Canadian Green Party Leader on Trump Joking About Canada Becoming 51st State: ‘It’s Not Funny’

‘We have to be very careful with President-Elect [Trump]’

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MAY: “I haven’t seen that, so I probably shouldn’t comment. Just that, with the Truth Social post of Donald Trump planting a Canadian flag on a Canadian mountain, I have to say that to the extent that this 51st state thing was a joke, it’s not funny, and I find that pursuing it on social media makes me increasingly nervous. Mr. Trump has — we have to be very, very careful with the president-elect and we have to pull together, I think, all opposition party leaders and premiers, all elements of the Canadian political establishment such as we are, better pull together to make sure we don’t create any cracks that allow Fox News or Mr. Trump’s social media to exploit us and say things about Canada that aren’t true.”

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