If Trump succeeds at his goal of taking over Canada, would it count as one additional state? Or as 13 (10 provinces and 3 territories)?

Citation regarding takeover?

My guess is ten or eleven provinces. The territories will be put together with a nearby province.

I was thinking something similar. I think that the western provinces would be split in half from north to south. So there would be 17 new states. Also Vancouver Island would be another province like Prince Edward Island. So that it would be 18 states.

Southern Ontario would be another state, so that makes 19.

No real meat behind this maple glazing idea at all. Provide some reference please.

@RedDeerGuy1 Isn’t Vancouver Island in BC? Why would that change?

CNN

@JLeslie Yes. The same deal that let P.E.I become a province.

Well, if we look at history…..colonizer land grabs usually involve skirmishes and all out war over the territory.

People will be hurt and killed in the process, obviously.

It’ll be a huge mess, basically.

Again, proof that this man says anything he wants with zero thought behind what he says even in jest.

@Forever_Free No real bacon behind this maple glazing idea.

Fixed.

Tariffs would still be in place on ourselves.

In case you didn’t click on @elbanditoroso’s link, Greenland and the Panama Canal, too.

I heard Maple syrup farmers (is farmer correct?) are dwindling down in the US. Supposedly, many of the children of people who manufacture maple syrup aren’t interested in the business, and this might seriously reduce maple syrup availability. Seems like Canada might be able to pick up some of the slack, so another reason to consider conquering Canada and making it a part of the US.~

I am not planning to spend four years reacting to every idiotic thing that man says. I’ll save my actions and my ire for the things he might actually be able to do that can hurt people.

CNN is broken. There is literally no comparison between this crazy plan and the Louisiana Purchase. Stupid clickbait headline.

At least 10 states, and most of them leaning Democratic.

I call bullshit.

@smudges on who? Do you not believe Trump said it?

@caravanfan, then read the NYT article.

That means there will be no wall needed to the North!!!!!
Can’t wait to hit the Montreal Jazz fest and not have to show my passport anymore.

@canidmajor NYT is also broken.

1. Americans have enough problems without trying to remember 13 extras states.

Cut and pasted from the NY Times: “Over the past two days, President-elect Donald J. Trump has made clear that he has designs for American territorial expansion, declaring that the United States has both security concerns and commercial interests that can best be addressed by bringing the Panama Canal and Greenland under American control or outright ownership.

Mr. Trump’s tone has had none of the trolling jocularity that surrounded his repeated suggestions in recent weeks that Canada should become America’s “51st state,” including his social media references to the country’s beleaguered prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau.”

Instead, while naming a new ambassador to Denmark — which controls Greenland’s foreign and defense affairs — Mr. Trump made clear on Sunday that his first-term offer to buy the landmass could, in the coming term, become a deal the Danes cannot refuse.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/politics/trump-greenland-panama-canal.html

The NY Times and CNN are playing into his hands. This is just a distraction. Everybody knows it won’t happen but yet people waste their outrage on this and not the real bad things that he will do, like mass deportations, banning abortion, cutting funding for the poor, eliminating vaccine protections, etc. etc. etc.

^^ Thank you, exactly what I was thinking.

He’d be better taking over Mexico! Then he really would have solved the border problems!
As far as border problems south of Mexico…not our problem. That would be Mexico’s problem. (Did I do good channeling the fat, orange idiot?)

I haven’t read previous comments yet.

More silly fear mongering from the left.

Thanks for the link @elbanditoroso.
God he’s an idiot.
As for declaring war on drug artels, he’s blathering on about a book somebody told him about (because he sure didn’t read it himself) that Tom Clancy wrote long time ago called Clear and Present Danger.(film)
Idiot.

@seawulf575, I would agree except the idiot himself has been prattling on and on about, thinking he knows what he’s talking about.

Wulfie I don’t agree with you on anything political, but this one time I hope your right.