President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he plans to order “very serious tariffs” against Canada and Mexico — and that he will rechristen the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. Canada is subsidized to the tune of about $200 billion a year,

“The Texas economy is deeply connected with Mexico in particular, and also with Canada,” he said. “A lot of the business that Texas does with Canada, of course, comes through the oil side of things, where we import crude oil from Canada and refine it on the Gulf Coast.

President-elect Donald Trump again outlined his issues with Canada on Tuesday, citing concerns about Canada's military and asserting that the U.S. is subsidizing the Canadian economy. He ruled out using military force on Canada,

President-elect Trump said Tuesday he was not considering using military force to make Canada part of the United States after repeatedly musing about the idea of the country becoming the 51st state. Instead,

United States president-elect Donald Trump is doubling down on his plans to impose tariffs on Canada in his first news conference since the certification of his election win.

Canada could fix its struggling economy by becoming the 51st state of the United States—at least that’s what Donald Trump believes. The US president, who has repeated this idea multiple times, says merging the two nations would save Canada from what he describes as its dire financial situation.