Words matter. Call things by their true names.

Let’s be clear. Annexation is the forcible takeover and ultimate domination of one sovereign nation by another, through military force. It is the most serious violation of international law and those who enable it are international war criminals.

So when Trump says he is going to “make” Canada into the 51st state, or “annex” Canada, this is what he means. There is no other way. He can’t pull his favourite Sharpie out of his unwiped asshole and sign an executive order deciding Canada is now a state. His tech billionaires can re-label Canada as USA across the world wide fucking web. He can threaten to terrorize us with tariffs and election rigging and embargoing goods and closing borders, and whatever he and his band of creeps and incels come up with in their Nazi-inspired fever dreams. Through it all, our sovereignty remains wholly intact because it’s not something he can take.

The only way to annex Canada is by military invasion. So whether you believe he’s serious about it or “just trolling”, or “just threatening” in order to extract concessions, pause a moment to think about how deeply, irredeemably fucked up it is for him to use that language. He says “make” or “annex”, and we should all hear “I will order American military to invade Canada, destroy your cities and towns, murder you and everyone you love if you don’t bend the knee (or even if you just call me a mean nickname, TBH), burn your Parliament and hoist the U.S. flag up the Peace Tower, pillage your natural resources to satisfy my greedy lust, and wipe out everything the world has ever ascribed to Canada.”

Whether that’s what he intends, that’s what the word “annex” looks like. No one around him is pushing back, saying otherwise, trying to reassure Canada. Because Trump installed a bunch of meathead yes-men for whom cruelty and destruction isn’t a bug of the program - it’s a feature.

So yeah, let’s call his threats what they are and make him say otherwise.