MSNBC's Ali Velshi, who hails from Canada, said Sunday that annexing his home country could lead to a "liberal supermajority" in Congress, meaning that U.S. President Donald Trump probably hasn't thought through his annexation offer.
"Donald Trump has offered Canada the chance to become the 51st state, and I say, why stop there?" Velshi said. "Bear with me while I do a little math."
Velshi went on to explain that Canada has 41 million people, "so if Canada were to become America, some changes would be in order. Fiirst of all, Congress would have to grow."
"But here's problem," He continued. "Number one, this little thing called the Reapportionment Act of 1929 mandates that the U.S. House is no bigger than 435 members. So, if you did the math combining Canada's population with America's and dividing it by 435, Canada would net 47 seats, and those seats would be taken away from states all over the country. Who's going to tell all of those voters that Trump gave their congressional representation to a guy in Saskatchewan?"
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Regarding the Senate, "Trump is only offering that Canada become one state with two senators," but since each Canadian province would insist on being its own state, Canada wouldn't be the 51st state. it would be states 51 through 60 at the very least" meaning a possible 20 new members of the Senate. And that, said Velshi, would make for "the largest reorientation of political power in America since women were given the right to vote in 1920."
Velshi concluded, "Expansion from Canada to the 'Gulf of America' might be a fun idea for Trump, until our nice neighbors up north kick his party out of office and install a liberal supermajority. We haven't even talked about what that's going to do to the supreme court. Now, of course, in typical Canadian politeness, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there's, quote, 'Not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada joins America,' but Canada, if I were you, maybe the chance to take over your noisy neighbor from inside isn't the worst idea in the world."
Watch the clip below via MSNBC.
