Star Trek actor William Shatner, identified for enjoying Captain James T. Kirk, has not too long ago shared his ideas on president Donald Trump. Shatner expressed his views on the president after the latter mentioned his thought of annexing Canada and making it part of the United States.
According to The List, the Canadian actor expressed his displeasure over Trump’s views on uniting the United States and Canada. In a May 2025 interview with Fox News, the 94-year-old actor advised Jesse Watters that Trump ought to take into account making the United States part of Canada as a substitute.
“At a certain point, persistence becomes insulting,” the Canadian-born mentioned in his interview. Furthermore, he listed a number of the reason why Trump ought to take into account the United States changing into part of Canada.
“Here, you have a friendly group of people saying come on over. It’s cleaner, there’s plenty of power. There’s some lovely people who want to work with you. Be our 11th province,” Shatner mentioned. He added, “Everybody is so serious about what is an unserious offer.”
Shatner was booed for his feedback. However, he didn’t allow them to have an effect on him, and shared one other assertion on X. Responding to the conservatives, he wrote, “If you are angry about my posts on the United States becoming a Canadian province: imagine how Canadians felt when an actual leader of a friendly neighboring country floated that idea across the border. Doesn’t feel good; does it? Learn a lesson from it.”
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The actor had beforehand expressed issues over local weather change beneath Trump’s administration. He brazenly opposes Trump’s annexation statements, which the president beforehand mentioned at his Oval Office.
Although the 79-year-old president expressed his want for Canada to turn into the 51st state of the United States, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has dismissed the thought.
Carney had advised Trump that Canada was not up on the market, to which the president casually replied, “never say never.”
Shatner, who is understood for his quirk and wittiness, has recurrently used humor to criticize Trump. Earlier, in a publish on X, he requested the president to revive Pluto as a planet, and even advised him to take Elon Musk’s assist. He has additionally beforehand in contrast Trump to a human type of an alien, saying, “looks like one of the aliens that assumed human form.”
