Donald Trump confirmed during an interview with NBC News that he had not mentioned the 51st state during his call with Mark Carney this week, but however reiterated that he was favorable to the annexation of Canada.
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In an hour -long interview with the program “Meet The Press”, the American president said that he had not spoken of Canada as an American state during his appeal with the Prime Minister of Canada.
“No, he called me,” he said. He was very nice and I congratulated him. It was a tight victory. There is no majority, which will make things a little more difficult for him, but it is a victory. He is a very nice man. We will meet this week. “
NBC News Kristen Welker journalist later challenged her about the 51st state.
Trump then repeated the message he has hammered for several months, that is to say that he no longer wanted to “subsidize Canada up to 200 billion dollars”.
-“I’m still talking about that,” he said. We don’t need their cars, in fact we don’t want it. We don’t need their energy, in fact, we don’t need it. We have more than them. We don’t need their wood either. “
“We don’t need anything of them,” he added. We do very little business with Canada when they do almost all their belongings with us. They need us and we don’t need them. ”
Trump also repeated how he would find a country that would integrate Canada into the United States “
“If Canada was a state, it wouldn’t cost us anything,” he said. It would be excellent. It would be a darling state, and if we look at the card without this artificial line drawn several years ago, what a pretty country it would be. ”
These comments were broadcast on Sunday by the NBC network, just two days before the long-awaited meeting between Mark Carney and Donald Trump which is to take place on Tuesday at the White House.
At a press conference on Friday, the Prime Minister of Canada wanted to temper expectations, saying that this meeting will kick off a period of negotiation.
“If negotiations with the Americans take more time, so be it,” said Carney, who said that there was “volatility of the American objectives”.
During his interview with NBC News, President Donald Trump also spoke of the possibility that he is presented again for a third term and his expansionist aims in Greenland.
