Justin Trudeau Reveals How He Got Trump To 'Immediately' Change The Subject On Canada
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The outgoing prime minister made a joke offer that the president-elect didn't think was funny.
Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he spoke with Donald Trump about the president-elect’s talk of turning the northern nation into America’s 51st state when the two met at Mar-a-Lago in November.
“It actually sort of came up at one point,” Trudeau told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki in an interview that aired on Sunday. “And then we started musing back and forth about this.”
But it came to a quick halt after Trudeau jokingly made Trump an offer.
“And when I started to suggest, ‘Well, maybe there could be a trade for Vermont or California for certain part,’ he immediately decided that it was not that funny anymore, and we moved on to a different conversation,” he said.
Trudeau said he had to take Trump’s calls for Canada to become a state seriously, but at the same time dismissed it.
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