236
submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Summary

Trump mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the “governor” of the “Great State of Canada” on Truth Social, following recent discussions about tariffs on Canada.

Trump has joked about Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state, linking the idea to U.S. trade deficits with Canada and Mexico.

Trudeau, responding to tariff threats, pledged to counter any unfair trade measures.

The remarks have sparked lighthearted responses, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford joking about the War of 1812 and Sen. Bernie Sanders referencing Canada’s healthcare system.

top 29 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 132 points 7 months ago

🤦‍♂️ it’s gonna be a long 4 years

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 70 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Maybe someone like Luigi will help us out. Mario?

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 months ago

Then we just get JD Vance.

And after him, another.

It's going to take all of us.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago

Peach? Yoshi? Bowser? There are a lot of ride-or-dies in the crew.

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

BREAKING NEWS:

Waluigi & Wario arrested after shooting President-elect Trump & JD Vance!

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago

I’m not sure how many it would take to make me sad. Probably a lot. How much is 1% of the population? That’s probable when I’ll stop laughing and suggest maybe we think about another solution. But I dunno, seeing people who allow people to die for a profit won’t ever get old.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

It will only be 4 years if we're lucky.

[-] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

It already feels like it has been a long month and he isn’t even in the office right now

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 75 points 7 months ago

God, I would feel so happy and safe if my neighbor joked about subjugating me under his rule. Especially when they're 8x my population and have 26x the military budget.

[-] Kaput@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago

Americans would be better off under Canadian rule.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 16 points 7 months ago

I’m not for imperialism, but at this point, can we just hand the US back to the UK.

Like, they tried this whole independence thing, it clearly did not work.

(obvious /s on the UK part)

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 18 points 7 months ago

obvious /s on the UK part

Obviously. The US belong to France.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Sounds like a threat to me. US should do a preliminary strike before Canada tries anything.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago

We (NATO countries) would have your back but damn is this a bleak thought, I do not like imagining this situation unfolding at all.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Long-shot 2025-2029 bingo card square: Canada joins the CSTO, USA rolls over the border, Russians rush in, WWIII and nuclear armageddon with a delicious maple flavor. I'd read that book, anyway, but hope it's fiction rather than history in a decade or so.

[-] Kaavi@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

I put USA joins CSTO on my bingo card square - I see a special bond between Russia and USA, Trump have a crush on Putin.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

As opposed to the whining shit pants child running the kindergarten that is America.

[-] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

the heavily armed free-fire warzone nazi casino kindergarden lol

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

How many electoral college votes and house of representative seats would they get with their population?

Not sure this would play in his favor.

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

If Canada was granted several states then we would tilt the senate to the democrats.

Most likely he’d want us a slave state like Puerto Rico

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

But he clearly said state, I thought Puerto Rico was famously not an official state.

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

He clearly says lots of things he hasn’t thought out, understand or is going to go back on. He’s a liar.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, I’m not expecting logical consistency, more like just seeing what the implication is via a thought experiment.

[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

And Trump is the mayor of the state of Denial.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Mayor of North-Mexico

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

Big words from the button holding up Canada's pants

[-] Geobloke@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Time to make Shoresy the US ambassador. I'd love to see what he'd say about melania

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

Given the definition of 'state', isn't that actually correct, even if misleading to the modern ear?

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Would we keep our health care or, even less likely but better, extend the healthcare to the US?

If it’s the second one, the answer is still no but I would love to help our American peeps in theory.

Edit:

Also, since the US cares more about a state’s land than population, how many seats do we get?

this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
236 points (100.0% liked)

World News

48732 readers
1885 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS