Trump's voters immerse threats to Canadian sovereignty as a joke and remarks

The smile begins to form on the face of Joseph Redmon, and even a small giggle, at the first mention of Canada they become 51.

“It's a joke,” he says over and over again.

“It will never happen. This cannot happen. It won't happen,” he says ultimately before he gets a full question.

“He does it to get under the skin of people and upset them, it's just his mantra,” says Redmon. He is aware that Canadians are largely opposed to annexation, and a practical point of view believes that he will harm the Republicans in the long run, taking into account the relatively left Canadian policy.

Canadians should see it as a compliment, he says: “Every time you all hear it, you should just smile.”

The retired major of the American army sat with CBC News along with five other Republican voters at the village Kentucky, for sincere conversations about the return of President Donald Trump to power. The state has voted for Trump in the last three elections, and in Meade, where CBC News caught up with voters, Trump won with 75 % support.

Despite the introduction of his tariffs that cause serious slack abroad – especially in Canada, the repeated goal of the threat of the annexation of the US President – several Trump voters who talked to CBC News, said that they were still supporting him, and even completely rejected his recent rhetoric as a tactic of joke or dispersion.

“ This is a distraction '' '

This includes 72 -year -old Ginny Delano, a pensioner who believes that Trump is trying to mock Canadians.

“I think it's funny when there are many people with TDS, Trump disorder syndrome,” he says, referring to the offensive term used to describe negative reactions to Trump, which are seen as irrational.

“Their heads explode and I think it's funny when he says such things and arises from them.”

Her husband, Gala Delano, 85 years old, is more sympathetic with Canadian frustration.

“I understand that Canadians are nervous because it is their country,” he says.

“And you know, if it is America, we will fight for America, and Canadians will fight for their country.”

Some say that talking to Trump's annexation is not serious.

“I think that this – again is a dispersion,” says Mark Burnett, chairman of the Republican Party of Meade.

“If the inhabitants of Canada wanted to be 51. I think it would be something that we would all talk about. But of course it is not that we intend – it is not that the US will attack Canada.

“You pull this kind of rhetoric from the media many times. It's so that we won't do it.”

Tariff requirement

But in Trump's tariff plan, many voters who talked to CBC News thought that at least this would cause short -term economic instability.

“This will affect employment and work, but sometimes to fix what is really broken, you need to do some pain,” said John Clauer, another pensioner who voted for Trump.

Tariff program in the first place it already had a negative impact on the stock exchange and made the US to retaliate. Canada has imposed tariffs for tens of billions of dollars in American goodswhile some provinces pulled out American products, including alcoholfrom store shelves.

Clauer, who is deeply concerned about the US deficit, supports Trump's efforts to reduce expenses. He considers the tariffs as another tool at Trump's disposal.

“I just think that people in other countries must recognize the position in which we are. And understand that his tariffs are used to rebuild the United States economy and control the deficit.”

Several supporters of Trump who talked to CBC News shares this worry.

“I think it is … a starting point for saying that we have to do something different,” says Burnett from Meade.

“Of course, this is a bit scary,” he admitted, but he says that the funds are necessary.

“I think that American companies have become addicted to cheap labor abroad, and of course it does not have so much to do with Canada, but it is still a way of thinking that we have to deal with.”

Support for Trump remains intact

For these voters, Trump returned to the White House, and his first two months of office are seen as a success.

“I think he is a clear character,” says Ginny Delano.

Her husband Gale Delano shares the sense of optimism about Trump.

“At the moment he goes at a speed of a crack. He does everything he promised to do; it's hard to say about a politician.”

81 -year -old Doug Cornett, a retired teacher and school administrator, is not sure what to think about Trump's tariffs, but he is ready to give the president the benefits of doubt.

“At the moment it can be a bit rough, but I think it will finally smooth out and everything will be great.”

And although the blunt, aggressive style of Trump is not necessarily something that all his voters are tolerable.

“He does things in his own way. I am glad that I do not work for him, but I support him in an attempt to heal the American economy,” says Clauer, a pensioner worried about a deficit.

Joseph Redmon perceives Trump as the right leader at the moment.

“He is disturbing.

“We hired him for this, we need it, America is in trouble.”