It all starts from a suggestion that Donald Trump would have slipped to the Canadian Prime Minister during a dinner on Friday at Mar-a-Lago. A meeting hastily organized after the future American president threatened to increase customs duties on products coming from Mexico and Canada. On this occasion, the billionaire told Justin Trudeau that his country could “become the 51st state of the United States” if it did not manage to balance the trade balance between the two nations.
A diplomatic incident? Far from it. According to Dominic LeBlanc, Donald Trump was not serious: “The president told jokes, he fooled us. It’s absolutely not serious,” assured the Minister of Public Safety to the “Toronto Sun”. “There has been a warm and cordial relationship between the two leaders. That the president allows himself to make such jokes is something that we find positive,” added Dominic LeBlanc.
The future American president seems to have learned that his joke had a resounding echo in Canada. So he decided to ride the wave by continuing the joke on social networks. On Tuesday, the Republican published an image generated by artificial intelligence. It shows the billionaire standing on a peak, next to a Canadian flag fluttering in the wind.
In the distance, a mountain stands majestically… which bears a striking resemblance to our dear Matterhorn. Could Donald Trump have been fooled by AI? It could also be Mount Assiniboine, which is actually in Canada and is often nicknamed “the Matterhorn of Canada.” The Republican accompanied this photo with a caption: “Oh Canada!” A probable reference to the Canadian national anthem, the title of which is “O Canada”.
