{"id":829235,"date":"2025-02-23T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/trump-confirms-he-is-serious-about-wanting-canada-to-become-51st-us-state\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:12:38","slug":"trump-confirms-he-is-serious-about-wanting-canada-to-become-51st-us-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/trump-confirms-he-is-serious-about-wanting-canada-to-become-51st-us-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump confirms he is serious about wanting Canada to become 51st US state"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that he is serious about his repeated remarks that Canada should become his country\u2019s 51st state.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Fox News, he was asked whether Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was correct in saying the idea was \u201ca real thing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it is,&#8221; Trump responded.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that Canada \u201cwould be much better off\u201d as part of the US and criticized the $200 billion the US spends annually on its neighbor to the north.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed this amount, which his administration previously linked to defense costs and trade deficits, was effectively a \u201csubsidy\u201d to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not gonna let that happen,\u201d Trump said regarding the payments, adding: \u201cNow, if they\u2019re the 51st state, I don\u2019t mind doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has made similar remarks in recent months, referring to Trudeau as a \u201cgovernor\u201d rather than a prime minister. <\/p>\n<p>While some have dismissed the comments as rhetoric, Trudeau reportedly told business leaders Friday to take Trump\u2019s statements seriously.<\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b>Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b><br \/>\n                                <\/a><br \/>\n                            <\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Elida Roberie<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxPRWRJRUZaZlRWMjMwWFF1ZHd5dEJUYmp2SDFJMW5wZmpOUi1CZ2pUWkd0MkpKM0d0QTZDaVFHVnBJeVFWSmg1a0xzdUtpNjlfUk5xemFGRUV1bWhKTUtEd0hVUW1mYUF4dWhweUlHYmlVQVNiQnlrS3hhaGRpWnRCSXhGZWdQekFGdVM3amtfVFYyZnRfSjNTUXhQc3gybzlOdXV3bWVKR3ZtM1VETmQ2dHJFb2R0Zw?oc=5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL US President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that he is serious about his repeated remarks that Canada should become his country\u2019s 51st state. In an interview with Fox News, he was asked whether Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was correct in saying the idea was \u201ca real thing.\u201d \u201cYes, it is,&#8221; Trump responded. He argued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":829236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2548,4],"tags":[8465,5052],"class_list":{"0":"post-829235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-confirms","8":"category-trump","9":"tag-confirms","10":"tag-trump"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}