Trump aide thinks taking over Canada is akin to Alaska statehood

Questioned on CNBC if he was trying to dream up ways to defend outlandish schemes from Trump, economic adviser Kevin Hassett claimed that making Canada the 51st state is not outlandish at all.

Hassett didn’t sound like a guy with a doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He sounded like a product of Trump University.

No one believes that Canada is going to become the 51st state, but the price that supplicants pay to pacify and please the playground bully is to tell him he is always right about everything and call him “Sir.”

“When the U.S. was founded how many states did we have?” Hassett, the head of the National Economic Council, asked in return.

“How many we have now? And so is it outlandish? Is it outlandish to dream of a bigger United States? I don’t think so,” he said.

“So it’s crazy to let Hawaii and Alaska come? It’s just cra—-. It’s outlandish that we brought Alaska in. Is that what you’re saying?”

Only a man with no integrity, afraid of losing his position with Trump, would compare Trump’s crazy claims about a takeover of Canada to the admission of Alaska as the 49th state.

While Trump continues to taunt Canada and the cult cheers him on for making new enemies, the rest of the world sees a pathetic character who wants others to heel.

Alaska’s closest and best neighbor is Canada. Trump and the Republican Party, operating with the blessing of co-president Musk, are doing their best to turn Canadians into enemies, treating them as inferior.

Before Trump caved on what the Wall Street Journal called the dumbest trade war in history, Hassett went on CNBC to claim that it was really about stopping drugs from flowing into the U.S.

As evidence, he mentioned what he saw one day in Canada last summer.

“I was in Edmonton last summer, and as I walked out of my hotel, I saw an ambulance responding to someone who had overdosed, sadly, on fentanyl. Then, as I walked to a restaurant, two people got into a fight with cops over drugs — right there in downtown Edmonton,” Hassett said.

“That was just one day of my visit. The fact is, Canada has a drug crisis, and it’s spilling into the U.S. It needs to stop. That’s what both the Canadian and American people want,” he said.

“I don’t understand how somebody can read the executive order if you’re Canada and then claim we’re starting a trade war,” Hassett told CNBC.

That may be the dumbest thing said about the dumbest trade war in history. He’s Trump’s top economic adviser.

MURKOWSKI’S MISTAKE: Sen. Lisa Murkowski has made no bigger mistake in regard to public health than choosing to believe that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suddenly become a vaccine supporter.

The predictable hand-wringing and the everlasting “concerns” and misgivings are not credible.

Sen. Dan Sullivan, a hopeless Trump lackey, was a guaranteed vote for Kennedy all along.

Asked by a Fox News host in November what he thought about Kennedy serving as the health department leader, Sullivan said RFK will bring dramatic change and Trump has a mandate for change, so RFK fits right in.

“Look, I think the American people voted for dramatic change,” Sullivan told Fox News two months ago.

“President Trump was really transparent, probably the most transparent candidate ever on the campaign trail, talking about what he wanted to do. And I think this nominee, some of the other nominees, are gonna bring us that change. And I think so far, I think it looks good,” Sullivan said.

The Murkowski/Sullivan change is to elevate a man who rejects the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism, lies about the COVID-19 vaccines and lies about vaccine safety.

Meanwhile, Murkowski introduced a bill to make Denali the name of the mountain. Good idea, but it distracts from life-and-death issues raised by incompetent cabinet picks.

Sullivan is a co-sponsor of the bill, according to Murkowski’s press release. But Sullivan refused to make any announcement about this and would like to keep it quiet, probably because he hopes that no one will tell Trump.

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