an otherwise fragmentary caption
  • Counter-indicator: 9:18 a.m. Eastern, midweek business hours
Psychological Profile
▶ Traits
Big Five:
Extraversion
65%
Agreeableness
40%
Conscientiousness
35%
Neuroticism
25%
Openness
30%

Strongest facet: excitement-seeking / assertiveness (E)

Agency
60%
Communion
20%

Primary drive: status

▶ Narrative
Role: broadcaster and arbiter of what is worth hearing · Arc: neutral · Contrasting: Canada, named as the subject of the commentary but not characterized in the post's own words
President DONALD J. TRUMP — office, full name, and authority presented as a single signed unit
▶ State
Grandiose State

Trigger: Maintenance (Victor Davis Hanson commentary segment on Canada)

Sentiment
+0.35
▶ Clinical
Malignant Narcissism:
Narcissistic
35%
Antisocial
5%
Paranoid
5%
Sadism
0%
Defense Mechanisms:
idealization
Cognitive Complexity:
Complexity
20%
Parasocial Techniques:
Assigning the audience homework ('A MUST SEE!') as a low-cost loyalty taskSigning a post on his own eponymous account, presenting the message as issued rather than typed
Fact Checks (1)
"The attached video contains Victor Davis Hanson commentary on Canada."
True

Confirmed by direct inspection of the attached media file plus independent corroboration.

Direct examination of the attachment: the post (Truth Social status 117326213046216794, 2026-09-24 13:18:56Z, text "Victor Davis Hanson on Canada — A MUST SEE! President DONALD J. TRUMP") carries a single mp4 at static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/.../e8bd05d14b187c59.mp4. HTTP headers show it is byte-identical to the attachment on Trump's 2026-09-23 post 117320581360547091, which carries the same caption: both return content-length 109,833,578 and etag "1d41774d6582efeae5fc06cb0489d4c1-21", so the September 24 post is a re-upload of the same clip. ffprobe reports a duration of 865.1 seconds (14 minutes 25 seconds), matching the "14-minute segment" described in secondary coverage.

Speaker identification: still frames pulled from the file at the 2:00 and 7:00 marks show an older man in a blue shirt and headphones with a lower-third chyron reading "victor hanson," Hanson's book The Counter Revolution visible both on the bookshelf behind him and on an easel beside him, and a bookshelf of classical history titles (The Cambridge Ancient History, The Hellenistic World) consistent with Hanson's work as a classicist. The 7:00 frame is a split screen pairing him with Jillian Michaels against her show's branded backdrop, identifying the source as her interview program.

Content: a machine transcript of the clip (12,250 characters) is about Canada from start to finish. Hanson contrasts the US and Canadian economies ("an economy 13 times larger"), discusses Alberta's oil and the US refining capacity for heavy sulfurous crude, the roughly $50 billion Canadian trade surplus, Canada's 250% agricultural tariff tier, nine years of NATO members failing the 2% GDP defense pledge, immigration ("45% of the Canadian population was either not born ... in Canada, or their parents were not born in Canada"), the Century Initiative goal of "100 million Canadians within 15 years," and Mark Carney as a globalist who "has got to be a pawn" with passports in three countries.

Independent corroboration: The Conservative Treehouse published the same segment on 2026-09-23, attributing it to Hanson opposite Jillian Michaels and linking Trump's Truth Social post directly. TrumpsTruth.org archived the post with the identical text and a mirrored copy of the video, summarizing it as Hanson on Canadian resources, trade deficits and immigration. Before It's News described the clip as a 14-minute excerpt of a full interview from Jillian Michaels' YouTube channel. The Daily Signal's Hanson video of 2026-09-15 carries the same distinctive lines ("Forty-five percent of your population was not born in Canada or their parents weren't born," Carney leading Canada "right over the cliff"), and Hanson's own 2026-09-17 column "The Fantasy House of Mark Carney" makes the same argument in print. Hanson's Hoover Institution affiliation and role as a regular commentator on Canada-US trade in September 2026 are well documented across these outlets.

One contextual note that does not change the verdict: the September 24 post duplicates a September 23 post of the same clip with the same caption, so this is a repeat posting rather than a new item.

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

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Analyzed
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Rage Level
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Max Danger
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