Trump Has Odd Response To Fox News Question About Canada Statehood | EUROtoday

Canada’s $1 coin is affectionately often known as the “loonie,” a phrase that would additionally describe Donald Trump’s newest response to a query about annexing the nation.

Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy requested the president if he was “concerned” that if Canada grew to become the 51st state, it might be a “very very blue state? Very big and very blue.”

Yes, it’s a severe query.

Although Trump has made no secret that he desires to show America’s northern neighbor into its “51st state,” some U.S. Republicans worry annexing Canada would add hundreds of thousands of Democratic-leaning voters to the combination, in addition to 50 extra House seats and two further senators.

“They’d have a sizable delegation in the House,” Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) informed NBC News. “I don’t think anybody thinks that’s a great idea. Oh, by the way, how many Electoral College votes are they going to get?”

Trump ignored these very actual points in his response to Doocy. Instead, he referred to the U.S.-Canada border as an “artificial line,” a callback to a quip he used per week earlier.

“You know, you have that artificial line ― that straight artificial line that looks like it was drawn by a ruler,” Trump informed reporters within the Oval Office. “I don’t mean a ruler like a king, I mean a ruler like a ruler. It’s just an artificial line.”

He continued his “artificial line” rant additional, by as soon as once more mentioning how stunning America and Canada would look collectively as one entity.

“It was just an artificial line that was drawn in the sand ― or in the ice,” Trump mentioned. “You add [Canada] to this country, what a beautiful land mass! The most beautiful land mass anywhere in the world. And it was just cut off for no reason! It would be great!”

Eventually, Trump obtained round to answering Doocy’s authentic query ― kind of.

“Now is [Canada] liberal? Maybe. But, you know a conservative [unintelligible] until I got involved,” he mentioned. “I don’t care who wins up there. Frankly, I would probably do better with a liberal than a conservative if you want to know the truth.”

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Of course, folks on social media had ideas about Trump’s newest Canada feedback, and plenty of famous the “artificial line” may additionally apply to the U.S.-Mexico border.