The comments were responding to President-elect Donald Trump's ongoing suggestions that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state.

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How precisely Donald Trump could make good on his threat to annex Canada can be found in the U.S. Constitution. There is both potential and precedent in American history.

The notion that Canada could become the 51st state of the United States, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has proposed, is not only unrealistic, but would also signal the collapse of American global hegemony and the disintegration of the U.

At this point in its history, America has come off of 70 years of failed imperialist adventures, in which it discovered it couldn’t hold onto Afghanistan or Iraq or Vietnam or anywhere else. America’s military position in the world is shrinking rather than expanding.

Podcaster Joe Rogan suggested that America may as well take over Mexico if so many of its people are immigrating illegally, bringing safety to both countries.

The U.S. unsuccessfully invaded Canada during the War of 1812, driven by frustration over the English Royal Navy’s actions to bring American sailors into their ships.

To the president, I’ll make him a counteroffer. How about if we buy Alaska? And we’ll throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time?” Ford said.

Justin Trudeau wrote on X: "There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become a part of the United States."

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U.S. president-elect Donald Trump said the United States doesn't need Canada's automotive industry, amid threats to use "economic force" to make Canada a state and levy 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods.