← Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels
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Barack Obama flew to Toronto on May 8, 2026, and he shook hands with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a closed press gala. And they literally broke the Internet. It was officially a speaking engagement. Unofficially, it was a move on a chessboard that most of us don't even really know we're playing. The visit landed against the backdrop of the most severe U.S. canada trade rift in a century. Billion dollar tariffs, sovereignty threats, a critical trade agreement careening towards a July 1 deadline. But the trade war was almost beside the point, because what Toronto actually exposed was something much larger. A coordinated globalist network built on Clinton Obama institutional infrastructure, funded by international billionaires, staffed by Democratic operatives using foreign soil to organize, strategize and signal that the nationalist tide sweeping western democracies will be met with coordinated international resistance. This is the story behind the story of globalists versus America. First, here we go. Keeping it Real. Keeping it Real. Keeping it Real with Jillian Michaels. Mark Carney posted a short video of the handshake with Obama to X. And the caption said, welcome back to Canada, President Obama. Thank you for joining us for our important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future. The American right detonated calls for Obama's arrest, Logan act violations, treason. And then the left fired back. Absurd. No crime committed. MAGA is manufacturing outreach from thin air, but both versions are not accurate. The truth is actually far more interesting than either of those stories. So Trump's assault on Canada has come in four layers, right? And fairness requires distinguishing them. So first, fentanyl. The White House declared a national emergency over northern border drug flows, but the actual numbers. So The CBP seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the US Canada border in 2024. That is 0.2% of all fentanyl seized that year. So virtually all fentanyl entered the southern border with Mexico. So the crisis is real, but Canada driving it is not. Then there's the trade deficit. So Trump claimed that the US was losing 200 billion annually to Canada, but the actual 2024 goods and services deficit was about 35.7 billion, which was overwhelmingly driven by strip out energy. And Canada was running a small surplus. So there's a real deficit. Somewhat overstated. Then there's dairy and lumber. And these are genuine bipartisan, decades long grievances. Canada's supply management system imposes tariffs above quota thresholds that can reach 241% on American dairy. The softwood lumber dispute, rooted in Canada's below market provincial timber fees, has been litigated through NAFTA USMCA, and the World Trade Organization for 30 years. And it's important to note the International Dairy Foods association explicitly thanked Trump for pressing Canada on this. And these complaints predate him. They persisted through Biden. And then there's the fourth reason, which is annexation, the one Trump kept returning to. In his own unscripted words, he posted that Canada should become the 51st state.
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Frankly, Canada should be the 51st state, okay? It really should, because Canada relies entirely on the United States. We don't rely on Canada.
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He said it in speeches, interviews, and on a private call with Carney that Carney later confirmed to reporters. And when Time magazine asked him if he was trolling a little bit, Trump replied, actually, no, I'm not. The White House fact sheet said it plainly. Tariffs are a powerful, proven source of leverage. And needless to say, the Canadian people flipped out. Now, by early 2026, 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, 25% on automobiles escalating to 35%. With Canada matching dollar for dollar. A February 2026 Supreme Court ruling struck down broad IEEPA Tariff Authority six to three. Trump then pivoted to section two hundred and thirty two, keeping 50% tariffs on metals. Canada then removed retaliatory tariffs as a goodwill gesture in September of 2025. And it lasted three weeks before Ontario's Ronald Reagan baseball ad killed negotiations entirely.
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When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while. It works, but only for a short time. But over the long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. America's jobs and growth are at stake.
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A Canadian prime minister apologizing to the American president because a provincial politician ran a Reagan Adam during the World Series. That's where this relationship devolved to. And by May 2026, Trump's tariffs were the largest American tax increase as a percentage of GDP since 1993. Now, let's get back to our handshake scandal. To grasp the depth of it, you need to understand who Mark Carney really is. So his biography reads, depending on your worldview, either as a magnificent public service record or. Or as a perfect catalog of every institution the populist right has spent a decade targeting. Here we go. Harvard undergraduate, Oxford master's and doctorate, 13 years at Goldman Sachs, rising to Managing Director, Governor of the bank of Canada through the 2008 financial crisis. Then the first non British citizen ever appointed Governor of the bank of England. Chair of the Financial Stability Board, the body that coordinates global financial regulation. Vice Chair, then Chair of Brookfield Asset Management, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, Co Chair of the Glasgow Financial alliance for Net Zero. This is crazy, right? Board of the World Economic Forum, Board of the Peterson Institute, member of the Bildberg Group and Advisory Board chair of Canada 2020. And that is the organization that hosted Obama's keynote the weekend of the infamous handshake. So the credential stack was not assembled by accident. And when MAGA commentators called Carney a globalist, I think it's fair to say they were understating it. Now, on January 20, 2026, the exact anniversary of Trump's second inauguration, Carney walked to the podium at Davos and and he delivered a 17 minute address that analysts compare to Churchill's Iron Curtain speech. Now, he didn't name Trump, but he didn't have to. Here's what he said.
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We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration. When integration becomes the source of your
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As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale. It's not for sale, won't be for sale ever.
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But Trump leaned back. Never say never, but never say never.
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Ever say never.
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I've had many things that were not doable, and. And they ended up being doable. Now, to Canadians watching, that was not a diplomatic curiosity. It was a huge threat to them. And it lit a fire. May 8th. We're at the gala. A Fairmont Royal York went dark to press for the Canada 2020 20th anniversary gala. And remember, Canada 2020 is a Canadian progressive think tank with deep roots in the Liberal Party establishment. And there are no cameras, no reporters, no livestream, no readout. Obama delivered a keynote. Carney attended. They met. He posted the handshake video that is the entirety of the public record for May 8 hours in a closed room between two of the most prominent progressive political figures in the world. What did they discuss? Well, according to Carney's caption, a better and more just future. And that's all anyone outside that room was told. Canada 2020 describes itself as independent. I mean, that's one of the more creative uses of the word independent in Canadian politics. It was founded in 2006, the same year that the Liberal Party was crushed at the polls by four longtime Liberal operatives. One co founder was Tom Pitfield, childhood best friend of Justin Trudeau's, co writer of the speech that launched Trudeau's political career. Digital strategist for Trudeau's Liberal leadership campaign and his 2015 election win. The Liberal Party rented volunteer hub space from Canada 2020. During the 2015 campaign, Maclean's called it not the Liberal Party's wing, but its spine and the advisory board chair before becoming PM Mark Carney. May 9 Global Press Action Summit, co hosted by Canada 2020 and the center for American Progress Action Fund, published an agenda and stated its purpose without policy. And this was Cap's own press release. In 2026, the world faces the most significant challenge to peace and prosperity since World War II. CAP's President Neera Tanden stated their reason for organizing directly. How do we fight the authoritarian right? That's not a think tank convening to study policy. That's a war council with catering. And the confirmed guest list for this event included heads of government, cabinet ministers, former heads of state, and probable future presidential candidates drawn from six nations. Now, from the Canadian side, you had the highest echelons of Canadian political and economic power within the Liberal government that's led by Mark Carney. American attendees were Barack Obama at both the Friday night gala and the Saturday summit. Pete Buttigieg, who's the former Transportation Secretary and top tier 2028 presidential prospect, Senator Elisa Slotkin of Michigan, who's a former CIA analyst. Another 2028 name, Patrick Gaspard, a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa and former Obama White House political affairs director. The international attendees were the epitome of the technocratic globalist elite, for example, Magdalena Anderson, who's a former prime minister of Sweden who leads their Social Democratic Party. And it's also important to note that that CAP was founded by John Podesta with direct involvement from the George Soros Open Society Institute. And it's been referred to as a kind of Clinton White House in exile. Now, according to on the ground reporting, the summit was about how Carney won after trailing Conservatives by double digits. And can that formula be replicated elsewhere? How must Democrats change their messaging to recapture working class voters? And what's the coordinated progressive strategy across multiple Western democracies simultaneously to counter the nationalist populist wave that's cropping up and exploding all over the world? Which brings us to the single issue that every serious person in that room understood was lurking beneath the entire weekend, the cusma. And if you don't know what that is, you need to, because it's the most consequential piece of paper in North American economic life right now. So the cusma, or the USMCA as we use it in America is the Trilateral Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico, governing over 1.9 trillion in annual trade, covering 30% of global GDP. Think about that. And unlike NAFTA, it contains a sunset clause. All three parties have to confirm extension by the sixth anniversary of its entry into force. And that anniversary is is July 1, 2026. Now, we have confirmed it'll be extended for another 16 years. So if any one of the three countries, the U.S. canada or Mexico, refuses to confirm the extension on July 1, the agreement doesn't automatically die, but it enters a kind of slow motion limbo. So instead of being locked in, it gets reviewed every single year. And if those annual reviews keep going unresolved, the whole agreement eventually expires in 2036. Now, currently, CUSMA exempts products that comply with Trump's tariff levies, covering more than 90% of Canadian exports to the U.S. if CUSMA collapses, those exemptions vanish and Canada faces the full tariff architecture on virtually every single thing that it ships south to us. Trump had called the CUSMA irrelevant at a ford plant in January 2026. He, his trade representative, told Congress that a rubber stamp of the agreement is not in the national interest. Formal bilateral talks with Canada weren't expected until May 2026, the same month Obama was in Toronto. Canada sends 3/4 of its merchandise exports to one buyer, just us. And that single fact is the entire leverage equation. Canada can't walk away. It has no backup buyer. It has no Plan B. And Washington knows it. Which means Obama showing up in Toronto five weeks before the CUSMA deadline is not a neutral act. So what was he doing in the room? Well, the two sides of this debate have very different answers. So the conservative read is that Obama was there to tell Carney, hold the line. Don't make concessions. The real America is watching and will return. All right, everybody, picture this. It's late at night, you're scrolling, and that perfect product hits your feed. You add to the cart. You shop a bit more, you go to checkout, but your wallet is across the room. And then you spot it, that purple shop pay button. There's no more digging for your card. There's no forgotten passwords. Just one tap and you're done. And that is the power of Shopify for millions of businesses worldwide. In fact, Shopify drives 10% of all US E commerce. So if you've got a dream to build an online store, there's no better platform than Shopify. With hundreds of stunning templates that match your brand, AI tools that write killer product descriptions, headlines, and even enhance photos in seconds. 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And his presence in Toronto photograph with Carney and published to the world by the Canadian PM was not neutral. It was a geopolitical signal, unquestionably. But the right didn't stop at political criticism. So they reached for a law. Specifically, they started calling for Obama's arrest under something called the Logan Act, a statute most Americans have never heard of that has never once successfully prosecuted anyone in 227 years of American history. And that gets pulled out like a weapon every time a prominent figure from the opposing party speaks to a foreign government. Now here's what it actually says and what it actually requires. So the Logan act was passed in 1799. It makes it illegal for unauthorized private American citizens to negotiate with foreign governments to defeat U.S. policy. In 227 years, there have only been two charges ever filed, one in 1803 and one in 1852. There have been zero convictions. The Federalist Society acknowledges it's widely considered constitutionally dubious. So for a violation, the person has to act without authorization, communicate with a foreign government, and attempt to influence that government in an active, legally defined dispute. Legal Experts note that U.S. canada trade tensions don't constitute a formal dispute in the statutes meeting. And as mentioned, we still don't have any evidence that Obama negotiated or made policy demands or attempted to steer Canadian positions on anything. Conservative pundit Laura Loomer called the Obama handshake a coup and the Internet immediately surfaced. Her 2024 post enthusiastically celebrating Trump hosting Netanyahu at Mar A Lago quote, netanyahu just arrived in Florida for his meeting with President Trump. Same woman, two meetings between private citizens and foreign heads of government. One was a coup, one was a celebration, and the only variable was who's the private citizen. So here's the documented record of Trump's own private citizen meetings with foreign leaders. He hosted Netanyahu at Mar a Lago in July 2024, as mentioned, which is just one day after Netanyahu met with our sitting president at the time, Joe Biden. Trump also hosted Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, who described the visit as a peace mission on Ukraine conflict the sitting US Government was actively managing, and stated on Hungarian TV that Trump told him he would not, quote, give a single penny to Ukraine. Trump hosted British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Polish President Andre Duda at Mar a Lago as a private citizen. He phoned Zelensky, telling him that as your next president, he would bring peace. And I'm not trying to demonize Trump. I'm simply saying that this is politics and if we don't like it, let's apply our criticism unilaterally for the sake of a civilized society. The Logan act is not functioning as law at this point in American political life. It's a grenade designed to generate headlines, not convictions, and to make routine contact with foreign governments feel seditious before nuanced analysis can take hold. And it's going to continue producing exactly what it always has. Zero prosecutions, maximum outrage, and a useful signal that the only authorized American voice informed policy belongs to whoever currently holds the Oval Office. Now, when the Logan act argument failed to gain legal traction, Washington shifted its approach. Instead of coming after Obama, it came after Canada, reaching for every institutional pressure point available to signal that Toronto weekend had consequences. In the weeks following the summit, Washington signaled that it was prepared to revisit arrangements that had been treated as untouchable for decades. Cross border energy corridors, the pipelines, transmission lines and interconnected grid infrastructure that both countries had long managed as shared continental infrastructure. While they were put on the table, Great Lakes Water Sharing Agreements governed by the 2012 Great Lakes Compact and decades of bilateral cooperation with were raised as potential leverage points. Joint technology partnerships, including defense adjacent research collaborations under the Defense Production Sharing Agreement, were all flagged as areas where Washington could apply friction without formal escalation. Now, none of this was announced in a press release. It was delivered the way Washington delivers its most serious messages through back channels, briefings and deliberate leaks of options being studied. So the translation isn't subtle, right? Trump's letting him know. Hey. The Global Progress action summit noted two probable 2028 presidential candidates photographed beside a sitting prime minister Check. An event explicitly organized around defeating the American political right. Not good. And the cost is going to be paid at the negotiating table. July 1st is only seven weeks away. And what the Toronto Summit highlighted was the most visible public declaration of war between two competing visions for how the world should should be organized that we haven't seen since Trump returned to power. On one side, the globalist institutional network. Not a conspiracy, something more durable than a conspiracy. It's an ecosystem. CAP Canada 2020, the Open Society Funding Architecture, the WEF Alumni Network, the Clinton Obama institutional machine. All of this is a network that never accepted, it lost, it reconstituted after 2016, and it went quiet after 2014, and it found friendlier soil in Ottawa and Brussels and Stockholm. And then in May 2026, with Barack Obama at the microphone and half of the Canadian Cabinet in the room, it made its most deliberate and public move yet, intimating that the democratic process is not reliably delivering its preferred outcomes, and has therefore moved to a transnational playing field where democratic accountability is harder to apply. That's the stated mission. Coordinate across borders, study what works, implement globally. And when voters in America, Britain, Canada and across Europe keep returning to nationalist governments, the globalist network, they don't ask why, they don't reform it. They regroup and they prepare for the next attack. It certainly seems the America first project is ready for it now, holding a July 1 deadline like a loaded weapon. And let's be honest, Trump doesn't actually want the CUSMA to collapse. The math is pretty ugly if it does. The average American household is already paying 1500 more annually. And a full CUSMA implosion removes tariff exemptions from over 90% of Canadian exports, which would trigger an economic shock that both countries would feel before the 26 midterms. The outcome serves no one in Washington with a political future. But Trump also can't let Toronto go unanswered. He can't let them pay no visible price because it would send a message to every allied government that's watching that the globalist network is a safe harbor that cannot happen. So the most likely outcome is limbo. Deliberate, weaponized, permanent. Trump lets CUSMA enter annual review rather than confirming the 16 year extension. No dramatic breakdown, no press conference declaring the agreement dead. Just the quiet, devastating removal of certainty. Canada wakes up on July 2 not knowing if its economy is protected for 16 years or 12 months. That uncertainty is the punishment. It reprices every Canadian business investment, every cross border supply chain decision, every conversation a Canadian CEO has with an American partner. And it hands Washington a lever it can pull every single year. Permanent leverage, no resolution. A Canadian prime minister who ran on standing up to Trump spending the next decade asking Washington's permission to keep his economy intact one year at a time. It seems that that's what Toronto bought Carney, a target on his back. Now, what could success possibly look like for him under these circumstances and for the network behind him? If Trump holds The keys to July 1, what could they have possibly been thinking now? Streaming podcasts on Fox 1. Because sometimes the headline is not enough. Fox 1 brings you on demand video podcasts that dive deeper into what's happening, getting you closer to the voices shaping the conversation across news, politics and culture. And get this Keeping It Real is Now streaming on Fox 1. And that means that you can watch my show alongside other podcasts like Hang out with Sean Hannity, the Riley Gaines Show, Will Kane, country all in one place. From the stories leading the day to hot takes and exclusive interviews, you're going to hear from some of the boldest voices around. And the best part is that you can watch or listen on your schedule whenever it works for you. So stream podcasts on Fox One anywhere, anytime, on your favorite devices. Sign up@fox.com first. Outlast them. So their bet is simple. Hold long enough for the domestic pain to become politically unbearable. And if Carney doesn't blink, if he frames annual review as a managed standoff rather than a defeat. And every month that passes is a month that Trump's base absorbs the cost of a trade war that hasn't delivered the promised win. The network doesn't really need a treaty. They need a ticking clock. Second is replication. The summit's documented agenda wasn't really about Canada at all. It was about the formula. How a center left leader who trailed by double digits ran on resistance and won. And if that formula holds in Ottawa, it gets exported to Berlin, to Canberra, and to the 2028 Democratic primary. So every allied government that survives nationalist economic pressure becomes a proof of concept. The network isn't trying to win one election. It's trying to establish that its model works, that transnational coordination, which messages discipline and institutional infrastructure, can substitute for domestic mandate. Toronto is just the case study. The rollout across the world is what comes next. It. And third, you've got subversion through dependence. So this is the quietest track and the most durable. It's the same economic integration that gives Trump his leverage. Well, it also constrains him because he can't actually destroy USMA without wrecking American supply chains, triggering automotive sector collapse and handing Democrats a recession before midterms. The network knows this. Carney knows this. The globalists built an interdependence so deep that any serious attempt to dismantle it punishes the dismantler as much as the target. So Trump can threaten the cage, but he can't easily exit it. The longer the standoff runs, the more that asymmetry becomes visible and the more the network can frame American economic nationalism, not a strength, but as self destruction dressed up as leverage. So, taken together, their strategy is exhaustion, replication and entrapment run out the clock on Trump's second term, prove the formula works internationally before 28, and ensure that the architecture of interdependence makes any lasting nationalist economic project just too costly to complete. If the America first project wins, if Cusma enters limbo, if Carney is forced into visible concessions before July 1, then something equally clarifying will have been demonstrated. That the globalists built their own cage. That economic interdependence they constructed over 30 years, the integration they sold as mutually beneficial, turns out to be the most effective coercion instrument that Washington has ever held. They wove Canada so tightly into the American economy that any government attempting resistance faces existential consequences before the first negotiating session ends. They built the architecture. Trump just found the key. Neither outcome is a verdict, not on trade policy, but on power, where it actually lives, how it actually moves, and whether democratic elections remain the mechanism that controls it. The Toronto handshake wasn't a coup. It wasn't treason, wasn't a Logan act violation. It was something so much more consequential than any of those things. It was the moment that the globalist network ST stopped pretending that they stopped using think tank language as a cover, that they stopped operating through donor networks and white papers and carefully worded press releases about a better and more just future. It's the moment they came together in plain sight in a hotel ballroom in Toronto with Obama at the podium, half the Canadian cabinet in the front row, and the world's leftist global elite all in one room to let us know that the fight for the post war world order is just beginning. Bottom line, July 1 is right around the corner and we're gonna be watching Team. If you're liking the show, please be sure to like, share, comment and subscribe. And don't forget to tune in to Friday's weekly rundown where we break down the craziest headlines of the week. Until then, take good care. Thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed the podcast, Please, like, comment, subscribe and share. 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