Trudeau says he joked about a trade for Vermont or California when Trump raised annexing Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he jokingly suggested a trade for Vermont or California in response to President-elect Donald Trump's signaling an interest in annexing Canada.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he jokingly suggested a trade for Vermont or California in response to President-elect Donald Trump's signaling an interest in annexing Canada.
Trudeau recounted the exchange, which he said Trump "immediately" decided was no longer funny, when he was asked in an MSNBC interview whether Trump had previously discussed annexation with him.
"It actually sort of came up at one point, and then we started musing back and forth about this," Trudeau told MSNBC's Jen Psaki about his visit with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November. "And when I started to suggest, 'Well, maybe there could be a trade for Vermont or California for certain parts,' he immediately decided that it was not that funny anymore, and we moved on to a different conversation."
The full interview is set to air on "Inside with Jen Psaki" at 12 p.m. ET Sunday.
Trudeau has repeatedly rejected Trump's musings about Canada's becoming the 51st state, writing Tuesday on X, “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States."
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