A top White House official has threatened to redraw the Canadian border amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn the country in America’s “51st state”.

Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, is pushing US negotiators to discuss reworking the border with their Canadian counterparts, The Telegraph can reveal.

“Navarro recommended revising the Canada-US border, which is just crazy and dangerous,” a source close to negotiations told The Telegraph.

  • @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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    6915 hours ago

    Raise your hand if you believe this was all started because Putin told Trump it was a good idea.

    • @[email protected]
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      2714 hours ago

      Canada got serious about pursuing the money behind the freedom convoy and designated a bunch of those groups as domestic terrorists. By law Canada can go after everyone who funded them which, unsurprisingly, is largely Russia via right wing organizations in the US.

    • "no" banana
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      914 hours ago

      Trump probably got a letter from the “Canadian bureau of land management” (Putin) which pleaded with him to take Canada in