Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the conversation about making Canada the “51st state” was quickly dropped after he proposed trading two U.S. states in exchange during his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in Florida last November.
Trudeau shared the exchange during a Jan. 9 interview with MSNBC. He was referring to his visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Nov. 29, where the incoming U.S. president first floated the idea of annexing Canada.
“[Annexation] actually sort of came up at one point, and then we started musing back and forth about this,” the prime minister told anchor Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary under the President Joe Biden’s administration….