President Donald Trump late Friday blasted the Ontario provincial government in Canada for waiting until after the first two games of the World Series to pause a television ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs .

"They could have pulled it tonight," Trump told reporters at the White House as he headed to fly to Asia.

"Well, that's dirty play," he said. "But I can play dirtier than they can, you know."

Trump had cited the ad in his decision on Thursday night to trade negotiations with Canada .

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Friday afternoon said he would pause the ad on Monday so that trade talks could resume.

But Ford also said, "I've directed my team to keep putting our message in front of Americans over the weekend so that we can air our commerci

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