“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.
I’ve watched part of this speech, and it made me wonder if his handlers actually sometimes roleplay stuff for him. Like, some stories he tells sound like they’re based on things he experienced in real life, but they’re obviously absurd, so maybe it was just things that were played for him to make him feel good?
E. g. the part about the leaders of Azerbaijan and the other country (Trump seems to have forgotten its name, once again):
Well ok, maybe he’s just completely talking out of his ass here. But look at this story about some tariff billions they found on a shelf:
When he says a “gentleman came in, a financial guy”, I really wonder if it was some staffer dressed up to tell him a feel-good story about tariffs.
(got the transcript from here)
Not enough tears in the guy’s eyes and calling Trump “sir” to be a classic Trump word salad.