A Canadian lawmaker instructed Donald Trump to “piss off” Wednesday after the U.S. president-elect piled on to his assaults towards the nation with a “deranged” Christmas Day message.
“Pricey Donald, Thanks for together with us in your deranged Christmas message,” wrote Charlie Angus, a member of the left-leaning New Democratic Get together who serves within the Canadian Parliament, in a post on Bluesky.
“Being Canadian means free well being care and limiting entry to assault weapons,” he wrote. “In your 51st state our youngsters would get shot at in class and CEOs can be shot for denying well being care. So no. Now piss off. Your northern neighbour.”
Earlier that day, Trump had mockingly known as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “governor” and speculated about what life in Canada can be like if it grew to become “our 51st state.”
Trump has beforehand threatened to impose a 25% tariff on all items coming into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, whereas blaming each nations for an inflow of migrants and fentanyl.
The U.S. president-elect has since waded into making “governor” and “Nice State of Canada” digs at Trudeau, a member of Canada’s Liberal Get together.
Angus, who beforehand knocked Trump’s assaults on the ground of the Canadian Home of Commons, told Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Network that the very last thing he thought he’d be doing on Christmas Day was responding to the “rage rot” in Trump’s mind.
“No one’s that imply and that vicious and silly on Christmas Day,” stated Angus, who thought folks had been “pulling [his] chain” when he heard of Trump’s vacation meltdown at a celebration. “However whoa, I used to be incorrect.”
Trump, in the post to his Truth Social platform, claimed he’d minimize taxes in Canada “by greater than 60%” and its companies would “instantly double in dimension” if U.S. had been to take over the nation.
Angus pointed to a massive difference in gun-related deaths between the 2 nations, earlier than noting that he’s one in every of various registered gun homeowners in Canada.
“We don’t need what you’re promoting, Donald,” Angus stated.
The U.S. president-elect has hurled threats at lands past Canada as properly, expressing a want to buy Greenland from Denmark and take management of the Panama Canal.
Trump’s invasion speak caught Angus’ consideration on Tuesday as he knocked CNN on social media for using the term “teasing” to explain Trump’s enlargement pursuits.
“Invading sovereign nations is the work of fascist leaders. Referring to such threats as ‘teasing’ is what compliant state propaganda does,” Angus wrote on Bluesky. “Simply as Trump takes classes from Putin you would get workshop coaching in your editors from Russian state media. Canada will resist.”
Angus, in his interview with Meiselas, famous that Trump praised Russian dictator Vladimir Putin as “savvy” and a “genius” after his invasion of Ukraine, and that he’s picked one in every of his “Putin trolls” to join his incoming administration.
“So his disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty despatched, I believe, a really, very chilling message,” he stated.
“His assaults on Panama, his assaults on Greenland, his assaults on Canada are sending a message that he doesn’t respect the worldwide order when it comes to the rights of countries,” Angus stated. “Now we have to start out taking that, I believe, much more significantly.”
Watch extra of Angus’ interview on the MeidasTouch Community beneath.
