R. Scott Pert<p>How Trump’s ‘51st State’ <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious</p><p>> “The excuse that he’s giving for these <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> today of <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/fentanyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fentanyl</span></a> is completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false,” Mr. Trudeau told the news media in Ottawa.<br>“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us,”<br> <a href="https://archive.is/2025.03.07-142020/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/world/canada/trump-trudeau-canada-51st-state.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/2025.03.07-142020/h</span><span class="invisible">ttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/world/canada/trump-trudeau-canada-51st-state.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/CANpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpoli</span></a></p>