“It’s so perfect as a great and cherished state. Keeping, ‘Oh, Canada,’ the national anthem, I love it. I think it’s great. Keep it. But it’ll be for the state.”
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I hate trying to apply logic to something that’s so inherently bullshit but even if you were to annex Canada, why the hell does he think it would be one state and not several?
Because he doesn’t respect you enough to think that your provinces deserve to remain independent of each other. Or to know that you have provinces.
Because he has that little respect for Canada.
Because he falls into the common trap of thinking Toronto is Canada.
I think this is the answer I think the man genuinely doesn’t know how big it is.
He’s also never met the natives or the French.
He knows enough to know he would not want to give several states worth of leftish leaning angry states the vote that would take any chance of him remaining in power. Not that there would ever be a vote again in America if he got to the point of taking a run at Canada and Greenland.