Trump Takes His Canada Trolling Up a Level in Bizarre Early Morning Post
The president-elect apparently can’t resist insulting the U.S. ally as its government hangs by a thread.
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Donald Trump ramped up his campaign of mockery against Canada on Wednesday with a trolling Truth Social post in the early hours. “No one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a year? Makes no sense!” the president-elect wrote. “Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State. They would save massively on taxes and military protection. I think it is a great idea. 51st State!!!” Trump has threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from Canada if it fails to stem the flow of migrants and drugs over the border into the United States. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago—where he reportedly warned Trump that such tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, leading Trump to suggest Canada could become the 51st state. The Republican has since publicly referred to Trudeau the “governor” of “the Great State of Canada” even as the Canadian government has been plunged into crisis, spiraling this week as the powerful Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned and accused Trudeau of being ill-prepared to deal with a “coming tariff war.”
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