It goes further, too. The Canada-annex stuff has been repeated by non-Trump figures, in official diplomatic capacity. Sometimes they try to walk it back in tone

It goes further, too. The Canada-annex stuff has been repeated by non-Trump figures, in official diplomatic capacity. Sometimes they try to walk it back in tone, but never in substance. Were it not for the brutal disparity of power, the American ambassador would already be expelled. That's what would happen if this kind of thing were happening between any other two nations.