after Donald Trump won the election Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew down to Mara Lago that meeting did not appear to go well Fox News is reporting that Trudeau warned Trump that his tariff proposal would kill the Canadian economy to which Trump replied that Canada could then become the 51st state and that Trudeau could be Governor joining us now staff writer for the Atlantic and MSNBC political contributor mark lebovich this is just just such a strange story and from the reporting it sounds so insulting you could just be the 51st state what is what is
Donald Trump's relationship with our one of our closest allies why why does he treat people like Justin Trudeau with such apparent disdain because he feels like he can I mean I think this is basically the this is essentially why he has the appeal that he does for his supporters which is a sense of Bluster a sense of incredible dismissiveness over someone he considers inferior someone Americans considered to be this sort of a fat neighbor to the north and and frankly just you know it's kind of the law of the Jungle I mean we are bigger
than you we are stronger than you you rely on us more than we rely on you and therefore I can push you around like this I think it probably helps that Trudeau is a lot younger than trump it probably helps that you know Trump feels like he can Lord over any number of things you know in part and this reflected in how he treated him during the first term I mean he they had a they didn't have a great relationship um the first time around so to me this is um a continuation of that and
I also think that that Trudeau feeling it necessary to go down to Mara Lago kind of underscores not only the Reliance that he feels he has on the relationship but also on a kind of subservience that he along with many other people in the world and in the country feel that they owe to Donald Trump at this point I I just wonder how it's going to go take two um because the world has experienced Donald Trump before Justin Trudeau's experienced him many of the the leaders uh that are around today were around when Donald Trump
was in office um the last time around and there was an understanding that built up over time which was that you could flatter Donald Trump and you could get what you wanted out of him be nice to him say great things say how powerful and smart he is and then you could give him like you know a mediocre concession and he would go around and tout it and wave it like it was one big win is that still your understanding of of the way the world is going to treat him during this second Administration should
we expect any big major changes or should it just be a you know a series of of small concessions in order for Donald Trump to look big on the demestic stage right I mean here's the thing I mean Donald Trump actually is big on a domestic stage I mean he's president he he comes into office you know with Incredible sense of you know power and and whether you you can argue the Mandate left and right but I mean and he he obviously you know feels a great superiority over over Trudeau and you know people around
the world I mean whether whether they have any power over Donald Trump or not I mean this is sort of the nature of the relationship until we we are seeing otherwise and I also think look if Donald Trump understands one thing it's leverage and he feels like he has a great deal of Leverage now both domestically internationally and certainly with Canada and I think we're seeing that play out
