Trump threatens to annex Canada & Greenland while next to NATO chief Mark Rutte… ‘Only Works as a State’: Trump Vows Not ‘To Bend’ on Tariffs until Canada is Absorbed into the U.S. as 51st State

NATO Chief Mark Rutte Silenced By Trump’s Bonkers Canada Rant

Trump threatens to acquire Canada, Greenland while next to NATO chief

The president fantasized about the new shape the U.S. would take with Canada annexed.

President Donald Trump gushed about his dreams of expanding America’s borders by taking over Canada while the NATO chief sat silently beside him.

“Canada only works as a state,” the president said during his Oval Office meeting with Mark Rutte, the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The NATO chief stayed mum as Trump ranted on about his fantasies of border expansion.

“This would be the most incredible country visually,” Trump imagined, dismissing the existing U.S.-Canada border as an artificial line.

“If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it, between Canada and the U.S., just a straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many, many decades ago, and makes no sense,” he said.

“We don’t need anything from Canada…I want Canada as a cherished 51st state”

NATO operates under the principle of collective defense, meaning an attack on one member is considered an attack on all. But Trump appeared unfazed by the implications of suggesting the U.S. take over Canada.

“It’s so perfect as a great and cherished state,” he said, before announcing the northern neighbor would be allowed to keep its national anthem, O Canada. “I love it. I think it’s great. Keep it, but it will be for the state, one of our greatest states, maybe our greatest state.

While Trump’s comments likely set off alarm bells for its NATO allies, he also failed to soothe market volatility by remarking there will be a “little disruption” due to his trade wars.

After imposing steep tariffs on Canadian, Chinese, and Mexican imports in recent weeks, Trump opened a new front by hitting the EU with 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum on Wednesday.

The bloc swiftly retaliated, upon which the president threatened 200 percent tariffs on wine, Champagne and other alcohol imports from Europe Thursday morning.

“The European Union is very, very nasty,” Trump said while sitting alongside Rutte, a former prime minister of the Netherlands.

The U.S.-Canada border was established through a series of agreements spanning centuries and primarily follows the 49th parallel line of latitude—the “artificial line” Trump is referring to. The 1846 Oregon Treaty extended the line west of the Rocky Mountains and largely finalized the U.S.-Canada boundary.

“Canada only works as a state. O Canada, the national anthem, I love it. Keep it, but it will be for the state”

“Canada only works as a state. O Canada, the national anthem, I love it. Keep it, but it will be for the state”
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The “Emperor of Canada” King Charles panics and quickly hand over a sword to Canada to emphasis Canada is a  sovereign state, not a British brothel?

King Charles gives his Canadian attendant a sword as sovereignty threats intensify

Royal watchers say repeated symbolic nods to Canada are sign of solidarity in the face of Trump’s threats

King Charles bestows a new ceremonial sword to the Usher of the Black Rod of the Senate of Canada Gregory Peters with Speaker of the Senate of Canada Raymonde Gagné present at Buckingham Palace… More @ CBC

‘Only Works as a State’: Trump Vows Not ‘To Bend’ On Tariffs Until Canada Is Absorbed Into The U.S.

President Donald Trump spoke to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday while meeting with the head of NATO and doubled down on his argument that Canada must join the United States.

“No I’m not,” Trump replied when asked if he would reconsider the latest tariffs.

“Look, we’ve been ripped off for years, and we’re not going to be ripped off anymore. No, I’m not going to bend at all. Or aluminum or steel or cars. We’re not going to bend. We’ve been ripped off as a country for many, many years,” Trump continued, adding:

We’ve been subjected to costs that we shouldn’t be subjected to. In the case of Canada, we’re spending 200 billion a year to subsidize Canada. I love Canada, I love the people of Canada. I love I have many friends in Canada. The great one, Wayne Gretzky, the great. Hey, how good is Wayne Gretzky? He’s a great one.

But we have– I know many people from Canada that are good friends of mine. But, you know, the United States can’t subsidize a country for $200 billion a year. We don’t need their cars. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need their lumber. We don’t need anything that they that they give. We do it because we want to be helpful.

But it comes a point when you just can’t do that. You have to run your own country. And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. It doesn’t. We don’t need anything. They have as a state. It would be one of the great states anywhere. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it between Canada and the U.S. just a straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many, many decades ago. And it makes no sense.

It’s so perfect as a great and cherished state. Keeping, ‘Oh, Canada,’ the national anthem, I love it. I think it’s great. Keep it. But it’ll be for the state. One of our greatest states, maybe our greatest state. But why should we subsidize another country for 200 billion, costs us $200 billion a year? And again, we don’t need their lumber. We don’t need their energy.

We have more than they do. We don’t need anything. We don’t need their cars. I’d much rather make the cars here. And there’s not a thing that we need. Now there’ll be a little disruption, but it won’t be very long. But they need us. We really don’t need them. And we have to do this. I’m sorry. We have to do this.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has warned in recent weeks that he truly believes Trump would like to annex his country. In early March, Trudeau said he believes wants “a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that will make it easier to annex us.”

“That is never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state,” he added, saying, “This is a time to hit back hard and to demonstrate that a fight with Canada will have no winners.”

Move over Canada! The rest of the world is jumping onto your Boycott USA bandwagon!

Move over Canada! The rest of the world is jumping onto your Boycott USA bandwagon!
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