“What did the president say this?” Biden slammed Trump to talk about annexing allies like Canada
Joe Biden was frustrated by his successor Donald Trump’s statement about the acquisition of Greenland and Panama Canals and Canada’s 51st state.
Biden tells BBC 4 today These Trump threats, as well as his administration's diplomatic efforts to end the Russian-Ukrainian war, have developed distrust of the United States in the remarks scheduled to air Wednesday.
“What did the president say?” said the long-time Democrat. “That's not who we are. We're about freedom, democracy, opportunity, not about confiscation.”
Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election. Concerns about Biden’s ability to handle another four years have become apparent after the disastrous debate performance in June 2024. Biden announced a few weeks later that he would withdraw from the game, and his vice president Kamala Harris was unable to beat Trump.
Biden returned to the public after leaving the White House in January, giving his first speech in Chicago last month, where he lamented that the Trump administration, which has “caused such great damage and destruction of great damage.”
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In 2023, Biden made his first visit to Ottawa in seven years.
“The United States chose to connect our future with Canada because we knew we didn't have a better partner – I mean from the bottom of my heart – no more reliable allies, no more friends.”
Trump never came to Canada as a president, often mocking former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, occasionally without mentioning the name of long-time cabinet member Chrystia Freeland. Trump once again lashed out on Tuesday when newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made his first visit to the White House.
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A part of Freeland's hammering with its U.S. and Mexico is an update to North America's NAFTA decades ago.
Like Trudeau of Mexico and then-President Enrique Peña Nieto, Trump formally signed the deal In 2018A year later, the U.S. president still describes it as “the fairest, most balanced, and most beneficial trade agreement we sign as the law.”
When his politics made a comeback, especially since his reelection in November, Trump attacked the deal and complained that Canada was “depriving us”, suggesting that the United States does not need Canadian goods or resources.
Trump accused Canada of providing free responsibility for the major military protection and equipment provided by the United States, although the president also provided many suspicious statistics on the trade deficit between countries.
He also attacked the flow of fentanyl into the United States through Canada, although all available numbers indicate that the flow of fentanyl and the flow of weapons is larger in the opposite direction.
Trump's threat to impose various tariffs on Canadian goods and services has sparked nationalist sentiment north of the U.S. border, boycotting certain U.S. products.
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When asked if he would respect Canadians’ wishes on Tuesday, Trump seemed to suggest it could change “for a while.” Carney quickly replied: “The Canadians' perception of this will not change.”
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From another perspective, Trump said “never said” and the prospect of Canada becoming a country.
The Trump administration has not explained why Canada is the 51st state, as the survey has been showing that most Puerto Ricans (U.S. citizens) will prefer their state over their current status as U.S. territory. Surveys have always shown that even more Columbian residents want DC to be a state.
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Elsewhere in the interview Biden said the Trump administration's pressure on Ukraine to abandon its territory is equal to “modern app anger.”
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Trump said Crimea is a strategic peninsula in the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 and “will be with Russia.”
Trump ordered the cessation of aid to Ukraine in his early years as president – and then resumed. Last week, the two countries signed an agreement that granted Ukraine’s huge mineral resources investment funds to gain access to the United States, although any returns will be far away from the horizon, as there are currently no commercially operated rare earth mines in Eastern European countries other than those under attack.
Trump and his vice president JD Vance sometimes publicly condemned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for lack of gratitude in the Oval Office in February, a show that has been described as “under America.”
After the fierce confrontation, comments from Vance of Europe and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were again there leaders questioned Washington's commitment to defending the African continent.
“I don't understand how they don't understand the power of the league,” Biden said of the Trump administration.
It can be argued that Biden can lead the multilateral response of European countries and Canada to Ukraine in February 2022 in Russia’s invasion of Russia. It is estimated that the Biden administration has provided Ukraine with about $500 billion in U.S. military aid, as well as billions of dollars in humanitarian aid.
Biden has indeed been criticized by members of two political parties for delaying the provision of certain weapons systems for Ukraine and reportedly allowed Ukraine to attack Russian targets with U.S. missiles before moving that position late last year.
