In late March 2026, social media users circulated a supposed Truth Social post from U.S. President Donald Trump that said he was no longer interested in making Canada the 51st state of America.
A screenshot of the purported post spread on Facebook, X and Threads. Social media users appeared to interpret the image as a real message on social media from the president. Snopes readers also searched the website to investigate its legitimacy.
Here's the full text of the post, which referenced Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney and former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:
On second thought, after watching Canadians see their country getting much worse than under Trudeau and increasing their support for Carney, I'm no longer interested in having Canada as the 51st state. We don't need that liberal cancer in America. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. —President Donald J. Trump
Keywords from this post did not appear in searches of Trump's Truth Social account using Trump's Truth — an archive of all of his posts, including those he deletes — and Roll Call's Factbase, another reputable Trump social media database. A reverse image search revealed the screenshot appeared to originate with an Instagram account called @manny_ottawa, whose March 24 post included the caption, "You know that's a fake post and I made it up because only humour will get me through seeing the country that I love being destroyed by the Liberals." (Many of the posts on this user's account criticize Canada's Liberal Party and Carney, its leader.)
As such, we have rated this claim as a post that originated as satire.
In direct messages on Instagram, @manny_ottawa confirmed that he created the post with satirical intent and berated Snopes for asking, pointing to his original caption.
"This is extremely hilarious. If you had read my post, I clearly said that I created it and it was a fake post and it was not to be believed," he said. "Did you even read the post doesn't need to be any investigation? I literally admitted it."
He added that he created the post because of what he called Canada's "complete failure" of a prime minister and because "the government is literally blaming Trump for everything that they have done."
Aside from the origin of the claim, there are several red flags that indicate that the post isn't real. For example, the bold text used in the fake post did not match the text style and font in real Truth Social posts. Furthermore, the screenshot did not include the publication date and reaction icons at the bottom of every Truth Social post.
Snopes previously explained Trump's repeated threats to annex Canada, including his real Truth Social posts advocating for making Canada the 51st state. We have also debunked similar satirical claims before. For example, in December 2025, we alerted readers to a fake Trump post about bringing peace to the "Isle of Fifa."
Snopes labels these rumors as "satire" because their creators describe them as such. It is your call whether you agree.