<p>President-elect Donald Trump infuriated America&#8217;s neighbor to the north this week by continuing to suggest that the weak country would become America&#8217;s 51st state.</p>
<p>Trump said during a Tuesday press conference at Mar-a-Lago that the U.S. subsidized Canada to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars per year and got very little in-exchange.</p>
<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t essentially have a military. They have a very small military,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They rely on our military. It&#8217;s all fine, but they got to pay for that. It&#8217;s very unfair.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said that he was going to put &#8220;very serious tariffs&#8221; on Canada to level the playing field until Canada decides to give the U.S. better trade terms and stop the flow of drugs and illegal aliens pouring across America&#8217;s northern borders.</p>
<p>Trump was then asked to respond to Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, who posted on X: &#8220;Canada will never be the 51st state. Period.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We are a great and independent country,&#8221; Poilievre claimed, adding that if he wins he will &#8220;put Canada First.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Trump responded to the remarks by saying: &#8220;Maybe he won&#8217;t win, but maybe he will. I don&#8217;t care.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Listen, I don&#8217;t care what he says,&#8221; Trump said, adding that he would use &#8220;economic force&#8221; to annex or acquire Canada if that&#8217;s what he decides to do.</p>
<p>Trump continued:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>We&#8217;re spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it. We&#8217;re spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada. In trade deficits, we&#8217;re losing massive… We don&#8217;t need their cars. They make 20% of our cars. We don&#8217;t need that. I&#8217;d rather make them in Detroit. We don&#8217;t need the cars. We don&#8217;t need their lumber. We have massive fields of lumber. We don&#8217;t need their lumber. We have to unrestrict them because stupid people put restrictions on, but I can do that with an executive order.</em></p>
<p><em>We don&#8217;t need anything they have. We don&#8217;t need their dairy products. We have more than they have. We don&#8217;t need anything, so why are we losing $200 billion a year and more to protect Canada? And I said that to Trudeau as I called him, Governor Trudeau. I said, &#8216;Listen, what would happen if we didn&#8217;t subsidize you?&#8217; Because we give them a lot of money. We help them. As an example, we&#8217;re buying icebreakers and Canada wants to join us in the buying of icebreakers. I said, we don&#8217;t really want to have a partner in the buying of icebreakers. We don&#8217;t need a partner.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Trump said that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted that his country would &#8220;dissolve&#8221; if it wasn&#8217;t for U.S. assistance.</p>
<p>Trudeau — who announced this week that he is resigning because he has become deeply unpopular and is on track to get blown out in this year&#8217;s elections — fired back on X, claiming that Canada would never become part of America.</p>
<p>&#8220;There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,&#8221; Trudeau said. &#8220;Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trudeau&#8217;s Liberal Party also published a graphic on X showing that Canada was not part of the U.S.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">For anyone who may be confused. <a href="https://t.co/R0G1efkJUg">pic.twitter.com/R0G1efkJUg</a></p>
<p>— Liberal Party (@liberal_party) <a href="https://twitter.com/liberal_party/status/1876760618008564158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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