Well I’ll say one thing about Trump: there is no insult too petty for him to make.

For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no passport required.

But municipal and library officials said on Friday that U.S. authorities have unilaterally decided to end the century-old unwritten agreement. Coming at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries, the decision is prompting an outpouring of emotion in communities on both sides of the border, which in places has been marked simply by flower pots.

Throw out those sissy flower pots and install some guys with machine guns instead. Libraries are socialism!!

Once inside the library, Canadian and American citizens have been able to mingle freely across the border line drawn on the floor – as long as they return to the proper country afterward. In 2016, then-president Barack Obama hailed the symbolic importance of the library, built in 1901. “A resident of one of these border towns once said, ‘We’re two different countries, but we’re like one big town,’” Obama said.

A spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP, confirmed that the divide is about to become more pronounced. Starting in the coming days, only library card holders and employees will be able to cross over from Canada to enter the building through the main door on the U.S. side.

Libraries are hotbeds of smuggling and subversion as any fule kno.

Updating to add: I took a look at the library via Google maps. It’s a very nice building – two stories with a cupola third story. There are border signs and warnings around it so I don’t know, maybe it is just an ordinary border issue more than it is Trump being a bully.