After months without rhetoric and outright trolling about Canada becoming the 51st state, U.S. Donald Trump brought it up again on Tuesday.

Approaching the halfway mark of a 72-minute address to hundreds of U.S. military officials summoned to Virginia, Trump claimed work on the “Golden Dome Missile Defence Shield” was proceeding and that Canada had recently contacted him to say “they want to be a part of it.”

“To which I said, ‘Well, why don’t you just join our country? You become the 51st state and you get it for free,” he suggested.

“I don’t know if that made a big impact, but it does make a lot of sense, because they’re having a hard time up there in Canada now because, as you know, with tariffs, everyone’s coming into our country.”

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