President Donald Trump threatened Monday to block a new bridge connecting the U.S. and Canada, citing the country’s perceived hostility toward the U.S. and its relations with China.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge, which is expected to open in early 2026, is set to be the only bridge that allows for foot and bike traffic between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. But Trump threw the project’s fate into peril, fuming at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s administration as tensions between the two countries run high.
“I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve,” Trump wrote in a Monday evening post on Truth Social.
Trump added that negotiations regarding the project would begin immediately, insisting that the U.S. “should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset.”
