John Bolton - November 29, 2025


Happy Birthday 51 - You Changed The Course Of Canadian History


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7 minutes

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Word count

1,149

Sentence count

101

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Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

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On this day in 2017, Donald Trump made a comment that changed the course of Canadian politics forever. He suggested that Canada should become the 51st state, and that would be the best thing that happened to Canada in a long term.

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00:00:00.300 It's November 29th. Happy birthday, 51.
00:00:07.080 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel.
00:00:09.120 7.52 a.m. Saturday, November the 29th.
00:00:12.240 I hope you're having a great day today.
00:00:14.480 I truly am.
00:00:15.260 Hope you're having a great start to your weekend as well.
00:00:17.580 I do have my big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:19.740 It's fresh coffee, nice and hot,
00:00:21.640 tasting oh so sweet this morning.
00:00:23.320 Oh, by the way, if you haven't subscribed to the channel,
00:00:25.560 I'm this close to 42,000.
00:00:27.600 And if you were to click on subscribe right now,
00:00:31.060 it would really help the channel.
00:00:34.460 I have been waiting for this day for months.
00:00:38.420 I've been waiting to do this video for months.
00:00:41.020 It was months ago.
00:00:42.400 I put today's video and this video into my calendar.
00:00:46.740 I got a reminder about it two days ago,
00:00:48.800 and I was reminded about it again today.
00:00:50.860 I've been looking forward to this day,
00:00:52.900 and I want to say happy birthday to 51.
00:00:57.600 I don't know whether anybody else is going to talk about this today,
00:01:01.620 but I certainly am.
00:01:03.060 Some of you may have caught on,
00:01:05.320 but for those of you who haven't,
00:01:08.900 it was on this date one year ago,
00:01:11.060 November 29th,
00:01:12.020 when Justin Trudeau went down to Mar-a-Lago
00:01:14.280 to meet with Donald Trump.
00:01:16.060 And here's the famous picture.
00:01:17.080 And it was at this meeting and this dinner
00:01:22.320 that Donald Trump made a comment to Justin Trudeau
00:01:26.660 about Canada becoming the 51st state.
00:01:29.400 Now, I don't know whether Mr. Trump was making a joke here.
00:01:33.600 It was an offhanded remark,
00:01:35.300 but this changed the course of Canadian history.
00:01:39.260 It changed the course of an election campaign.
00:01:41.720 It put a party back in power,
00:01:45.800 the liberals on April 28th,
00:01:47.500 because of ignorant people who voted based on this comment
00:01:52.880 and people who are afraid that Canada was going to become the 51st state.
00:01:58.460 And here's Donald Trump explaining what happened
00:02:00.840 one year ago at Mar-a-Lago.
00:02:03.600 I said to Trudeau, I said,
00:02:05.940 why are we subsidizing you $200 and $250 billion a year?
00:02:12.920 He said, I really don't know.
00:02:16.020 And I said, well, I don't know either.
00:02:18.640 I said, what would happen to Canada if we didn't?
00:02:22.080 He said, Canada would be obliterated if that happened.
00:02:24.800 I said, then Canada should be a 51st state.
00:02:27.340 And just like that, 51 was born.
00:02:30.520 And it's had a staggeringly bad effect on Canada
00:02:34.680 because it re-elected the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:02:38.600 But while we're here,
00:02:39.780 why don't we take a nostalgic look back
00:02:42.000 at the very first year of our favorite son, 51.
00:02:47.540 You know, the prime minister said this weekend
00:02:49.280 to a group of Canadian businessmen,
00:02:50.960 he was a private meeting.
00:02:52.200 He said that your wish for Canada to be the 51st state
00:02:56.040 is a, quote, real thing.
00:02:58.120 Is it a real thing?
00:02:59.560 Yeah, it is.
00:03:00.020 I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state.
00:03:03.500 Look, I called him Governor Trudeau
00:03:05.460 because they should be the 51st state, really.
00:03:07.880 It would make a great state.
00:03:09.020 No, no, what the president has said,
00:03:10.280 and he has said this repeatedly,
00:03:11.460 is he was told by the previous prime minister
00:03:13.740 that Canada could not survive
00:03:15.180 without unfair trade with the United States.
00:03:17.360 At which point he asked,
00:03:18.580 well, if you can't survive as a nation
00:03:20.160 without treating us unfairly in trade,
00:03:22.240 then you should become a state.
00:03:23.720 That's what he said.
00:03:24.400 The president continues to call the prime minister of Canada,
00:03:27.700 Justin Trudeau, Governor of Canada.
00:03:30.080 I'm curious what he means by that
00:03:32.300 and if there are any plans that are moving forward
00:03:35.480 with trying to make Canada the 51st state.
00:03:38.560 I have a follow-up on the economy as well.
00:03:39.840 Sure.
00:03:40.220 Well, the president put that in his true social account
00:03:42.700 or his true social post earlier today.
00:03:45.560 He feels strongly that it would be very beneficial
00:03:47.840 for the Canadian people
00:03:49.060 to be the 51st state of the United States.
00:03:51.320 They wouldn't be paying for these tariffs.
00:03:53.260 They'd have much lower taxes
00:03:54.340 if they were part of our great country.
00:03:55.960 Frankly, Canada should be the 51st state, okay?
00:03:58.740 It really should
00:03:59.440 because Canada relies entirely on the United States.
00:04:03.540 We don't rely on Canada.
00:04:05.180 We will never be the 51st state.
00:04:08.160 We will be self-reliant, sovereign,
00:04:10.940 and stand on our own feet.
00:04:13.360 We will be an independent and a sovereign country
00:04:16.380 and I will always stand up for our flag and our people.
00:04:19.560 Thank you.
00:04:20.260 Thank you so much.
00:04:21.500 You know, I love the people of Canada.
00:04:23.020 We have a great relationship.
00:04:24.900 But if they became our 51st state,
00:04:27.660 it would be the greatest thing they could ever do.
00:04:29.540 It would be unbelievable.
00:04:30.480 It would be a cherished state.
00:04:32.480 Canada was meant to be the 51st state.
00:04:36.060 I would love to see Canada be the 51st state.
00:04:39.500 For only being one year old,
00:04:41.100 51 has had a very busy year.
00:04:43.960 And people are still talking about 51.
00:04:46.040 That's just a few of the times
00:04:47.640 that 51 was mentioned online and in the media.
00:04:50.860 But people are still scared of 51.
00:04:53.080 It's the biggest threat that they can imagine.
00:04:56.840 The Liberals made 51 out to be a monster.
00:05:00.940 And they used 51 to great effect.
00:05:04.440 These guys weren't wrong.
00:05:06.040 They want us to be the 51st state.
00:05:08.860 They want to break us.
00:05:10.860 They want to break us so they can own us. 0.94
00:05:13.860 They want our resources.
00:05:19.540 They want our water.
00:05:21.640 They want our land. 0.59
00:05:23.020 They want our country. 0.70
00:05:25.080 And what do we say?
00:05:27.600 You don't have to die.
00:05:29.000 You don't have to die.
00:05:31.320 Never.
00:05:32.800 Never.
00:05:33.400 As I've been warning for months,
00:05:36.260 America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country.
00:05:44.100 Never.
00:05:45.660 But these are not, these are not idle threats.
00:05:49.780 President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us.
00:05:55.420 It's hard to believe so many people believed what Mark Carney said, and they still believe
00:06:01.100 today.
00:06:02.480 It's hard to believe there are so many people who live in Canada that are that gullible.
00:06:07.140 I called it the campaign of fear at that time.
00:06:10.200 Anybody who knows better understands that if Canada became the 51st state, it would be a
00:06:18.040 blue state.
00:06:18.700 The only parts of Canada that are worth keeping are Alberta and Saskatchewan, maybe parts of
00:06:25.800 Manitoba and Northern British Columbia, but the rest would all vote for the Democrats.
00:06:32.100 And if you look at the map, folks, those of you who believed that Donald Trump was going
00:06:38.440 to take us and own us and steal all our land and everything, if you look at a map, Canada
00:06:44.260 still exists, it has not become the 51st state, nor will it ever.
00:06:51.080 Thank you very much for watching.
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00:06:57.980 I'll see you in the next one.
00:06:59.900 Happy birthday, 51.