I’m sure he will offer membership in a fortnight or so.
I’m pretty sure that the Orange Ignoramus, who is aware of almost nothing until it’s patiently explained to him like to a three-year-old child, is completely unaware that Canada (in his words, “the nastiest nation to deal with”) is the first and foremost member of the Commonwealth.
The problem with being an inveterate liar is that contradictions soon catch up with you, like the Orange Ignoramus questioning what idiot could have signed the free trade deal with Canada in 2010 while forgetting that it was him, while hailing it at the time as the greatest trade deal in history.
But since facts don’t matter to his acolytes, and never have, I’m sure things will just carry on.
Surely England takes that position.
Remember that one of KCIII’s stylings is “Head of the Commonwealth.” If the US joins the Commonwealth, how long before Trump starts jockeying to become Head of the Commonwealth? “I’m doing beautifully with the Kennedy Center, nobody’s ever seen anything like it, of course I should be Head of the Commonwealth, …”
More seriously, I think that if such an invitation was extended by KCIII, and Trump accepted, a lot of Americans would be seriously pissed. So many of them think of the organization as “the British Commonwealth,” and as has been taught in US history classes for centuries, Americans had a revolution to get away from the British. “Wait, is Trump trying to return us to the British? I don’t like that idea.”
Well, no, Britain was the master of the British Empire (upon which the sun never set). In more modern times, Canada was the first of the former colonies to become part of what became the Commonwealth. I’m sure that the late Queen Elizabeth was not misinformed when she used to refer to Canada as her favourite Commonwealth country.
Okay… May I? Hahahahah. I love that. Is it yours?
Interesting news…the backlash appears to be growing.
If you join the U.S., that is definitely not how you will get healthcare services. You will have to adapt to the system of for-profit healthcare through your employer and maybe some government assistance if you absolutely must have it but they would really rather you didn’t.
Who are ‘they’ and if ‘they’ aren’t doing what you want them to maybe elect someone who will. Kind of what the maga crowd has done, to their own detriment, but what they assumed, and they are probably right, your choice wasn’t on their side, either.
Your arguments simplify the world to an unrealistic degree. Do you really think it’s all so black and white, and that people just haven’t managed to figure out the One Simple Trick to universal health care?
Maybe have a look at the complex reality with entrenched institutions and powerful lobbies and first-past-the-post and the two-party system and physicians’ pay and take that into account. It’s not as easy as you seem to think.
You won’t be allowed the vote.
It wouldn’t be. It’s a matter for all the member states to agree on, including Canada.
A girlfriend, but you wouldnt know her? I jest, I jest…
As I have never visited either country, I can only judge you on your tourists. Canada wins, easily.
There is a reason Canadian backpackers put a Maple Leaf flag on their packs.
Remember also that Canada, when you get right down to it, was an experiment: can we let a colony have internal self-government? That’s a bit weird, so we’ll call it a “Dominion,” but we retain all rights. But Canada surpassed all of the UK’s expectations as a self-governing Dominion. The UK would eventually extend such status to Australia and New Zealand. Long story short, that’s why the UK no longer has any rights over Canada’s affairs. Or those of Australia or New Zealand, for that matter.
But Canada was the first to be afforded “Dominion” status. That’s why it is first among the Commonwealth nations.
I don’t think Trump’s thoughts have changed, I think he’s regarded Canada exactly in that manner from the first time he said it should be the 51st state… it’s that other people are realizing he’s actually serious about it.
Americans put the maple leaf on their backpacks. Canadians say they are Americans and act like assholes! Which is actually why the Americans have a bad reputation overseas. Heh.
And that is also why we should change Canada’s motto to the Latin equivalent of “It’s mainly about the meat”. Just sayin’.
This doesn’t happen. Albertans, maybe.
Jeez, fifty years on, and that damn earworm came back. Thank you so much. 
Where I live it is not the Canadians who stick a Maple Leaf flag onto their luggage, it’s the American tourists who want to pass as Canadians. Canadians are well liked, Americans are not, anti Americanism is increasing more and more.