{"id":38287,"date":"2025-02-09T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38287"},"modified":"2025-02-09T21:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T03:00:54","slug":"trump-says-canada-joining-us-would-be-greatest-thing-they-could-ever-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38287","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Canada joining US \u2018would be greatest thing they could ever do\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>on Sunday argued that if Canada were to join the United States, it would be the greatest thing the neighbors to the north could do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love the people of Canada. We have a great relationship, but if they became our 51st state, it would be the greatest thing they could ever do,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cAnd think of how beautiful that country would be without that artificial line running right through it. Somebody drew it many years ago with a ruler, just a line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has repeatedly reiterated his desire<\/u><\/a> to see Canada become part of the U.S., which is something Canadian leaders have repeatedly rejected<\/u><\/a> as a possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president also told Fox News\u2019s Bret Baier in an interview that aired Sunday \u201csomething has to happen\u201d and more is needed in 30 days after he agreed to a pause in implementing tariffs on Canada for at least a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added, \u201cI think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause we lose $200 billion a year with Canada. And I\u2019m not going to let that happen, it\u2019s too much. Why are we paying $200 billion a year essentially in subsidy to Canada? Now if they are a 51st state, I don\u2019t mind doing it,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to a pause in implementing 25 percent tariffs before they went into effect last week. Canada agreed to secure the northern border and work to combat the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., adding that it will implement its $1.3 billion border plan and agreed to take other steps to secure the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agreement with Canada mirrored a similar deal Trump struck<\/u><\/a> with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Trump\u2002on Sunday argued that if Canada were to join the United States, it would be the greatest thing the neighbors to the north could do. \u201cI love the people of Canada. We have a great relationship, but if they became our 51st state, it would be the greatest thing they could ever do,\u201d Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":38288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24909,2346,31984],"class_list":["post-38287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-a","tag-ad","tag-ana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38290,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38287\/revisions\/38290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}