Donald Trump repeats call to make Canada 51st state in unhinged Canadian election day rant

 Donald Trump unleashed an unhinged rant about Canada as he reiterated his calls to make the country the 51st state — on Canada's own election day.

Canada will select a new prime minister on Monday, an election that could determine the nature of the North American country's relationship with its southern neighbor, the U.S.

"Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America," Trump wrote on Truth Social early Monday morning.

"No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be," Trump continued. "Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE!"

The president touched on the tariffs he slapped on the North American nation, which he said was the result of Canada's supposed subsidization of the American economy.

"America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!" Trump concluded.

Current Prime Minister Mark Carney, who took over from Justin Trudeau after the latter resigned, faces competition from opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who is described as a firebrand populist with many similarities to Trump.

Poilievre campaigned on issues related to food and housing costs and immigration as he sought to use Trudeau's sinking popularity to boost his own political standing, but Trump suddenly became the issue at the forefront of Canadians' minds, and so Poilievre's policies sort of fell to the wayside.

"He appeals to the same sense of grievance," Canadian historian Robert Bothwell said of the Conservative leader, relating him to Trump. "It's like Trump standing there, saying, 'I am your retribution.'"

Carney, the leader of the Liberal Party, has instead pushed back on Americans and based his platform on protecting Canadian sovereignty as well as addressing all the other aforementioned issues.

"The Americans want to break us so they can own us," he said. "Those aren't just words. That's what's at risk." It's the first time since 1988 that foreign affairs have been a key ballot issue in Canada. Ironically, that year, the biggest issue was free trade with the U.S.

Polls opened in Atlantic Canada early Monday morning. Many Canadians even chose to vote early, with a record 7.3 million casting ballots before election day.

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