Fox News’ White House correspondent Peter Doocy told Special Report host Bret Baier on Monday evening: “We are told that when Trudeau told President-elect Trump that new tariffs would 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 the Canadian economy, Trump joked to him that if Canada can’t survive without ripping off the U.S. the tune of one hundred billion dollars a year, then maybe Canada should become the 51st state and Trudeau could become its governor.”
We has contacted Trump’s transition team and Trudeau’s office for comment via email.
China has rebuked the threat from Trump. “The U.S. has long used its dollar hegemony to shift crises, spread U.S. inflation to other parts of the world, and made it become a geopolitical tool, which damages international economic and financial stability, and disrupts international order,” Liu Pengyu, spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the U.S., told mnews on Monday.
