Trump’s Rage at Canada Just Got Worse—and Putin Is Quietly Celebrating

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In an interview on Fox News, President Donald Trump angrily signaled that his goal of making Canada into a “51st state” is “real” while ranting that Canada is supposedly taking advantage of us. Whatever Trump actually intends, Vladimir Putin has been cheering on Trump’s various threats toward Canada, especially the threat of tariffs. Russia is also happy about Elon Musk’s efforts to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development. We talked to international relations professor Nicholas Grossman, who explains why Trump’s rising anger at Canada is alarming even if he doesn’t fully intend to send in troops. Grossman also details how all these moves show that Trump is signaling a genuine repositioning of the U.S.’s place in the international order—and why this repositioning has Putin so gleeful. 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	On February 12th, the New Republic's Michael Tamaski, Timothy Noah, and myself, Greg Sargent,
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1:02.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:14.7	Vladimir Putin has seen a lot to celebrate in Donald Trump's first moves as president.
1:18.6	He has expressed glee about Trump's threats toward Canada,
1:23.6	and Russian leaders have expressed excitement about Trump's efforts with Elon Musk to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development.
1:27.6	Now Trump is signaling that his designs on Canada, his stated ambition to turn it into a 51st
1:33.3	state is very real. Whether that's true or not, that's going to make Putin even more excited.
1:40.1	But these aren't just examples of Trump saying crazy things and Putin delighting at them.
1:45.3	Trump is signaling a genuine realignment of the U.S. position in the world, and it's this
1:50.3	realignment that Putin is so happy to see.
1:53.4	We're talking about this today with International Relations Professor Nicholas Grossman,
1:58.3	one of our favorite guests who recently argued for the bulwark
2:01.3	that Trump's alienation of allies like Canada is a sign of a much deeper set of changes
2:06.3	than is commonly appreciated. Good to have you on, Nick. Great to be here. Thanks for having me.
2:12.0	So during his Super Bowl interview, Trump stressed that his designs on Canada are real. He was on Fox News and he was asked
2:19.8	by Brett Bayer about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's recent claim that Trump's ambitions
2:25.2	are a real thing. Listen to what happened. You know, the prime minister said this weekend
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