Only 17 per cent of Americans back annexing Canada, survey finds, as majority reject Trump’s expansionist agenda

With President Donald Trump openly reviving an expansionist vision for the United States, a new poll shows Americans are largely unimpressed by the idea, with little desire to annex neighboring allies like Canada or strategic regions like Greenland, even as the White House frames territorial ambition as a pillar of national security and hemisphere dominance.

The online poll, conducted Jan. 13-15 among 1,002 U.S. adults, found that 66 percent want Canada to remain independent, while 56 percent support Greenland retaining its autonomous status under Danish rule. The survey was conducted by Vancouver-based pollster Research Co. It was carried out by.

ResearchCo. “We were wondering how Americans felt about the expansionist drive their president has initiated,” said president Mario Canseco. “In fact, there are no groups clamoring for the countries and regions we asked about to be made US territories or American states.”

Results are weighted by age, sex, and region using U.S. census data and have a margin of error of ±3.1 percentage points 19 times out of 20.

According to CTV News, support for annexation was limited; Only 17 percent supported Canada becoming a U.S. state or territory, while the figure rose slightly to 23 percent for Greenland.

US President Donald Trump has aggressively advanced an expansionist agenda in his second term. He pushed to make Canada a “worthy” 51st province and annex Greenland; these moves were rejected by both NATO allies Canada and Denmark.
“The level of support for changing the status quo tends to be higher among Republicans, especially in Greenland,” Canseco said. “But we’re not seeing a majority of Americans voting for Donald Trump in 2024 and thinking it’s time to seize some of these areas.”