U.S. President Donald Trump nonetheless desires to make Canada the 51st state, promising Sunday to deal with it with Mark Carney once they meet in Washington this week, however he mentioned making it occur by navy drive is “extremely unlikely.”
In the midst of
a broad interview on NBC’s Meet the Press
shot final week after Carney and the Liberals’ election win, Trump mentioned he’ll “all the time discuss” annexing Canada and sounded off once more concerning the purported $200 billion commerce deficit and different grievances.
“We don’t want their automobiles, we don’t want their lumber, we don’t want their vitality, we don’t want something. We do little or no enterprise with Canada; they do all of their enterprise, virtually, with us,” Trump informed host Kristen Welker.
“They want us, we don’t want them.”
President Trump states he’ll focus on annexing Canada with Canadian PM Mark Carney. pic.twitter.com/ucafcPktz0
— Intel Tower🗽 (@inteltower) Could 4, 2025
Fentanyl crossing the border into the U.S., which was one in all Trump’s chief catalysts for beginning the commerce battle with Canada, was not talked about.
Carney and a Canadian cohort are scheduled to go to with Trump and his administration on the White Home on Tuesday.
Close to the start of his 51st state rhetoric, Trump mentioned he would take Canada utilizing
“financial drive.”
When requested Sunday if he would deploy the U.S. navy to attain his purpose, he all however dominated it out.
“I believe we’re not going to ever get to that time. One thing might occur with Greenland, I’ll be sincere, we want that for nationwide and worldwide safety,” he mentioned, reiterating his urge for food for the U.S. to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish island.
“However I believe it’s extremely unlikely. I don’t see it with Canada. I’ve to be sincere.”
He then went on to erroneously state that Canada spends much less on its navy “than virtually any nation on the planet” and is the bottom paying contributor to NATO.
Canada contributed 1.37 per cent of its nationwide GDP to defence spending in 2024,
putting it fifth from the underside of the checklist of countries. Solely Belgium (1.30), Slovenia (1.29), Luxembourg (1.29), and Spain (1.28) are investing much less.
The U.S. contributed 3.38 per cent, third most behind Estonia (3.43) and Poland (4.12).
“They assume we’re going to shield them, and actually, we’re, however the reality is that they don’t carry their full share, and it’s unfair to the US and our taxpayers.”
Trump known as Carney the day after the federal election to supply congratulations and mentioned the 2 agreed to satisfy in particular person quickly.
Trump tells Canadians to ‘elect the person’ who will let Canada develop into the 51st state
The Prime Minister’s Workplace issued a press release saying the leaders agreed that the 2 “impartial, sovereign nations” wanted to work collectively towards “mutual betterment.”
A day later within the Oval Workplace, Trump mentioned he anticipated “an awesome relationship” with Canada.
If Trump follows by way of and raises the 51st state subject this Tuesday, it will likely be not less than the second time he’s executed so with Carney.
After profitable the Liberal management in March, Carney mentioned the president acknowledged Canada’s sovereignty throughout a congratulatory name. Close to the top of the election marketing campaign, nonetheless, Carney confirmed that
Trump did convey it up throughout that preliminary dialog, however downplayed the importance.
“Look, the president says plenty of issues, however the essence of the dialogue and the place we moved the dialog to was precisely what I mentioned,” he informed reporters on the time.
“We talked about plenty of issues, okay? And what’s essential is the conclusions of the decision, the outcomes of the decision, and people are precisely the identical on the American facet and the Canadian facet… And people had been that it was very constructive.”
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