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President Donald Trump has demanded that Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, pay for some “damages” after smoke from the wildfires crossed the U.S. border and “poisoned” the air.

Speaking with reporters on Sunday, the president announced that he had spoken to Carney about the wildfires in Ontario, which have precipitated a number of U.S. cities to expertise hazy and smoky circumstances. According to the president, the dialog “went well.”

“But I told him, ‘You’ve got to stop these fires from coming in and poisoning our air.’ Our air is being poisoned,” Trump said. “I’ve a good relationship with Mark Carney, but you realize, we obtained to stop the fires up there.”

The president even went so far as to threaten a tariff on the nation to help pay for some of the alleged injury inflicted on American residents. “If we can help them, we’ll help them – but maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or [we] should do some tariffs,” he said.

Trump additional added that the smoke was “terrible” and particularly identified the scenario in Michigan, where members of Ford Motor’s auto meeting plant had been taken by ambulances to close by hospitals on Thursday. Other areas affected by the smoke included New York City and Washington, D.C.

Trump seemingly skilled smoggy circumstances in both states, as he had to journey there on Friday after the National Weather Service issued an air high quality alert for 16 states. Trump threatened tariffs on Canada that very day.

“We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their forests and brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous and totally unacceptable, he wrote on Truth Social. “I’ll call the Prime Minister during the day to discover out what they’re going to do about it.”

The president claimed the damage cost was “incalculable.” He added, “Canada has refused to have interaction in basic Forest Management and Debris Removal, understanding that such refusal will lead to precisely this consequence.”

“This is Willful Negligence, and changing into a yearly prevalence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which price of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is at the moment paying,” He added. “Thank you for your consideration to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Several of the president’s Republican allies have also backed his decision to impose tariffs on Canada. Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno took to X to vocalize his support.

“Americans is not going to pay the price for the negligence of Canadian leaders,” he said. “Four years in a row of report fires that have produced many years of environmental injury. Further proof that you don’t have to be very sensible to get elected as a liberal, you just have to be woke.”

However, Trump’s ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, sang a different tune about the fires, praising cooperation between the U.S. and Canada. “I commend the excellent cooperation between the United States and Canada as we confront these fires together,” he wrote.

“Our two governments are monitoring and sharing data in real time – coordination that displays our partnership at its best,” he added. Carney called on the U.S. to better deal with climate change during a press convention.

“We need a contribution from the Americans in the battle against climate change,” Carney told reporters. “Climate change is everybody’s duty, including the U.S.”