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The term "51st state" in American political discourse refers to the idea of adding a new state to the Union, either by granting statehood to one of the U.S. territories, splitting an existing state, admitting another country, or granting statehood to Washington, D.C. This would increase the number of states in the United States from 50 to 51.
[60] [61] Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stated that Canada would never become the 51st state of America. [62] On 7 February 2025, Poilievre further stated that Trump's 51st state comments aren't a joke saying: "I’ve always taken it seriously, and I’ve always clearly and consistently condemned it. Canada will never be the 51st state.
The idea of either Canada or the U.K. becoming America’s 51st state is, of course, absurd. Yet both nations’ trajectories make it a fitting metaphor for their current condition.
Let’s talk about ‘the 51st state’ ... and they will insist upon full-fledged statehood. Back in 1776, the U.S. began with just 13 states—a new Canadian-American nation would need to begin ...
The continued centrality of that country to the president’s tariff talk has been on full ... Russia if Vladimir Putin does not end the Ukraine war. But it's Canada — one of America's deepest ...
Starting in December 2024, then President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters began expressing support for Canadian annexation into the United States of America as its 51st state. This came after months of tariff threats on Canadian goods and renewed demands by Trump for Canada to increase its military spending and prioritize border security ...
Just weeks into his second term, Donald Trump has said he would like to make Canada the 51st state, threatened to take over Greenland, regain ownership of the Panama Canal, and assume control of Gaza.
The Tuvan People's Republic was proclaimed a nominally independent state in 1921, although it was tightly controlled by Moscow and is considered a satellite state of the Soviet Union until 1944, when the USSR annexed it into the Russian SFSR. [9] Another early Soviet satellite state in Asia was the short-lived Far Eastern Republic in Siberia. [9]