{"id":1601,"date":"2026-08-29T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2026-08-29T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:41:46","slug":"jd-vances-freudian-slip-makes-canada-part-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance\u2019s \u2018Freudian slip\u2019 makes Canada part of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid single-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/usfandailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grok-image-728844cf-1ab1-47c8-b2e9-52c01b3f0c06-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1792px) 100vw, 1792px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usfandailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grok-image-728844cf-1ab1-47c8-b2e9-52c01b3f0c06-1.jpg 1792w, https:\/\/usfandailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grok-image-728844cf-1ab1-47c8-b2e9-52c01b3f0c06-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usfandailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grok-image-728844cf-1ab1-47c8-b2e9-52c01b3f0c06-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/usfandailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grok-image-728844cf-1ab1-47c8-b2e9-52c01b3f0c06-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usfandailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grok-image-728844cf-1ab1-47c8-b2e9-52c01b3f0c06-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1792\" height=\"1008\" \/><\/p>\n<article class=\"page-content-single small single\" data-mg-article-url=\"https:\/\/usfandailynews.com\/news\/1101?fbclid=IwY2xjawT_zrBwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMW5FaVhDYXNkUFNsUngwNUJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeE9YQSwFZcEbtm4zwb76IDPAh0qkG6G3hWPQ1oexCmxDPXZY1dmkAdk2bKOw_aem_ovne_bUqyDFqVY3g2HgVCg\">Vice President\u2019s blunder chimed neatly with President Donald Trump\u2019s rhetoric about incorporating the neighboring nation into the United States at a time of high tension between the pair<\/p>\n<p>Vice President\u00a0JD Vance\u00a0made an embarrassing \u201cFreudian slip\u201d when he described\u00a0Canada\u00a0as a \u201cstate,\u201d rather than a country, as the\u00a0tariff war between the two neighbors\u00a0heats up.<\/p>\n<p>Vance was campaigning on behalf of Republican House candidate Paul LePage in Brewer,\u00a0Maine, when he addressed the current tensions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to remember, Canada is a state \u2013 sorry, Freudian slip,\u201d the VP\u00a0said, immediately realizing his error when his audience laughed. \u201cThat was actually an accident. Canada is a country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to accuse America\u2019s neighbor of\u00a0\u201ctaking advantage\u201d of the U.S. on trade\u00a0by providing \u201ca backdoor for Chinese goods\u201d, saying its officials had made \u201ca bunch of unreasonable last-minute demands,\u201d which had derailed their talks.<\/p>\n<p>Vance further said Canada had\u00a0\u201cunderinvested\u201d in its military\u00a0and would be forced to seek U.S. protection if it were invaded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-2 cbpRGD sc-awdjp1-3 image align-center\">\n<figure class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\">\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-0 hYfVkB\" data-gallery-length=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/08\/25\/10\/2291860235..\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/08\/25\/10\/2291860235..?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/08\/25\/10\/2291860235..?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;crop=3%3A2%2Csmart&amp;auto=webp 640w\" alt=\"Vice President JD Vance accidentally referred to Canada as a \u2018state,\u2019 not a country, during an address in Maine Monday\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-1ihz57b-0 sc-awdjp1-1 bMDiiD\" data-component=\"AutoGalleryButton\" data-theme-name=\"independent\">\n<div data-theme-wrapper=\"independent\"><button id=\"trigger-autogallery-459693\" class=\"sc-1uf4o3q-0 dkRtZs inline-gallery-btn\"><span class=\"sc-1uf4o3q-1 hwVecx\">open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 YlsWU hgzWpY\">Vice President JD Vance accidentally referred to Canada as a \u2018state,\u2019 not a country, during an address in Maine Monday<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 gjqsiM\">\u00a0(Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>His gaffe was significant because President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has repeatedly made overtures towards Canada about its\u00a0becoming the 51st state, often ironically referring to Prime Minister\u00a0Mark Carney\u00a0as \u201cgovernor\u201d on social media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-3yb7b2-0 cbwrqA\"><\/div>\n<p>Canadians have reacted angrily to Trump\u2019s provocations, which inspired a wave of patriotic feeling that saw\u00a0American goods boycotted, Carney swept to power in the April 2025 federal election and his more MAGA-friendly rival Pierre Poilievre lose his seat.<\/p>\n<p>The failure of the talks, designed to stave off the imposition of\u00a050 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian exports, has prompted Carney to warn Trump he will\u00a0retaliate \u201cdollar for dollar\u201d\u00a0and caused the president to spark up a\u00a0personal war of words\u00a0with Ontario Premier Doug Ford.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-r9kkgp-0 jiFZEr sc-1k7glnk-0 dvOQMU\">\n<div id=\"mpu2\" class=\"sc-r9kkgp-2 iZSTWl\" data-mpu=\"true\" data-is-video=\"false\" data-tile-name=\"mpu2\" data-ad-unit-path=\"\/71347885\/_main_independent\/mpu2\" data-size-key=\"SINGLE_MPU_ARTICLE\" data-refresh-check=\"false\" data-refresh-ms=\"30000\" data-initialised=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vance made a number of other blunders in Maine, declaring at one stage: \u201cIf you are defrauding the taxpaper \u2013 payer \u2013 we\u2019re going to do everything we can to put you in prison and send a message to the other fraudsters: the gig [jig] is up, commit fraud against America and go to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-2 cbpRGD sc-awdjp1-3 image align-center\">\n<figure class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\">\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-0 gsBRVF\" data-gallery-length=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/08\/24\/21\/Canada_US_Trade_41633.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/08\/24\/21\/Canada_US_Trade_41633.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/08\/24\/21\/Canada_US_Trade_41633.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" alt=\"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to retaliate against President Donald Trump\u2019s 50 percent tariffs \u2018dollar for dollar\u2019\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-1ihz57b-0 sc-awdjp1-1 bMDiiD\" data-component=\"AutoGalleryButton\" data-theme-name=\"independent\">\n<div data-theme-wrapper=\"independent\"><button id=\"trigger-autogallery-459694\" class=\"sc-1uf4o3q-0 dkRtZs inline-gallery-btn\"><span class=\"sc-1uf4o3q-1 hwVecx\">open image in gallery<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 YlsWU hgzWpY\">Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to retaliate against President Donald Trump\u2019s 50 percent tariffs \u2018dollar for dollar\u2019<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 gjqsiM\">\u00a0(AP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He went on to offer a garbled answer about a recent ICE shooting in Biddeford, initially saying he did not want to \u201cprejudge all the details\u201d and preferred to wait for an internal investigation to be completed.<\/p>\n<p>But then he added: \u201cAt least what the law enforcement officers argue is that that person posed a danger to the community\u201d before urging against trying the case in \u201cthe court of public opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An apparent joke also\u00a0fell flat,\u00a0drawing a mixed response when he referred to his wife Usha\u2019s doubts about his becoming Trump\u2019s running mate two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second lady said, \u2018Well, you can have one of two things. You can be vice president, or you can have a fourth child,\u2019\u201d Vance recounted. \u201cLadies and gentlemen, I must be pretty persuasive, because I got both.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President\u2019s blunder chimed neatly with President Donald Trump\u2019s rhetoric about incorporating the neighboring nation into the United States at a time of high tension between the pair Vice President\u00a0JD &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/checkthenews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}