‘They’d Have Better Coffee’: Some Republicans Say Canada Should Consider U.S. Statehood

When Donald Trump first suggested his desire for the United States to “absorb” its northern neighbor, Canada, Republican senators laughed him off — sometimes literally.

“He was mostly trolling Trudeau,” Sen. Ted Cruz told NOTUS in January.

In the two months since then, Trump assumed the presidency and suggested he is seriously angling for a U.S. takeover of Canada and is using the economic means to coerce the nation to join the union.