#Trump again said he wants #Canada to be the 51st state, asserting that Canada depended on the #UnitedStates. “If they had to pay their way, they couldn’t exist.”
Trump may want Canada, but Canadians do not want to be part of the US. Just 15% of Canadians support becoming part of US, while 77% oppose it, according to a YouGov survey. Even among members of Canada’s Conservative Party, just 23% favor the idea, while 73% do not.
“The #EuropeanUnion was formed in order to screw the United States,” #Trump said idiotically. He said he wants to hit the bloc with a 25% #tariff over car imports & other things.
Trump said he does believe President Vladimir #Putin of #Russia will need to make concessions in the negotiations over ending the war in #Ukraine.
#Trump parroted #Putin’s line about the origin of the #war, saying that the prospect of #NATO membership for #Ukraine is “probably the reason the whole thing started.”
Putin wrote a lengthy treatise in July 2021 making clear that he did not think Ukraine was a nation & was supposed to be part of Russia.
Trump acknowledged that a peace agreement will be tough. During the campaign, he boasted it would be easy, so much so that he vowed to end it in 24 hrs, or before his inauguration.
#USpol 🧵
