Joy Reid Says Canada Can Beat the U.S. In a War: ‘Like Their Chances!’
Joy Reid argued on Thursday that Canada will never become an American state as President Donald Trump wants because they could beat their southern neighbors in a war.
Reid joined Don Lemon on The Don Lemon Show this week and balked at Trump’s continued push for America to absorb Canada. Canadian officials have pushed back on this being an option, but Trump has remained steadfast in his desire.
According to Reid, Canada would only become a new American state if the two countries went to war. She made clear her money is on Canada in that showdown.
“Grampy Trump, let’s talk. Let’s talk. First of all, you can’t make Canada the 51st state without going to war with them,” Reid said.
The former MSNBC host then used the War of 1812 as her proof that Canada could fight off any American invasion.
“Let me explain how that happened, how that worked out the last time we tried to go to war with Canada. They burned the White House to the ground in 1814 and won the war. Canada beat us in the war of 1812!” Reid declared. “They probably like their chances against us. We’re not going to beat them in a war because we have never been able to do that.”
Canadian troops did not actually burn down the White House, though. Canada was opposed to America in the War of 1812 as part of the British Empire at the time, but it was British troops and leadership who set fire to the White House and other federal buildings in 1814, according to CSPAN. Furthermore, the war did not end in a victory for the British, but a stalemate as the British did not retake the United States, which remains an independent country.
The New York Times also ran an article recently shutting down the belief that Canada “burned down” the White House after Trump in 2018 reportedly asked Trudeau, “Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?”
Reid went on to compare America invading Canada to Nazi Germany invading Russia, which is not the first time Reid has compared the current administration to Nazi Germany.
“You’d have to occupy a country that is equivalent of the size of the United States, in which the top two-thirds of it is uninhabited, frozen forest land that touches the Arctic,” Reid said. “You know how that worked out when the Nazis tried that with Russia, which is the equivalent of Canada on that part of the world? We’re gonna lose. We don’t have enough troops to occupy.”
At no point did Reid note the size and scale of the U.S. military versus that of Canada, which spent over 900 billion in 2023 compared to Canada’s 27 billion.
Watch above via The Don Lemon Show.
