TY - JOUR AU - Kane, Emily AU - Popa, Ariana AU - Li, Queenie AU - Sommers, Paul PY - 2021/01/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Did Trump's Tweet Disparaging Trudeau Impact Canada-U.S. Border Crossings? JF - Journal of Student Research JA - J Stud Res VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.47611/jsr.v9i1.1081 UR - https://www.jsr.org/index.php/path/article/view/1081 SP - AB - <p><em>&nbsp;</em></p><p>The authors examine the impact of President Donald Trump’s June 9, 2018 tweet disparaging Group of 7 (G7) summit host Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Canada – United States border crossings over the Peace Bridge.&nbsp; The Peace Bridge is one of the busiest international border crossings in North America that connects Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.&nbsp; A regression analysis of daily automobile crossings between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2019 (using seasonality dummy variables and controlled for year fixed effects) revealed a statistically discernible reduction in the number of crossings (both east into the United States and, to a lesser extent, west into Canada) seven, fourteen, and even thirty days after the tweet.&nbsp; Words have consequences.&nbsp;</p> ER -