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Trump still would like to add Canada and Greenland but says attack on Canada ‘highly unlikely’
Politico ^ | 5/4/2025 | Gregory Svirnovskiy

Posted on 05/04/2025 12:45:27 PM PDT by Miami Rebel

“These are not idle threats," Mark Carney of said President Donald Trump after his election victory last week. | .......................

President Donald Trump isn’t closing the door on using force to attempt to annex Greenland and Canada. But he said the prospect of attacking Ottawa appears “highly unlikely.”

Greenland on the other hand?

“I don’t rule it out,” Trump told host Kristen Welker in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security.”

Since his November election, the president has made no secret of his desire to acquire Greenland. “We need it. We have to have it,” he told a radio host in March. That same month, White House officials led by Vice President JD Vance visited a U.S. Space Force base on the island, which boasts significant mineral reserves and a strategic spot in the Arctic.

It’s been a similar story with Canada. The president has often mused about turning the country into a 51st state. Trump’s fixation was “a real thing,” warned former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“I don’t see it with Canada. I just don’t see it, I have to be honest with you,” Trump said of attacking the country in the NBC interview.

But the patriotic fervor Trump’s repeated attacks unleashed in the True North helped propel former banker Mark Carney and the previously beleaguered Liberals back into government for the fourth consecutive term — the first three were with Trudeau at the helm. Conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre not only saw his party lose a double-digit lead, he even lost his own seat in last week’s elections.

Since his November election, the president has made no secret of his desire to acquire Greenland. “We need it. We have to have it,” he told a radio host in March. That same month, White House officials led by Vice President JD Vance visited a U.S. Space Force base on the island, which boasts significant mineral reserves and a strategic spot in the Arctic.

It’s been a similar story with Canada. The president has often mused about turning the country into a 51st state. Trump’s fixation was “a real thing,” warned former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“I don’t see it with Canada. I just don’t see it, I have to be honest with you,” Trump said of attacking the country in the NBC interview.

But the patriotic fervor Trump’s repeated attacks unleashed in the True North helped propel former banker Mark Carney and the previously beleaguered Liberals back into government for the fourth consecutive term — the first three were with Trudeau at the helm. Conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre not only saw his party lose a double-digit lead, he even lost his own seat in last week’s elections.

Carney stresses Canadian strength in face of Trump tariffs

“These are not idle threats,” Carney of said Trump after his election victory last week. “President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never, ever happen. But we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed.”

The two are set to meet at the White House on Tuesday.

Trump downplayed the idea of using force on Canada with Welker. But he said he’d bring up a merger with Carney.

“I’ll always talk about that,” Trump said. “You know why? We subsidize Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year. We don’t need their cars. In fact, we don’t want their cars. We don’t need their energy. We don’t even want their energy. We have more than they do.”

Trump’s claim of a $200 billion subsidy, perhaps based in part on the U.S.-Canada trade deficit, appears firmly off base. But the president continues to cite the figure when discussing the two countries.

“And, if you look at our map, if you look at the geography — I’m a real estate guy at heart. When I look down at that without that artificial line that was drawn with a ruler many years ago,” Trump said. “Was just an artificial line, goes straight across. You don’t even realize. What a beautiful country it would be. It would be great.”


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: canada; concerntroll; concerntrolling; greenland; gulfofamerica; gulfofmexico; tds; trump
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To: rxh4n1

“Where was the oppression and tyranny?”

The north refused to honor provisions of the U.S. Constitution and voted to impose confiscatory taxes on the southern states.

The southern states invoked the remedy available under the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.


101 posted on 05/05/2025 6:56:56 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: cowboyusa

“Slavery.”

The Confederacy had a pro-slavery Constitution.

Does that fact disqualify the southern states from invoking the principles in the Declaration of Independence and establishing a new government?


102 posted on 05/05/2025 7:04:34 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

So the northern states won an election, and the sore losers wouldn’t accept the result. It wasn’t about tariffs and taxes. Good lord, it was all about slavery. Nothing in our history comes close to the bitterness over the slavery issue. People were killing each other over slavery. I mean, I’m not going to my neighbor’s house and slice him and his sons up with swords because of tariffs.


103 posted on 05/05/2025 8:32:08 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

“Good lord, it was all about slavery.”

That is an interesting comment.

If the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?


104 posted on 05/05/2025 8:36:30 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

Now you’re being ridiculous. Just go away.


105 posted on 05/05/2025 8:42:10 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1
“Now you're being ridiculous. Just go away.”

I am no chess player; surprised to have put you in checkmate with just one post.

106 posted on 05/05/2025 8:48:47 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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