Trump’s Lake Ontario bluster: Why treating his sovereignty threats as a joke is dangerous

When United States President Donald Trump first began calling former prime minister Justin Trudeau the “governor” of the “great state of Canada” in December 2024, I remember telling friends we should be concerned. One friend told me I was overreacting. It was just Trump being Trump. By then, Trump’s taste for insults and outlandish claims was well established. Psychoanalysis explains why Donald Trump is taunting Canada and ‘Governor Justin Trudeau’ Calling a Canadian prime minister…