No, Canada.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford countered President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to make Canada the 51st state of the Union — by making an offer to purchase two American states.
At a press conference Monday, the senior Canadian official got testy when a reporter asked if he thought Trump was serious with his talk of the United States taking control of its economically dependent northern neighbor, Canada.
“To the president, I’ll make him a counteroffer. How about if we buy Alaska? And we’ll throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time?” Ford said. “You know, it’s not realistic.”
“I know he likes making these comments and he likes joking around — I take that seriously,” the premier said in relation to Trump’s recent public push to unify the two North American nations.
“He may be joking, but under my watch, that will never, ever happen.”
Ford has previously tried to go tit-for-tat with the Don.
Last month Ford — the brother of the scandal-marred late Toronto mayor Rob Ford — threatened to cut power to over one million Americans and ban American-made beer over Trump’s 25% tariff proposal.
“It would cut off the lights to a million-and-a-half Americans,” Ford said. “If they come at us we have to stand up for Canadians, we have to stand up for Ontarians.”
Canada is the nation’s No. 1 exporter of energy to the US, which spends around $3 billion annually on Canadian electricity to power residents of states like Michigan and New York.
Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a similar message for the former and future commander in chief.
“There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” Trudeau, 53, wrote on X. “Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner.”
Trump has rejected the notion that the United States needs Canada as a trading partner in any capacity — and has suggested that it behooves Canadians to seek the protection of the mighty US military.
Trump first brought up the possibility of taking over Canada with Trudeau before his resignation announcement — referring to him as the “governor of Canada” on several occasions.
On Monday, Trump reignited the issue with a post on Truth Social as Trudeau said he planned to step down.
“Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State. The United States can no longer suffer the massive Trade Deficits and Subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this, and resigned. If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no Tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great Nation it would be,” Trump posted onto Truth Social.
The soon-to-be prez also addressed the issue at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday.
“Here’s the problem with Canada — we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars to protect it,” he told reporters.
Trump then stated the US didn’t need Canada’s cars, lumber, dairy products, nor their partnership in buying ice-breaking ships.
“We don’t need anything they have. So why are we losing $200 billion a year to protect Canada?” Trump asked.
The incoming president further stated that he would be willing to use economic power to get the outcome he desires.
Trump continued his public campaign to take overn the US ally on Truth Social on Tuesday night — posting two meme-y maps.
One showed “UNITED STATES” written over an outline of both countries.
In another post, Canada and the United States were covered with the Stars and Stripes with the caption, “Oh, Canada!”
The Canada courtship comes as the incoming Trump administration hopes to purchase Greenland.
Donald Trump Jr. visited the icy island nation on Tuesday, years after his father first commented on taking over the country.
“I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA’,” Trump posted Monday on Truth Social alongside a clip of a local man putting on a MAGA hat.
The president-elect has said the United States has economic and national security interest in Greenland.
“We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!,” the president-elect posted.
