There’s a new bridge in town, almost completed, and completely beautiful. Begun in 2018, the Gordie Howe bridge is set to open early this year. And now there’s a stumbling block, brought up by an ever petulant President Trump.

He says the bridge can’t open until “Canada treats us with fairness and respect.”

A few facts:

The bridge’s groundbreaking in 2018 was during Trumps first term. If he had a problem with the plan or the process it would have been a good time to bring up whatever his grievances are back then.

And perhaps he’s forgotten that the Canadians paid for the bridge. Every bit of it, between 5 and 6 Canadian billion. And then they gave the US 50% ownership. How much more fairness and respect can we ask for?

The bridge construction has provided jobs to both US and Canadian workers. It will provide multiple lanes to move commerce between the two countries, saving US and Canadian truck drivers hours of delay currently experienced at the Ambassador and Bluewater bridges.

It seems to me that Trump is just mad because Michigan has a Democratic governor, and he’s forgotten the state as a whole voted for him in 2024. More than half of the voting Michiganders voted for him, and yet he has no respect for his base here.

Delaying the bridge opening will effect the anticipated increase in warehousing and logistic jobs in the Detroit and Windsor areas. That means it’s going to cost potential jobs. Jobs for some of the people that voted for him.

Trump is acting like a 6th grade bully.

There are plenty of other Trump atrocities I could write about. But this one is right here in my state, would delay or delete all the positive things that we anticipated from the opening of this bridge, and symbolizes how connections, years in the making, can be broken in a few short sentences.

My apologies to Canada.