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BumRushDaShow

(173,707 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 03:43 AM 10 hrs ago

A bridge to Canada may be blocked by the Trump administration

Source: NPR

June 28, 2026 4:17 PM ET


Millions of trucks carrying billions of dollars worth of car parts, machinery and a long list of other commodities pass checkpoints along one small stretch of the U.S.-Canada border each year. It's known as North America's busiest land crossing, and it sits between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

NPR's Don Gonyea recently visited this crossing to take a look at a brand new bridge that sits completed and unopened. Construction on the Gordie Howe International Bridge, named for the Hall of Fame Canadian-born hockey legend who played for the Detroit Red Wings, began in 2018. It was set to open early this year. That was before President Trump intervened in a social media post.

Trump demanded that Canada share ownership with the United States before he would allow the bridge to open. Months passed. In June, the bridge authority actually scheduled a grand opening. But at the last minute, it was canceled.

Stephen Laskowski is president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance and head of the Ontario Trucking Association. He was about to make his way to the grand opening when he got the news.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/28/nx-s1-5828903/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada-blocked

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oasis

(54,361 posts)
1. Donald Trump is by far the most conniving, corrupt,
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 04:02 AM
9 hrs ago

and chickenshit president in American history.

Eugene

(67,466 posts)
2. The bridge already is half US-owned (by the state of Michigan).
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 04:04 AM
9 hrs ago

Canada put up 100% of the up front construction costs and is supposed get the toll revenue until it recoups those up front costs.

MF47 presided over the deal. Now he wants to alter it Darth Vader style.

flashman13

(2,649 posts)
13. If I am understanding you correctly, after the loans taken out by Canada for construction are paid,
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 12:14 PM
1 hr ago

the state of Michigan will receive a share of the toll revenue. What is Trump saying? Does he intend to claim ownership by the federal government? Does he have some nefarious plan to pocket the toll revenue himself (probably)? I guess he thinks he should be able to replace the bribe money he is currently getting from owner of the old bridge with tolls from the new bridge.

I would call Trump a Mafioso, but I wouldn't want to insult the actual Mafia.

Eugene

(67,466 posts)
14. There's also a strong whiff of bribery.
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 01:40 PM
10 min ago

The owners of the competing Ambassador Bridge donated $1M to the Trump super PAC and then lobbied TSF about the Gordie Howe Bridge.

https://windsorstar.com/news/who-is-the-billionaire-donor-family-said-to-be-behind-trumps-delay-in-opening-gordie-howe-bridge

And yes, Dump is demanding half of a bridge, for which the US paid zero dollars for, and is only half owned by Canada.

Botany

(78,271 posts)
3. This is because the owner of the Ambassador Bridge that the Geordie Howe Bridge will replace has been ...
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 04:15 AM
9 hrs ago

paying Trump millions of dollars to stop the new one from opening. The old Ambassador Bridge is a straight in line bridge and the traffic goes through urban areas however the new bridge is curved so that traffic can get directly onto interstate highways or the Canadian freeway system. The owner of the old bridge doesn’t want to lose the tolls he is bringing in which is what will happen when the Geordie Howe
Bridge opens.

Trump is so corrupt it is not funny. He is literally taking bribes in the White House to make things
worse in both Canada and the United States. On this alone he should be impeached and removed
from office.




Old bridge.



The new bridge. Which feeds into The 401 in Canada and feeds into I 75, I 94, and I 96 in
Michigan.









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Whip-poor-will

(656 posts)
5. Sure is an insane asshole
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 04:31 AM
9 hrs ago

If it poems will he smear his faces on it or some other juvenile petty bullshit.

Shows how worthless Valley Forge Military and Wharton failed miserably with turning out a mature individual.

AZJonnie

(4,225 posts)
9. His saying he attended/went to/graduated from Wharton is a bit of a stretch
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 06:37 AM
7 hrs ago

He attended the one and only business school at Penn (Wharton School) as an undergrad. At that time, like 40% of people who applied were admitted. And he had a rich daddy pulling strings. The prestigious degree from Wharton was and is the graduate program. Wharton MBA means something. A BS in Economics from the Wharton School with a concentration in Business like he got in 1968? It doesn't mean jack.

Callie1979

(1,506 posts)
12. I think it was his Uncle who pulled the strings. Friends with the Admission guy
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 08:17 AM
5 hrs ago

Of course
And from what ive read nobody liked him because all he talked about was how rich his daddy was
I doubt any of THEM were "poor"

Festivito

(13,957 posts)
6. "May?" be blocked by Trump. The sun may rise.
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 04:54 AM
8 hrs ago

Canada paid for the bridge. Usually if you buy something that can make a profit, if you bought it, you get to keep the profit.

Instead of Canada retaining all the profits, they said they would share the profits after repaying the loans used to build the bridge. That was the agreement between the united states and canada.

Now trump wants to start taking the profits now. At least that's one report of what he wants.

It's amazing what a simple million dollar bribe can do.

FakeNoose

(43,076 posts)
8. All Canada has to do is pay the necessary bribe ...
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 06:23 AM
7 hrs ago

I guess they forgot to do that!

Or, they can wait until Chump is gone and everything will be back to normal with the next D president.

maxrandb

(17,557 posts)
10. Oh No! There better not be a "return to normal"
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 06:47 AM
7 hrs ago

The next Dem President needs to sieze that billionaire fucksticks owned bridge for "national security" reasons, and sell Pay-Per-View tickets on Paramount (all proceeds going to public education) to watch the fucking thing get blown to smithereens.

My "normal" will be tearing EVERY FUCKING THING that orange piece of amphibian shit built, with the same glee and disregard for the pain it causes that Retrumplicans displayed while building it.

I want a shit-ton of billionaire oligarchs on their fucking knees before I will consider anything "normal".

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