X CEO Elon Musk told outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that his opinion on President-elect Donald Trump’s talks of taking over Canada “doesn’t matter.”
“Girl, you’re not the governor of Canada anymore, so it doesn’t matter what you say,” Musk said in response to Trudeau’s post, in which he said there isn’t “a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.”
During a Tuesday news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump made a joke about Canada becoming the “51st state.”
“Canada and the United States, that would really be something,” Trump said. “You get rid of that artificially drawn line, and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security.”
Trump has been making jokes about the “51st state” for a few months, repeatedly saying that Trudeau would be a governor of the “Great State of Canada” rather than prime minister of the nation.
Trudeau announced Monday that he would resign as prime minister. His decision comes after a November 2024 meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, following the president-elect’s threats to put a 25% tariff on Canadian goods.
After the meeting, many Canadians lamented Trudeau’s seemingly friendly response to the threat, and his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned, citing growing concerns over the country’s deficit and Trump’s tariff threats.
Trump’s Tuesday comments stirred quite the uproar in Canada as Ontario Premier Doug Ford appeared on Jesse Watters Primetime to say the country was “not for sale.”
“I love the U.S.,” Ford said. “I love Americans, and I get it. You know, President-elect Trump is a real estate tycoon. He’s made billions. But that property’s not for sale, as simple as that.”
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Ford shared instead that Canada and the U.S. should be united in a real threat coming from China.
“China is the problem,” Ford said. “China is shipping in cheap parts into Mexico, and then Mexico’s slapping a ‘made in Mexico’ sticker on, shipping it up through the U.S. and Canada, costing American and Canadian jobs.”