Trump is reportedly turning his attention to Canada and focusing on its 'vulnerability'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 18 January 2026 13:45 EST


President Donald Trump is reportedly turning his attention to Canada and becoming fixated on the country’s “vulnerability” to foreign adversaries.

In recent weeks, Trump has griped that the Arctic reaches of the Great White North are exposed to Chinese and Russian encroachment, multiple unnamed officials told NBC News. U.S. officials are now reportedly looking into coordinating with Ottawa to strengthen Canada’s northern border.

“Trump is really worried about the U.S. continuing to drift in the Western Hemisphere and is focused on this,” one official told the outlet.

Trump’s recent focus on Canada follows a whirlwind first year in office, marked by bold unilateral moves to extend U.S. influence across the Western Hemisphere — often through thinly veiled military threats, an approach he has branded the “Donroe Doctrine.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-canada-vulnerability-greenland-b2902798.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump needs to be impeached before he destroys everything beyond repair.

[brer cat]

3. I agree. It will reach a point where we cannot

recover. He needs to stopped before then not wait until it's done and impeach him.

[Irish_Dem]

4. The Supreme Court and most of congress think Trump is doing great.

So does the MAGA cult.

We have no checks and balances.

[Justice matters.]

12. A tiny number of pedo's supporters support taking Greenland by force.

Even just buying Greenland polls in the teens within magats.

All of his shity bullying falls flat. It is unnecessary (Greenland and Canada are already in NATO and US military bases are already present in both). It is uncalled for, unhinged, and counter-productive.

The only reason that despicable lying conman does it is because he wants to personally OWN the resources and control who can buy them FROM HIM and at what PRICE he will accept to sell those resources (minerals, gold, diamonds, oil) to his corrupt friends.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Trump is stealing countries for personal gain. It is as simple as that.

It all goes into his pocket.

He is on the world's biggest crime spree.

[EllieBC]

17. Miller and Thiel and Vance and all of them do not care.

The elite will be fine. They have their bunkers to hide in. They have their money. They literally don’t care if the world fell to a nuclear war.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Greatest crime spree in the history of the world.

Yep, no one seems to give a damn enough to do anything.

[EllieBC]

21. As soon as I realized we have bunkers

for government officials I realized they will never care. We are collateral damage in their quest for more more more. What will they do if most of us are gone? IMO they’d enslave whatever number of the regular people are left and make them rebuild their world.

[Irish_Dem]

41. Yes it appears they will kill as many of us as it takes to get what they want.

In fact, they want a reduction of the American people who they see as useless eaters.

Their goals are money and power.
And we are in their way.

[rampartd]

29. if they go to their bunkers and kill us all

at some point their security force will determine that money is worthless and why should we keep this old guy around?

[thought crime]

23. He has been impeached twice with little effect. It may already be too late to stop him.

It looks like the political process has been destroyed. Past tense. Due to the near complete collapse of a Democratic campaign, the US elected a fascist criminal after an attempted coup, and he spent the first year of his term tearing down the fabric of our government as well as the liberal world order.

[Irish_Dem]

40. I agree and disagree.

1. Yes I think Trump is unstoppable.

2. No the Dem campaign did not collapse.
100% certain the Trump. Musk, Putin stole the election.

3. The American political process and rule of law are dead. Yes.

[Blasphemer]

37. At this point, I think he wants to be

He and Putin are maximizing the nuttery to see if there will be any real resistance. If resistance efforts fail, they win. If not, they die trying. It’s a suicide mission. I think they are both very ill and on the brink of death anyway.

[Irish_Dem]

42. I am sure their replacements are lined up.

The dictators and billionaires have it all figured out at this point.

[Bengus81]

43. It's all 100% up to Republicants as to what kind of Country they want

A democracy or NAZI American,take your pick Comer,Jordan,turtle and all the rest. That POS NAZI could be GONE this week IF Republicants give a shit.

Evidently they don't........

[Irish_Dem]

44. In fact most of GOP congress probably loves what Trump is doing.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. You had to know that was coming. Once you're in Minnesota it's right across the street

PM Carney looked like he had a lot on his mind at the press conference the other day. Worried.

[highplainsdem]

5. "...worried about the U.S. continuing to drift in the Western Hemisphere"? WTF does that mean? What's

drifting is Trump's untethered mind.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Money drifting away from Trump's pocket.

[delisen]

6. How fluid seem the American borders of this Regime

The authors of Project 2025 may have not foreseen the potential for their vision to end in a smaller, weaker, and poorer. United States of America.

[MLWR]

7. I cannot think of a single member of the republiSCUM party who has ever even considered

that the law of unintended consequences could ever possibly apply to him/her.

[delisen]

10. Well said!

[Marie Marie]

34. Yeah, for someone who demands that the world respect our borders and not infiltrate

our country with their people he sure knows how to bully his way past borders where he is just as unwelcome.

[Layzeebeaver]

36. I don't think they cares a long as it's a Christian stronghold with white men in power

That is all.

[paleotn]

8. More crazed shit from a demented old man.

[Dave Bowman]

9. Can't wait for the ignorant pus-filled rapist to croak.

[Talitha]

11. Damn, those Epstein Files must hold a LOT of evidence!

Release them NOW!

(Or leak them - there's got to be someone who can.)

[pfitz59]

15. Epstein distraction

Keep our eyes on the prize.

[Jughead]

16. What he does not realize...

Is most of the northern states contain Canadians who immigrated here over the last century.

[BumRushDaShow]

39. "Is most of the northern states contain Canadians who immigrated here over the last century."

And then came Carnival Cruz.

[bucolic_frolic]

45. Quebec Diaspora began about 1830

Many towns in the northern US carry French names. Not to mention Acadians.

[CaptainTruth]

19. Trump has "attention"? Why did we not know this before?

[dalton99a]

20. Yeah, do that, asshole

[Puppyjive]

22. OMG

I served with co manning Canadians in the military. They work with us on a lot of platforms. They are our closest (or were) our closest ally. They are members of NATO. Trump needs to get the house out of the people's house. He is demented and just plain stupid. He doesn't know anything about history.

[Xipe Totec]

24. "vulnerability" to foreign adversaries, such as the neighbor to the south. nt

[Cha]

25. I would Think That With All the Countries

Coming Together to Support Greenland and Denmark.. the Nazis haven't seen anything yet when it comes to Canada.

[Aristus]

26. Shit.

The Independent could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.

“…a whirlwind first year in office marked by bold unilateral moves…”

The money is on the nightstand, Independent. You gave him a knob-shine for the ages…

[Cha]

27. On & STFU Gaseous Loaded With Shit Nazi Blowhard.

[iemanja]

28. Should be the Dumbo Doctrine.

[Blue Owl]

30. What a sick, sad fuck

JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY YOU FAT MISERABLE FUCK

[no_hypocrisy]

31. Ultimately, what Trump wants to all of North and South American before

he dies or his term is up.

A Bond Super Villain.

[Norrrm]

32. "Donroe Doctrine." - Too mentally impaired to even come up with an original title.

Learning the fine art of plagiarism from Melania.

[Prairie Gates]

33. "Trump is really worried about the U.S. continuing to drift in the Western Hemisphere and is focused on this"

This is a meaningless statement.

What does "continuing to drift" mean? What does it mean to "drift" in the Western heisphere? What is Trump focused on? What is the antecedent of the demonstrative pronoun "this?"

What kind of a news outlets simply published nonsense speech of this kind without attempting to explain it in some way to the reader?

Truly ridiculous.

[Boo1]

35. Work with Canada to strengthen their northern border????

From what? Santa Claus?


The Russians don't have the logistical capability to sustain anything outside of their own borders, and especially not across the fucking pole. The Chinese don't have the ability to operate there either.

If it's about missile defense, the Canadian, Greenland, and everyone else in NATO would let us build those systems on their territories without question if we just asked them to.

[Deminpenn]

38. Does Trump know about Alaska?

Asking for a friend.