Trump's Personal Quest For American Dominance

"Let's be real about this; the rhetorical attacks on Canada have not actually resulted in a net good for the United States."

"[The White House habit of] yelling at Canada [helped to install a] far left-leaning internationalist [government] hostile to American interests."

"All of this started off as a joke, and I think President Trump is so committed to the bit at this point that he couldn't get off the train [repeated pledges to turn Canada into the '51st state']."

Conservative U.S. podcaster Ben Shapiro

 

"[Poilievre would have been] Canuck DeSantis [Ron DeSantis, Republican governor of Florida who challenged Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination]."

"Trump will [and has already] weirdly get on with Carney."

"Trump  vibes with the smart, hyper-machievellaian center-left type."

Curt Mills, editor, American Conservative

Mark Carney with supporters at a victory party in Ottawa, 29 April 2025. Photograph: Dave Chan/AFP/Getty Images

 

U.S. President Donald Trump is smirking triumphantly. It has been his very direct interference in Canadian affairs that succeeded in upsetting the trajectory of the April 28 general election. A situation where the Liberal Party of Canada succeeded in gathering a greater number of votes, sufficient to form a minority government, than the Conservative Party which had been surging in the polls before Mr. Trump introduced the shock of  his announced trade tariffs targeting first Canada and Mexico and China, before he included much of the rest of the world.

The Canadian public was well and truly sick of the Liberal government, its never-ending ethical scandals, its impoverishment of the Canadian economy, its massive annual deficits and a debt larger than anything any previous government had ever attained. The federal government estrangement from the Western provinces linked to its green agenda of refusing to exploit the generosity of natural resources in the energy field, has caused a rift between the provinces themselves, favouring the east and damning the west.

 

Runaway rising costs of food and lodging, a failing universal health system overburdened by an unsustainable and indiscriminate surge in immigration, refugee and migrant intake, along with other social services strained to their limits, including insufficient and prohibitively costly housing stocks, rising crime rates that a soft judiciary intent on giving bail for the most serious criminal offenders leading to a steadily rising crime rate. The twin problems of growing homelessness among whom people in mental distress loom large, along with an ever-widening circle of drug dependent, overdose-prone addicts.

@PierrePoilievre

President Trump, stay out of our election. The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box. Canada will always be proud, sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be the 51st state.

Factor in ethnic/religious communities that no longer adapt to the Canadian way of life, its social contracts, its value system, its laws and regulations, and you have a restive population, resentful of a government whose policies and idiosyncracies in social engineering and race and gender politics have created deep divisions within society. All of which soured the public on the Liberal government headed by Justin Trudeau, the very embodiment of an entitled, sociopathic, deceitful, manipulative and narcissistic personality.

 

His government was in tatters; the antithesis of all that it represented was seen in the Conservative government with its leader, Pierre Poilievre prepared, given the Conservative-approving soaring polls, to win the next election. And then along came Donald Trump. And along came an international banker set to replace Justin Trudeau, boasting a record of accomplishment as former Governor of the Bank of Canada and of Great Britain. A man every bit as narcissistic as Trudeau, given to stretching the truth to suit his agenda, a man for whom plagiarizing and claiming as his own the intellectual work of others, slid by his supporters.

 

 

On the campaign trail Mark Carney who was elevated into the role of Prime Minister by the simple (and unprincipled) expedient of being voted in as leader of the Liberal Party in place of Justin Trudeau, and who then went on to boast of his professional expertise and successes in the world of finance, with no experience whatever in politics, and no seat in Parliament, to promise that he, and only he could lead Canada in its battle against an American president determined to economically ruin Canada and annex it into American territory.

 

Canadians in enough of a majority voted for the man who promised he would be Donald Trump's worse nightmare. A man who charged his Conservative competitor Pierre Poilievre of being just like Trump. When the truth is that Trump saw Poilievre as an impediment to his plans of absorbing Canada, and Carney as a useful tool in his extortion and coercion plans. Immediately after the election, US. President Trump spoke of Mark Carney as a "very nice gentleman" and their latest telephone conversation "couldn't have been nicer and I congratulated him". 

 

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on the federal election, offering advice to Canadians about how they should vote. (Balce Ceneta/The Canadian Press)

 

He plans, he stated, to meet with Carney "within the next week or less" in Washington, and expects to have a "great relationship" with Canada. "I actually think the Conservative hated me much more than the so-called 'Liberal'", Mr. Trump admitted. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly asserted to the Associated Press that the Canadian election "does not affect President Trump's plan to make Canada America's cherished 51st state". And his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt reinforced that message; that Trump's calls for Canada to become the 51st state were "Trump truthing, all the way".

 

The Canadian election outcome was heavily weighed by the antagonism seen from Trump against Canadian sovereignty and his disdain for the role of any Canadian prime minister whom he preferred to call a 'governor'. Trump made no secret of the fact that he planned to ruin the Canadian economy, as additional pressure to have Canada accede to his plans of being absorbed into the United States;  his personal quest for American dominance.