Trump says Canada will ‘end up being the 51st state’

U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters that Canada will “end up being the 51st state” as he listed a series of longstanding grievances the United States has with its northern neighbour.

“Canada treats us very badly. They always have. Not anymore. It’s a whole different ball game now that Trump is in town,” he said during a campaign rally in Bullhead City, Ariz., on Wednesday.

Trump brought up Canadian tariffs on milk, car companies moving their factories to the U.S. and renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”

According to the U.S. president, Canada “ripped off” the U.S. through tariffs on “anything past two bottles (of milk).”

“They’ll end up being the 51st state, because that’s the only way it works,” Trump said. “We don’t need them, but they need us.”

The U.S. president then asked why the U.S. should be losing billions of dollars “to support a country that isn’t one of us?”
“They’ll be doing something just like Greenland,” he said, adding that it “just adds to our beautiful plate,” referring to the U.S.

“Our plate’s getting larger all the time.”