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Trump 'out-of-control, juvenile and childish,' says Democratic Rep. Kennedy · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Mark Carney says trade talks will resume when
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. stops throwing shade.
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  Speaker 2: There's a positive opportunity that has always existed with the
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  Speaker 2: United States for a mutually beneficial trade deal. When the
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  Speaker 2: Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to
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  Speaker 2: be tough and start being serious about having those discussions,
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  Speaker 2: we can have those discussions.
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  Speaker 1: Those remarks come after US President Donald Trump signed an
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  Speaker 1: executive order last week to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America.
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  Speaker 1: This week, a group of Democratic US representatives are attempting
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  Speaker 1: to reverse that order by tabling a bill called the
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  Speaker 1: Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act. New York Democratic Representative
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  Speaker 1: Tim Kennedy joins me now.
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  Speaker 4: Nice to see you, sir. Thanks for coming on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: great to be with you, JP. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So the president spent the weekend launching social media missives
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  Speaker 1: at Canada, saying he doesn't want anything from this country.
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  Speaker 1: Over the last two days, Trump cabinet secretaries have mocked,
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  Speaker 1: denigrated the Canadian Armed Forces, including teenagers and the cadets.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like the administration intends to destroy this Canada-U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Relationship.
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  Speaker 1: How do you see it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I agree with you that they're trying,
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  Speaker 3: but we're not going to let them. You know, our
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  Speaker 3: ties run very deep. It's historical ties from the past,
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  Speaker 3: from hundreds of years ago. It's present ties in both
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  Speaker 3: our culture and our economy and our families and its
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  Speaker 3: future generations.
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  Speaker 4: So we're not going to let this out of control,
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  Speaker 4: juvenile generation.
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  Speaker 3: And childish president get in the way of our historic relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Let's discuss another development in the increasingly fraught relationship. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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  Speaker 1: You strongly oppose that. What can you do to try
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  Speaker 1: and stop this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, myself and Congressman Joe Morelli from Rochester, New York,
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  Speaker 3: that sits right on Lake Ontario, along with Congresswoman Debbie
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  Speaker 3: Dingell from the great state of Michigan, have introduced a
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  Speaker 3: piece of legislation here in Congress titled Hands Off Our
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  Speaker 3: Great Lakes. The fact of the matter is the president
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  Speaker 3: has no business renaming Lake Ontario, and we're not going
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  Speaker 3: to let him. We're not going to let that take
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  Speaker 3: root here in our country or anywhere else. So we're
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  Speaker 3: not only pushing back and calling him out on it,
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  Speaker 3: but we're pushing for legislation here.
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  Speaker 4: In the United States Congress.
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  Speaker 3: It will rescind his executive order and it will prevent
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  Speaker 3: any future president from renaming any of the Great Lakes Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a White House spokesperson was asked about this legislative
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  Speaker 1: effort to try and reverse the naming. They said, if
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  Speaker 1: you personally, does the congressman not love America? It seems
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  Speaker 1: like they're trying to paint you as, frankly, unpatriotic for
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  Speaker 1: opposition to this. What's your response to that sort of dig?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think these people are completely out of touch.
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, they want to.
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  Speaker 3: Act like bullies. But the fact of the matter is,
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  Speaker 3: we know how to deal with bullies. And And we
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  Speaker 3: hit back when we need to. And the fact of
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  Speaker 3: the matter is the legislation that myself and Congressman Morelli
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  Speaker 3: and Congresswoman Dingell Carey does just that. It'll rescind the
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  Speaker 3: president's ridiculous executive order, and it will ensure that future
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  Speaker 3: generations know that Lake Ontario or any of the.
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  Speaker 4: Great Lakes aren't to be messed with.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the naming of Lake Ontario, we know, goes
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  Speaker 3: back hundreds of years.
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  Speaker 4: It has roots with.
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  Speaker 3: The indigenous community on both sides of our border before
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  Speaker 3: Canada or the United States even existed as countries. And
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  Speaker 3: so for him to try to rename Lake Ontario, it's, again,
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  Speaker 3: childish and juvenile.
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  Speaker 4: We're not going to stand for it.
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  Speaker 3: But what it is, JP, it's a distraction from his
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  Speaker 3: economic assault on the people of America. By enacting these
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  Speaker 3: Trump tariffs, he's put in place ultimately a Trump tax.
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  Speaker 4: And it's resulted in cost of.
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  Speaker 3: Living increases in every aspect of our lives, in groceries
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  Speaker 3: costs that are skyrocketing.
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  Speaker 4: Gas at the pumps is skyrocketing.
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  Speaker 3: The cost of housing, the cost of health care, the
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  Speaker 3: cost of childhood, everything is skyrocketing because of this president's
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  Speaker 3: failed policies enabled by congressional Republicans that are unwilling to
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  Speaker 3: push back. But aside from the legislation, that we are
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  Speaker 3: pushing for. At the same time, we're calling for all
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  Speaker 3: Americans to exercise their right at the ballot box just
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  Speaker 3: nine weeks from today. 63 days away is our election
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  Speaker 3: on November 3rd. And so we know there's a better
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  Speaker 3: way forward. And when Democrats win the House of Representatives
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  Speaker 3: back and make Hakeem Jeffries the Speaker of the House
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  Speaker 3: on November 3rd, and he gets the gavel in his
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  Speaker 3: hand on January 3rd, we're going to create accountability back
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  Speaker 3: in our government and hold the crooks accountable here in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned those tariffs. Obviously, the Trump tariffs on
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  Speaker 1: Canadian goods are going over like a lead balloon.
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  Speaker 4: In this country.
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  Speaker 1: And the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is poised to retaliate
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  Speaker 1: against the United States, slapping tariffs on some $ 28 billion
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  Speaker 1: worth of products coming into this country. That's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: take effect next week after Labor Day. I imagine that
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  Speaker 1: could be hugely impactful for a district like yours in
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  Speaker 1: Western New York. Are businesses bracing for impact?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, we're already feeling the pain. The fact of
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  Speaker 3: the matter is on both sides of the border, the
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  Speaker 3: travel is down.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we are.
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  Speaker 3: Heavily engaged with our Canadian partners in our economy. There
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  Speaker 3: are tens of thousands of jobs on both sides of
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  Speaker 3: the border in western New York and in southern Ontario
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  Speaker 3: that are interdependent.
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  Speaker 4: We have a GM plant in the town.
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  Speaker 3: Of Tonawanda that that sends their engines over the border
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  Speaker 3: into Ontario seven different times back and forth before the
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  Speaker 3: final product is complete. We have a Ford stamping plant
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  Speaker 3: in Hamburg that does the same, sending parts across the
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  Speaker 3: border many different times. We have Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center,
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  Speaker 3: where people come from Canada and all over for cancer care.
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  Speaker 4: We have our great universities.
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  Speaker 3: And hospital systems that are dependent upon our great Canadian
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  Speaker 3: friends and partners and allies. You know, we love the
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  Speaker 3: people of Canada and we especially recognize that incredible relationship
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  Speaker 3: that we've had for many generations, for centuries, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 3: between our two great nations. We are not going to
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  Speaker 3: let this president and his ridiculousness get in the way
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I've said it a number of times, but
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  Speaker 4: I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 3: Our great Buffalo Sabres, and sorry to all my friends
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  Speaker 3: in Canada that root for the Maple Leafs or the
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  Speaker 3: Canadians or any other great Canadian hockey team, but We
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  Speaker 3: love our Buffalo Sabres. We love our Buffalo Bills. But
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  Speaker 3: before every Buffalo Sabres game, you know, we sing the
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  Speaker 3: Canadian and U.S. National Anthem, regardless of whether we're playing
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  Speaker 3: against a Canadian team or not. That is a demonstration
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  Speaker 3: of respect and of the understanding of the great... intertwining
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  Speaker 3: of our cultural, historic, and present relationships. And it's really
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  Speaker 3: a nod to the great people of Canada. We are
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  Speaker 3: not going to stop loving on our Canadian neighbors.
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  Speaker 4: And we hope, especially in the.
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  Speaker 3: Buffalo, Niagara region, they recognize that this president is way
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  Speaker 3: out on his own.
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  Speaker 4: He's on an island. His approval rating is lower than
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  Speaker 4: it's ever been.
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  Speaker 3: He does not speak for the American people when he
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  Speaker 3: makes a boneheaded decision like trying to rename Lake Ontario
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  Speaker 3: as a distraction for his failed policies and enacting his
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  Speaker 3: Trump taxes and these tariffs that are really hurting the
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  Speaker 3: American people in the pocketbooks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as you alluded to there, we're not seeing that
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  Speaker 1: sort of respect from the administration. We might be seeing
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  Speaker 1: it from sports fans. The prime minister today said that
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  Speaker 1: he's open to making a mutually beneficial agreement with the
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  Speaker 1: United States if the Trump administration stops throwing shade and
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  Speaker 1: doing memes. Do you think that there's any chance of that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the administration is capable of acting in
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  Speaker 1: a more respectful manner?
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  Speaker 4: Well, time will tell.
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  Speaker 3: But the American people are begging for a government and
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  Speaker 3: this administration to start acting like adults.
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  Speaker 4: Stop the nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: Get to the negotiating table and put in place an
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  Speaker 3: agreement that works for the American people, that works for
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  Speaker 3: our communities, that works to create jobs and opportunity, that
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  Speaker 3: lowers the cost of living here in the United States,
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  Speaker 3: that ends the affordability crisis that this president on his
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  Speaker 3: own has created, not just with these tariffs, with Canada,
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  Speaker 3: our greatest trading partner and ally, but also the global
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  Speaker 3: tariffs that he's put in place with our allies all
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  Speaker 3: across the spectrum. At the same time, he's begun an
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  Speaker 3: illegal war of choice in the Middle East that has
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  Speaker 3: driven up the cost of gas at the pump. So
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  Speaker 3: I hope and pray that this president gets his act
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  Speaker 3: together and does what's right for the American people.
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  Speaker 4: But if he doesn't, we are doing.
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  Speaker 3: Our part here in Congress to hold him and his
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  Speaker 3: administration accountable.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's leave it there. New York Democratic Representative
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  Speaker 1: Tim Kennedy. I appreciate you making time for Canada, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all my pleasure. Great to see you, JP.
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  Speaker 4: God bless the United States. God bless Canada.