US 2024 - 2025 Chronology

Financial Post: Canada ’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who will step down from office on March 9, was recently caught on an open mic warning that Trump ’s ambition to absorb the U.S. ’ s northern neighbour was a real thing.(February 26, 2025)

September 2025   Trump again floats Canada joining the U.S. as the 51st state 'Why don't you just join our country? Become the 51st state,' Trump says at speech to military officials (September 30, 2025)      PBS: At gathering of military leaders, Trump hints at deployment in U.S. cities (September 30, 2025)      FULL REMARKS: President Trump's Fiery Speech Before 800 US Military Generals at Quantico (September 30, 2025)      Politico: Russ Voughts crusade upends the shutdown fight (September 26, 2025)      Businesses scramble to decipher Trump’s new wave of tariffs (Drugs and Trucks)(September 26, 2025)      Yahoo Finance: U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says he's offended by the suggestion that President Donald Trump is uninformed about what Canada has to offer his country. (September 25, 2025)      CSIS: A Quick Analysis of Secretary Hegseth’s General Officers Meeting (September 25, 2025)      CFR: How Much Does the U.S. Fund the United Nations? (Trump update) (September 25, 2025)      The Atlantic: The Comey Indictment Is Not Just Payback It’s a glimpse of Trump’s next attempt to seize power. (September 25, 2025)      G&M:Trump’s policies have hurt safe-haven status of U.S. dollar, Macklem says (September 23, 2025)      Reuters: Trump tells UN that climate change is 'greatest con job' globally (September 23, 2025)      CBC: Under the radar: The possible link between U.S. Baltic security cuts and airspace incursions Expert says Russia's trial balloons are straight out of Cold War playbook (September 23, 2025)      Reuters: Baltic states prepare push to save US security assistance from Pentagon cuts (White House stood behind the Pentagon's move to slash the BSI program) (September 11, 2025)      Politico: GOP balancing act on cuts to Baltics security funding (September 5, 2025)      European countries near Russia puzzled by US plans to cut defense funding (September 5, 2025)    August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025   Aljazeera US Defense Secretary Hegseth orders 20% cut in senior ranks of military (May 6, 2025)      Institute for Global Affairs: eurasia group: WHO’S WHO ON TRUMP’S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL? Who Sits in the US National Security Council Situation Room (May 23, 2025)      Newsweek: Trump Administration Slashing Four-Star Generals in Bid to Shrink Pentagon (May 5, 2025)      NATO’s Greatest Test: Baltic Security in Trump’s Shadow (May 21, 2025) (Canada NATO forward presence in Lativa)    April 2025 March 2025   CBS: Trump says world needs U.S. takeover of Greenland (March 27, 2025)      Trump says US will 'go as far as we have to' to get control of Greenland (March 27, 2025)      Pentagon policy chief hearing highlights GOP foreign policy divide March 4,2025)    February 2025   FP: White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group Peter Navarro wants to increase pressure on country that Donald Trump has threatened to annex (February 26, 2025)      JD Vance speech at the Munich Security Conference (February 14, 2025)      Forbes: Full Remarks: JD Vance Reveals Top Security Concerns—Including 'Threat From Within'—At Munich Event (February 14, 2025)      New York Post: Trump reacts to JD Vance's Munich Security Conference speech: 'Europe has to be careful' (February 14, 2025)    January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024   Politico: America First Policy Institute has been quietly drafting blueprints for a second Trump administration. (August 29, 2024)                July 2024   How Project 2025 could upend Canada-U.S. relationship under Trump (July 12, 2024)          June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024