The New York Postreporting exclusively from Fox News, maintains that Donald Trump was “joking.” During the dinner he shared Friday evening with Justin Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago, the president-elect provoked nervous laughter around the table, according to Rupert Murdoch’s daily, by suggesting to his guest that Canada could become the 51st state of the United States if it wanted to avoid 25% customs duties on its products entering its country. The Canadian Prime Minister had just told him that such customs tariffs would be likely to kill his country’s economy.
“So your country can’t survive if it doesn’t rip off the United States out of $100 billion? “, Trump reportedly replied, referring to the United States’ trade deficit with Canada. Fox News says it got this exchange from two anonymous sources present around the table.
Trump added that Trudeau could be “governor” of this 51st state, although he agreed that the title “prime minister” was more prestigious. When one of the guests mentioned that such a state would be “very liberal,” Trump suggested that Trudeau’s country could be separated into two states, one conservative and another liberal.
After all these years, we know that Trump’s jokes are never innocent and sometimes not even jokes. In this case, we have the vague impression that Trump was making fun of Trudeau.
(Photo @JustinTrudeau)
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