A.G. Gancarski
Secretary of State Marco Rubio isn’t saying whether he thinks the U.S. should annex its neighbor to the north.
During comments to media, the former Senator stayed away from endorsing or denouncing the Donald Trump position that Canada should be the 51st state.
The timing of the question is notable. G7 nations Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States will meet in Quebec starting Wednesday.
“That’s not what we’re going to discuss at the G7, and that’s not what we’re going to be discussing in our trip here,” Rubio said.
“We have a lot of other things we work on together. We defend North America through NORAD and the airspace of our continent together, so — not to mention the issues of Ukraine and other commonalities. So we’re going to be focused in the G7 on all of those things. That’s what the meeting is about. It is not a meeting about how we’re going to take over Canada.”
Rubio also summed up his read on Trump’s economic argument for annexation.
“Well, he said it should become the 51st state from an economic standpoint. He says if they became the 51st state, we wouldn’t have to worry about the border and fentanyl coming across because now we would be able to manage that. He’s made an argument that it’s their interest to do so. Obviously the Canadians don’t agree, apparently.”
The President has promulgated potential statehood as a lever in a trade war with Canada that was not anything he campaigned on.
“The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem.”
9 comments
Josh Green
March 12, 2025 at 1:19 pm
Coward. In his guy he knows Trump is a nut.
Victoria Olson
March 12, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Trump is a doing a DeSantis, thinks he can get away with demanding corporations to do Trumps stupid demands. Trying ILLEGAL takeovers of other countries by blackmail of tariffs, who DO NOT want to become the US. THIS IS WHAT NAZI’S DID, I suggest America wakes up before it’s too late ask the Germans who made that mistake.
MH/Duuuval
March 12, 2025 at 7:17 pm
After WWII, the Good Germans knew nothing untoward was going on behind those slave labor camps.
Village Idiot
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 am
How many of you have a nutty little brother who decided to get a degree in fine arts and move to Greenwich Village rather than take over his share of the family tire dealerships? Now he wants to live off you. You love your little brother, but your spouse thinks he’s nuts and your kids laugh at him. That’s Canada.
Ocean Joe
March 13, 2025 at 7:02 pm
Or maybe Canada is an independent nation which should be respected and not pawed over like a piece of meat by the vulgarian in the White House.
MH/Duuuval
March 13, 2025 at 7:24 pm
Village Idiot’s self-description is telling. Canada, for most of my life, has been seen by many of us as a rational and relatively safe place to live. But, way too cold.
jane solon
March 18, 2025 at 9:58 am
this guy knows nothing about CANADA…. the only nutty little brother is the guy who wrote this idiotic post…someone please get hm help
Andy
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 pm
Funny how you kissed his rear end for months, now that you have the job, you can’t answer these stupid questions as you’ll offend his remarks with truth?
Michael K
March 19, 2025 at 9:30 am
When Rubio will not answer a simple question like this, we can only assume he is lying about everything.
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