No. of Recommendations: 6
The Canada thing is still a bit? Right??
So many possibilities for the Trump entry this week, as ever. Let’s talk about how he does, by now, seem serious about wanting to annex Canada, a country with whom we have long been close allies. He threatened more and more and more tariffs against the country this week in ways that make little sense, unless his goal is to destroy Canada’s economy so that it surrenders to the United States. A good reason to believe this is the plan is because they’re saying that it is. When asked at a White House press conference this week whether the administration still considers Canada a “close ally of the United States,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that “the President has made it clear that he believes Canadians would be better served economically, militarily, if they were to become the 51st state of the United States of America.” As with Greenland, Trump is spellbound by the size of Canada on the Mercator projection, and said this week that eliminating the “straight artificial line” separating the U.S. and Canada would make it the “most incredible country visually.” This echoes something he told (now ex-) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a February call: that, according to the New York Times, “he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to revise the boundary.” We don’t know what to say other than: None of what we’re seeing from Trump is going to improve as he gets older. Slate's "The Surge"
