Donald Trump is not backing down.

In fact, quite the opposite.

He keeps moving forward with his idea of Canada as a state of the United States, the 51st state.

The incoming American president is heading further into territory many Canadians, likely most Canadians, believed was some sort of fantasy Trump was just throwing out there to get everybody’s attention.

Well, he has got everybody’s attention.

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On Thursday, there is more. Trump keeps pushing.

While hosting Republican governors down at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump fills in some of the blanks on where he is going with his brainwave of the U.S. taking over Canada and how he feels it is being received.

Trump tells the press he realizes when he first pitched the idea of Canada as an American state people thought it was a joke.

Now the........

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