Did most of them find it funny to start with? Most of the leftists had freakouts when Trump first made the joke. Does anyone actually think Trump would actually make Canada the 51st state? Would possibly invade? There’s zero chance that even the Republican led Congress would authorize it. Trump may possibly be serious about Greenland and even Panama, but, Canada? It’s a troll
Canadian leaders say Trump’s talk about Canada becoming the 51st state isn’t funny anymore
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that Canada should become the 51st state are no longer a joke and are meant to undermine America’s closest ally, Canada’s finance minister said Wednesday.
Dominic LeBlanc, the country’s point person for U.S-Canada relations, said Trump was smiling when he first made the comment during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in late November.
“The joke is over,” said LeBlanc. “It’s a way for him, I think, to sow confusion, to agitate people, to create chaos knowing this will never happen.”
Surprise! LeBlanc gets it.
Trump keeps floating the idea that Canada should join the United States as the 51st state, saying Tuesday he would not use military force to invade the country, which is home to more than 40 million people and is a founding NATO partner.
Instead, Trump said he would rely on “economic force” as he erroneously cast the U.S. trade deficit with Canada — a natural resource-rich nation that provides the U.S. with commodities like oil — as a subsidy.
“It’s becoming very counterproductive,” LeBlanc said, referring to Trump’s rhetoric about Canada.
Is it? Y’all are still talking about it, and, understanding the point, which is more economic equity between the U.S. and Canada
Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller also fired back, dismissing Trump’s comments as “ridiculous.”
“There is no chance of us becoming the 51st state. I think that this is beneath a president of the United States,” Miller said. “I said a few weeks ago that this whole thing was like a South Park episode.”
But, you’re still participating in the show, Marc. And maybe, especially with Trudeau gone, Canada could make the trade balances more even so tariffs would not be needed. And, perhaps you will restore all those freedoms taken away, especially during the Trudeau years.
However, if we turn Canada into a territory, they won’t get voting rights in Congress.
Mexican president suggests renaming the United States after Trump’s Gulf of America threat https://t.co/6fx7QthlxI pic.twitter.com/KNJ26hqnBX
— New York Post (@nypost) January 9, 2025
The thing is, she seems to get it, and is not doing this in a mean spirited way.
As a person who lives(ed) on the Gulf I see no reason to change it. But I do love to see the idiots and Trump haters fly into insanity every time he trolls them. I mean look at how Elwood’s been going on about Greenland and Canada and the Canal. He took Trumps bait AGAIN and ran with it. The psyche of the left wing radical must be so tender it’s wounded by words and killed by the wrong pronoun. So cute!
That’s why the tender leftists scream at the sky and call Trump a liar. Trump doesn’t need to lie, he just bullshits and they go nuts. Trump is a businessman so he never starts a negotiation where he ants it to end and never lets one know if it’s a joke or a negotiation. You just have to use your common sense. And if there is one thing leftists don’t have is common sense.
Mr Fuck Joe Biden typed: Trump (aka Fat Donnie) doesn’t need to lie, he just bullshits and they go nuts.
Fat Donnie is a bad stand-up comedian, but a quality buffoon. Is Bullshitting a quality we look for in a president?
We suspect that Mr FJB has a co-writer for his comments. The real FJB whines about dykes and fags, his co-writer (aka ChatGPT) writes his less hateful comments.
Aww, bless your little heart. No, it’s all my own material. Sometimes I attempt to amuse you and other times I just get you pissed to amuse myself. I know you hate “dykes and fags” so I use them just for you. But I don’t attack nor insult you any more, do I? You’re welcome. I don’t know ChatGPT but I will try to remember to look it up later. Thanks for the tip.
Carolina is buying her new Mini Cooper convertible so I gotta go. All still left over from the hurricane. I still don’t have a new car. My Vette is now salvage but I can’t decide on a replacement. This damn foot/ankle is causing me car problems. Can’t sit that low and can’t get a stick.
Fat Donnie the Mob Boss, is a pathologically insecure crook, liar, cheat, felon, thief, rapist, abuser, bully… and just an all-around American asshole.
What is his strategy for insulting Canada and Canadiens? Is he softening them up so he can steal their oil?
Fat Donnie the Mob Boss has been handed a significantly better economy and nation than he left President Biden. Will he wreck it? Of course.
He bullies Canada, Panama and Greenland because he doesn’t even have a ‘concept of a plan’ to cut grocery and housing prices, to ‘fix’ healthcare, to balance the budget, to deport 23 million ‘illegals’, to resist Russia and China, to help the American working class…
This insecure pussy’s one ‘concept of a plan’ is addressing grievances against those who insulted him. Fat Donnie believes and acts like a Mob Boss. He is furious with Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, every Democrat, the DOJ, the FBI, the courts, judges, juries, reporters, media, critics… He had hoped the odious Matt Gaetz would be his ‘dog-catcher’ but it turns out Matt was not just a rapist but a pedophile, so he turned to an obedient Pam Bondi, who at the very least understands the law. Kashyap Patel as head of the FBI, which he promised to destroy? LOL.
And why was Fat Donnie the Mob Boss on the telephone with Justice Sam Alito as Donnie’s attorneys appealed to the Fat Donnie’s Supreme Court to stop Fat Donnie’s sentencing tomorrow for hush money/ election convictions?
It’s as if Al Capone has been elected.
A Burnt Sienna, stone-faced Big Donnie had to sit through all the accolades for President Jimmy Carter this morning. And forced to sit next to President Obama!! Even worse for Big Donnie, they spoke of the majesty of God, another insult to Donnie!
It will be interesting to see how Big Donnie responds on social media to insult President Carter and to elevate himself.
Big Donnie doesn’t understand much about macroeconomics does he, but that doesn’t stop him from lying. The lie is the thing. It’s what cult leaders rely on.
Machinery, crude oil and petroleum products are Canada’s largest exports to the US. The global trade deficit for the United States in 2023 was $1.06 TRILLION dollars. Our trade deficit with Canada in 2023 was $0.044 TRILLION or about 4.2% of our total trade deficit.
Our trade deficits with China, Mexico, Vietnam, Germany and Japan are larger than with Canada.
Donnie does what he does to sow chaos and to distract from his policy deficiencies.
But we voted him in, so we have to live with his massive collection of faults.
Ellie
My broke arm is worse than my broke finger.
So I’ll just ignore the finger problem.
Obviously, Canada should not be the 51st state. Canada should be at least ten states, mostly along their current internal state boundaries. It is useful to keep the nutters inside Quebec. After all, why would the rest of Canada want to join the USA if they still have to answer to Ottowa? Further, they should live as a territory for at least 10 years before individually petitioning for statehood. I would also be OK with leaving Quebec as an independent country that could also absorb some nearby Democratic party strong areas.
The reasons are exactly the same as those reasons for creating NAFTA and the EU. Economic strength. Plus, Canada already suckles off the USA and allows them to exist at a much lower cost than if they were a truly independent sovereign nation. Future leftists fleeing oppression would have to flee to somewhere else, but that’s a small price to pay.
Each province (10) and territory (3) would get a minimum of 3 electoral votes.
Ontario would get get about 20 EVs.
Quebec 15 EVs.
BC 9 EVs
All the rest 4 or 3 each.
That could be another 70 EVs.
Incorporate the 700.000 DCers into VA. Or just give DC 3 EVs.
So it looks like Trudeau won’t be governor of this 51st state after all.
Newfoundland was a British colony. In 1949 they voted to see if they would try and become a US state or Canadian province. Given that we didn’t want them they went to Canada.
I was stationed there, Argentia, back in the 60’s. Great fishing, hunting, one TV channel. The joke was that you either came back divorced or with a new child.
The people were great, the climate terrible. Global Warming will be a godsend.
I had a discussion with my Newie neighbor who noted that in regards to statefood vs province and common problems…
“You have your black problem. We have the French.”