“Canada called me a couple of weeks ago, they want to be part of it, to which I said, ‘Well, why don’t you just join our country. You become 51 — become the 51st state — and you get it for free,’” Trump told the assembled officials.
“So, I don’t know if that made a big impact, but it does make a lot of sense.”
Trump also claimed Canada is having “a hard time up there” because “as you know, with tariffs, everyone’s coming into our country.” The president then boasted about investment leaving Canada and other countries and going into the United States, pointing to automobile plants.
I am watching this and wondering how long before the global economy decides not to treat the USD as the standard…
A great deal of our success has been being a solid and easy choice as a global currency, and this really screws that up.
The global economy treats no currency but the USD as standard right now, yet there are many economies that are doing just fine.