Trump Questions U.S.-Canada Relations: Why Does the U.S. Need to Subsidize Canada by $200 Billion?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made his first visit to the United States and visited the White House today. Trump posted:

"I am looking forward to meeting with Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney. I am very willing to cooperate with him, but there is one thing I have never been able to figure out - why does the United States annually subsidize Canada by $200 billion and also provide free military protection and various other supports? We don't need their cars, we don't need their energy, we don't need their timber, except for their friendship, which I hope we can always maintain. But in return, they depend on almost everything from us! The Prime Minister will be here soon, and this is probably the only issue I care about."

It turns out that the joke about Canada becoming a province of the United States was just a joke.

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