Typical behavior of cultists. Before Cheeto jesus, the average American couldn’t place Canada on a map. Certainly wouldn’t think of it as an enemy.
But what the cult leader does the cult must follow. If the leader denigrates a country, then the followers must do the same. Cult virtue-signaling with little slogans, etc..
The more extreme cult members will invent some reason to actually hate the country and put it out there in the Twitterverse. To be generally ignored. But it’s a seed planted by the leader, cultivated by the cult itself,
Until the cult leader grows angry at the country that doesn’t kneel to him. Then the leader harvests the conspiracy nonsense cultivated by the extreme cultists.
Bingo: a completely friendly, inoffensive neighbor overnight becomes a bitter enemy that needs to be crushed.
That’s what cults do.