Trump Doubles Down On Canada Tariffs, Says Canada 'Only Works As A State'

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During a press briefing on Thursday, President Trump said he would not 'bend' on his tariffs imposed on Canada and once again challenged Canadian sovereignty.

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00:00Mr. President, a representative of Canada, the finance minister, are in town and will

00:07meet members of your administration during the day.

00:10Any chances that you will ban on the tariffs on aluminum and the ones that are planned

00:18for April 2nd?

00:19No.

00:20You are not going to change your mind?

00:22No, I'm not.

00:23Look, we've been ripped off for years.

00:24We're not going to be ripped off anymore.

00:26No, I'm not going to bend at all.

00:28Aluminum or steel or cars, we're not going to bend.

00:32We've been ripped off as a country for many, many years.

00:35We've been subjected to costs that we shouldn't be subjected to.

00:41In the case of Canada, we're spending $200 billion a year to subsidize Canada.

00:45I love Canada.

00:46I love the people of Canada.

00:47I love, I have many friends in Canada.

00:51The great one, Wayne Gretzky, the great, how good is Wayne Gretzky?

00:54He's the great one.

00:56But we have, I know many people from Canada that are good friends of mine, but you know,

01:02the United States can't subsidize a country for $200 billion a year.

01:07We don't need their cars.

01:10We don't need their energy.

01:11We don't need their lumber.

01:13We don't need anything that they, that they get.

01:17We do it because we want to be helpful, but it comes a point when you just can't do that.

01:21You have to run your own country.

01:24And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state.

01:26It doesn't, we don't need anything they have.

01:30As a state, it would be one of the great states anyway.

01:32This would be the most incredible country visually.

01:36If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it between Canada and the

01:41U.S.

01:42Just a straight artificial line.

01:43Somebody did it a long time ago, many, many decades ago, and it makes no sense.

01:51It's so perfect as a great and cherished state keeping, oh Canada, the national anthem.

01:59I love it.

02:00I think it's great.

02:01Keep it.

02:03But it'll be for the state.

02:04One of our greatest states, maybe our greatest state.

02:07But why should we subsidize another country for $200 billion?

02:11Of course, it's $200 billion a year.

02:14And again, we don't need their lumber.

02:16We don't need their energy.

02:17We have more than they do.

02:18We don't need anything.

02:20We don't need their cars.

02:21I'd much rather make the cars here.

02:24And there's not a thing that we need.

02:26Now there'll be a little disruption, but it won't be very long.

02:31But they need us.

02:32We really don't need them.

02:33And we have to do this.

02:34I'm sorry.

02:35We have to do this.

02:36Yes.

02:37Yeah.

Trump Doubles Down On Canada Tariffs, Says Canada 'Only Works As A State'

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