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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Erin Keller

Trump slams Canadian anti-tariff ad that invoked Ronald Reagan as ‘possibly AI’

President Donald Trump criticized a controversial Canadian anti-tariff advertisement late Friday, calling it “crooked” and “dishonest” and suggesting that its excerpts from former President Ronald Reagan’s speech may have been generated using artificial intelligence.

The advertisement, sponsored by Ontario’s provincial government, uses real but spliced moments from an April 1987 Reagan address about imposing tariffs on Japan to criticize U.S. tariffs.

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