Elon Musk mocks Trudeau as Canada rejects 51st state claim
Billionaire Elon Musk continues to provoke. After targeting several leaders, he turned his attention to outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when Trudeau opposed Donald Trump's threats against his country. "Girl, you're not the governor of Canada anymore," Musk wrote to him.
Canada reacts strongly to Trump
"Never, absolutely never will Canada become part of the USA," Trudeau wrote in French on platform X. In the English version, Trudeau was even more forceful, stating, "there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States."
He emphasized that workers and communities in both countries benefit when Canada and the USA are major trade and security partners.
Trudeau's post on Tuesday marked his first sharp comment on Trump's statements. Since winning the election in November last year, Trump has referred to Canada as the "51st state" and accused the country of exploiting the USA economically and politically. Trudeau stepped down as the leader of the Liberal Party on Monday and will remain Prime Minister until a new party leader is elected.
Musk provokes again, strikes at Trudeau
Elon Musk responded to Trudeau's declaration. "Girl, you're not the governor of Canada anymore, so it doesn't matter what you say," wrote the world's richest man and a close associate of Donald Trump, in a comment to the outgoing Prime Minister's post.
The billionaire echoed Donald Trump's narrative, who had already referred to the Prime Minister as a "governor," implying Canada as another, 51st state of the USA.
Trump, who announced a 25% tariff on goods from Canada, said on Tuesday that the USA does not need to import automotive goods from Canada, along with lumber and dairy products. According to American data, in 2022, Canada sold goods worth 614.3 Canadian dollars (427 billion U.S. dollars) to the States, and the USA is also the largest recipient of Canadian oil.
