On Thursday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump threw one of his usual temper tantrums on Truth Social, this time accusing Canada of spreading “fake” news about … former president Ronald Reagan.

The impetus was a political attack ad the Ontario government is running south of the border to try to show Republicans that the actions of their president run counter to the views espoused by Reagan, who has long been venerated as the patron saint of the GOP — at least until Trump came and dumped on everything he held dear.

The ad campaign uses audio from a radio address Reagan gave on April 25, 1987, in the midst of a heated trade dispute with Japan over semiconductors. The ad, in part, quotes Reagan as saying:

“When someone says, ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like

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