Trump Jokes About Making Canada The 51st State, Moonbats Freak

Democrats don’t do jokes, unless they involve their political foes getting hurt

Does Trump want to annex Canada?

President-elect Donald Trump cracked an old joke about annexing Canada, and Ottawa is still trying to figure out if it was meant to be funny.

Canada as the 51st state is occasionally a topic of conversation on both sides of the border. Homer Simpson once dubbed his northern neighbor “America junior.”

When Trump dined with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last Friday at Mar-a-Lago, the president-elect reportedly tried his own hand at manifest destiny humor.

Trudeau, who traveled to Florida with a small delegation days after Trump threatened across-the-board tariffs on imports from Canada, used his face-time with the incoming president to warn that the measure would punish the Canadian economy.

Fox News sources claimed that’s when Trump floated the idea of statehood for Canada, “which caused the prime minister and others to laugh nervously.”

Sure, a massive super-country would edge past Russia for the largest in the world by land area — and further integrate heavily interconnected supply chains.

But Canadian nationalists have long warned against Canada becoming the 51st state, including during a tense national debate over continental free trade that dominated the 1988 election. As the Canada-U.S. free trade deal expanded to include Mexico, Canada maintained its sovereignty.

Did Politico miss that it was a joke?

Canadian Cabinet ministers were hounded Tuesday by reporters looking for a reaction to the joke — including Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who was at the Mar-a-Lago dinner.

“In a three-hour social evening at the president’s residence in Florida on a long weekend of American Thanksgiving, the conversation was going to be lighthearted,” LeBlanc said. “The president was telling jokes. The president was teasing us.”

LeBlanc’s message: Chill out, everybody.

Chill out, right? But, they needed 14 more paragraphs. It’s a joke, people. Unfortantely, most other Credentialed Media outlets also run on way to long with this, mixing in this and that and the other.

Oh Canada! pic.twitter.com/J04JNvhQEH

— Donald Trump Nation (@DonaldTrumpNat) December 3, 2024

The media needs to lighten up quickly, because Trump’s term hasn’t even started yet.

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