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Economy Trump suggests Canada become 51st state

Trump belittles leaders of Canada and Mexico at Fox Nation’s ‘patriot’ awards​


Audience also taunted Canada in chant of ‘51’, suggesting northern neighbour should be 51st US state

Robert Tait in Washington

Donald Trump belittled the leaders of the United States’ closest neighbours, Canada and Mexico, at a Fox awards ceremony intended to celebrate his role as America’s greatest “patriot”.

Two weeks after threatening the two countries with 25% tariffs on their imports for supposedly failing to prevent drugs and migrants from crossing the border, the president-elect took evident pleasure in an audience chant that taunted Canada as the 51st US state.

The chant of “51” came at Thursday night’s Fox Nation’s Patriot of the Year ceremony, held in New York. Trump was given the top award by Sean Hannity, one of the network’s star hosts.

It alluded to the visit by Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last week, where Trudeau reportedly told the president-elect that carrying out the tariff threat would devastate the country’s economy. In response, Trump reportedly replied that “maybe Canada should become the 51st state”.

Canadian officials portrayed the comments as a joke, but Trump issued no such qualifier in Thursday’s speech.

“I spoke with Canada, and Justin came flying right in because we talked about 25% tariffs. That’s just the beginning,” he said.


As audience members broke into the “51” chant, Trump said: “This is a hell of a nice crowd. I like this one. This is a nice crowd. That’s an interesting statement. Thank you very much. I do appreciate all that pent-up anger and love. That’s everything at one time.”

Trump then went on to describe a phone conversation he had with Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, after the tariff threat.

“I spoke the other day to the president, the new president, of Mexico, very nice woman,” Trump said. “And we had a very nice conversation. But she said, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ I said: ‘I’m not. I’m just putting a lot of tariffs on because you’re allowing criminals to pour into our country, and we can’t allow that any more.’ And it stopped. It was so fast.”

Sheinbaum depicted the 28 November conversation differently, calling it “very kind” and saying “there will not be a potential tariff war” as a result of the encounter. She also said Mexico would not close its border with the US.

Trump’s speech was one of the few television appearances he has made following his 5 November election win. He has since spent most of his time at Mar-a-Lago nominating members of his administration.

It also represented a rapprochement of sorts with Fox News, which Trump sometimes criticised as “soft” during his election campaign. Fox Nation consists of streaming service from Fox News combined with programming from Fox’s primetime shows.


During his 10-minute address, he called migration to the US an “invasion” and praised Tom Homan, the hardline former police officer he has nominated as “border czar”, as a character from “central casting”.

“We shouldn’t have to be doing this, but we have no choice. But we’ll stop them,” Trump said.

Canadian officials have said that only a relatively small percentage of immigrants, and an even smaller percentage of fentanyl – the synthetic opioid drug that has become central to America’s addiction crisis – come to the US through Canada.

The president-elect has vowed to carry out mass deportation of an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Homan, who was deputy head of the Immigration and Customs and Enforcement in his first administration, has been tapped to spearhead the effort.

Several Democrat city mayors and state governors have promised to impede mass roundups of immigrants that they deem to be illegal or encroaching on their jurisdictions. Homan, in turn, has threatened to put one mayor, Mike Johnston of Denver, in jail if he causes an obstruction.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/06/trump-fox-news-patriot-award
 
Renard said:
The donuts are legit good. They have consistency, it doesn't feel like you're eating air like the Krispy Kreme stuff. The rest of the menu has gone downhill since they got bought by the Burger King parent company though.
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Imo the donuts are garbage, like everything at Singh Hortons. Back in the day it was great now it sucks ass, unless you enjoy being served bandaid soup from a person with hepatitis that is.
 
PEB said:
So this peaceful guy who wants martial law to go after illegals, threatens to turn Gaza into even worse a place then it is now, has talked about Iran and bombing nuclear power plants, Invade Mexico and then turnng Canada into the 51 state. Am I missing anything? Oh the good old days with war mungers like Biden and Obama lol.
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Please no, no more mean words!
 
Trump really have to stop with those jokes, its getting annoying.

We have nothing in common, we have a lot of ressources here in canada but its ours, anyway, china and russia wouldnt never let this happen. I doubt so.
 
Canada is too big to just be one state. It would need to be broken down into a few. Would be a really dumb idea for Conservatives to bring in states that would likely vote Blue though.
 
I think this is what I really hate the most about people these days, this stupid fake ignorance that people think is clever. How the hell are we still talking about this obviously facetious , off hand comment from Trump ?

Trump saying Canada should be the 51st state is just him saying Canada takes advantage of us economically. Its not an actual real estate deal, for fucks sake.
 
I hear there are lots up there who want to defect but are too scared to leave Canada. Big MAGA support, though. This is the perfect solution! Time may be running out for Gov. Trudeau, but maybe Gov. Poilievre can be the one to finally taste TRUMP-brand freedom?

#51stState
 
Seano said:
I think this is what I really hate the most about people these days, this stupid fake ignorance that people think is clever. How the hell are we still talking about this obviously facetious , off hand comment from Trump ?

Trump saying Canada should be the 51st state is just him saying Canada takes advantage of us economically. Its not an actual real estate deal, for fucks sake.
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Trump has made multiple jokes about it, so he's the one keeping it going even if it's not serious
 
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