Trump's 51st-state idea for Canada isn't going over well

He's not the first to underestimate the 'True North'

“The acquisition of Canada this year,” former President Thomas Jefferson wrote to a newspaper editor, “will be a mere matter of marching.”

Jefferson wrote those words in April, 1812, two months before U.S. President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Britain. America was taking military action over grievances such as Britain’s bullying tac…