7mo ago

Trump calls Trudeau 'governor' of 'the Great State of Canada' in overnight posts

www.politico.com

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7mo ago

www.politico.com /live-updates/2024/12/10/congress/trump-calls-trudeau-governor-of-the-great-state-of-canada-in-overnight-posts-00193442

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- Remember, non-voters: this is what you chose.
  
  But Kamala never promised me a pony. How was I supposed to vote for her?
  
  I fully agree - though my Canadian coworkers weren't even offered a vote!
  
  And 3rd party voters
  
  The fact that a plurality of voters actively chose Donald Trump, again, tells you just how badly the Democrats have failed the People.
  You can't just explain it away. The income inequality is worse now than it has ever been. People are willing to try Anything different. Even if it is objectively bad for themselves. Status quo doesn't cut it anymore.
- Unsubscribe
- Watching this malarkey from Japan. I’m ~80% sure me and my family are safe.
Following the dinner between Trump and Trudeau, where Trump reportedly made a joke about Canadian statehood, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters that they knew “the conversation was going to be lighthearted” and that “the president was teasing us.”
Trump doesn't tell jokes, he's not a comedian.
- Trump doesn't tell jokes, he's not a comedian.
  He is more of a clown.
  
  Like Nick Kroll said, the dude is entertaining as hell. So give him a talk show, not the presidency.
  
  The whole circus
  
  Certainly the rest of the world is laughing at him.
- Also, anyone who's actually been involved in international politics, LIKE TRUMP DID FOR FOUR YEARS, should know that one does not "joke" in international politics. One assumes that the words coming out of one's mouth will be taken at face value, no matter how many "it was a joke" retractions and posts and apologies you make.
- Trudeau and Freeland handled the last term better than anyone around here expected.
  Definitely helped having a PM with experience working with children.
America blink twice if you need us to liberate you
- Damn, I've lost count of how often they were blinking
- If you can, please do.
  
  We Europeans want to invade and establish a democracy...
  Is next Saturday fine?
We've been here before people. 2016-2020. For your mental health, zone out of anything he says. Only what he does matters.
- Yeah, I am not reading this shit again. I will not reward the complicit media with clicks and attention for their part in getting him re-elected.
Is this a threat? Does this indicate imminent invasion of Canada soon after Trump resumes power? Is this how he means to deal with border issues, by erasing borders with Canada? What about Mexico? /s
- Canada is America's Ukraine. Giant land full of natural resources and no nuclear weapons.
  
  They can fertilise our maple stands.
  
  And a people largely indistinguishable from their own.
  Edit: Note to self: Subtly pointing out that Trump wouldn't want to invade Mexico because he's a racist is not the way to go in the Fediverse because people will think you're the racist.
- Not sure. But if Canada wants to invade...I'd be A-okay with that, eh.
- I suspect about 40% of the population would approve. Our rural population is very similarly aligned with rural Americans, which is why they’re all rooting that that vapid, low impact Trump-alike Polievre who is running essentially unopposed right now. I can see him rolling over if Trump and his good squad came a-knocking.
  It’s also possible that Trump watched the first twenty minutes of the movie Canadian Bacon and thought it was his daily brief.
- He's already floating invasion of Mexico... No /s
  It wouldn't surprise me if he also tried Canada.
- Dude is a zionist who supports the theft, ethnic cleansing, and colonization of palestine.
  Why not canada?
This is Russia targeting the core alliances of the US.
- Is russia in the room with you right now?
  
  Now that you're here.
. https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_annexation_of_Canada
- I mean if they give me a winter power armor and gauss rifle maybe it's worth a shot
It’s the same trivial belittling as making RFK Jr be photographed eating a Big Mac.
- And in that other scene he made The Deep eat an octopus he was friends with.
  Edit: Err, maybe I have him confused with another guy.
  Edit 2: It's hard to tell if it was a prediction, or if Trump watched the show and got ideas.
Face it USA. You have 4 years of internet trolls governing by meme.
- Are there social media hazmat suits to distribute among current allies?
- BuT tHeY'rE sO WeIrD tHoUgH!
So I guess he's given up on buying Greenland as the 51st state.
Guy’s fucked in the head.
hah, the governor of the US oblast is such a funny guy
Candian Bacon was a prophecy!
Lol! What do you mean Saddam Hussein wasn't Mexican? He and his buddy Assad and the guy who we dropped in the ocean in the ebd.
I’ve had a chuckle about Canada being the 51st state before, but this is just ridiculous
- Canada is like our cousin who has a different last name and never comes to our family reunion and really hopes none of their friends find out that we’re actually related.
Poopolini at it again.
Lol trump is fucking funny.
Zios gonna colonize.
Canada is a state, just not a part of the United States. Why is this controversial?
Edit: ah, I see. I glossed over the “governor” part.
- "Governor" is the title of the heads of the states of the USA, but not of the prime minister of Canada. He has - probably through stupidity rather than actual malice, not that he is lacking in the latter - basically described Canada as a state of the USA.
  
  Okay yeah, the “governor” part is wrong for sure.
  And I don’t doubt his combination of malice and incompetence.
- The governor general of Canada is Mary Simon. Trump clearly doesn't understand what he's saying.
  
  That's because the orange asshole thought he was playing 4D chess when in fact he was playing checkers.
  Tell me you think he even knows the difference. /s

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