{"id":3113,"date":"2025-02-22T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2025-02-22T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T09:27:38","slug":"canada-can-keep-anthem-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/canada-can-keep-anthem-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada can keep anthem \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US President has once again suggested that America\u2019s northern neighbor will \u201chave to become the 51st state\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has joked that Canada can keep its national anthem when it joins the United States. The comment came at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Washington, DC on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of absorbing Canada, citing its dependence on the US.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe\u2019ll have to work out some deal … because I do like the \u2018O Canada\u2019 all right,\u201d<\/em> Trump said, referring to the anthem. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful thing. I think we\u2019re going to have to keep it for the 51st state.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ottawa has consistently dismissed the idea of the country being absorbed into the US, with outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau describing Trump\u2019s idea as a \u201cnon-starter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trump made the joke while referring to the trade dispute between the two countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada is going to have to pay tariffs on automobiles, lumber, oil and gas, etc., they get 95% of their product from the United States. I think they\u2019ll have to become the 51st state,\u201d<\/em> the US President has argued.<\/p>\n

In response to the joke, Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk changed the anthem\u2019s lyrics from \u201cin all of us command\u201d<\/em> to \u201cthat only us command\u201d<\/em> while performing during a men\u2019s ice hockey game between the US and Canada on Thursday. The \u2018true north\u2019 defeated Team USA 3-2 in overtime.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Ottawa imposed 25% tariffs on US goods in retaliation for Washington\u2019s levies on all Canadian produce that had been introduced over concerns regarding illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Faced with a looming trade war, Washington and Ottawa have agreed to delay the implementation of the tariffs until March 4.<\/p>\n

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Trump has also previously argued that Canada would struggle to remain viable without receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies from Washington, as well as military protection from the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US President has once again suggested that America\u2019s northern neighbor will \u201chave to become the 51st state\u201d US President Donald Trump has joked that Canada can keep its national anthem when it joins the United States. The comment came at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Washington, DC on Thursday. Trump has repeatedly floated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}