Trump: Canada will eventually become the 51st US state

At a campaign rally on the eve of the midterm elections, Trump once again claimed that Canada "will eventually become the 51st state [of the United States]."

According to Ambassador Arjan, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, during a speech at a rally in the state of Arizona, said that Canada "will do something similar to Greenland."

According to Ambassador Arjan, he said this while referring to a list of America's long-standing complaints against its northern neighbor. "Canada treats us very badly," he said. It has always been this way. But not anymore. "Now that Trump has come, the situation is completely different."

Trump mentioned issues such as Canadian tariffs on milk, moving car factories to America, and changing the name of "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America".

According to the President of the United States, Canada has insulted the United States by imposing tariffs on "anything over two bottles (of milk)". "They will eventually become the 51st state, because that's the only way," Trump said. "We don't need them, but they need us."

The US president then asked why Washington should lose billions of dollars "to support a country that is not ours?" "They're going to do something similar to Greenland," he said, referring to the United States, adding that it would "just add to our beautiful table. "Our table keeps getting bigger."

Trump's comments came on the same day that Pete Hoekstra, the US ambassador to Canada, said the actions of some Canadian politicians may be an example of "political interference" in the election race ahead of November's US midterm elections. Hoekstra was referring to comments by Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly, who said in August that Canada's retaliatory tariffs were designed to target specific US states.

The ambassador said: "From our point of view and according to the way we look at our own elections, we can say that part of these actions is interference in the elections."

Trump has commented on elections in several other countries during his second term. He said last weekend that it is time for Ukraine to have a new president; And he said that Volodymyr Zelensky did not do enough to end the war with Russia and blamed him for the high price of diesel in America. The president also backed Flavio Bolsonaro during Brazil's election earlier this month, and had backed former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán before he lost the April election.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Latnick said in a conversation with CNBS that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stopped trade talks for political reasons and due to the upcoming elections in Quebec and Alberta.

Following Canada's announcement of new retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods in September, British Columbia Premier David Eby announced that the province will install new signs at border crossings with the U.S. that read: "We will never be the 51st province." Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Latnick last month referred to Ontario as the "51st state," saying it would be "the last of our 51st states."

The comments came in response to Prime Minister Mark Carney calling on the Trump administration to take a "serious approach" to trade talks. In June, after Canada entered a technical recession, Trump again suggested on social media that the country should become the "51st state"; An issue that faced strong criticism from authorities across Canada. Shortly afterward, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the president had again taken an "arrogant, high-handed tone" and stressed that Canadian sovereignty is not for sale. "I can tell President Trump that this will never happen, no way."