Trump Press Sec Accidentally Blurts Out Real Goal of His Tariff Scam

I thought it was common knowledge already by that point. He wants Canada's resources and strategically advantageous geographical location.

The US government is broke. The spending and debt are out of control and their political system has become too dysfunctional to fix it intelligently. He hopes that annexing Canada and exploiting its resources unhindered by regulation will magically solve the problem.

Canadians, do not fall for it. Trump wants you to work in his mines.

He doesn't give the first damn about the United States balance sheet. He does about his own enrichment.
Listen, Canadians are very, very aware that we're Poland in 1936 right now.
We are literally begging Americans to wake the fuck up and realise this too, and hopefully stop this insanity before it gets that far.
- We won't. We will bitch and moan and go to work while the military makes encroachments on your land.
  I will be doing fun experiments, in Minecraft.
- Just absolutely let us know what we can do we are eager for anything
If there is one thing I can promise you, it's that you don't have to tell Canadians not to fall for it. Annexation is a non starter, there is literally no argument that could be given regardless of validity. The fact that any promises are obvious lies is wholly irrelevant.
That's the stupid part, we're not broke. We're not bogged down with debt, we own the debt, we're overspending on American business and economic output, just because we spend money and have national debt dosen't mean we are collapsing, our corporate stock market based economy needs infinite growth, so gov spending is going to ALSO always go up. That's really basic shit. He isn't fixing a desperate problem, he's looting the fucking country and hoping he gets it all done in time for a Russian airline loaded with gold to take him safely home.
Hitler did the same
A LOT to unpack here:
A. The U.S. government is broke!? That is one of the dumbest takes I've seen in a while. Makes it difficult to take any other part of your post seriously.
Currently run by fascist morons that my fellow fascist citizens elected, yes. Broke, not fucking remotely true.
B. No one takes it seriously that he is going to somehow magically take over Canada. He says that shit because he is either so stupid, he actually believes he can, or is just saying it to get under Canadian's skin. (Probably both).
C. "Canada's strategically advantageous geographical location.". What strategic importance does Canada's location have? We already have Alaska. Is there some secret shipping lanes, or laser polar bears we don't know about?
Resources? Your shale sands oil sucks and has to be piped to the US anyway, to be processed.
You have a lot of wood I guess? We have a TON of resources here, it's just been cheaper to mine elsewhere because environmental law, makes it pretty expensive to exploit. He's in the process of gutting those.
Canada just needs to keep doing what it is doing and tell us to fuck off. (Kind of like what we both do to our indigenous populations.)
He'll eventually drive our economy into the dirt, and fuck over the dumbass blue color voters (that he supposedly champions), and maybe, just maybe, the Democrats will get behind a true progressive instead of a Susan Collins, Hillary Clinton type cunt.
- Well I would argue that looking at the USA’s Debt to Liquidity ratio you can see we are definitely in the red.
- A: The US debt is about to get out of control and the government is too dysfunctional to fix it. Whatever moronic destruction Musk is doing is not what will help. Trump is making it even worse too
  B: It doesn't matter how noncredible a plan it is. Trump has pulled every lever he can to do what he wants unhindered by anyone with a functioning brain and now he wants to annex the country by trying to destroy its economy, even if it doesn't succeed at annexing the country, he will still damage Canada's economy.
  C: Canada controls the Northwest passage and is the key to controlling the Arctic. By itself it is forecast to become a viable and profitable shipping route thanks to global warming. It is about to become a huge economic lever against China's exports. There is a reason why Trump wants to control the Panama canal again as well.
  D: Resources: There is a vast wealth of minerals and potentially undiscovered oil about to become cheaply accessible once the North opens to shipping. There is also a huge reserve of fresh water that the US covets.
  There is a reason why Russia is pushing to take control of the North. Even China made claims that they are a "near arctic state" which is laughable, but clearly indicates that they want to throw their hat into the ring to gain access to the wealth that buried below ground there.

She said Canada could avoid the tariffs by "becoming the 51st state"

utterly deranged

Obvious follow up question: if Canada becomes the 51st state, wouldn't that remove the barriers that is keeping all that imaginary fentanyl out of the US?

Do journalists even have brains any more?

I imagine they think the military occupation required will solve the problem.

“Is that how the US will be treating all of their allies from now on?”

Would have been an important follow up question.

Shocking how few of these there are. Where the hell is the White House Press Corps? Don't answer that I know they don't really exist anymore and haven't for close to two decades now.

Not that any of this is sensible or reasonable, but... why? Why is there any obsession at all with adding Canada as a state? Where did this idea even come from and for what purpose?

Why is there any obsession at all with adding Canada as a state?
Because Trump is trying to do to Canada what Putin is doing to Ukraine. Why? Because taking over a major food supply source is where the money will be at (because global warming is slowing expanding the hot zones north and southwards).
Add to that Canada's almost unlimited fresh water supply, lots of spare hydro electricity, a fair amount of rare earth minerals, a large oil source, and a huge portion of the Arctic region (that will soon be ice-free).
- I also wouldn't be surprised if he just wanted to conquer an independent nation just for like chest-bumping, wanna-be strongman reasons.
Water, rare earth minerals, other natural resources, labor
- And control of all this water, important strategically for Russia, I mean the USA. And Russia.
Trump sees himself as an emperor. He wants to expand the empire and claim that as his legacy. Simple as that.
My presumption is that the goal is to establish one homogeneously plutocratic and oligarchic landmass, broken up only by the Bering Strait, running all the way from Florida to Eastern Europe.
Yanks have always been upset we didn't join them way back. That and they cannot let go of manifest destiny.
- IDK, man. Indiana born and raised, and I've never in my life have I even heard about the notion or desire to have Canada merge with the US. It seemingly came out of nowhere and now a ton of idiots are acting like it's genius and even an absolutely imperative now.
  But other expanding the US's land and people, and eliminating another sovereign state, what would even be different? Is the expansion the point itself, some weird compulsion to gain control of our neighbors? Or is there some other motivation? It's probably oil isnt it... it's always oil.
I've been hearing Americans "joke" about Canada becoming the 51st state all my life. The fact that there's a country on the same land-mass as them, who's people largely speak the same language as them and who has a similar culture to them but doesn't want to be part of their country runs counter to the "Greatest Country in the World" propaganda that they've been indoctrinated with since childhood.
Most of the time, however, the politicians elected to high office are educated enough to know why annexing Canada would be a bad idea, but Trump's mentality never evolved beyond the schoolyard, and those are the ideas that he's bringing to the White House.
Under the hypothesis that Russia influences Trump, the point is to drive a wedge between the USA and all other Western democracies, the same way it attempts to create conflict between factions within the USA and other democratic nations.
O&G, water, lumber. You name it

Haven't they been saying that shit for like three weeks now?

Yeah, but they've been claiming it was just a joke.
We know better, of course, but that was what they were pretending.

She is as dumb as she looks

"President Musk needs ALL the rare minerals required for electronics"

No use in being a us ally.

It always feels like they have real reporters in the seats at these things, and a bunch of younger reporters asking softball scripted questions standing around.

Am I the only one that feels this way?

What else would a narcissistic megalomaniac want?

Putin wants US alliances to crumble. As his pawn, Trump will continue to sew chaos.

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Hasn't Trump already said this? This isn't the press sec saying anything Orange Mussolini hasn't already been explicit about. It's one of their talking points.

https://archive.is/VayyH

Canada should coordinate with the Hague. Invite trump to Canada at the same time the ICC issues a warrant.

What about Mexico? Could Mexico become the 52nd state? Lol.

What about puerto Rico, Samoa, Guam and the Virgin Islands?
- So 56 then?
Wouldn't that be amazing? All this blatant racism and hatred of Mexican people and suddenly they all end up citizens? That would be wild. I'm sure that's why they're not saying it. Though I would wager it wouldn't take long for them to justify the annexing of the territory without giving citizenship to the people there.
- Yeah.... OK Mexico is the USA now...you got 24 hrs to leave! Sounds really familiar.
Thankfully, Mexico is probably safe due to racism. They thought about stealing all of Mexico when the US invaded in 1846, but decided not to because all the brown people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Mexico_Movement
On the other hand, Canada...
- Right, buy the US can just Gaza all of my mexicano to Paraguay. And then the orange turd can build a huge paradize for white people. It will be an indoor thing, we all know white people can't be outside too long or they cook. Kinda of like us brown people up in the north, we need tanning lights to get vitamin D or we go flat and puff away.
They already got half of it in the 1800s. 1900s were busy times. The 2000s are for northern expansion: Canada and Greenland. God bless Donald Trump /s.
- Maybe if we do the rain dance. Like George Carling said... Does it rain during practice?

Click bait. Just quote her here directly.

I think the real goal is to have CEOs of impacted companies pay big bucks directly to Trump to get special carved out exemptions for their company. "I didn't bribe him. I paid $5M to stay at Mar a Lago." (With the understanding that I could meet with him and explain why he should carve my company an exemption. ) When you are analyzing Trump's actions always ask how is he getting richer and/or advancing Russian interests .