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CANADIAN REPORTER: Trump's tone on Canada has shifted. He stopped talking about Canada becoming the 51st state. LEAVITT: I would reject that the president's position on Canada has shifted. Perhaps he just hasn't been asked about it. He believes Canadians would benefit from becoming the 51st state.

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I mean, yes, because Trump can't keep a coherent thought in his head. He only thinks about things when he's actually asked about them. I swear, if a reporter asked him about his policies with regards to Latveria and Wakanda, we'd get a Tariff speech.

I respectfully disagree. The 51st state crap makes me as ragey as any Canadian, but I want more of it until the election. Every time it comes up again, the Liberals get a bump in the polls. Katie did Carney a solid by asking this question and reminding Canadians that the threat is still there.

Respectfully disagree as well. Trump is clearly scared of Carney who knows the billionaires internationally. Carney already helped smoke the US bond market last week.

Katie Simpson re-affirming why Canadians need to continue to keep our elbows up, strengthen our economy, invest in our geopolitical standing on the global stage, find trustworthy trade partners.... and most importantly, leave the USA in the rearview mirror.

In my view, Katie’s question was an attempt to try to quell the legitimate fears Canadians have of the Trump admin, which only helps Poilievre. It failed because Leavitt is that stupid. They’re all that stupid, frankly, it must drive Putin nuts.

Wait... what?!?! NO! We must resist like our lives depend upon it! The President defied the Supreme Court & sent a man to a foreign gulag. This is state terror. Trump is not alone—Republicans are collaborators. If we stay silent now, we vanish next. #FascismInAmerica #GOPComplicit #ResistNow

Please no. Stop trying to normalize or rationalize this preposterous idea. Canadians will seriously fight to the death against annexation or invasion. There would be a long, bloody insurgency, not peaceful elections. We WILL NOT sacrifice our sovereignty to save the US from itself.

With all due respect, please fuck off. this is my country and I have no interest in having it be part of the United States in any way shape or form.

Leavitt couldn't resist, and just like that the whimsical desires of Donald J loom again over the Canadian election Not even a "the president remains committed to what he believes is the best course of action for the US and, I would mention, Canada" Bullshit of course, but not amateur hour bullshit

The conservatives in Canada asked him to stop talking about it - just until after the election - and that's what Trump did. But he immediately switched to threatening Greenland again, so Canadians got the message loud and clear anyway. Trump can't stop being a scorpion altogether, it's his nature.

Now that's a good question. Anything but a whiffle ball. Ultimately it doesn't matter. Cost to fly AF1 from Palm Beach to Miami? How many federal employees have lost their jobs since January? Has Trump ever voiced his wish to invade Canada?

She’s a Canadian journalist so US domestic issues are not really her wheelhouse. And no, not invade - annex (a la Czechoslovakia in 1938).

The problem with hedging or fudging being seen as disloyalty to King Trump is that Leavitt had to answer that way, even though Canadian conservatives (while Republican-aligned) are desperate for Trump and his surrogates to shut up about this until after the election

He hasn't brought up the 51st State bullshit because the Oil-Princess, Danielle Smith, tipped them off that his rhetoric was hurting wannabe Trump, Pierre Poilievre's chances of winning this election. PP is Maple MAGA.

If the tone has shifted at all it is because of Danielle Smith begging them to help PP win the election. The more Donnie pushes, the worse he gets clowned on by our PM, and the better Carney looks to Canadians. The way that mini-Trump wins is by getting Canadians to be complacent to the US threats

Follow up questions should be what is Trump's opinion about the Canadian universal healthcare system? Would that go away as the 51st state? Would he expand it to the rest of the 50 states? He'd make a bunch of stuff up about it for sure. Go into lying car salesmen mode.

The arrogance of the fascist government why do journalists do not stop the press secretary more fiercely? The more you let fascists be fascist or lie the more you give them power..

We have an election in progress. Trump’s “position” on Canada is proving problematic to the Trump preferred candidate. So he stopped talking about it. Period. End of story. One the election is over the 51st state bullshit will ramp up into overdrive.

It’s about 30% and they have been around since the beginning, they are very loud, always angry and very stupid Unfortunately there is another 30% and they don’t vote preferring to stay home and Vance the couch I am resentful at both of them

It's stupid on soooo many levels, but let's play this fantasy out because if it did happen we'd get 2 more democrats in the senate and who knows how many more democrats in the house. That reality alone would prevent them from doing this. Same reason they don't make Puerto Rico and DC states.

PM Carney let Trump and his regime know that Canada owns over $350 billon in US debt, and if you tack on debt owned by his buddies in Europe, we're talking about $1.5 trillion. Carney has Trump by his tiny, shriveled, pea-sized balls and the regime knows it.

ok but he also believes that tariffs aren't taxes and that the body has a limited amount of energy, and exercising burns it away forever and you never get it back

It’s weird that Donnie respects the country of El Salvador to keep a kidnapped American, but doesn’t respect the sovereignty of Greenland or Canada to be their own countries…

Usually the 51st state garbage makes my blood boil, but until our election I could use more of it! Every time they spout this nonsense, there’s a jump for the Liberals in the polls. I’m all for Bullshit Barbie to keep opening her big mouth and reminding Canadians why we need to vote Liberal! 🇨🇦

Not empty, they should attend but not ask questions. When she asks why no one is asking her questions, just tell her - “because we don’t want to facilitate your gaslighting”.

We. Come. In. Peace. Even the evil Mars Martians were smart enough to lie to get inside the government. These monsters are now not even doing that. Clown flips flops worse than this mouth puppets twitchy eyelids as she lies.

As a Canadian JTF2 Vet that fought alongside my American brothers in the mountains of Afghanistan, what these Y’All-Qaeda Cult Strumpets don’t realize is that most of their military will not engage in that and the ones that do will fight the longest war they can never win. We are not Ukraine.🍁🇨🇦👊🏽