{"id":59051,"date":"2025-04-28T14:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/28\/trump-ramps-up-51st-state-talk-as-canadians-head-to-the-polls\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:58:03","slug":"trump-ramps-up-51st-state-talk-as-canadians-head-to-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/28\/trump-ramps-up-51st-state-talk-as-canadians-head-to-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ramps up &#039;51st state&#039; talk as Canadians head to the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>                    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump &#039;elephant in the room&#039; of Canada&#039;s election\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SY-TO5d63yg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n                    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> United States President <\/p>\n<p>                Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>                 has once again brought up his &ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>                51st state\u201d idea<\/p>\n<p>                , this time as millions of Canadians head to the polls on federal election day. <\/p>\n<p> In a post on his social media platform Truth Social Monday, Trump wished Canada good luck in the election, but urged Canadians to vote for the candidate with the &ldquo;strength and wisdom&rdquo; to make Canada the 51st state of the U.S. <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;No more artificially drawn line from many years ago,&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>                Trump wrote in the post.<\/p>\n<p>                 &ldquo;Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE!&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trump-truth-social.jpg\" title=\" Truth Social\" alt=\" Truth Social\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-license-id=\"3837193\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Trump had slowed down the &ldquo;51st state&rdquo; comments since Liberal leader <\/p>\n<p>                Mark Carney<\/p>\n<p>                 took over as prime minister from Justin Trudeau, whom he referred to as governor Trudeau, but recently the president has ramped up the rhetoric again. <\/p>\n<p> In an interview with Time Magazine last week,<\/p>\n<p>                 Trump said he is &ldquo;not really trolling&rdquo; when he talks about the annexation of Canada, while repeating a claim that the U.S. is subsidizing the country to the tune of billions of dollars annually. <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;Canada is an interesting case.&hellip; I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state,&rdquo; he said in the interview. <\/p>\n<p> Last week, Carney also revealed that Trump brought up the 51st state idea during a call between the two on March 28. <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;Him raising something, and then where the discussion is &ndash; he has these things in his mind,&rdquo; Carney told reporters after several questions about the matter on April 24. &ldquo;This is not news. He raises it all the time, OK?&rdquo; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li>Trump aiming for big concessions on trade, Carney warns voters<\/li>\n<li>How do Canada\u2019s major candidates plan to handle China?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <em>\u2022 Email: bcousins@postmedia.com<\/em> <\/p>\n<p> <em><strong>Bookmark our website and support our journalism:<\/strong> Don\u2019t miss the business news you need to know \u2014 add financialpost.com to your bookmarks and sign up for our newsletters here.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n<br \/>Trump ramps up &#039;51st state&#039; talk as Canadians head to the polls<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-04-28 14:58:03<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump has once again brought up his &ldquo; 51st state\u201d idea , this time as millions of Canadians head to the polls on federal election day&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}