“Canada called me a couple of weeks ago, they want to be part of it, to which I said, ‘Well, why don’t you just join our country. You become 51 — become the 51st state — and you get it for free,’” Trump told the assembled officials.

“So, I don’t know if that made a big impact, but it does make a lot of sense.”

Trump also claimed Canada is having “a hard time up there” because “as you know, with tariffs, everyone’s coming into our country.” The president then boasted about investment leaving Canada and other countries and going into the United States, pointing to automobile plants.

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    Yeah it’s huge, but like Russia, most of that is empty space. You don’t need to control that land. And it’s cold continental land, almost tundra, not the dense jungles of Vietnam.

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      But likewise, while Canadians are able to deal with this terrain, out southern 200 km is very similar to America’s northern 200 km, and a lot of us sound and look like a lot of you. Infiltrating America and attacking domestically would be easier for Canadians than just about any other country.

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      And we know how to live on the land with very little. I will live outside in winter and eat dirt and ice before I cede one centimetre of land to fat fascist yanks. Amerikkkans can’t function without their Starbucks, SUVs, steady diet of McDonalds and medi-chairs to get around. So - enjoy a neverending insurgency fuckfaces. Aunties can poison wells too.