{"id":181947,"date":"2026-08-25T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/181947\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:15:07","slug":"jd-vance-says-calling-canada-a-state-was-just-a-freudian-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/181947\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance Says Calling Canada A State Was Just A \u2018Freudian Slip\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

JD Vance<\/a> made an admitted Freudian slip<\/a> on Monday that probably won\u2019t ease the minds of Canadian citizens.<\/p>\n

The vice president made the gaffe during a rally in Maine, where he was discussing <\/a>the escalating trade war with Canada<\/a> <\/a>and argued that the current policy hurts the Pine Tree State.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that we need to send a message loud and clear to the prime minister of Canada: Stop taking advantage of the people of Maine<\/a>,\u201d Vance said. \u201cStop taking advantage of America. It\u2019s over. We expect fairness in our trade policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trade negotiations between the neighboring nations fell apart on Friday<\/a>, and the US responded by imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian goods, while Canada said it would retaliate with its own penalties starting Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

Although Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney accused<\/a> the US of not acting fairly or respecting Canada\u2019s sovereignty, Vance claimed Canada is the one who is acting unfairly.<\/p>\n

But his attack wasn\u2019t as smooth as he probably hoped, given that it began with a major unintentional error.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to remember Canada is a state,\u201d Vance said, seeming to reference Trump\u2019s long-announced troll, er, goal of turning the country into America\u2019s 51st state.<\/a><\/p>\n

But Vance quickly corrected himself. \u201cSorry, Freudian slip,\u201d and stressed, \u201cThat was actually an accident.\u201d <\/p>\n

Vance then accused Canada of underinvesting in its military, claiming it \u201cquite literally would get invaded by a foreign country were it not for the umbrella of protection provided by the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then claimed Canada was applying \u201cridiculous tariffs and other non-tariff duties on Maine products coming into Canada,\u201d and asked rhetorically, \u201cand they don\u2019t expect Maine or anybody else to fight back?\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance told the crowd, \u201cWe\u2019re actually going to fight back against unfair trade practices, whether it\u2019s coming from China or Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JD Vance made an admitted Freudian slip on Monday that probably won\u2019t ease the minds of Canadian citizens.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,864,24517],"class_list":["post-181947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-jd-vance","tag-maine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}