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Canada’s vapid and callow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an emergency trip to Mar-a-Lago Friday to see the president-elect. Trudeau was thoroughly alarmed over Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on Canada (as well as Mexico) if they don’t do anything to stop the flow of illegal migrants and drugs into the United States. Trudeau was clearly hoping to talk some socialist internationalist sense into Bad Orange Man, but instead, the vacant-faced Canadian authoritarian got a response that was pure Trump, and revealed once again how deeply Trump holds his America-First principles.
Fox News reported Monday that Trump has called his meeting with the vacuous and childlike Canadian leader “very productive,” but apparently not in the way that Canada’s most prominent Swiftie had hoped it would be. The atmosphere was convivial, with the two men “nibbling on crab cocktail and slurping down oysters” as they discussed “the issues of tariffs, border security and trade deficits.” Yet for all the superficial chumminess of the affair, Trump remained focused on what he wanted from Canada: “While cordial and welcoming,” he was “very direct when it came to what he wants from his counterpart to the North.”
Trump reportedly told Trudeau that “Canada has failed the U.S. border by allowing large amounts of drugs and people across the border, including illegal immigrants from over 70 different countries.” The once-and-future president “became more animated when it came to the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, which he estimated to be more than $100 billion,” and told his shallow Canadian counterpart that “if Canada cannot fix the border issues and trade deficit, he will levy a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods on day one when he returns to office.”
That was when Trudeau started whining and claiming victimhood status. After all, what else would you expect a leftist to do? Trudeau knows that playing the victim is the pathway to fame, favor, and fortune on the left, and apparently, he assumed this to be a universal tendency. So he told Trump, probably with tears glistening in eyes, that he just couldn’t impose such a tariff “because it would kill the Canadian economy completely.” There is nothing in the available reports about Trudeau offering to do anything about stopping the flow of migrants and drugs over the border. He just wanted Trump to withdraw his threat for nothing, out of his concern for the well-being of Canada.
Trudeau doesn’t seem to have realized, however, the implications of the fact that Trump is not a fellow socialist internationalist. It isn’t that he doesn’t care about Canadians; it’s that as president of the United States, he will act in the best interests of Americans. It’s actually Trudeau’s job, not Trump’s, to act in the best interests of Canadians.
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Mike says
There’s a problem with Mr. Trump’s comment. If Canada became the 51st state of the United States, then why would the Americans want Trudeau to be the governor of it? The U.S.A. already has a California that has been ravaged by “woke” policies.
It would make more sense to have Pierre Poilievre as the governor.
However, Mr. Trump’s joke notwithstanding, Canada would first have to become a U.S. Commonwealth territory (no longer a British Commonwealth one) and wait in line behind Puerto Rico and Guam, before applying for U.S. statehood.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Adding Canada as just one state would be as counter-productive as adding Puerto Rico or DC as a state: you’ll get 2 more (D) senators. A better idea would be what Jesse Watters suggested: let West Canada – BC, MB, SK & AB be one state, and East Canada – everything East of that – be another. Politically, it would be balanced
Oh, and Quebec can be independent if it likes. But it doesn’t get to enjoy an open border w/ the US the way the US & Canada historically have had
Huapakechi says
In addition, Texans would be devastated by being re-designated the THIRD largest state. Would they secede over that?
Rarely says
Why would Canada want to be part of the U.S. in the first place? It wouldn’t.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No, but as Trump said, Canada needs to completely block the flow of narcotics and illegal aliens to the US from their land border. If not the tariffs apply
Your genius prime minister didn’t even have a counter-offer for Trump, that might induce him to consider not imposing the 25% tariff. He was just bitching to Trump on what that would do to Canada. It was in that context that Trump made that comment
Don’t worry, we’re not gonna annex Canada. California alone is more than a handful
Rarely says
Trudeau is a jerk but he took the absolute wrong approach. There are more illegal aliens coming into Canada from the U.S. than the other way round.
J.J. Septon says
Why would we want canada? The dunbist citizens on this side of the Atlantic. They keep electing castro’s bast*rd son as PM. And he is a communist, pro-pali dictator. We don’t want your population nor your politics. Stay with the doomed “british commonwealth..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
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somehistory says
The answer wasn’t literally in his answer. The answer was “too bad.” And “do what I’m saying has to be done, or …”
If it means Canada can’t survive, then jt must do as Mr. Trump is saying he must do…*stop the flow.*
If nothing is done to stop the flow, and the tariffs are applied, and Canada fails as a nation….then that’s ‘too bad.’
With so many rabid mozlums in Canada, wanting that nation to become a State in the U.S., would have to be a nightmare wish. Seriously, Mr. Trump wouldn’t want that anymore than the rest of us Americans.
Rarely says
I think Trump is confusing Canada with Mexico — minimal drugs and illegal immigration coming from Canada to the U.S. Could be better but hardly major league issues. In fact a large number of illegal immigrants come INTO Canada from the U.S. This will doubtlessly increase with Trump’s threats to extradite a few million of the illegals now living in the U.S.
OTOH Trudeau has brought in far too many Muslim asylum seekers into Canada in the last few years so if Trump’s threat can slow this down or stop it altogether it would be a good thing.
J.J. Septon says
castro’s bast*rd son is a chip off the old block. He’s an anti-American, communist dictator.
Rarely says
He’s a jerk but his father was Pierre Eliot Trudeau and no shrinking violet at all.
Troybeam says
It was a joke and or sarcasm, taking on Canada would be a money pit.
Huapakechi says
Eastern canada is a socialist money pit. Flush ’em. Western Canada is ripe with resources and farm country.
James Lincoln says
Pres. Trump “owns” Jihad Turdeau – treating him like a spoiled 10-year-old.