Donald Trump “joked” about making Canada the 51st US state. He should try... if he can find it on a map.
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Most Americans have probably forgotten this, but, as president*, Donald Trump used to say insane stuff all the time. For example, he proposed nuking hurricanes or trading Greenland for Puerto Rico. And who could forget his suggestion that Americans should inject disinfectants to get rid of COVID? In some cases, when those “ideas” came to light, they were later downplayed as jokes.
Well, the Kidder-in-Chief is already at it again.
Apparently, in a meeting with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump raised the possibility of subjugating the US’s northern neighbor and making it the 51st state.
Specifically, the incoming president pressed his counterpart on a high trade deficit favoring Canada and suggested that tariffs on goods from up north could balance things out.
According to the folks at Fox News, who usually know what’s going on at Mar-a-Lago because so many regulars of the network have been nominated to cabinet positions, “Trump then suggested to Trudeau that Canada become the 51st state, which caused the prime minister and others to laugh nervously.”
When the president-elect was told that Canada would probably vote for Democrats, he suggested splitting it up into two parts, presumably “Blue Canada” and “Red Canada.”
Trump then followed that up by repeating once again that it would be better for the country to just join the US… You know, to make sure everybody got the “joke.”
Fox News sure did.
In a segment on its show The Five, host Jesse Watters, who is quite a comedian in his own right, listed many reasons to make Canada a state, such as access to its vast natural resources and Winter Olympics supremacy.
“I don’t know if Canada is going to go along with it, but there’s ways to maybe change their opinion,” he said.
And, you know what, let’s do it!
Sure, it was probably just a clumsy bullying tactic from Trump, who isn’t known for nuanced diplomacy, but why not annex Canada?
Sure, that might be a bit difficult right now with all those woke girls fighting in the armed forces, but just wait until Fox News host Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gets the DEI out of DOD and turns the US military into elite warfighters again (which seems to be one of his favorite words).
“I’m doing this for the warfighters, not the warmongers,” he tweeted on Wednesday. “The Left is afraid of disrupters and change agents.”
It’s safe to say that Canada counts as “the Left,” so Trudeau and his fellow Canucks should be quaking in their snow boots… at least once alpha male Hegseth gets his mom to convince enough senators that he should be allowed to head the Pentagon.
To cap it all off, Trump followed up that meeting with a computer-generated image of himself next to a Maple Leaf flag overlooking a mountain that appears to be the Swiss Matterhorn.
And that may be Canada’s saving grace. Because, while Trump may be a world-class jokester, he isn’t terribly good at geography, so Switzerland better get ready (especially because their flag also resembles Canada’s a bit.
*Obviously, Trump also said plenty of crazy things as a private person, but then other world leaders, scientists, and bleach manufacturers didn’t have to worry about him following through.
In his Navigating the Insanity columns, Klaus Marre provides the kind of hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and often humorous analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
