Never let it be said that Donald Trump doesn't say just what's on his mind.

On Monday, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announced his long-overdo resignation, which has to have plenty of Canadians breathing a sigh of relief. The Gavin Newsom of the North — both men are similar in having great hair with very little underneath — will step down pending his party electing a new leader, and the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, seem poised to take over and restore some measure of sanity to the Great White North.

President-elect Trump took to his Truth Social platform to laud the resignation and to renew a familiar call.

President-elect Trump's post reads in full:

Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State. The United States can no longer suffer the massive Trade Deficits and Subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this, and resigned. If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no Tariffs, taxes would go way down, and they would be TOTALLY SECURE from the threat of the Russian and Chinese Ships that are constantly surrounding them. Together, what a great Nation it would be!!!

It's tempting to point out to the President-elect that Canada, despite his use of the present tense, is not America's 51st state. At least, not yet. But it's interesting; at first, it seemed likely that the President-elect was employing an "Art of the Deal" negotiating tactic in his talking about annexing Canada. 

But he sure keeps bringing it up.

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Earlier today I wrote a VIP piece on what a combined USA/Canada (and Greenland) super-state might look like. (If you don't have a VIP account, I recommend it; right now, you can use the promo code SAVEAMERICA for 50 percent off.) In short, in the extremely unlikely event this was to happen, Canada wouldn't be the 51st state. The principle of federalism precludes it. The Maritimes have a local culture distinct from the Quebecois, who are distinct from Ontario, who are likewise distinct from the more conservative plains provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, who are distinct from British Columbia, and so on. Making each of the provinces a state might work; better still, increase the — please forgive the corporate buzzword — granularity of Canada, breaking it up further into 15 or 20 states.

Of course, this is all talk. Canada isn't going to join the United States, and we can hardly just go up there and take it; for one thing, Canada is still part of the British Commonwealth, and the King may have something to say about it.

Which brings us back to the "Art of the Deal" idea. Donald Trump is mercurial; he likes throwing out proposals like confetti to see if any of them land anywhere interesting. By summer, he may well be talking up some other Canadian policy completely, especially if he's dealing with Pierre Poilievre, who will be a great improvement over the unlamented Justin Trudeau. And, no matter what happens, Canada and the United States will remain joined at the hip. We are each other's primary trade partners, we share a lot culturally, and nowhere else in the history of mankind have two nations shared a 5,525-mile land border, the longest international border in the world today, for over 200 years without so much as a squabble along that line.

That much, at least, won't change.