Published on January 8, 2025 at 01:50.
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Canadians are no longer laughing at all. The entire political class condemned Donald Trump’s comments on Tuesday, threatening his neighbor to use “economic force” to annex him. What was a joke launched before Christmas to humiliate the resigning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after his desperate visit to Mar-a-Lago to try to convince his host not to tax Canadian exports is now turning into an obsession.
The future American president criticizes Canadians for taking advantage of the largesse of the United States. The two countries together, “it would really be something,” imagined the septuagenarian, for his first press conference of the year from his Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago. “If we got rid of the artificially drawn line and looked at what that would look like, national security would be much better off. I have a lot of friends there and Canadians are great, but we spend hundreds of billions to protect them.”
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