Symone Sanders: Trump Joking About Canada Being the 51st State Is ‘Actually Quite Serious’

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SANDERS-TOWNSEND: “The Panama Canal strikes me, his comments, they were random. It strikes me as though he perhaps got a briefing about something, and then -- because, you know, the president-elect at this time, the president-elect and the vice president-elect, they are receiving these national security briefings and whatnot, so maybe he got a briefing about something, and he's trying to get it off his chest. When it comes to what he is saying about Greenland, and furthermore, what he has said about Canada, to me, this actually helps me understand a little bit more his stance on the Russia's war in Ukraine. Because for the life of me, I have been struggling to understand why -- why not just Donald Trump, but this faction of Republicans within the Republican Party apparatus are just so cavalier, if you will, about the sovereignty of another country. But the president-elect himself is very cavalier about the sovereignty of another country. Joking about Canada being the 51st state is actually quite serious, right? He's talking about trampling on the sovereignty of the people of Canada, saying that not respecting their borders, it is not a hard line for him.”