‘You can’t take our country and you can’t take our game’: Canadian PM hits out at Trump after hockey win
Canada’s prime minister has hit out at Donald Trump’s comments about annexing the country, saying “you can’t take our country, and you can’t take our game”, in the wake of a major ice hockey win.
On Thursday, Canada beat the United States to win the 4 Nations hockey tournament, with the tense action on the ice mirroring the political tensions bubbling between the two countries.
Posting a video of him cheering in the wake of Canada’s win, Mr Trudeau posted: “You can’t take our country – and you can’t take our game.”
Pic: Justin Trudeau / Instagram
Earlier in the day, the White House had poked fun at its opponent, saying it looked forward to the US “beating our soon-to-be 51st state, Canada”.
Mr Trump did not campaign for the presidency on annexing Canada, but since winning the election, he has regularly aired the idea of making Canada “the 51st state.”
Read more: US threat to Canada most serious one since War of 1812
Canadian leaders did not take him seriously at first, but Mr Trudeau has said on the issue: “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.”
In retaliation, President Trump said he would impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico. The two countries then hit back with retaliatory tariffs, as they spoke of working together.
Donald Trump posted a map showing Canada as part of the US on his Truth Social platform shortly before his inauguration
Speaking on his Truth Social platform earlier in February, Mr Trump said: “We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason.
“We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use.”
He claimed without the “massive subsidy” Canada “ceases to exist as a viable country”.
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Three fights in nine seconds of ice hockey game
He added: “Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada – AND NO TARIFFS!”
Elon Musk says he has created a new political party – the America Party –
after asking his followers if he should do so in an online poll.
It follows his public falling out with Republican President Donald Trump.
On Friday, the billionaire had asked his followers on X whether a new US political party should be created.
On Saturday evening he wrote on the same platform: “By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!
“When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.
“Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
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Trump threatens to ‘put DOGE’ on Musk
The world’s richest man made the announcement just one day after President Trump signed a tax-cut and spending bill into law on Friday, which Musk had fiercely opposed.
Musk had previously said we would form and fund a new political party to unseat lawmakers who supported the bill.
From bromance to bust-up
The Tesla boss backed Trump’s election campaign with more than a quarter of a billion dollars, later rewarded with a high profile role running the newly created department of government efficiency (DOGE).
But observers of the two men, both with huge wealth and reputations, wondered how long the bromance would last.
Donald Trump gave Musk a warm send-off in the Oval Office in May. Pic: Reuters
In May Musk left the role, still on good terms with Trump but criticising key parts of his legislative agenda.
After that, the attacks ramped up, with Musk slamming the sweeping tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination” and Trump hitting back in a barbed tit-for-tat.
Trump earlier this week threatened to cut off the billion-dollar federal subsidies that flow to Musk’s companies, and said he would even consider deporting him.
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