Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned he spoke with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump about Trump’s discuss of turning the northern nation into America’s “51st state” when the 2 met at Mar-a-Lago in November.
“It really type of got here up at one level,” Trudeau informed MSNBC’s Jen Psaki in an interview that aired Sunday. “After which we began musing forwards and backwards about this.”
However in line with the prime minister, the trade got here to a fast halt after Trudeau jokingly made Trump a proposal.
“Once I began to counsel, ‘Properly, perhaps there may very well be a commerce for Vermont or California for sure components,’ he instantly determined that it was not that humorous anymore, and we moved on to a distinct dialog,” he informed Psaki.
Trudeau mentioned he needed to take critically Trump’s requires Canada to turn into a state. On the similar time, although, he dismissed the concept as “a nonstarter.”
“That’s not going to occur,” he mentioned. “It’s only a nonstarter. Canadians are extremely pleased with being Canadian.”
Trudeau mentioned Trump is making an attempt to create a distraction from actual points corresponding to his menace to position tariffs on Canadian items.
Trump has referred to as Canada the “51st state,” referred to Trudeau because the nation’s “governor,” and recommended that NHL legend Wayne Gretzky run for prime minister, all whereas he threatens a commerce conflict with the nation.
See Trudeau’s full dialog with Psaki beneath:
