In an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, President Trump claimed Canada "is meant to be our 51st state."
So, what does Trump actually mean when he says Canada "is meant to be our 51st state"?
Is Trump relitigating the Treaty of Ghent which ended the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain? During this conflict, Canada was a British territory, and the United States unsuccessfully attempted to capture it.
This is quite plausible because according to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a phone conversation between them in January 2025 Trump told him that he "did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to revise the boundary.”
If this is the case, there were only 18 states when the war concluded in 1814. By the time Canada gained its independence from Britain in 1867, that total had more than doubled to 37.
And how exactly could Canada be a single state? In 1867, Canada had four provinces - Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Today, Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories. In the unlikely event, Canada ever became part of the U.S., it would add between 10 to 13 new states.
In all honesty, I'm probably overthinking all of it. Trump also told Ingraham, "Canada was meant to be the 51st state because we subsidize Canada by $200 billion a year." The U.S. does not subsidize Canada and Trump pulled that enormous figure out of his enormous ass.
Let us also remember that Trump also claimed Canada was one of the "nastiest countries" he had to deal with, and that Trudeau and his staff were also "nasty" and "never told the truth."
Methinks that someone is projecting.
Maybe Trump is still mad with the way Melania looked at Trudeau all those years ago at the G7 Summit.
Whatever deficiencies that exist in Trump's "reasoning" behind claiming Canada is "meant" be our 51st state, his intentions are nevertheless clear, and they are not good intentions.
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