Trump belittles leaders of Canada and Mexico at Fox Nation's 'patriot' awards

[groundloop]

Source: The Guardian


Donald Trump belittled the leaders of the United States’ closest neighbours, Canada and Mexico, at a Fox awards ceremony intended to celebrate his role as America’s greatest “patriot”.

Two weeks after threatening the two countries with 25% tariffs on their imports for supposedly failing to prevent drugs and migrants from crossing the border, the president-elect took evident pleasure in an audience chant that taunted Canada as the 51st US state.

The chant of “51” came at Thursday night’s Fox Nation’s Patriot of the Year ceremony, held in New York. Trump was given the top award by Sean Hannity, one of the network’s star hosts.

It alluded to the visit by Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last week, where Trudeau reportedly told the president-elect that carrying out the tariff threat would devastate the country’s economy. In response, Trump reportedly replied that “maybe Canada should become the 51st state”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/06/trump-fox-news-patriot-award

[Dem2theMax]

1. Can't say what I'm thinking, so the only other thing I can do is this.

America's greatest 'patriot?'

When are they going to learn how to spell the word traitor?

[SunSeeker]

2. Good grief. He's going to make us the most hated country on the planet.

[AverageOldGuy]

3. The guy who shot the United Health CEO . . .

. . . do you suppose he knows the address of Mar-A-Lago??

Asking for a friend.

[Karasu]

4. Now that the fascist drones are parroting it, this "51" shit is getting disturbing.

[rampartd]

8. why 51

shouldn't newfoundland and nova scotia have 2 senators and plenty of electoral votes?

just kidding, of course, i can not imagine the canadians going along with this, or an army led by trump loyal generals being capable of forcing annexation.

[Karasu]

10. Neither can I, but under these fascist idiots, some half-assed attempt at it is more likely than adding DC or Puerto

Rico, as sad as that is.

[The Grand Illuminist]

14. This is reversed stochastic terrorism.

Even if they directly know it will never happen, they will rub it in to the point where they will get a left wing lone wolf.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. all he does is belittle

[cyclezealot1]

7. Trump

Trump knows he's an inferior person. That's why he belittles others

[33taw]

6. They should stop all imports to the US.

[J_William_Ryan]

9. 'Now that the fascist drones are parroting it, this "51" shit is getting disturbing.'

Anschluss – it’s what fascists do.

[PortTack]

11. Weak small man makes fun of those with stature and character....

[EarthFirst]

12. Someone ought to carry a placard that says "Third time's a charm..."

Everywhere TSF appears…

[FakeNoose]

13. Why would Canada ever want to be part of the USA? No WAY would they ever consider joining us

[EndlessWire]

15. He doesn't want the Blue States of America

to secede and become part of Canada. Or Mexico. That would be quite a bit more than he could handle.

Donald is such an embarrassment. Patriot?? He's a traitorous spy. He's a crook.

I tend to favor joining Canada, because I think that would make us part of the Commonwealth, and you could move from there. Mexico is also appealing. We already have familiarity with them. But, I think that neither of them would want us.

If I were Canadian, I'd be really angry--well, I'm American, and I am pretty angry right now--and it is very disrespectable to address Canada like that. Eff Trump et al.

It's all part of his shtick. If he started something like that, he'd be fighting on 3 fronts. He's not smart at all.