President Trump says he will Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney About making Canada the 51st state. But the president said he didn't expect it to reach the point where military power was used, although he wouldn't do the same for Greenland.
"Something can happen in Greenland, I will happen," Trump said in an interview with NBC News. "We need national and international security," he said, but he added: "I can't see Canada. I just can't see it."
Mr. Trump has vowed many times Ensure our control over GreenlandThis is a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, and it also threatens to make Canada the 51st state. Last week, the president's territorial threat to Canada and his tariffs appeared to play a role in a major political shift for the Canadian Liberal Party in the federal election.
The president spoke with Carney after the victory, but the people said they did not talk about making Canada the 51st state. Still, when asked if he would do that, when the leader spoke next, Mr. Trump said: “I will talk about this forever.”
Mr. Trump outlined his reasoning, claiming that “we subsidize Canada at $200 billion a year” and that “we don’t need anything they have”. “If Canada was a state, it wouldn’t cost us,” he said.
The president said it would be a "precious country" while urging North America would be "beautiful" without the situation at the U.S.-Canadian border.
"When I looked down at this, there was no artificial thread that was drawn with the rulers years ago - it was just artificial thread, it went straight over - you didn't even realize it would be a beautiful country," Trump said. "That's great."
As for Greenland, the president said when asked to clarify whether he would rule out the use of military power on the territory "I don't rule it out, I don't say I'm going to do it, but I don't rule out anything, no, no--no-existent."
"We need Greenland very much," he added. "Greenland is the few people we have to take care of and we will cherish them, but all of this requires international security."
Located between the United States, Russia and Europe, Greenland is seen as a strategic position for economic and defensive purposes, melting sea ice opens up new transportation routes across the Arctic. Greenland Prime Minister sharply opposed Mr Trump's threat and said in March: "We don't sell it and can't be simply taken."
Mr. Trump, who conducted an hour-long interview with “Meet the Media”, believes he needs to “maintain the Constitution.”
"I don't know. I have to respond again, I have great lawyers working for me and they obviously follow what the Supreme Court said."