Trudeau Says He Met With President Trump And They ‘Started Musing’ About Making Canada The 51st State

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President Donald Trump has set some ambitious goals for his second term, but one proposal that has attracted significant attention in the weeks leading up to his inauguration has involved adding Canada to the United States.

Granted, the plan has been short on details thus far, but Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently acknowledged that he and Trump discussed the topic during a visit to the president’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida late last year.

Trudeau, who recently announced his resignation, confirmed the conversation during an interview this week, per The Hill:

“It actually sort of came up at one point, and then we started musing back and forth about this,” Trudeau told Jen Psaki in a preview clip of a longer interview expected to air Sunday on MSNBC.

“And when I started to suggest, well, maybe there could be a trade for Vermont or California for certain parts, he immediately decided that it was not that funny anymore, and we moved on to a different conversation.”

Trump has repeatedly jabbed at Trudeau — who announced this week he would be resigning as Canada’s prime minister — over a U.S. merger with Canada. It has been seen in part as an effort by Trump to win a better economic deal with Canada as the president-elect warns of new tariffs on Canadian exports.

Trudeau has seen his approval rating plummet in recent years and has been roundly pilloried by social media critics lately:

Canadians after being liberated from Justin Trudeau.

Let's go!

pic.twitter.com/jDy30nO4Wc

— Bret

(@Bret_Sears) January 6, 2025

Justin Trudeau after destroying Canada pic.twitter.com/xUONq55YXD

— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) January 6, 2025

Megan Kelly on Justin Trudeau’s resignation:

“I couldn’t think of somebody less attractive to me as a woman than that man. I can’t stand the sight of him”

Don’t hold back.

pic.twitter.com/P88BYOPIWS

— Anti-Taxxer (@colossusPhD) January 11, 2025

Pierre Poilievre just delivered a

Canada First speech, calling out Justin Trudeau like never before.

This is strong leadership in action—putting our country & its people first.

Watch this powerful moment & see what real leadership looks like.

#CdnPoli #Leadership” pic.twitter.com/MJ75Cd9ooi

— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) January 9, 2025

Trudeau has previously addressed the proposal to turn Canada into the 51st state, as CNN reported:

Trudeau, who announced earlier this week he would resign as prime minister once his party had chosen his successor, told Tapper that Canada becoming another US state was “not going to happen.”

“President Trump, who is a very skillful negotiator, is getting people to be somewhat distracted by that, by that conversation, to take away from the conversation around 25% tariffs on oil and gas and electricity and steel and aluminum and lumber and concrete,” Trudeau told CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” in an interview from Washington.

Trump in November promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada and China starting on the first day of his administration.

“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”

Here’s some additional coverage of the ongoing narrative:

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