{"id":28648,"date":"2024-12-18T09:53:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T09:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/trump-says-us-subsidies-to-canada-make-no-sense-suggests-canadians-want-to-become-the-51st-state\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T09:53:53","slug":"trump-says-us-subsidies-to-canada-make-no-sense-suggests-canadians-want-to-become-the-51st-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/trump-says-us-subsidies-to-canada-make-no-sense-suggests-canadians-want-to-become-the-51st-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US subsidies to Canada make \u2018no sense,\u2019 suggests Canadians want \u2018to become the 51st State\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump<\/a> continued with his trolling of Canada early Wednesday, slamming U.S. subsidies to its northern neighbor and again claiming that Canadians supposedly want to become the 51st U.S. state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a post on his social media<\/a> platform, Trump wrote: “No one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a year?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Makes no sense! Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State. They would save massively on Taxes and military protection,” Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

The post comes amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Canada over the incoming president\u2019s plans to impose 25% tariffs on Canada<\/a> for failing to address trade and immigration issues. \u00a0<\/p>\n

TRUMP WEIGHS IN ON POLITICAL TURMOIL IN THE \u2018GREAT STATE OF CANADA,\u2019 TROLLS \u2018GOVERNOR JUSTIN TRUDEAU\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Mar-a-Lago in an effort to discuss the issue. Sources say that Trump became animated when it came to the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, which he estimated to be more than $100 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TRUMP MAKES A BLIZZARD OF NEWS, SHOWS RESTRAINT AT PRESSER, EVEN WHILE SLAMMING MEDIA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump reportedly suggested to Trudeau that if tariffs on Canada would kill its economy, then perhaps Canada should become the 51st U.S. state<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s threats to impose tariffs on Canadian imports, meanwhile, as unnerved Canada, which is highly integrated with the U.S. economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for.<\/p>\n

Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian \u2013 or $2.7 billion U.S. \u2013 worth of goods and services cross the border each day. Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Greg Wehner and The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump continued with his trolling of Canada early Wednesday, slamming U.S. subsidies to its northern neighbor and again claiming that Canadians supposedly want to become the 51st U.S. state.\u00a0 In a post on his social media platform, Trump wrote: “No one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}