According to the Trump-friendly cable news channel, Trudeau’s visit to Trump’s Florida home had the Canadian playing timid defense. Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from Canada, the Fox report suggested, prompted a complaint from Trudeau that such a move would “kill the Canadian economy completely.” Trump offered that maybe Canada could just become a U.S. state, which prompted Trudeau to “laugh nervously,” Fox reported.
That part’s probably accurate. When a leader who has repeatedly expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin starts coveting your nation’s land, it’s fair to be a bit worried.
Trump’s suggestion to Trudeau was that he could become governor of this new state of Canada. When someone else present suggested that this would mean adding a state that would probably vote Democratic, Trump submitted that Canada could be annexed as two states: one conservative, one liberal.
Coming from the guy who offerened to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland, I wouldn’t laugh too hard. Orange Julius Caesar is feeling his oats.
He was doing his Silverback Gorilla thing of dominating Trudeau in his typically crude way but as the author Philip Bump points out ,if that were to happen it would be a big mistake:
If somehow Canada were to become part of the United States, though, the effect would not be that we tacked on a light-blue version of Montana. It would, instead, be an enormous boon to the American left.
Canada has its wingnuts but they’re not MAGA and they are much smaller in number overall.
It’s stupid. It won’t happen. But it does suggest that we can expect more embarrassing and dangerous behavior from Trump on the world stage as he swings his giant *hands* around.