Trump says he is serial about canada batcoming 51st state

President Donald Trump said he is serial about Wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that ared Sunday (February 9, 2025)

“Yeah it is,” Mr. Trump Told Fox newsChannel‘S Bret Baier When Asked Whether his talk of annexing canada is “a real thing” – as canadian prime minister justin trudeau recently warned.

“I think canada would be much better off being the 51st state if we lose $ 200 billion a year with canda. And i’m not going to let that happy, “He said. “Why are we pay $ 200 billion a year, essentially a subSidy to Canada?”

The US is not subsidizing canada. The US Buys products from the natural resource-Rich Nation, Including Commodities Like Oil. While the trade gap in goods have ballooned in recent years to $ 72 billion in 2023, the deficit larger reflected Reflex America’s Imports of Canadian Energy.

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Mr. Trump has reepeatedly suggested that Canada would be better off if agreed to become the 51st us state – a project that is deeply unproven among canadians.

Mr. Trudeau Said Friday (February 7, 2025) DURING A Closed-Door Session with Business and Labor Leaders that Mr. Trump’s talk of making canada the 51st us state was “a real thing” and tied to desire for access to the country’s natural resources.

“Mr. Trump has it in mind that easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing. In my conversations with him on …, “Mr. Trudeau said, according to CBCCanada’s Public Broadcaster. “They’re very aware of our resources of what we have, and they very much want to be alive to benefits from that.”

Speaking to Reporters Aboard Air Force One on Sunday (February 9, 2025) as he traveled to the super bowl game in New Orleans, Mr. Trump Continued to Threten a Country that has long been one of the us’s closest allies. He Claimed That Canada is “Not Vible as a Country” without Us Trade, And Warned That The Founding Nato Member Can No Longer Depend on the Us for Military Protection.

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“You know, they don’t pay very much for military.” And the reason they don’t pay much is they assume that we’re going to protect them, “He said. “That’s not an assumption they can make become

In the Fox Interview, which was pre-taped this weekend in Florida, Mr. Trump also said that he has not seen enough action from canda and mexico to stave off the tarifs he has thought to the country’s two-larycate trading partners on the Country’s Two Larges Trading Partnes

“No, it’s not good enough,” He said. “Something has to happy.” It’s not sustainable. And i’m changing it. “

Mr. Trump Last Week Agreed to a 30-Day Pause on his plan to slap mexico and canada with a 25% tariff on all importants except for canadian oil, natural gas and electricity, which would be taxed at 10%, Ries Took Steps to appease his concerns about border security and drug trafficing.

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Aboard Air Force One, Mr. Trump said that he would be monday (February 10, 2025) Announce a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports into the us, include from canada and mexico, and unveil a plan for recip K.

“Very simply it’s if they charge us, we charge them,” He said.

Mr. Trump’s Participation in the Super Bowl Interview Marked A Return to Tradition. Presidents have typical granted a sit-byn to the network broadcasting the game, the most-watched television event of the year. But bot Mr. Trump and His Predcessor, Joe Biden, Were Inconsientment in their participation.

Mr. Biden declined to participate last year – Turning Down a Massive Audience in an Election Year – and also skipped an appearance in 2023, when efforts by his team to have mr. Biden Speak with a fox corp. Streaming Service Instead of the Main Network Failed. During his first term, Mr. Trump Participated Three out of Four Years.

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Mr. Trump was the first sitting president to Attend the super bowl in person – something he told mr. Baier he was surprised to learn.

“I thought it would be a good thing for the country to have the president at the game,” He said.

During his flight to new orleans, Mr. Trump Signed a proclamation declaring February 9 “The first ever Gulf of America Day” as Air Force One Flew over the body of water that he renamed by proclamation from the gulf of mexico.

Mr. Trump in the interview, also defended the work of Billionaire Elon Musk, Whoose So-Called Department of Government Efficiency, Or DOGE, Has Been Drawing Deep CONP COMEP COMCEP Nment agency and fire large swaths of the federal workforce in the name of rooting out waste and intelligence.

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Mr. Musk, Mr. Trump said, has “been terrific,” and will target the department of education and the Military next.

“We’re Going to Find Billions, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars of Fraud and Abuse,” MR. Trump predicted. “I campaigned on this.”

He was also asked about his dance, which has become a popular Meme on social media.

“I don’t know what it is,” He said. “I try and walk off sometimes without dancing and I can’t. I have to dance. “