Trump: "That's why Canada should be our 51st state ... essentially we're putting on a 25 percent tariff without exception on all aluminum and all steel."
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curious how a country of 13 provinces/territories would become a single state. also curious why he thinks this proposed 51st state would be remotely MAGA-loving.
unlike the US Canada isn't actively destroying relationships with their allies / trading partners. all while the US is isolating itself.
It wouldn't actually become a 51st state (or more). He says that, but if they forced an annexation somehow, Canada would be made into Puerto Rico where they would no voting rights. They just want to steal Canadian resources and cause the Canadian population to suffer.
Will never happen.
Canada is a sovereign country with a bigger land mass than the United States.
Canada is already branching out with different trading partners as well as domestic.
Get ready for a tariff fight you old moldy kumquat.
The stupidity of thinking that tariffs are a sort of fine to another state is mind boggling. And shows how poor the economic education is in the whole world (yeah, many in europe believe the same).
This is like Putin’s obsession with Ukraine: they can’t stand a neighbour that speaks their language where people are living differently and can tell their people to dream of better.
Buh bye new bridges to replace old decrepit ones, buh bye new buildings to replace falling down spaces, buh bye any new concrete builds (they need steel rebar reinforcing), hello cheep new steel without quality certifications from China. I see more high rise and major bridge fails in our future.
I think it’s his way of walking back his larger tariff threats. He already made an exception for china for items under $800 USD.
This way when the 30 day pause is up he can just move past it like it never happened. Roll forward with trying to gain token offers from others and then celebrating
Don-old is so off target. He is living in a fantasy. Canada is fine on its own. Get off of your throne. Tariffs don't work. It just raises hate, division and resentment. This is no way to treat an ally.
We are already very aware of the fact that the financial situation we are currently in is precisely because the last time 47 was in power as 45 he trashed the existing trade agreement.
His initial backtracking on the first set of tariffs was in response to changes that
… Mexico and Canada were already implementing before he even announced the tariffs.
People who don’t take him seriously are not grasping the fact that he’s just a talking head and a symptom.
He’s using and being used by the conflicting agendas of the Heritage Foundation architects of project 2025
It’s also beyond foolish, not to take seriously the fact that he and his representatives/minions are ruthlessly, abusing their power in ways that are already having life-changing consequences for people around the world.
In his mind, I suspect that having another country be financially dependent on the US to the point where they are functionally economically colonized, the way he currently views Puerto Rico, for instance (ignoring the actual history of PR), would have him considering Canada as being a “state”.
He can’t even seem to conceptualize the fact that Canada as a nation has provinces and territories.
So for someone who has a basic grade school level understanding of geography, it would seem that it would be impossible for him to do what he appears to be suggesting without a physical invasion.
In regards to that, he’s already gone through points one and two on that pattern I described in my other posts, stating that he’s not talking about a physical invasion, but a brutal trade war backed by military might ‘if needed’.
… chaotic and unpredictable in order to serve a distraction while he continues to abuse his position. Absolutely.
Do I think he would be willing to test the waters, pun fully intended, on select targets as a means of “determining loyalty” in the military? Possibly.
I’m sure they’ll just sell to other countries. They won’t be available to us when/if we get our country back. For a self-proclaimed business man, he sure is stupid. He’s a bully & so many other countries won’t put up with it. We’ll be completely isolated & left behind by the rest of the world.
Stable new markets will soon be in place for Canadian steel, aluminum, lumber, potash, uranium, nickel,
Pharmaceuticals, food products, farm machinery, crude oil, LNG and so many other items.
But no worries, donny says USA needs nothing from canada.
This is a page right out of the Kremlin playbook. Russia argues that their annexation of Ukraine territories is what Ukrainians really want. Trump, like Putin, is an expansionist
Tell Trump and his supporters that Canada hates his guts and the guts of most Americans. Just like most Americans don’t want Trump and MAGAs, Canadians don’t want them either.
By that logic, he could just make, say, China the 52nd state and never have to import anything from China. JFC. Canada’s a sovereign fucking nation, you fascist.
How would two new senators & 27 or so new congresspersons affect the balance of power in congress?
Does OM[orange menace] really think they will be MAGA?
Canada stick to your guns. We're going to get rid of them in 4 years if not sooner. We would like sooner rather than later. Don't let him bully you. He's pulling everybody.
He is F'n deranged and unfit for office. Any world leader threatening to acquire a sovereign nation should be of concern to all nations and not taken lightly.
I wouldn't be surprised if his brain is full of holes from syphilis or something, or maybe the years of cocaine and amphetamines are catching up to him.
Don't get distracted by stuff like this. This is part of the “show” they want everybody to pay attention to. They are in the midst of a coup and wanting to change us to an authoritarian Christian Nationalist Country.
Trump has no power to annex Canada or any other nation. He cannot spin straw into gold. He cannot order the tide not to come in and soak his shoes, although, unlike Canute, he won't admit that. He's just hoping you don't notice his much wealthier friends trying to dismantle the US government.
Maybe don't joke about violating other countries' sovereignty? Unless you think jokes about Canadian suicide bombers strolling into American McDonalds and Walmarts are also funny?
Right. And my joke is that America tries to annex Canada and then Americans get to know what a war on your own homeland feels like. I feel like mine is just as funny as yours.
We don't want to be American. We're not coming to save you. Deal with your own problems.
We all know he is an idiot already, and loves to be on TV, so why are some of you guys still feeding into the non stop Trump coverage and posting clips on BlueSky ad nauseam? DOGE is the entity needing constant vigilance.
Swift and traumatic devastation would honestly be better than slo-mo decline. Swift economic devastation might be the only thing that reunites our country to kick out the
Oligarchy/Kleptocracy they just installed. And I do mean installed...I think the election was tampered.
Canada will never be our 51st state....he just doesn't know his. Call your reps(state and congressional) and ask them what they are going to do to address the harm that this will do to small businesses in your area.)
We are good on chips. Not sure why they’d come up along with cars and drugs, but clearly junk food is never far from this morons “mind”. He can really fuck right off. I’m gonna keep saying that over and over. ViveleCanada now and always.
I swear to fuck I am literally praying for this (and I am not religious). Please don't leave out Oregon, we want to be Canadian too. This would solve sooooo many problems. We'd answer to Canada's leadership not fuckwit.
Or, in other words, every single construction project just increased significantly. What a maroon! And what does any of that have to do with Canada as a 51st state… except to strip her bare?
He wants to take over our country and since we're a NATO member he's gonna use these stupid tarrifs as pressure. I'm convinced that if we weren't a NATO member this guy would have invaded us 🤬
This piece of 💩 needs to leave my country the blank alone. He is 🦇💩 crazy if he thinks for one nanosecond that we would ever consider this. He can go blank himself in every painful way imaginable.
He wants to weaken them economically so they're 'forced' to join the U.S. It's like he read an article in Evil Dictator Magazine and asked ChatGPT to write a paragraph-long plan and enacted it. It's so blisteringly stupid.
Lol, you import half your aluminum. Half of that comes from Canada. Your military relies on it. Congratulations. The $16 billion you imported last year will now cost you $20 billion. Looks Looks like bottled beer is about to make a big comeback.
Nah it’s just the usual expiration date of a PM in Canada. He’s been in power too long and people here feel like it’s time for someone else’s turn. It’s mostly a vibe.
The problem with that is, that's only part of the problem; too many Americans wanted this, voted for it or worse in some form, so we really should be looking towards #SecondCivilWar . 🤨
This is MAGA strategy: repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and over again until they think they have normalized it and then they will strike. We must continue to fight back and control the narrative. Great work on all your reporting Aaron!
Canada should use a hockey stick to pry Trump’s mouth open and then let Dudley Do-Right squat and drop a deuce (or would it be a deux?) down his orange and greasy gullet
Is he going to be talking about Canada becoming the 51st state every freaking day? He’s so desperate for attention. Canada doesn’t want you. Many of us in the states don’t want you either. Just shut up already, man
Ah, yes. The Art of the Deal. Scorched Earth financial coercion. I'm sure the American consumer will be happy to foot the bill for his contrived crises angling for some measure of Colonial legacy for himself.
🇨🇦 Dude. Canada is not interested.
We told you no.
And you keep moving on us like a bitch.🤷♀️
Stop✋️.
We're just not that into you.
It's not us, it's you.
You can't have us, our land, or our stuff.
Now STFU and go back to your tacky retirement home.
There are weirdos with hard drives full of trump meatriding “memes”, and photoshops, who spend their entire time simping over him in safe space circlejerks;
They LOVE crying “TDS” on anything that’s wrongthink
What the hell is wrong with Bloomberg? Aren’t they a fan of business? Liberals got it right if someone wants to save American business. Trump’s going to destroy the economy.
Come join a country whose government hates you and is violating its own constitution as well as international law to coerce you into surrendering sovereignty and dignity - tempting!
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A president talking about annexing Canada? There would be a new 25th Amendment news story every 7 minutes until they resigned.
unlike the US Canada isn't actively destroying relationships with their allies / trading partners. all while the US is isolating itself.
Canada is a sovereign country with a bigger land mass than the United States.
Canada is already branching out with different trading partners as well as domestic.
Get ready for a tariff fight you old moldy kumquat.
https://bsky.app/profile/strictlychristo.bsky.social/post/3lhufhw26p22z
Ffs
This will affect American Manufacturing.
Do you think they will lie/hide unemployment figures in the coming months?
This way when the 30 day pause is up he can just move past it like it never happened. Roll forward with trying to gain token offers from others and then celebrating
From October 2020…
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-steel-tariffs-raised-prices-shriveled-demand-led-job-losses-n1242695
You are making a lot enemies😒
He is actually breathtaking in his stupidity. And there's just no bottom....
It’s not a matter of flattering him. Multiple politicians here have actually called him out and openly pointed out the stupidity of these plans.
His initial backtracking on the first set of tariffs was in response to changes that
People who don’t take him seriously are not grasping the fact that he’s just a talking head and a symptom.
He’s using and being used by the conflicting agendas of the Heritage Foundation architects of project 2025
Particularly when it comes to the technology elements, legislation around the world lags behind innovation, and what happens in the
It’s also beyond foolish, not to take seriously the fact that he and his representatives/minions are ruthlessly, abusing their power in ways that are already having life-changing consequences for people around the world.
So for someone who has a basic grade school level understanding of geography, it would seem that it would be impossible for him to do what he appears to be suggesting without a physical invasion.
Do I think that he’s quite happy to leverage the volatility and elevated reactivity of the same kind of people who marched against the capital,
Do I think that it’s entirely possible that he will continue to use ridiculous tariffs, and various threats as a means of keeping circumstances
Do I think he would be willing to test the waters, pun fully intended, on select targets as a means of “determining loyalty” in the military? Possibly.
Pharmaceuticals, food products, farm machinery, crude oil, LNG and so many other items.
But no worries, donny says USA needs nothing from canada.
Trump thinks if Putin can do it, so can he.
"Go f*ck yourself dictator bastard."
Thanks.
"Punch Nazis"
Get. 😅😅😅Regardless we don’t wanna be shot.
Does OM[orange menace] really think they will be MAGA?
If they had the mandate they claim, it would be no problem enacting all this crazy crap OM[orange menace] is trying to do by executive order
To graduate here. People Can go to church and yet boom we hunt too
🇨🇦
You’ll be in shackles before you can say cheeseburger.
Wait til they shut off the lights.
Merci de votre soutien.
From coast to coast, we have to stick together
#ViveLeCanada
We need right now 🇨🇦🤗🇨🇦🤗🇨🇦🤗🇨🇦
Then we can get control of the house and super majority in the Senate.
Then…check this out…we can impeach AND convict! And then throw him in prison.
Cmon Canada, you can be a hero of the world!
How about Americans just leave us alone?
1. He’s going to hurt you too. Your massive neighbor and main ‘ally’ being controlled by fascist maniacs isn’t exactly in your interests.
2. Secede right after the vote! It’s fine. Let’s just get that conviction and pass a bunch of progressive legislation first.
3. It’s a joke.
In the joke, Canada pulls a fast one. Sends Trump to prison. Saves the world, and then peaces out.
We don't want to be American. We're not coming to save you. Deal with your own problems.
This isn't about tariffs whatsoever.
Oligarchy/Kleptocracy they just installed. And I do mean installed...I think the election was tampered.
For anyone.
End of.
Ps: USA is around $30 Trillion in debt. That’s a lot of interest… owed to China & others.
Oh, so that’s why this Government grift is on & crypto continues (as if we didn’t know)
What does that mean? For the US, China, and Europe?
#CalExit
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-corruption-index?tab=chart&country=CAN~USA
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart&country=CAN~USA
Trump can f*ck right off, eh.
Long live Canada!
Vive le Canada!
🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
We won’t back down.
We won’t be bullied.
He can kiss our ass.
We’re done. It’s FAFO time.
https://bsky.app/profile/darthfos.bsky.social/post/3lhub7zotu22c
We told you no.
And you keep moving on us like a bitch.🤷♀️
Stop✋️.
We're just not that into you.
It's not us, it's you.
You can't have us, our land, or our stuff.
Now STFU and go back to your tacky retirement home.
I’m sorry our president is trying to take a country without knowing it’s another country
It's his cult that won't let him go away.
They LOVE crying “TDS” on anything that’s wrongthink
https://substack.com/@philipcollier/p-156333040