I think I’ve briefed you all on the Gordie Howe Bridge, the new piece of infrastructure that is now officially finished and ready for its ribbon-cutting, but said ribbon-cutting hasn’t happened. Why? Because the president is a c*nt, that’s why.

Seriously. The opening ceremony was actually set, then cancelled, because the two sides — the Canadians and the Americans — couldn’t come to terms. The president is said to “want a better deal.” And I remind you, the deal that got the bridge built was about a good a deal as they come. The Canadians covered 100 percent of the costs, allowed the U.S. to do 50 percent of the labor, using American steel and materials. In return, they’ll take 100 percent of the tolls until the debt is repaid (which will, admittedly, take decades), at which point the split goes to 50-50.

It’s safe to say everybody wants the bridge to open except for one party — the Moroun family, which owns the existing Ambassador Bridge, and would certainly see its revenue slide, but that’s what happens when monopolies are challenged.

So we wait.

Meanwhile, today, a story dropped that quoted our “ambassador” to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, well, let him tell it:

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is calling claims that Canada paid for the Gordie Howe Bridge’s construction “a big myth,” even as the Canadian government insists it bore the full cost of building the span.

The former Michigan congressman appeared last week on “The Food Professor” podcast to discuss trade between the U.S. and Canada and food security.

The topic of the Gordie Howe Bridge came up. Hoekstra asked the hosts, Sylvain Charlebois and Michael LeBlanc, if they could tell him who paid for the new crossing between Detroit and Windsor, which still hasn’t opened.

…He explained that the Canadian government loaned the authority behind the bridge $4.5 billion to $5 billion.

“Canada is serving as the bank for the bridge,” the ambassador said. “The expectation is that over the years, as the bridge generates revenue, the bridge will be paid back. So the bridge will actually be paid for by the folks who are using the bridge. It will not be paid for by the Canadian government.”

What an asshole.

During the blast-furnace heat last week, I watched a few clips of this or that person in the administration, doing their part to fluff Tubby. And I wondered, do they think we have the memory of a single-celled organism? Do they think we won’t remember, oh, Usha Vance smirking through an interview with Trump about what he quote reads for fun unquote? Do they think that when the tide turns, they can just slither out onto the shore and wait for it to come back? Pete Hoekstra has always been a piece of crap. (Besties with Mark Souder, Hoosiers.) And he’s growing long in the tooth. But Caroline Leavitt, Natalie Harp? A lot of these folks are still young, and if there’s any justice, they’ll be in the wilderness for a long damn time, well after Tubby is finally planted.

It’s depressing, thinking of the recovery ahead, assuming it can even happen.

What else? The victory of the Belgian soccer team was sweet, coming as it did after you-know-what. And now we’re back at it with Iran, so expect a nice stock market hit today. Happy goddamn Wednesday.