It is unlikely that Donald Trump would actually use the US Army to invade Canada, his national security adviser is insisting.
Mike Waltz said on Sunday that there are no current plans to annex the northern neighbors.
Trump has spoken of the US that acquires a few different foreign entities – including the land of Canada, the Danish territory of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
During a press conference last month at Mar-A-Lago, Trump told reporters that he would not use the army to take Canada. But he did not exclude the same with Greenland and the channel in Central America.
“I don't think there are plans to invade Canada, if that's what you're talking about,” the former congressman and Trump's NSA told NBC's Meet the Press -Gastheer Kristen Welker.
President Trump has repeatedly put forward the idea of ​​making Canada the 51st US state in the midst of a feud with the departing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The current Canadian Prime Minister, who announced his intention last month to go aside as the leader of the liberal party, warned in meetings with closed door that Trump is not a joke about taking over Canada and making the US part of the US
National security adviser Mike Waltz said there are no plans for President Donald Trump to launch an invasion of Canada
At the end of November, Trump had a meeting in Mar-A-Lago with Trudeau after announcing on social media his plans to impose a rate of 25 percent as a retribution for refusing to tackle drug and human trafficking problems on the border who has it with the US
Here he suggested that Canada became a state if it could not deal with the economic sanction.
Before he takes his oath from the office last month, Trump assured reporters that he would not use troops and military force to take the country, but at the time not exclude 'economic strength'.
And after the announcement of rates about Canada and Mexico, the administration then stopped the implementation of the tax to give the countries more time to negotiate and make policy to help at the border.
The suspension avoids a trade confrontation between the US and Canada, which exchanged $ 746 billion in goods in 2022.
“Look, I think the Canadian people, many of them, would like to be with the United States,” Waltz said in his Sunday morning interview and claimed that this would save them from rates and offer people with lower taxes than they are currently in Canada.
“I have all kinds of neighbors in Florida who are Canadians who escape from much of the liberal policy and have been withdrawn,” the NSA added.
He explained: 'What you see is a re -confirmation of American leadership in the western hemisphere, from the North Pole area to the Panama Canal. And that is what we are talking about, from Greenland to Arctic Security to the Panama Canal that returns to the United States. '
“America has avoided our own hemisphere – where we have the energy, food and critical minerals for far too long – and you see a recovery of President Trump's leadership,” concluded Waltz.
Trump avoided an immediate trade confrontation this month when he temporarily imposes on imposing rates for Canada
