Shark Tank star says there’s ‘something great’ about Trump wanting to make Canada the 51st state
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“Because if you figured out a way to put these two countries together, it would be the most powerful country on earth,” Kevin O’Leary declared on Fox News. Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary praised President-elect Donald Trump’s continued fascination with annexing Canada as an American state, saying there was “something great” about it because it would form “the most powerful country on earth.”.
Having spent the past few weeks taunting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by offering to make him a “governor” of “the 51st state,” the incoming president upped the ante with a Christmas message to the United States’ neighbor to the north. Besides recommending that hockey great Wayne Gretzky run to be “the Governor of Canada,” Trump also claimed that Canadians’ taxes would massively drop if they joined the American union.
“But if Canada was to become our 51st state, their taxes would be cut by more than 60 percent,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “Their businesses would immediately double in size and they would be militarily protected like no other country anywhere in the world.”.
During a Friday morning appearance on Fox News, O’Leary — a Canadian businessman who calls himself “Mr. Wonderful” — was asked to weigh in on Trump’s tax-cut offer and whether residents of Canada were receptive. Claiming that at least half of the country’s citizens “want to know more and understand what the proposal really is,” O’Leary added that there’s been talk of an economic union between the two countries for decades.
