President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes erasing the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the countries and alleviating the need for tariffs

President Donald Trump repeated his push to economically push Canada into becoming the 51st state during is press conference announce 25% tariffs.

Canada at first reacted as though Trump must be joking, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said flatly his country would never be the 51st state. Trudeau more recently suggested behind closed doors that Trump's sustained annexation calls may not be just light talk and appear to be "a real thing.