Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned Tuesday there’s not a ‘snowball’s probability in hell’ his nation will turn out to be a part of the U.S., as President-elect Trump continues to make his push to make the neighbor to the north the US’ 51st state.
“There isn’t a snowball’s probability in hell that Canada would turn out to be a part of the US,” Trudeau wrote on X. “Staff and communities in each our nations profit from being one another’s largest buying and selling and safety associate.”
Trudeau’s response got here after Trump mentioned Canada must be a state, whereas talking at a information convention on Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seashore, Florida.
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Trump additionally highlighted that if Canada have been to affix the U.S., it will not be by utilizing navy power, however as a substitute by means of “financial power.”
On Monday, the president-elect mentioned in a social media put up that “many individuals in Canada LOVE being the 51st State.”
However he additionally confused that if Canada and the U.S. have been to merge, there could be no tariffs, taxes would drop, and Canada could be “completely safe” from threats of Russian and Chinese language ships “always surrounding them.”
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President Trump, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speak previous to a NATO roundtable assembly in 2019. (AP Picture/Frank Augstein, File)
“Collectively, what an excellent Nation it will be!!!” Trump exclaimed in his social media put up.
Over the previous few weeks, Trump has trolled Canada by musing about it changing into the 51st state, whereas additionally posting a doctored picture of the president-elect standing on high of a mountain, subsequent to a Canadian flag.
Trump additionally mocked Trudeau, repeatedly referring to him as “governor,” and threatened to impose huge tariffs on Canada, which possible factored into Trudeau asserting his resignation from the put up on Monday.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Nov. 29. (Justin Trudeau X)
Trudeau introduced that he intends to resign as social gathering chief and prime minister after stress from inside his personal Liberal Get together more and more grew amid heightened criticisms over his dealing with of the financial system and threats levied by Trump. He mentioned he’ll resign as soon as the social gathering selects a brand new chief.
Trudeau, who led the nation for practically a decade, has been grappling for months with vital drops in his approval scores over mounting frustration referring to points just like the hovering value of dwelling and rising inflation.
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Trudeau’s resignation means the Liberal Get together can appoint an interim prime minister to steer the nation till the elections subsequent fall, giving them doubtlessly a combating probability to deliver renewed assist again to the Liberal Get together.
Alongside together with his fixation on Canada, Trump has additionally known as on Denmark to promote Greenland to the U.S.
Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser, Caitlin McFall and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
