You believe conservatives in Canada are enjoying Trump’s numerous comments about Canada too?
While I don't think Caanada as a whole will want to become America's 51st state, I think there are very possibly whole states of Canada that might want to appeal to the U.S. to depart Canada and become U.S. states.
And because they as conservatives feel marginalized and unrepresented, they welcome and enjoy Trump's criticism of Canada's liberal party leadership.
I think Trump's rhetoric on the issue could be said more artfully and eloquently, he doesn't say it the way I would say it.
But then.... I didn't get elected president of he United States three times.
So while what Trump's saying to the new Canadian president is a little cringy for me, he does show decades manipulating public arguens in the media to accomplish deals, and knows how to motivate people and get things done.
I'm frankly much more comfortable with his rhetoric about securing the U.S border, and Trump reaching out to Denmark to purchase Greenland, and to the people of Greenland ( who clearly love Trump and the idea of being part of the U.S., to the point of recently greeting Donald Trump Jr. enthusiastically, all wearing MAGA hats), and his rhetoric about reclaiming U.S. dominion over Panama, and already making good on that rhetoric and securing the Panama Canal in just his first 3 months in office.
I is a FACT that Russia and China have been frequenting hese areas with ships, moving toward naval control of these regions for years (and the Bahamas, and the Canada/U.S. polar region) and it's either those hostile nations or the U.S. who will control them. So I'm glad Trump is moving through diplomacy, if sometimes aggressive diplomacy, toward controlling those places, for U.S. economic and national security reasons.
Likewise, Trump is reaching out in his hamfisted aggressive way to Canada. And even if Canada remains soveriegn (which I fully expect they will), they will at least know there's a deal on the table to some kind of closer partnership with the U.S.
Which may have been Trump's actual plan all along.
