Trump’s Fury at Canada Boils Over on Fox—and Polls Now Show a Backlash

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It’s growing harder to shrug off President Trump’s deranged threats toward Canada. In a new Fox News interview, Trump snarled angrily that Canada is “meant” to be a 51st state, explicitly speaking the language of imperialism. Meanwhile, Trump is adopting a very credulous line toward Vladimir Putin in the Russia-Ukraine peace talks. This comes as a surprising new poll shows that American opinion is shifting against a soft line on Russia, even as other polling shows public rejection of Trump’s anti-Canada stance. We talked to The Bulwark’s William Saletan, who has a good piece arguing that Trump’s views of Canada and Ukraine are connected. He explains how Trump is now adopting the same view of Canada that Putin has of Ukraine, and argues that the public may be turning against Trump on both fronts. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.3	It's becoming harder to dismiss President Trump's deranged designs toward Canada.
0:36.8	In a new interview, Trump said straight out that Canada is meant to be a 51st state,
0:38.9	explicitly using the language of imperialism on national television. At the same time, Trump appears to be adopting what some
0:44.6	experts are calling a very credulous line toward Vladimir Putin in the current peace talks. And this
0:50.6	comes as a surprising new poll shows that American public opinion is actually shifting
0:55.0	against a soft line on Russia. What if Trump's designs toward Canada and Russia are related?
1:02.7	William Salatin, a writer at the bulwark, has an interesting new piece making exactly this case,
1:07.7	that in effect Trump is almost deliberately adopting the same view of Canada
1:12.2	that Putin has of Ukraine, that both are there for the pickings for each of them.
1:17.5	So we're talking to Will today about all of this. Thanks for coming back on, Will.
1:21.9	Hey, Greg, it's great to be with you. I want to start with this really crazy new Trump quote
1:25.7	about Canada. It's becoming harder and harder to dismiss Trump's apparent desire to annex them.
1:31.5	Listen to this exchange with Fox News's Laura Ingram.
1:34.9	With Canada, then you are with some of our biggest adversaries.
1:38.7	Only because it's meant to be our 51st Street.
1:41.2	Okay, but listen to this for a second.
1:43.4	We need their territory. They have territorial advantage. We're not going to this for a second. They need their territory.
1:44.4	They have territorial advantage.
1:45.9	We're not going to let them be close to China.
1:48.1	Look, I deal with every country, indirectly or directly.
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