The US leader allegedly told a British journalist that “200 years of history” cannot be erased so easily, while grumbling about Canadian politicians.
US President Donald Trump has allegedly admitted privately that Canada is unlikely to be part of the US, despite previously hinting at taking over the neighboring country, a piece in an upcoming book by British journalist Robert Hardman has shown.
Over the past year, Trump has repeatedly pointed to the idea of taking Canada as the 51st state and described its border with the United States as. “fake.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, for his part, has repeatedly emphasized that “we will never, in any way, shape, or form, be a part of the United States.”
On Sunday, the Daily Mail published Hardman’s ‘Elizabeth II’ piece. In Privacy. In public. The Inside Story’ – the journalist’s sixth book about the British monarchy, to be released later this week.
It features parts of Hardman’s interview with Trump earlier this year, in which the journalist told the US president that a hypothetical US takeover of Canada would anger Britain’s King Charles III, who is also Canada’s head of state.
This allegedly gave the US president pause, and he eventually agreed “Canadians have a 200-year history with all the ‘Oh, Canada’ stuff.”
“You can’t deal with that in three and a half years. I don’t think it’s going to happen,” Trump concluded, according to the quote.
“This was the closest I heard to an admission that, as long as Canada had a King, Mr Trump would not usurp him,” Hardman wrote in his book, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
Trump has repeatedly publicly shown respect for the late Queen of England and the British royal family in general.
However, the president of the United States allegedly complained “bad” Canadian politicians, that is “Good to my face and then they say bad things behind my back.”
In the past, Trump has repeatedly claimed that the United States was subsidizing Canada’s economy to the tune of $200 billion a year, thinking that it would be more feasible to take the country as “loved” 51st State.
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