Eye-watering cost of Trump’s Canada feud revealed

Tariffs aren't the major reason that Canadians aren't buying American goods. They're angry about Donald Trump.

The Daily Beast noticed the new data showing a sharp decline as much as $12.8 billion. It's even lower than in 2025, when Trump claimed he wanted to take over Canada. That year it fell about 25 percent to $15.6 billion.

"The decline in Canadian travel to the U.S. marked an unprecedented shift, with return trips falling year over year for 11 straight months in 2025 — the longest sustained drop outside the pandemic era since records began in 1972," the report said.

It only adds to Trump's embarrassment over his trade war. Not only have his tariffs failed to bring in the money promised, but they've also added higher costs to goods and groceries for Americans.

The anti-America boycotts in Canada are making things worse for the economy as visitors don't want to travel to the U.S.

"Following the change in the U.S. administration in early 2025 and the implementation of America First policies, Canadian travel sentiment shifted abruptly,” the report said. "Canadians are opting to travel domestically or to go to other countries outside of the U.S, taking roughly 5 million more domestic trips within Canada and 1.3 million additional trips overseas."

Trump put new tariffs on Canadian-made goods and increased more immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Canadian border.

For most of his first year in office, Trump was championing a policy that would make Canada America's 51st state. Canada has responded by reducing travel and not buying American products. Even if stores were to put them on the shelves, Canadians simply will not buy.

Further data from the University of Toronto, released in May, shows that tourism crashed by an alarming 42 percent during Trump's second term. The Canadian boycotts have hit major cities like San Francisco, Houston, Grand Rapids and even Las Vegas. Canadians make up about 17 percent of international travel into Las Vegas, but that has now dropped to 7.5 percent, said Politico.

The attack on immigrants is making tourism slump too when it comes to international visitors. There has been a 5.5 percent decline in overseas tourism. The cut in foreign visitor tourism means a loss of about $8 billion.

It's the largest decline since the pandemic lockdown and only the second dip over 20 years.

Meanwhile, Americans don't want to travel in the U.S. much either. There has been an 80 percent increase in Americans traveling abroad compared to the year before.

“We used to be a country that others wanted to emulate. That narrative no longer exists,” said Juliette Kayyem, faculty chair of the Homeland Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School when speaking on CNN. “The long-term harm is that the world will not know America ... the narrative of the United States is now a country that is at best, not to be respected, and at worst, a democracy that is floundering.”