Howard Lutnick: “No, see, that's silly. We have a plan called USMCA, U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement.”

The words medium and heavy-duty trucks were raised in these trade negotiations on Friday at 4 o’clock. I met with [Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic] LeBlanc 10 times… [and] these were not raised. These were not part of it.

‘are you actually trying to blow this up?’ And his answer to me was, ‘I’m not allowed to say that.’

When someone doesn’t want the deal, they make up and say, “Oh, I’ll do the deal with you only if you wear green. And you’re like, ‘But I’m wearing, I’m not wearing green.’ Oh, sorry, it’s not going to work out.

Canada made the decision to walk away from the negotiating table for political purposes.