Is this fake announcement any more convincing than Trump's 'let me at 'em' threat last month? How ludicrous the story that half the White House wanted to save NAFTA and was pushing Trudeau to get him to call Trump to convince him to ignore the other half who wanted him to get rid of it! All engineered of course to make Trump look like the tough negotiator and endear him even more to his naive, ill-informed base.

Call his bluff. Let the rich kid take his ball and go home.  Canada can cope at least as well as the American multinationals and the states that would be shafted if protectionism is allowed to rule the day. The usual rogue states would be happy to see North America shoot itself in the foot. 

Maybe, post-Comey, it will dawn on backward GOP congressmen that their own narrow interests can't be served by an incompetent, unstable oligarch in the White House. Moderates and the left have long since concluded there is something decidedly rotten in Denmark.