Tucker Carlson on Thursday called for the US to invade Canada and remove Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Fox News host said he said that before saying he was talking “so crazy.” (See the video below.)
During Fox Nation’s “Tucker Carlson Today,” Carlson referred to the arrest of an anti-vax truck last year in Canada. Demonstrators paralyzed trade and won over extremists with traffic protests over COVID-19 safety measures. At the time, Carlson said the country had become a dictatorship because of the government’s actions.
And now he suggests that he wants to do something about it.
“I really like the Bay of Pigs operation to liberate the country,” Carlson said. “Why should we step back and let our biggest trading partner … why should we be Cuba? Like, why don’t we liberate? We’re spending all this money to liberate Ukraine from Russia. Why don’t we send armed forces north to liberate Canada from Trudeau? And I mean it.”
The right-wing personality then laughed and said, “I’m just talking to myself here.”
Carlson’s advice brings to mind the mostly forgotten 1995 film “Canadian Bacon,” in which the United States ratchets up tensions with Canada, prompting Americans to prepare for war.