Canadian Politician Calls Out CNN and Media Coverage of ‘Buffoon’ Trump’s Invasion Remarks: ‘Teasing About Taking Over Other Countries!?’

A member of the Canadian House of Commons called out CNN for its coverage of Donald Trump’s musings about the annexation of Canada.

This week, Trump bizarrely mused about making Canada part of the United States and referred to the country’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” of the 51st state. Trump has made similar threatening remarks regarding other countries, including Panama and Greenland.

CNN published a report on those threats that referred to Trump’s commentary as “teasing” U.S. expansion into these countries.

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During an interview with MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas, Canadian MP Charlie Angus called Trump a “buffoon” while attacking U.S. media for its reserved coverage of his comments.

Watching some of the response in the US media, CNN stated, he’s just teasing. What? Teasing about taking over other countries?! But then they said that, you know, hey, it’d be a great deal for America to be bigger than Louisiana Purchase. There’s no such thing. I was teasing when you’re threatening the sovereignty of independent nations. And I think for a lot of us, we just thought Donald sort of acted like the buffoon, but he wasn’t that stupid. But here’s a man who, when Putin launched his murderous war in Ukraine, praised Putin, said he was savvy, said he was a genius, and he has one of his Putin trolls taking it, one of the key places in his new administration. So his disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty sent, I think, a very, very chilling message. His attacks on Panama, his attacks on Greenland, his attacks on Canada are sending a message that he doesn’t respect the international order in terms of the rights of nations. And we have to start taking that, I think, a lot more seriously.

Watch the clip above via MeidasTouch.