n understand how that could be on TV because if it's true, then all the reporting would say that on CNN and MSNBC, and they'd say, haha, he got nothing. But is there only one, if only one person believes it was going to happen anyway so nothing happened, how do you keep that person on the air? I mean, that's just making up stuff, isn't it? But I'm open to be wrong. I'm open to finding out there was something to that complaint. I don't think so, but I'll be open-minded for a minute or two anyway.

According to the Gateway Pundit and other sources as well, there's a new survey, a KPMG survey, that says that half of Canadian businesses, 48% actually, are planning to move production or investments to the US to stay competitive. Let me put this in context. So Trump says they would make a good state. But you say to yourself, oh, Scott, come on. They're not going to go from a country to a state. Like nobody's going to do that. I mean, it's so far away from anything that's possible. It's way outside the realm of possibility because they're a whole functioning country. If you're a whole functioning country, you're not just going to give yourself up to be a subset of some other nation. That's never going to happen.

Did I mention that half of the Canadian businesses are looking to move to America? If half of your businesses are looking to move to America, I'm going to whisper this in Biden fashion because it needs a Biden whisper. If half of your companies are considering moving out of your country, you're already not a country. You're more like a Schrodinger's cat country. You might be a country, but there's just as good an argument that you're not one already because you can't even keep your businesses. If half of your businesses are looking to get the hell out of your country and they have the ability to do so and they're operational, they've already got plans and operations to move out of your country, you're already closer to a state than a nation.

Now, I'm not going to predict that Canada will become a state. But every time I think that things are a mile from possible and then Trump keeps talking and then something happens where I go, really? Could this actually tip in the direction of actually happening? We're watching Trump just change reality right in front of us. Like what is possible? I'll tell you. But I have mixed emotions about this one. My common sense, haha, I don't have any, tells me there's no way that Canada becomes a state. Just no way. But then I see stuff like that, that half of the companies want to get out of there. And then Trudeau's already resigned. I don't know. Maybe they're not as much of a country as they think they are. Maybe it's closer than you think. I'll still bet against that. But Trump shaking the box that hard, it always works for him.

Trump goes in and shakes the entire box. Well, we're going to make you a state. No, no, no, no, no. Well, we're going to put a tariff on you. Oh no, no, no. Well, how about you just do a whole bunch of things you weren't doing to secure the border? Uh-huh, okay. Watching Trump shake that box until they will take absolutely any path that gets the box to stop shaking because the thing they can't stand is just shaking. Oh, you got to stop shaking this box. Well, what are you going to do for me? Well, I'm not going to do anything for you. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Hey, I can do a little for you. Can you? Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. I can do a lot for you. I can do a lot for you. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. I can do more than I've ever said I could ever do for anybody. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. I can do more than anybody in the whole world has ever done for anybody. Shake, shake, shake, shake. Okay, it's fun to watch.

One of the things that Trump does better than anybody when it comes to persuasion is creating a clear difference between making him happy and making him unhappy. Nobody does that better. If you make me happy, oh man, I'm going to praise you. Your career will look good. You're going to get votes. You're going to get funding. You'll be nationally loved. But if I don't like you, I'm going to primary your ass. I'm going to look at charges. I'm going to sue you. I'm going to basically take everything I have and put it against you. I'm going to tariff you. I'm going to put my military on your property. There is no better technique. The single best technique is to make the widest gap between giving him what he wants and not giving him what he wants. Nobody does that better. And that is real basic persuasion.

If you don't get that part right, you know who doesn't get that part right? Somebody like Justin Trudeau, right? Because he's the nice guy. Oh, we're nice. We're nice. We're empathy. We're nice. We're nice. We're nice. Oh, we're going to fight back hard. We don't like that. But we're nice. We're nice on the other things. We're nice. So be our friends. Oh, we have a mild displeasure with that thing you're doing. Oh, we don't like it. There's no difference between Justin Trudeau being happy and being unhappy. Like you don't feel any incentive to give him what he wants because he's a nice guy. But you definitely feel an incentive to give Trump what he wants because the difference between happy and unhappy Trump is a really big difference. That's good stuff. That's the leader you want.

Marco Rubio went to El Salvador and got a nice surprise. So Bukele, head of El Salvador, who as you know cleaned up the gang problem in El Salvador by building gigantic prison systems and just locking up everybody with a tattoo. I'm exaggerating but only a little bit. He pretty much locked up everybody with a face tattoo. I'm sure they