Social media fans hail Green Party leader who invites California to become Canadian province
Who wants to be a state? taunts Elizabeth May after Trump’s 51st state dig. Canada offers free health care, safe streets and abortion rights, she boasts
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Your support makes all the difference.Social media is continuing to rave about Canada’s Green Party leader who mocked Donald Trump’s lack of political knowledge in a recent speech and invited California - and Oregon and Washington - to join Canada as its newest provinces.
Elizabeth May flamed Trump at a recent press conference for his bullying, demeaning suggestion that the Canadian nation would make a “nice 51st state.”
She noted: “We do not aspire to be the 51st state ... If it was a joke, it was never funny, and it ends now.”
She called the taunt “insulting” and Trump’s casual suggestion about taking over sovereign nations, including Panana and Greenland astonishing.
She suggested instead that it would be an excellent idea for America’s West Coast states to join its welcoming northern neighbor in solidarity. Given California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s tense relationship with Trump, it could be tempting.
“Maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How ‘bout it, California? Oregon? Washington? We’ve got geography in common,” she urged.
“This is what we’ve got for you: Free healthcare, universal, free healthcare. No more one-year-olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list, and their parents are on the news because they’re trying to do a GoFundMe, because they’re trying to get their daughter to a doctor,” May mocked.
“California citizens, Washington, Oregon: Safer streets here, we already have strict gun laws, and women have the right to an abortion under the universal healthcare system,” she crowed.
May also belittled Trump’s knowledge of world affairs after he posted on Truth Social last month that he had urged Canada hockey legend Wayne Gretsky to become the country’s prime minister. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that he is resigning and will step down once a successor has been chosen
Trump recounted: “I said, ‘Wayne, why don’t you run for prime minister of Canada, soon to be known as the governor of Canada — you would win easily, you wouldn’t even have to campaign.’ He had no interest.”
“Please,” May addressed Trump at the press conference, “before making public pronouncements that Wayne Gretsky should run for prime minister, first get yourself a briefing on the nature of parliamentary democracry .... where no one runs for prime minister.”
May added: “I suggest Mr. Trump find one of his grandchildren’s school books and look up the year 1776, which may explain a few things to him about why our systems of government are different.”
Trump has yet to respond to May.
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