Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves is in a heap of trouble. He honestly thought going on the federally-owned broadcaster CBC and spewing hooey was a good idea.

In his attempts to appease lame duck peasant Donald Trump, he forgot he was dealing with two federal governments, not one.

And he has alienated the Canadian one.

So he “admitted” that he only bought Stelco to rein it in, which then got the federal government all giddy:

“The last words by the president of Stelco definitely made us contact our lawyers to see what could be the consequences of such confessions,” Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said Wednesday.

CBC News

I doubt Goncalves will hold on to his job much longer. With five days until Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, Goncalves is going to find himself without backup, but most likely end up as a case study on the YouTube channel Money Chuck.

Chest-thumping doesn’t work as a strategy when you are going toe-to-toe with a foreign government who has more control than they let on and have citizens who buy into the Daddy Government narrative.

He is stepping in every cow flap in the field and Joly couldn’t be happier.