why trump hates canada

'There is a theory that President Trump is still bitter about his Canadian hotel ventures that went bust,' the New York Times reported yesterday. Here's the backstory.

the president’s revenge

Trump’s failed 2012 condo-hotel venture in Toronto was a monument to corruption and excess — one that went bust after 38 swindled investors sued him and won. The backstory of a sleazy real estate deal that would eventually culminate in a global trade war.

BY LEAH McLAREN

Even back in boomtown Toronto 2012, the Trump condo-hotel was dazzling to behold — a kind of porn-set fantasy dreamed up by the rich-fluencer spawn of a Bond villain nursing a fantasy of making Dame Joan Collins blush. The restaurant, Stock, was an over-lit horror show of chandeliers, tufted black leather and polished chrome accents; food eye-gougingly priced and inedible, the lobby a vertigo-inducing chasm of marble and mirrors. The Trump was not just a celebration of excess, but a monument to the perverting power of money and its ability to devour and flatten beauty in all its forms. Not bad taste but the obliteration of taste period paving the way to the world we are now in. It seemed ludicrous at the time, too hilariously hideous to not to fail, rather than what it turned out to be: A harbinger of doom laughed off stage at the end of Act One.