It’s like inviting people over for dinner and then insisting you want to buy their children.
Here was newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney making his first visit to the Oval Office to see President Donald Trump, who has spent months musing about turning America’s northern neighbor into the 51st state.
It didn’t take long for a reporter to ask about what was on everyone’s mind. Trump said he was still interested in annexing Canada, describing the border between the two countries as nothing more than an arbitrary line.
Well that’s true of a lot of borders. The exact spot where they’re drawn is sometimes “an arbitrary line” as opposed to a river or a canyon or an ocean. … Read the rest