I'm a real estate guy at heart': Trump says he won't annex Canada by force, but Greenland's case is different

President Donald Trump again spoke about making Canada the 51st state of the United States as he gave an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press but he said it would not come to the point where he has to use military to take over Canada, but the same can’t be said about Greenland.

Trump said he would discuss the issue with Mark Carney once he visits the White House. “You know why? We subsidise Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year. We don’t need their cars. In fact, we don’t want their cars. We don’t need their energy. We don’t even want their energy. We have more than they do. We don’t want their lumber. We have great lumber. All I have to do is free it up from the environmental lunatics. We don’t need anything that they have. We’re giving them— I asked, I asked Mr Trudeau— who I call Governor Trudeau, not Prime Minister, Governor— I said, ‘Governor Trudeau, could I ask you one question? Why are we giving you $200 billion? Why are we subsidising Canada?’

“If Canada were a state, it wouldn’t cost us. It would be great. It would be such a great— it would be a cherished state. And, if you look at our map, if you look at the geography— I’m a real estate guy at heart. When I look down at that, without that artificial line that was drawn with a ruler many years ago— it’s just an artificial line, goes straight across. You don’t even realise. What a beautiful country it would be. It would be great.

“But I don’t think the American public wants me to pay $200 billion a year to subsidise Canada. Again, remember this: we don’t need their cars, we don’t need their lumber, we don’t need their energy. We don’t need anything. We do very little business with Canada. They do almost all of their business with us. They need us. We don’t need them,” Trump said.

Trump was asked, “Would you rule out military force to take Canada?”

“Well, I think we’re not going to ever get to that point. It could happen. Something could happen with Greenland. I’ll be honest, we need that for national and international security ,” Trump stated, adding that he doesn’t see it with Canada.

Regarding Greenland, Trump stated that he is not denying the possibility of sending troops to annex the Danish kingdom’s independent area, but he is also not ruling it out.

“We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security ,” Trump stated.