Three Summers Of Canadian Smoke

Trump Confronted Carney at the World Cup and Demanded Canada Pay For Poisoning American Air

Canadian wildfire smoke shut down Detroit's car plants for the third summer in a row.

Trump sat beside Carney at Sunday's World Cup final and brought the crisis up in person.

Nearly 850 wildfires were burning across Canada last week, with more than 180 raging in Ontario alone. The smoke drifted south and swallowed American cities whole. For a stretch last week, Detroit's air ranked dirtiest of any major city on the planet, with Chicago and the nation's capital not far behind.

Washington's own air quality index hit 212 – a level the government classifies as very unhealthy – while New York posted a reading of 134 the same morning. Air quality alerts hit more than 20 states, from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast.

New York City's skyline vanished behind an orange haze that turned Manhattan orange in broad daylight. Canada let its forests burn out of control again, and Washington was done pretending this was new.

Trump posted on Truth Social accusing Canada's government of refusing basic forest management, warning "this is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence." He said the pollution has cost America billions of dollars – and that bill belongs on Canada's tariffs, not on American taxpayers.

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