After teasing the “dawn of America’s golden age”, the US President-elect has shared a new map of the United States, which includes Canada as its territory. It came hours after Mr. Trump threatened to use “economic force” to annex Canada into the United States.
The visiting US President on his social media platform Truth Social shared a map showing Canada as part of the United States and wrote, “Oh Canada!”
This came hours after Donald Trump renewed his offer to make Canada the 51st state of the US and threatened to use “economic force” to annex Canada into the United States.
Speaking at a news conference at his Florida home in Mar-a-Lago, hours after his election victory was certified, Trump said, “You get rid of that artificially drawn line, and you take a look at what Looks good, and it will also be much better for national security.”
“Canada and the United States, this will really be something,” Mr Trump said.
He also expressed concern over Canada’s military spending, saying, “They have a very small military. They rely on our military. That’s all right, but, you know, they have to pay for it. It’s very unfair. “
Asked whether he would use military force to bring Canada to power, the future president said, “No, economic force.”
Promising to “transform the economy very rapidly”, Mr Trump said, “We are getting closer to the beginning of the Golden Age of America.”
Later, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hit back at Trump’s threat and said that there is no possibility of merger of the countries. “There is no chance that Canada will become part of the United States. Workers and communities in both our countries deserve to be each other’s largest trading and security partner,” Mr. Trudeau wrote on Twitter. benefit from.”
The 78-year-old Trump, who never had a good relationship with Trudeau even during his first term from 2017-2021, met Trudeau on November 5 after his election victory in March since he made Canada the 51st state of the United States. Thinking of making it. -A-Lago. After this, he has been mentioning this many times in his social media posts.
“Many people in Canada would love to become the 51st state,” he previously said on Truth Social. “The United States can no longer afford the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat.” Justin Trudeau Knew it and resigned.”
