Foreign Tourists Are Taking Trump at His Word

Most summers, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, welcomes a lot of Canadian visitors, who typically make up about 40 percent of the coastal town’s tourists. But this year will be different. Since taking office, President Donald Trump and his administration have mocked Canada’s leaders, imposed steep tariffs on its goods, subjected its citizens to more stringent visitor-registration requirements, and threatened its very independence in juvenile ways. All of these moves have, entirely unsurprisingly, made their targets less likely to spend money in the United States. “Canadians are hurt. Canadians are angry,” then–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last month. “We’re going to choose not to go on vacation in Florida or Old Orchard Beach or wherever.”

Sure enough, in Old O...
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