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"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."

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250313194128/https://www.mediaite.com/news/only-works-as-a-state-trump-vows-not-to-bend-on-tariffs-until-canada-is-absorbed-into-the-u-s/


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[–] frazw@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He genuinely thinks flattery will convince people to be taken over by a budding dictatorship. Canadians are supposed to forget that the USA is against everything they stand for and say...

"He said we could be the greatest state!!! Who gives a shit about free healthcare and reproductive rights!! We'll be cherished!!!"

Not to mention that he seems the be saying that paying for anything is being ripped off. It reminds me of the documentary on his business practices that resurfaced during his first run. I think it was called what's the deal. The were many examples of him ripping off his vendors and subcontractors saying their work was substandard so he either wasn't paying or wasn't paying the full amount.

Now he seems to be applying the same thinking to imports. Why should America pay full price when he never has? He naively thinks tariffs mean America gets the goods for less overal.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

He genuinely thinks flattery will convince people to be taken over by a budding dictatorship.

That's because he is convinced by flattery. It's widely known around the world that if you want something from Trump, you flatter him. That's why he thinks it works on everyone else.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’d just like to point out that this is not normal

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] casmael@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well some of these countries are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all

[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that countries aren’t safe.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yes they’re built to very rigorous democratic standards, these standards are very rigorous

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

There's a minimum political party requirement.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

One, I suppose.

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure hell will freeze over before Canada agree to become part of the US.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That or Canadians electing Trump sycophant Pierre Poilievre in the next election who will give it up voluntary.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

No way thay doesn't cause something close to civil war. Them murica can swoop in for peace keeping.

[–] muddyuk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Or he tries to promote Herr Musk as your future leader.

[–] lori@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I hate trying to apply logic to something that's so inherently bullshit but even if you were to annex Canada, why the hell does he think it would be one state and not several?

[–] holdstrong@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

He would not make Canada a state, that’s a complete lie. Trump adding another California to the union? Lmao. At best we would be an unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

Because he doesn't respect you enough to think that your provinces deserve to remain independent of each other. Or to know that you have provinces.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Because he has that little respect for Canada.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because he falls into the common trap of thinking Toronto is Canada.

[–] lori@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think this is the answer I think the man genuinely doesn't know how big it is.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

He's also never met the natives or the French.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

He knows enough to know he would not want to give several states worth of leftish leaning angry states the vote that would take any chance of him remaining in power. Not that there would ever be a vote again in America if he got to the point of taking a run at Canada and Greenland.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

This seems a "relatively old" quote. He's been asked to STFU by Carney, and so its only news if he repeats this "stump speech" after told to STFU.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He really doesn't know when to shut up, does he?

This won't turn out the way he expects it to. Canadians already seemed pretty happy to stop buying American goods and contributing to tourism, and the rest of the world no longer trusts us. Trying to strangle their economy by stifling trade goes both ways, and it's going to hurt the country that nobody wants to trade with a lot more than the one with plenty of opportunities to form new trade deals.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I think it's more likely to hurt the country that cannot produce most of its own food, rather than the one that can.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

We're all just a big toy to him.

[–] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It's "O Canada!" It's the vocative, you bronze bitchlet, not some interjection. We're not expressing fucking surprise.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Feels like I'm inside a game of Terra Invicta some days..

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

So I guess an hour long slideshow from Perun about a hypothetical conflict between eagles and geese is inevitable now.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump is seriously blurring the line between himself and Lex Luthor more and more by the day. Trump was always a very whacky character, but threats to steal like, Canada, or the real estate of Greenland just really completes the picture.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Lex Luther was actually smart and cared about earth as the center of the universe. Earth first!