‘Only Works as a State’: Trump Vows Not ‘To Bend’ On Tariffs Until Canada Is Absorbed Into The U.S.
‘Only Works as a State’: Trump Vows Not ‘To Bend’ On Tariffs Until Canada Is Absorbed Into The U.S.
"It's so perfect as a great and cherished state. Keeping, 'Oh, Canada,' the national anthem, I love it. I think it's great. Keep it. But it'll be for the state."
"It's so perfect as a great and cherished state. Keeping, 'Oh, Canada,' the national anthem, I love it. I think it's great. Keep it. But it'll be for the state."
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He genuinely thinks flattery will convince people to be taken over by a budding dictatorship. Canadians are supposed to forget that the USA is against everything they stand for and say...
"He said we could be the greatest state!!! Who gives a shit about free healthcare and reproductive rights!! We'll be cherished!!!"
Not to mention that he seems the be saying that paying for anything is being ripped off. It reminds me of the documentary on his business practices that resurfaced during his first run. I think it was called what's the deal. The were many examples of him ripping off his vendors and subcontractors saying their work was substandard so he either wasn't paying or wasn't paying the full amount.
Now he seems to be applying the same thinking to imports. Why should America pay full price when he never has? He naively thinks tariffs mean America gets the goods for less overal.
He genuinely thinks flattery will convince people to be taken over by a budding dictatorship.
That's because he is convinced by flattery. It's widely known around the world that if you want something from Trump, you flatter him. That's why he thinks it works on everyone else.
I’d just like to point out that this is not normal
@[email protected] this one right here, sir
Pretty sure hell will freeze over before Canada agree to become part of the US.
That or Canadians electing Trump sycophant Pierre Poilievre in the next election who will give it up voluntary.
No way thay doesn't cause something close to civil war. Them murica can swoop in for peace keeping.
Or he tries to promote Herr Musk as your future leader.
I hate trying to apply logic to something that's so inherently bullshit but even if you were to annex Canada, why the hell does he think it would be one state and not several?
He would not make Canada a state, that’s a complete lie. Trump adding another California to the union? Lmao. At best we would be an unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico
Because he doesn't respect you enough to think that your provinces deserve to remain independent of each other. Or to know that you have provinces.
Because he has that little respect for Canada.
He knows enough to know he would not want to give several states worth of leftish leaning angry states the vote that would take any chance of him remaining in power. Not that there would ever be a vote again in America if he got to the point of taking a run at Canada and Greenland.
This seems a "relatively old" quote. He's been asked to STFU by Carney, and so its only news if he repeats this "stump speech" after told to STFU.
He really doesn't know when to shut up, does he?
This won't turn out the way he expects it to. Canadians already seemed pretty happy to stop buying American goods and contributing to tourism, and the rest of the world no longer trusts us. Trying to strangle their economy by stifling trade goes both ways, and it's going to hurt the country that nobody wants to trade with a lot more than the one with plenty of opportunities to form new trade deals.
I think it's more likely to hurt the country that cannot produce most of its own food, rather than the one that can.
We're all just a big toy to him.
Feels like I'm inside a game of Terra Invicta some days..
So I guess an hour long slideshow from Perun about a hypothetical conflict between eagles and geese is inevitable now.
It's "O Canada!" It's the vocative, you bronze bitchlet, not some interjection. We're not expressing fucking surprise.
Maybe Canada could take one for the team and let each province join up and break the electoral college. Insist on supreme court justices and constitutional changes that leave them in change. As some one who lives in neither country, please??
Why do people think Canada would get to vote? He means to destroy us.
As a Canadian, I'd rather die
Sorry, it was meant as sarcasm. I live in Australia and we be we've occasionally been called the 51st state so i get the pain