This chapter argues that the election of Donald Trump in 2016 has prompted Americans to take a greater interest in Québec and become more skeptical about the benefits of Québec-U.S. relations, and that some of these trends persisted during Joe Biden’s presidency.  Drawing on the work of Richard Fenno and his qualitative “soaking and poaking” approach, we conducted field surveys during the 2014, 2018 and 2022 U.S. midterm elections in ten New England and Midwestern states that the Québec government describes as part of its “historic strategic perimeter” to compare how Americans in these regions perceived “La Belle Province” before, during and after Trump’s first term in the White House, on issues such as trade and the economy, the border and immigration, and climate and the environment. We conducted semi-structured interviews with dozens of actors interested in Québec-U.S. relations: federal and local candidates for office, voters, journalists, lobbyists, trade unionists, campaign advisors and managers, staff members of party organizations. Presenting original qualitative data, our research method enables us to offer a complementary perspective to that of scholars who rely exclusively on survey data to try to “measure” how Americans and Canadians/Québecers perceive each other.