Canada would make a ‘great 51st state’: Donald Trump

when you threatened tariffs on Canada a couple weeks ago Justin Trudeau rushed down here he wanted to make nice now he's on the way out is that what you wanted I didn't think he was going to quit he probably saw the numbers look I called him Governor Trudeau because they should be the 51st state really it would make a great state and the people of Canada Canada like it they'd pay lower taxes they have virtually no military they have a very small military they they pay less than 1% they're the lowest payer in NATO they're supposed to pay much more they haven't been paying uh a lot of they have a lot of problems and they I was with Wayne Gretzky I said Wayne would you like to be the governor of Canada I can't imagine I can't imagine anybody doing any better than Wayne Wayne was not too interested but uh but I think he probably would have liked statehood he's a friend of mine he's a great guy he's the great one we call him the great one right he's great hockey player but I will say this um I think that there's you know it was it was stated pretty strongly a couple of weeks ago about Canada and people laughed and they now they're all saying well it's very interesting and I say from the standpoint of the United States we're subsidizing Canada 2250 billion dollar a year we have massive deficits they've taken about 20% of our car business I'd rather do it here we could put tariffs on that we don't have tariffs on them yet but they will that will happen but they've taken about 20% of our car business I'd rather have it done in Detroit or have it done in South Carolina or any other state that does cars and we have a lot of them we don't need Canada for that we don't need Canada for lumber because we have big forests that we have you know not utilized in some cases they're protected which I can take that protection off and you take down a tree and you grow a better tree that's you know pretty common but we don't need anything we don't need their fuel we don't need their energy we don't need their oil and gas we don't need anything that they have and I said to Trudeau I said why are why are we why are we subsidizing you 200 and 250 billion dollars a year he said I really don't know and I said well I don't know either I said what would happened to Canada if we didn't he said Canada would be obliterated if that happened I said then Canada should be a 51st state and that's where we are now