President Donald Trump in a message posted to Truth Social on Saturday afternoon pledged to increase tariffs on Canada by 10 percent following a dispute over an anti-tariff ad using Ronald Reagan.

“Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now,” Trump wrote.

Newsweek reached out to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office, and the White House by email on Saturday evening outside of normal business hours for comment.

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The U.S. and Canada were set for trade talks after months of Trump aggressively implementing tariffs against a number of trading partners. The U.S. imposed a 35 percent tariff on some of

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