Trump claims Trudeau said Canada would be ‘failed nation’ without U.S. trade imbalance

U.S. President Donald Trump commented on potential tariffs on Canadian goods coming into the United States while on a trip to North Carolina on Friday. Trump claimed that the U.S. loses $200 billion a year with Canada. The U.S. president then claimed that in a conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the PM admitted to Trump that Canada would be a “failed nation” without U.S. subsidies. Trump said he replied to Trudeau that Canada “should be a state.” The President did not provide any proof for his claim.