Donald Trump has made his strongest attempt yet to take over Canada, offering the Canadian people a 60 percent tax cut if they agree to join the United States and become America’s 51st state.
In recent days, the president-elect has suggested territorial expansion into Canada, Greenland and Panama, and has mocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “governor.”
At Christmas, Trump intensified his campaigns against the governments of Panama and Canada.
‘Merry Christmas to everyone, including the wonderful soldiers of China, who lovingly, but illegally, operate the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its construction 110 years ago), always ensuring that the United States contributes billions of Dollars money for “reparations,” but will have absolutely nothing to say about “anything,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.
‘Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose taxes on citizens are too high, but if Canada became our 51st state, your taxes would be reduced by more than 60%, your businesses would immediately double in size, and you would be protected militarily like no other country in the world.
‘Likewise, to the people of Greenland, who the United States needs for national security reasons and who want the United States to be there, and we will be!’
Trump recently posted that “Canadians want Canada to become the 51st state” and offered an image of himself superimposed on a mountaintop looking out over the surrounding territory next to a Canadian flag.
Trudeau has suggested that Trump was joking about annexing his country, but the two met recently at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to discuss Trump’s threats to impose a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian goods.
Donald Trump has made his biggest bet yet to take over Canada, offering the Canadian people a 60 percent tax cut if they become America’s 51st state.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who attended Friday’s dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, said Trump’s comments were in jest.
‘The president was telling jokes. The president was kidding us. Of course, it was about that issue, in no way a serious comment,” LeBlanc told reporters in Ottawa.
Trump made the stark declaration Sunday night that he would like to buy Greenland when he announced his pick for ambassador to Denmark, PayPal co-founder Ken Howery.
“For purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world, the United States of America considers ownership and control of Greenland to be an absolute necessity,” he wrote in Truth Social.
Trump expressed interest in purchasing Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, during his first presidential term.
He was publicly rejected by Danish authorities, who reiterated that the island was “open for business, not for sale”, before talks could take place.
The Danish Prime Minister’s Office said in its own statement that the government is “looking forward to welcoming the new American ambassador.” And the Government looks forward to working with the new administration.”
Trump recently posted that “Canadians want Canada to become the 51st state” and offered an image of himself superimposed on a mountaintop looking out over the surrounding territory next to a Canadian flag.
Trudeau has suggested Trump was joking about annexing his country
The couple recently met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to discuss Trump’s threats to impose a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian goods.
“In a complex political security situation such as the one we currently experience, transatlantic cooperation is crucial,” the statement said. He noted that he had no comment on Greenland except that “it is not for sale, but it is open to cooperation.”
Trump again has plans for Greenland comes after the president-elect suggested over the weekend that the United States could retake control of the Panama Canal if something is not done to alleviate the rising shipping costs needed to use the waterway that It connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino responded in a video that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will remain so,” but Trump responded on his social media site: “We’ll see about that!”