Summary
Donald Trump reiterated his claim that Canada would be better as the U.S.’s 51st state, citing trade imbalances and lower taxes.
He also announced new 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada, despite a recent 30-day reprieve.
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has not formally responded, but a government source said they await official confirmation.
Trump criticized Canada’s defense spending and border security, despite recent Canadian commitments.
Canada previously retaliated against similar tariffs in 2018 before a 2019 trade deal resolved the dispute.
The US couldn’t hold baghdad?
Who holds Baghdad now I guess
It took the USA 26 days to take the capital of Iraq in 2003. The US formally left in 2011. Unless I’m missing something.
That is what I wrote
You will be enslaved cherishingly.
What’s in it for Canada? Expensive ineffective healthcare? Why would they go for this?
Don’t forget the gun violence
Reduced quality of life? Greater danger of being shot in a school? Shorter life expectancy? Lower quality food? And imperial president instead of a democratic one?
I’m not seeing the upsides for Canada.
So, is the US going to nationalize its health care to match Canada’s?
ahhahahahaaha.
let’s just say that canadians will never bitch about paying for parking again.
no
does he have a deal with putin?
“lemme have canada and greenland, and the canal, and i’ll let you take eastern europe back–starting with ukraine and nato will not be in your way”
Yep, donald thinks himself smert. Putin thinks he is a useful dumbass.
I’m amazed at how quickly the US has come close to being on the brink of becoming a rogue state.
Well the veneer of respectability politics scratched. It’s like people getting drunk it’s not that alcohol makes violent, or sobby, or anything in particular: It disinhibits (by anaesthetising the frontal lobe before everything else), allowing already-existing but usually under control tendencies to break through.
Internet Explorer meme
US has come close to being on the brink of becoming a rogue state.
We always have been.
The US has been a rogue state for decades. Just that they used to be smart enough to keep some countries in the empire aligned without direct military force.
At this point, I’m seriously wondering what the Reichstag fire will be that will prompt the US to conjure up an “enemy without,” steamroll several sovereign countries and blockade the Mediterranean and most of the Atlantic.
Hey, uh, if he wants another state…
What about Puerto Rico?
I’d love to hear the excuse against that vs. Greenland and Canada.
Theres a reason why he isn’t making the same threats against Mexico.
There’s a reason he wants to resettle Palestinians before redeveloping Gaza.
They’re not even hiding the racism any more.
Too latino for him, not enough resources.
I unapologetically woke up this morning hoping to read that someone took a successful shot at him during the Superbowl.
Put me on whatever list you wish.
At this point I refuse to believe this is real life. We are in a simulation run by shitty AI
I’m actually thinking Elmo boy is a shitty AI from the future coming back to in time to secure its existence
This just The Boys season 5.
needs more eye lasers
that feeling is called dissociation btw
not the “I have no mouth and I must scream” future, just the “I have a mouth and I must groan” present
AM…AMerica
More flooding the zone. He won’t do this. He is just stiring up more media to distract from him pickpocketing the whole country. His real deviousness is the sovereign fund play. He wants to take taxpayer dollars, which he is actively trying to raise for everyone making less than $500k a year, and put it into an investment fund that buys American stocks. Effectively, he wants to take money from 99% of Americans and just give it to the largest corporations. Everything else he is talking about is just distraction from that fact.
He doesn’t treat his own states any good why would Canada fare any better
I think Americans who don’t agree with trump should raise the Canadian flag.
When someone go outside, beat people up, come home, they are mostly likely will beat whoever at home when they speak up.
Throughout last year, the US didn’t stop supporting the war crimes of Israel, either by providing them with money, weapons, and sending American soldier to the area just in case. Canadian didn’t say much and kept quiet. Now Trump picking up the legacy of the United States foreign policy back home.
Canada should make it clear that they are not taking these statements as joke and expell the US ambassador.
Just imagine if Indea or China or even Russia said the same.
What crazy is that, I didn’t hear any statement so far from Canadian allies to denounce trump statement.
Say shit about Canada, our friends. Stoke anti America shit. Decrease odds of friendly relations.
Might as well.
Edit: not like people aren’t already talking, or woe is us, it’s just… bullshit. It’s like someone who hates Lincoln Park going up to people and making annoying statements about the band being the greatest and shitting on other music, hoping some people get mad and start trashing Lincoln Park. It’s a circus.
Cherished my ass. You’ve done nothing but disrespect them since you were elected. The only thing you want is their resources so you can hoard a few 100 mil before you kick the bucket in a few years. Which I find completely ridiculous because it’s not like you get to take money into the afterlife, if there even is one.
Resources is definitely true but it also concerned me a bit that the three countries he targetted (Panama, Greenland, Canada) are all countries that control major trade routes. Panama shouldn’t need to be explained but Canada has St. Lawrence Seaway that goes into the Great Lakes and Canada also controls (with Greenland to an extent) the Northwest Passage that is becoming more navigatable every year.
We also have about 20% of the world’s fresh water, the oilsands and a shit ton of critical minerals.
Aluminium
Tomato, tomahto.
As global warming advances and the vast majority of US farmland becomes to arid to produce crops the land in Canada will be invaluable.
He knows he’s going to the burning afterlife so he’s going to try and pay off the guy in charge.
