President-elect Trump again suggested Tuesday that Canada should be added as the 51st state of the United States, sharing maps showing Canada as part of the United States.
Trump shared two posts on his social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday evening – one with a map of the United States and Canada with “United States” written across both countries and another post with the United States and the Canada covered with an American flag.
“O Canada! » he wrote in an article.
The new president has recently pushed for Canada to be added to the United States, including earlier Tuesday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talk before a NATO roundtable at The Grove Hotel and Resort in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, December 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
“Canada and the United States. That would really be something,” Trump said during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. “They should be a state.”
On Monday, the president-elect claimed in a social media post that “many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st state.”
WHAT TRUMP SAYS ABOUT CANADA BECOMING THE 51ST STATE
“The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“Justin Trudeau knew this and resigned. If Canada merged with the United States, there would be no tariffs, taxes would drop significantly and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of Russian and Chinese ships constantly surrounding them .” he added. “Together, what a great Nation it would be!!!”
President-elect Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, left, CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images, right.)
Trudeau, who announced Monday he would resign as Canadian prime minister once his replacement is chosen, said Tuesday there was no way Canada would rejoin the United States.
“There is no way Canada will be part of the United States,” Trudeau wrote on the social media platform commercial and security on the other.”
Trump has trolled Canada in recent weeks, floating the idea of it becoming the 51st state and posting a doctored photo of himself standing next to a Canadian flag on a mountaintop.
President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak during a news conference at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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The president-elect also mocked Trudeau, repeatedly calling him a “governor.” Additionally, Trump threatened to impose massive tariffs on Canada.
Trump also pushed Denmark to sell the North Atlantic island of Greenland to the United States.
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