Canadians to Maine: No, thanks!

[Celerity]

Canadian tourists make up about 30-40% of the revenue for many businesses in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. This year, many are choosing to skip their regular getaway, given President Trump’s antagonistic rhetoric towards Canada. The owner of the Point of View Inn tells CNN’s Randi Kaye he’s had so many cancellations that his business may not survive.

[sheshe2]

1. I wonder whom The Point of View owner voted for.

Everything trump touches dies.

[Easterncedar]

5. He said they are " incredibly justified."

He didn’t sound like a magat to me.

[sheshe2]

6. Thanks, Eastcedar.

[Think. Again.]

2. Um, cnn? It's the U.S. that Canadians are saying "No thanks" to.

[Sky Jewels]

8. Yep!

Especially Florida, the penis-shaped state, is about to get kicked in the balls. Hard.

[KPN]

12. And Arizona.

[BBbats]

26. And New Jersey!

The Jersey shore(especially Wildwood) was a big vacation spot for Canadians & Germans.
I've posted this a lot but a casual acquaintance of mine(who's full out MAGA) makes almost all his yearly income from several summer rental properties. I heard him crying in his beer that all his reservations save one(& that one's American) have cancelled & even had their credit cards cancel their deposits so he can't get his mitts on that.
He was one obnoxious asshole on election day now he's considering bankruptcy.

[KPN]

28. Good!

[AloeVera]

3. So Trump says Trudeau's trade negotiators were "nasty people"?

Translated, it means they were professional, assertive and knowledgeable. And they won. Trump is such a sore loser.

I do feel bad for the many small businesses in tourism hurt by that greedy and deranged man.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. You nailed it on every point, including small businesses in two nations, hurt by tRump. . . . . nt

[SCantiGOP]

17. He said Canada was the nastiest country

that he had dealt with.
I guess he has forgotten about his “fell in love” comment about a Korean guy who brags that he can hit US cities with nukes, or the people who put “Death to America” on their political ads.
But Putin was polite and cordial when he made a fool of Trump in the Ukrainian negotiations.

[kerouac2]

27. Saying Canada is nastiest country is like...

Is like saying milk is the spiciest drink.

What an a$$hat.

[DFW]

4. Where we go in the summer

There are always a lot of Québec and Ontario license plates. I wonder how many fewer this year?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Try the Atlantic Provinces. You would be welcome in Quebec and Ontario; anywhere in Canada

... especially a multilingual multi-cultural quasi-European! I think you and family and friends would enjoy Canada. Generally, American people are very welcome because we know they are separate from the US goobermint.

[DFW]

21. I know we would be welcome in Quebec

A friend of mine used to be Canada’s ambassador to the USA, and we used to hang with him at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, and later at the Canadian Embassy in Paris when he was ambassador to France. He has a place in the Laurentians to which he has been inviting us for 25 years, and we never get around to it.

I don’t want this to become another Adrian Cronauer situation. Adrian passed before we could ever accept his invitation to visit him in southwest Virginia, and that haunts me to this day. He was one of the most intriguing people I ever met, and “Good Morning Vietnam” had nothing to do with it.

But the fact remains that I still work for a living. I only have limited vacation time, and can’t just spend all of my time traveling the world seeing all the people and places I want to see. Plenty of people tell me that’s exactly what I should be doing at my age. I suppose some day, I’ll listen to them.

[niyad]

15. Are you still planning on coming this summer?

[DFW]

20. We sure are

It is my country, too, and our NYC daughter and family are planning to stay with us for some of the time. So are my two siblings, and possibly some members of Congress who are friends.

I refuse to be intimidated by a bunch of wannabe Yertle the Turtle control freaks. Plus, we have friends among the locals after 40 years of going there. Wellfleet, Truro, Provincetown—these are not mere tourist destinations for us. They are part of our lives by now. We do not plan to stay away just because Trump, Noem, Bondi and Rubio said “Boo!”

[niyad]

22. Excellent!!! We are looking forward to your regular commentary during

your vacation.

[3Hotdogs]

7. Canadian, pissed off, or not..... would you take the chance to enter the U.S. and maybe find your ass in chains?

I'm surprised that any visitors from foreign countries decide to vacation here.

For example, would you choose to visit Russia? North Korea? Iran? Same thing with foreigners choosing whether to visit the U.S.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. How long before ICE commits an Otto Warmbier mistake?

[chicoescuela]

11. Ugh. That's a horrible thought that hadn't crossed my mind.

Hope that doesn’t happen

[NJCher]

18. I just read the headline

But I believe it already has happened. Yes, chains.

[pfitz59]

13. Meanwhile Susan Collins clutches her pearls

and will get right on it.

[BidenRocks]

16. If you can afford to vacation in America,

you have enough money to visit a place of happiness.
Someplace free from cell phone searches for anti chump posts.
Someplace free from dictatorship!

Stay home!

[Multiguy]

19. No Worries

I live in a border town in WA state and go back and forth to Canada fairly regularly using a green card. I haven't noticed any change in the border guards attitudes.

[niyad]

23. Happy for you, but that does not seem to be the experience for many.

[dalton99a]

24. COMING SOON: Trump signs decree ordering Canadians with money to visit the U.S.

"It is their patriotic duty as citizens of the 51st state!"

[malaise]

25. But is Susan Collins concerned?

😂😂