Author: Noah Jarvis
Marco Rubio says that President Donald Trump’s repeated suggestions that Canada become the United States’ 51st state were prompted by Trudeau’s comments about Canada’s trade surplus with America.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that President Donald Trump’s repeated suggestions that Canada become the United States’ 51st state were prompted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments about Canada’s trade surplus with America.
In an interview with Catherine Herridge – a former CBS investigative journalist currently working as an independent reporter – Secretary Rubio was asked about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s suggestion that Trump is serious about annexing Canada.
Rubio replied by recounting Trudeau’s visit to Mar-a-Lago in Nov. 2023, saying that Trump’s suggestion that Canada become the 51st state is and always has been about the United States’ trade deficit with Canada.
“The President’s meeting with Trudeau and Trudeau says if you even out our trade relationship, then we will cease to exist as a country. At which point the president responded very logically, and that is, well, if you can’t exist without cheating in trade, then you should become a state,” said Rubio.
