Trump: 'I'm really not trolling' with talk of Canada as 51st state

[Swede]

Yeah, we know.

The president sat down for an interview with Time Magazine, where a reporter suggested Trump may have been “trolling a little bit” with his repeated comments that Canada should be absorbed into the United States.

“Actually, no, I’m not,” Trump said in the interview, which was conducted Tuesday.

“I think Canada, what you said that, ‘Well, that one, I might be trolling.’ But I’m really not trolling,” Trump added. “Canada is an interesting case.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5267087-trump-trolling-canada-51st-state/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Not a single citizen of Canada

wants to be arbitrarily and permanently sent to El Salvador as a condition of being incorporated into the U.S.

[Scrivener7]

11. So you're saying some Canadians DO want to arbitrarily be sent to Salvadorean concentration camps?

Did you learn that in the library?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

12. Welcome to DU...................for now.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

19. LOL.

Oh, I think you know what I'm talking about.
Enjoy your stay.

[GP6971]

14. Well OK then....it must be true if you say so.

[RJ-MacReady]

15. no they don't.

[RJ-MacReady]

21. enjoy your stay

[MarineCombatEngineer]

25. But you're not, right?

You're really not fooling anyone.

[GP6971]

27. How would you know if you're also a newbie? Another mystery

to be solved.

[Scrivener7]

23. Well ... impress us then. Link to your "some Canadian online" source who said they want to be annexed.

[Scrivener7]

26. So more made up crap? Or was it a library book, perhaps?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

28. Oh, well then, it must be true because you read it on the net.

[GP6971]

31. You sure about that? I did a search and I'm not finding a site called

Some Social Media Site.

[Celerity]

34. Alberta is the most RW province, followed by Saskatchewan, then southern Manitoba, eastern British Columbia, and

western and southern Ontario, plus some scattered parts of the Maritimes.

[mwmisses4289]

2. He doesn't get it, does he?

Canada doesn't want to be part of the U.S. Why would they? They have better health care, better social safety nets, better education.
But all he sees are possible dollar signs, and he can't seem to stand the thought that money ain't in his pocket.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. In another miscalculation, tRump thinks Canada is weak. . . . . nt

[Blues Heron]

4. Trump is an interesting (not in a good way ) head case

[ShazzieB]

37. That is a very tactful way ro put it!

[Walleye]

5. Hey cantaloupe Caligula, you really aren't a god you know

[Oneironaut]

6. "I might be trolling, but, I'm not trolling." - What a great, Presidential leader who takes his position seriously.

This new, terminally online society is so fucking stupid. This all sounds ridiculous to anyone who has touched grass in the last year.

No, world leaders should not be “trolling.” The lack of seriousness overall now is going to end horribly. Guess I’m no fun because I think everything shouldn’t be a fucking Facebook meme.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. A responsible journalist would have asked Trump the following question:

“Just how many American soldiers are you willing to get killed in order to add a star to the American flag?”

[Tommy Carcetti]

8. He's always joking...

...until he isn't.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Flipside: He's serious til he says he's joking, ref Time mag statement re: Ukraine peace in one day: "I was joking". nt

[lark]

13. Fuck dump and his envy of Russia's empire and desire to compete with or play like his master.

This is insane and it just makes him look very stupid and demented as hell . What a fucking embarassment!

[RJ-MacReady]

16. oh please

It would take a war. And the moment Canada conducts airstrikes on Montana and North Dakota people would be begging for it to end immediately.

[Johonny]

17. Elect a friendless troll president

Get a friendless troll foreign policy

[marble falls]

29. No, of course not. Trolling requires the possibility an event could be made to happen. Canada ...

... as part of the US ain't happening.

[livetohike]

30. "Canada is an interesting case." He sounds like he's in a law

class. I’ll tell him what’s interesting.He’s hated there too.

[sop]

32. Time reporter suggested Trump may have been "trolling a little bit."

Spending months saying you're going to take over Canada is not "trolling a little bit," Mr. Time reporter. It's delusional, bat shit crazy talk. Stop soft-pedaling Trump's insanity, you're just encouraging the imbecile.

[Omnipresent]

33. Trump is just a babbling idiot.

He needs to be messed around with.
I would tell him the UN wants to rename the US, “North Mexico”.

[mwmisses4289]

36. Or Southern Canada.

[BeyondGeography]

35. Mark Carney's finest political friend

Eh, Poilievre?

[themaguffin]

38. It's never happening, but even if it did, each province would be a state. The GOP wouldn't like those 20+ news senators

...not to mention House members...

[ShazzieB]

39. Everything else aside, does he even have any idea how big Canada is?

I'm talking area, not population. Canada's land area is approximately 3,855,103 square miles, making it the second-largest country in the world by land area. By comparison, theUnited States has a total area of 3,796,742 square miles, including all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Of that total, 3,531,905 square miles is land area.

I don't know which is more ludicrous: the idea of adding Canada to this country against its will, OR the idea of it being all one state. Has he ever even looked at a map of the place? Sure, Dumbo, that makes LOADS of sense.

The "51st state" nonsense is part of why I can't take this wild idea of his seriously.That and the fact that Canada wouldn't agree to it in a million years and invading our good neighbor and (former?) ally would be anathema to most Americans.

Dream on, Dumbfuck Donnie.