US President Donald Trump is again taking shots at Canada as he claimed the country is “very nasty to us on trade”.

At a briefing in Asheville, N.C., on Friday, the president’s first stop of his second term, Trump said he asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau what would happen if the U.S. “doesn’t subsidize Canada.”

The president made the comments immediately after being asked about US trade with the UK.

He claimed that during the conversation with the Prime Minister, Trudeau would respond that Canada would be a “failed nation” without the US

Trudeau visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in November, shortly after Trump initially threatened a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian goods entering the U.S.

On the day of his inauguration, Trump suggested those tariffs could be rolled out as early as February 1.

In North Carolina, Trump repeated that the US does not need Canadian “cars or wood products or food products because we make the same products on the other side of the border.”

He also said Canadians would have “much better” health coverage if the country joined the US

“I think the people of Canada would love it,” the president said.

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US President Donald Trump continued his threats to impose tariffs on Canada as he spoke to reporters in North Carolina on Friday.

Trudeau said on Tuesday that Canada is prepared to slap tariffs on US goods if the US passes its promised tariff scheme, a program that could result in hundreds of billions of dollars in US imports being levied.

“We don’t think he wants that,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa about the countermeasures.

CBC News has contacted the prime minister’s office for comment on whether Trump’s account of the exchange is accurate.

But this wouldn’t be the first time the president shared a misleading account of talks with the prime minister.

During a recent interview with MSNBC Inside with Jen PsakiTrudeau noted that Trump omitted the prime minister’s answers when he publicly recounted their conversation at Mar-a-Lago.

Trudeau said that in response to Trump floating the idea of ​​making Canada the “51st state,” he suggested that “maybe there could be a trade for Vermont or California for certain parts.”

That response “made Trump decide it wasn’t so funny anymore, and we moved on to another conversation,” Trudeau told host Jen Psaka.