TRUMP to TRUDEAU: if you can’t exist without cheating in trade, then you should become a state.

EXCLUSIVE: @SecRubio on Canada, 51st State and the Hot Mic Moment

HERRIDGE: “In a hot mike moment, Canada’s prime minister said that absorbing Canada “is a real thing.” Is it a real thing?”

SECRETARY RUBIO: “Yeah, look, you know how that came about? President’s meeting with… https://t.co/t5BReWwOiR pic.twitter.com/ALZ8FSDCUx

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) February 21, 2025

EXCLUSIVE:

@SecRubio

 on Canada, 51st State, and the Hot Mic Moment HERRIDGE: “In a hot mike moment, Canada’s prime minister said that absorbing Canada “is a real thing.”  Is it a real thing?” SECRETARY RUBIO: “Yeah, look, you know how that came about?  President’s meeting with Trudeau and Trudeau says, well, if you impose – if you even out our trade relationship, then we will cease to exist as a country, at which point the President responded very logically, and that is, well, if you can’t exist without cheating in trade, then you should become a state. That was his observation there.” QUESTION:  “That’s how it started?”  

SECRETARY RUBIO:  “It is how it started.”