A biographer for Queen Elizabeth, John Hardin, recounts the story of his meeting with Donald Trump. Trump talked about annexing Canada, but backed off when it was explained that Canada still recognizes the king as head of state — he has a weird respect for royalty. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the same respect for history or the rule of law, because he still wants to redraw the US-Canada border.
After Hardman confirmed the British monarch remains Canada’s head of state, Trump went on to complain about Canada’s “terrible politicians.”
“They’re nice to my face and then they say bad things behind my back,” Trump told Hardman, who then writes the U.S. president noted a majority of Canadians live just above the Canada-U.S. border due to the cold weather in northern Canada.
“The problem is some guy drew that straight line to make a border,” Hardman says Trump told him. “He should just have drawn it 50 miles further north and then there wouldn’t be a problem.”
However, Hardman writes that Trump conceded redrawing that border would be a difficult task to achieve during his final term as president, and acknowledged Canada’s history and sovereignty.
“I suppose Canadians have got 200 years of history and all that, ‘Oh, Canada’ thing,” Trump told Hardman. “You can’t deal with that in three-and-a-half years. I guess it’s not going to happen!”
Come on, Canada. He just wants a 50 mile wide strip of Canada — there wouldn’t be a problem if he just took it over. He’s not going to do it because Canada has a king, and it’s too much trouble to take it in the remaining three years of his term. You can breathe a sigh of relief.
We can’t, here on the American side, because we’re still stuck with a fucking moron for a president.
Oh, someone just drew a line, and that was that? I think it was a little more contentious and complicated.
54°40′ or fight!”
Huh. Perhaps, Danes should let Trump kow they are a monarchy too & then maybe he’ll drop his plans to take over Greenland?
Someone should suggest that Trump could just TAKE piece, a bit north of “the line”, if he just will go to The Lake Of The Woods, plant a flag there, and stay on his homestead there for at least three years.
It’s a version of sending Demented Donnie to a “nice farm in the country”.
Oh, come on PZ, don’t tell us you wouldn’t approve of re-drawing the Canadian border if, say, they did it 500km further south…
Well, I’d be safe if Trump only got the lowest 50 miles along the border. Saskatoon is something like 400 miles from the US border.
@5 timgueguen
Nope. Less than 260 miles. Probably you mean km.
I believe the film “Canadian Bacon” adressed this issue.
OK – we need a remake of Canadian Bacon, with much more blunt humor. The past film was way too sophisticated to fit reality. The new film need South Park- style humor.
“Blame Canada”.
Now you did it, Trump will change Canadian bacon to American bacon. At least Canada is out of Trump’s spotlight for a while.
OK, I have to admit it: the Monarchy is not entirely useless. Apparently it still has the power to impress/appease/distract an ignorant senile loon away from one of his contemplated misadventures.
I’m Canadian and I avoid buying anything from the USA as much as possible. I avoid groceries made in the US and also fruit and vegetables from the same source. I will not be renewing my membership in a US society either, until sanity returns to the WH.
But then, Vance might well be the next president and things such as trade restrictions and tarrifs will remain the same.
We Canadians are somewhat relieved. However, we will be maintaining our smiling passive-aggressiveness until further notice. It’s how we cope up here.
I used to tell students that Daniel Webster, through a devious maneuver, persuaded the Senate to relinquish Maine’s rightful territorial claims for the paltry return of a secure border and lasting peace with the British Empire. At the time they took the story as a lesson about pragmatism in foreign relations. Now I fear it that would fit an irredentist agenda and produce a call for aggressive action.