Trump says Canada is ‘one of the worst countries in the entire world’

President Trump said Monday that Canada is “one of the worst countries in the entire world” in the wake of heightened tensions between Washington and its historically friendly northern neighbor.

“The problem is that they’ve treated the United States very unfairly. They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world. You know, we get along with China, we get along with people and we make good deals,” the president said in the Oval Office.

“But Canada has been really very difficult to deal with, actually. They’ve charged our farmers 400 percent tariffs and more. And they take advantage of us,” he added.

On Tuesday, Trump’s ban on close to $1 billion in Canadian goods went into effect, another strike in a trade war between Washington and Ottawa. It covers Canadian dairy products, motor vehicles and numerous alcoholic beverages.

While signing the executive orders to ban the goods, Trump cited “discrimination” against American equivalents.

There has been an atypical animosity between the U.S. and Canada throughout Trump’s second term, not just over trade, but also over the president’s push to acquire the U.S.’s northern neighbor. The relationship reached a breaking point after trade negotiations between Washington and Ottawa fell apart in August, and the two countries slapped tariffs on each other’s goods.

Earlier this month , Carney said his country had an overreliance on “easy” economic links to the U.S.

“The past 40 years has been a period of deeper economic integration with the United States. Truth is, it was easy business, but it meant we relied too much on one economic partner. It’s clear that time is over,” Carney said in a video posted to YouTube in early September.