"Two hours ago, the State Department issued expulsion orders for 58 Canadian diplomatic personnel operating across the United States," claims the introduction to a now-deleted July 1, 2026 YouTube video.
The stilted voice-over proceeds to report Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's supposed reaction to the slight without giving a clear reason for the envoys' expulsion.
Several other clips across YouTube spread the same claim, while the rumor also jumped to Facebook, TikTok and Threads.
Since Trump returned to the White House in 2025 and instigated a trade war driven by tariffs, Canada has distanced itself from its historic ally. In June, the president once again jabbed that Canada could be the 51st US state (archived here) and the United States declined to renew the US-Mexico-Canada trade pact in its current form, fueling uncertainty for businesses.
The novel Canada-US tensions have been the source of numerous false claims about trade and diplomacy between the two countries, including videos which falsely alleged the American ambassador Pete Hoekstra had been expelled from Ottawa.
The posts claiming Trump kicked 58 Canadian diplomats out of the United States are similarly fake and appear to be part of the "slopaganda" network of YouTube channels which have been fabricating stories about Canada for nearly a year using paid actors and artificial intelligence (archived here).
While the videos and social media posts were shared on different dates, their titles all claimed...
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