President-elect Donald Trump mocked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau overnight as the "governor" of the "Great State of Canada" after recently warning of potential tariffs on the country.
"It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social account at just after midnight Tuesday.
Reached for comment on the president-elect's quip, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung only said, "It's so good.".
If we’re going to subsidize them, let them become a state," he said in the interview which aired on Sunday.
Trudeau said Monday that Canada would, “as we did eight years ago, respond to unfair tariffs,” according to the Associated Press.
Trudeau told reporters afterward in West Palm Beach, Florida, that he had an “excellent” conversation with Trump, but did not take any further questions.
"Trump has suggested that Canada become the 51st state in our union," he wrote in a post on X. »
