"51st state" is how canadians mockingly describe ourselves.
i bet almost everything trump has said is repeating what trudeau said to him.
"I’ll tell you how that came about," Rubio said of promoting the annexation of Canada. "OK, he’s in a meeting with Trudeau, and Trudeau basically says that if the U.S. imposes tariffs on Canada, Canada couldn’t survive as a nation state, at which point the president said, 'well, then you should become a state.'"
Trump, Rubio said, "made an argument for why Canada would be better off joining the United States from an economic perspective and the like."
"He’s made that argument repeatedly," Rubio continued. "And I think it stands for itself."