US President-elect donald trump has been pushing an expansionist agenda since winning the november 2024 elections, and with just two weeks to go before he returns to the White House, he has hinted that he may use "economic force" to make canada the 51st American state and refused to rule out military action to acquire the panama Canal and Greenland.
 
Trump, who will take office on january 20, also pledged to rename the gulf of mexico the "Gulf of America" and said he would seek far greater defense expenditure from NATO partners during a tuesday interview with reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
 
Since meeting prime minister Justin Trudeau following his election victory on november 5, 2024, the president-elect has been speculating about making canada the 51st state in the union. He has also made reference to this in a number of social media postings, using the term "Governor Trudeau" in some of them to allude to the prime minister, who resigned on Monday.
 
Trump said, "No, economic force," when reporters asked him whether he would employ military action to carry out his plan to incorporate canada into the US during Tuesday's press conference. Because that would truly be something between the US and Canada.
 
"You get rid of that artificially drawn line (US-Canada border), and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security," he said.
 
Trump also claimed that Washington "derives no benefits" from US military assistance and expenditure on Canadian goods.
 
Trump declared in november of last year that if neither country addresses the influx of migrants and narcotics into the US, he will slap 25% tariffs on products from canada and mexico as soon as he became office.
 
Nonetheless, Trump's proposal was mocked in Canada.
 
"There is absolutely no possibility that canada will join the United States. Being each other's largest commercial and security partner benefits communities and workers in both of our nations," Trudeau tweeted.
 
The president-elect's comments, according to Foreign minister Melanie Joly, "display a fundamental lack of knowledge of what makes canada a powerful country... In the face of danger, we will never give up.
 
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G GOWTHAM

08/01/2025 08:33 AM