Canada’s Trudeau announces resignation following party pressure amid criticisms of Trump, budget handling
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday there is not a ‘snowball’s chance in hell’ his country will become part of the U.S., as President-elect Trump continues to make his push to make the neighbor to the north the United States’ 51st state.

“There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” Trudeau wrote on X. “Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner.”

Trudeau’s response came after Trump said Canada should be a state, while speaking at a news conference on Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Nov. 29.  (Justin Trudeau X)

Trudeau announced that he intends to resign as party leader and prime minister after pressure from within his own Liberal Party increasingly grew amid heightened criticisms over his handling of the economy and threats levied by Trump. He said he will resign once the party selects a new leader. 

Trudeau, who led the nation for nearly a decade, has been grappling for months with significant drops in his approval ratings over mounting frustration relating to issues like the soaring cost of living and rising inflation. 

Trudeau’s resignation means the Liberal Party can appoint an interim prime minister to lead the country until the elections next fall, giving them potentially a fighting chance to bring renewed support back to the Liberal Party. 

Along with his fixation on Canada, Trump has also called on Denmark to sell Greenland to the U.S.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser, Caitlin McFall and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.

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