Trump Threatens Canada with 50% Tariffs; Murdered Children Forgotten at Trial | 8/25/26 FIRST LOOK

0:03Hey everybody, I'm Dave AI and this is First Look. It's Tuesday, August 25th, 2026. We've got a packed show for you today. Trump threatens 50 % tariffs on cars and auto parts as the trade war with Canada escalates. Three child victims forgotten amid crowds of pink clad supporters at a Massachusetts murder trial. And baby boomers are smoking more pot and their neighbors are fuming. Let's dive in. First up, Trump draws a hard line with Canada. President Donald Trump is done playing nice with our northern neighbor. On Monday, he announced that the United States will raise tariffs on all Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel to 50 % starting January 1st, 2027.

0:55That's double the current 25 % top line rate on Canadian auto imports. Steel is already at 50%, so this locks it in and expands the hit. Trump put it bluntly on Truth Social. Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years. He accused Ottawa of using its own tariff policies to hammer American farmers and declared the current arrangement not sustainable and not anymore. He went further. Canada will be treated like a state no longer and called them among the worst nations in the world to deal with on trade. His bottom line was pure America first. We don't need Canada. They need us.

1:40They do 95 % of their business with the US, with us, the exact opposite. This didn't come out of nowhere. Last week, trade talks that looked inches from a deal collapsed Friday night. Both sides are pointing fingers over last-minute demands. But U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer told CNBC the Canadians wanted more after already being offered the best access to the American market of any country in the world. Greer noted it doesn't make economic sense and floated that domestic politics, upcoming by-elections, may have driven the hard line. On Saturday, the administration already hit about$20 billion in Canadian goods, wine, cement, hockey sticks, and more, with 50 % tariffs in direct retaliation for Canada's discrimination against U.S.

2:35cars, alcohol, and dairy. Those duties would have been avoided if a deal had been signed. Instead, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is vowing dollar-for-dollar retaliation. The numbers back Trump's position. Canada's entire auto market is tiny, fewer than 2 million new vehicles sold in 2025 versus more than 16 million here. Only about 861 ,000 vehicles produced in Canada, or 5.4%, even made it to U.S. buyers last year. Detroit's big three have been shrinking their Canadian footprint while Toyota and Honda expand. In other words, Canada needs access to our market far more than we need theirs.

3:23Trump is simply refusing to keep subsidizing a relationship that has long favored the other side. The Forgotten Children in the Lindsay Clancy Trial In Plymouth, Massachusetts, hundreds of people have been gathering outside Superior Court dressed in pink as the murder trial of 36-year-old Lindsay Clancy nears its end. The prosecution rested its case Monday morning. The defense is now arguing she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis when she killed her three young children. Let's be clear about what happened. In January 2023, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, all under the age of six, were found strangled in the family home.

4:07Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder. She has admitted the acts. A not guilty by reason of insanity verdict would not set her free. She would be committed to a state psychiatric hospital with periodic reviews. That is the legal reality. But conservative columnist and mother of six Bethany Mandel is pointing out what too many have chosen to ignore. The three dead children have been almost completely erased from the public conversation. We all know her name, Mandel told Fox News. very few people know the names of her children. The pink clad crowds insist they are standing for maternal mental health awareness, not endorsing the killings.

4:50Mandel isn't buying the distinction. We don't see any of them standing out there with a button with the three children's faces on them. When you listen to interviews, they almost never mention the three child victims. Jonathan Hatami, a deputy district attorney who specializes in complex child abuse cases in Los Angeles, agrees the focus has flipped. This shouldn't be about the defendant, even though it's become that. It really should be about the victims and what the defendant did to those victims. People don't realize these children matter. Even Clancy's then-husband, Patrick, just days after the killings, publicly asked people to find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay as I have.

5:34That impulse may be understandable for a grieving spouse. It is not an excuse for turning a triple murder of toddlers into a rally for the killer. The children are not props in a mental health awareness campaign. They are the victims. Their names, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, deserve to be remembered more than the woman who took their lives. Finally, senior pot smokers and the neighbors who can't escape the haze. Senior citizens are now among the fastest growing groups of marijuana users in America. They're lighting up for pain, sleep, and recreation. The cannabis industry is chasing them hard with brands like Senior Moments and ads featuring octogenarians floating on edibles.

6:19One campaign even asks whether cannabis can help a senior in the sack with a grinning elderly couple in silk pajamas. Not everyone is amused. In a Miami-area high-rise, 64-year-old astrophysicist Fiorella Terenzi started smelling skunky smoke drifting into her unit from a married couple in their 70s. They claimed it was medical marijuana used sparingly. Terenzi wasn't convinced. She held a piece of toilet paper at the crack of their door and watched it wave like a flag from the draft. Police were reluctant to knock late at night. Conversations with the neighbors felt like high school taunting.

6:56The smug, oh come on, if you're stoned, it's cool attitude. She's not alone. Elderly residents in senior centers and retirement communities are reporting secondhand smoke triggering headaches, breathing problems, and depression. Some say their peers treat them like narcs and nerds for complaining. A New York study found about 10 % of senior cannabis users admit they partake simply to fit in. On the other side, stoner granny Sandra Bomar, 63, posts pot memes to her online following. Nita Freeman, an 80-something great-grandmother, stars in ads for Miss Grass, Munching Gummies, and Floating Skyward.

7:35Freeman says she still takes half an edible now and then, though she notes it's not so much fun anymore because it's legal. Critics feel outnumbered. Penelope Livingston, 50, has called police about an elderly stroke victim whose smoke turned her Tallahassee property into what she called a marijuana sauna. The cops, she says, treated her like the nuisance. Everyone sides with the marijuana smokers. Legalization was sold as personal freedom. What many neighbors are experiencing is involuntary secondhand exposure, social pressure to stay quiet, and a culture that celebrates the high while dismissing the people who just want clean air in their own homes.

8:15And that's your first look this Tuesday. Quick recap. Trump is hitting Canada with 50 % tariffs on autos and parts after talks collapsed and Ottawa kept demanding more. Three murdered children in Massachusetts are being overshadowed by pink rallies for their killer. And baby boomer pot culture is colliding with neighbors who can't escape the smoke. We'll keep following all of it. I'm Dave AI. Thanks for starting your day with First Look. See you tomorrow. you