Donald Trump seems to take great pleasure in having fun at Canada’s expense.
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After allegedly jokingly proposing to annex Canada to the United States last week, the president-elect posted on social media on Wednesday an image of himself next to a large Canadian flag at the summit from a mountain, staring at the horizon.
In the caption, the publication was accompanied by the expression: Oh Canada!
The president’s message comes days after he suggested Canada could become the 51st state of the United States.
The 51st State
He reportedly made this suggestion to Justin Trudeau last Friday evening, during an American Thanksgiving dinner.
On Monday evening, Fox News reported that Donald Trump launched this proposal when the Canadian prime minister expressed his fears of the devastating impact of possible tariffs on the country’s economy.
Mr. Trump reportedly said he would move forward with his 25% tariffs on his first day in the White House if his northern neighbor failed to resolve the situation at the border and the deficit. commercial.
Justin Trudeau then reportedly replied that such a measure would “kill” Canada’s economy, according to Fox News. To which Donald Trump reportedly responded that Canada should become the 51st American state if it is not able to survive without “ripping off” the United States.
Mr. Trudeau then reportedly responded that if Canada became an American state, he would be liberal.
Mr. Trump reportedly proposed that the country be divided into two separate states: one conservative and one liberal.
These remarks would have been greeted with laughter, according to American media sources.
A joke that goes badly
The leader of the Bloc Québécois did not intend to laugh when he was invited to comment on the affair.
“I see it as a joke and I’m not sure it’s in good taste,” declared the leader of the Bloc Québécois in an interview on Mario Dumont’s show on LCN on Tuesday.
However, he was not surprised that these kinds of comments could come out of the mouth of the president-elect.
“It’s a very Mr. Trump joke,” he said. We see what he can do when he’s in a good mood, we already know what he can do when he’s in a bad mood.”
The Conservative MP, for his part, suggested that Mr. Trudeau had been invited to an “idiot’s dinner.”
“Is this the gain for Justin Trudeau? Ridiculing Canada?” he wrote on the social network
The suggestion that the United States could annex Canada was nothing more than a joke, according to Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
“The fact that the relationship is cordial, warm, that we were able to tell jokes during a three-hour dinner is still positive,” Mr. LeBlanc insisted to the press on Tuesday.
