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Trump’s desire to annex Canada has some wondering why the U.S. hasn’t already done so

February 21, 2025 | | Print Article

President Donald Trump’s desire to annex Canada has some wondering why the U.S. hasn’t already done so in times past.

According to Old Dominion University political science professor Richard Maass, it’s because America simply “didn’t want to.”

“U.S. policymakers between the 1780s and 1870s made periodic attempts to acquire relatively sparsely populated areas of what is today western Canada, but they generally rejected the notion of annexing the relatively populous British colonies in eastern Canada,” he recently wrote for War on the Rocks.

America also abstained from taking Canada during the American Revolution.

“While Commander-in-Chief George Washington recognized the geopolitical benefits of including Quebec and periodically considered new northward invasions throughout the Revolutionary War, he repeatedly dismissed the notion given the Continental Army’s struggles to secure the 13 states and his concerns that allied France — if included in a joint operation — might reassert its own claims to Canada (having lost it to Britain in 1763),” Maas notes.

His report comes amid a ratcheting up of the growing beef between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who on Thursday took to Twitter to mock Trump.

The attempt came after Canada’s ice hockey team defeated America’s team 3-2 in the 4 Nations championship game in Boston.

“You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game,” the PM tweeted to much fanfare from Canadians as well as anti-American leftist scumbags like the folks at “Republicans Against Trump.”

Look:

In his tweet, Trudeau referenced Trump’s desire to annex Canada and turn it into America’s 51st state. The prime minister’s tweet was basically his way of saying “no way.”

The problem, of course, is that a ice hockey game victory doesn’t really mean much in the end.

“You won a hockey game, you lost your country,” one critic tweeted. “You can’t fool anyone with distractions. Hockey games don’t buy you a home, lower taxes, generate jobs, improve the dollar and reduce crime.”

Plus, and more importantly, America has technically already taken the Canada’s game.

“The NHL was created in Canada. But now its headquarters is in NYC and most of its teams are located in the US so it seems as if we already took your game,” one critic explained in a reply tweet.

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President Trump for his part teased Canada on social media before the game’s official start.

“I’ll be calling our GREAT American Hockey Team this morning to spur them on towards victory tonight against Canada, which with FAR LOWER TAXES AND MUCH STRONGER SECURITY, will someday, maybe soon, become our cherished, and very important, Fifty First State,” he wrote on Truth Social.

“I will be speaking before the Governors tonight in D.C., and will sadly, therefore, be unable to attend. But we will all be watching, and if Governor Trudeau would like to join us, he would be most welcome. Good luck to everybody, and have a GREAT game tonight. So exciting! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP,” he added.

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