{"id":374066,"date":"2025-12-28T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/374066\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:47:09","slug":"the-play-by-play-of-the-us-and-canadas-rocky-relationship-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/374066\/","title":{"rendered":"The Play-by-Play of the US and Canada&#8217;s Rocky Relationship in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last significant invasion of Canadian territories was more than two hundred years ago, and no US president has since publicly and repeatedly discussed making the northern neighbor a state of America.<\/p>\n<p>That is, until Trump began to float the idea of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-trump-canada-not-for-sale-2025-5\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">making Canada America&#8217;s 51st state<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks before Trump&#8217;s inauguration, he was asked if he was considering using military force to acquire Canada during a press briefing in Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, economic force,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to tell reporters the US-Canadian border is an &#8220;artificially drawn line&#8221; and said he would impose a 25% tariff on the neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s idea received swift backlash from Canadians and the then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who posted on X that &#8220;there isn&#8217;t a snowball&#8217;s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rebuff did not deter Trump from reiterating his suggestion in subsequent press appearances and interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last significant invasion of Canadian territories was more than two hundred years ago, and no US president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-374066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}