President Trump has put his thumb on Canada’s pivotal national election taking place Monday in an extraordinary way, repeating his desire to make the country the 51st U.S. state.

On Monday morning, just as polls were opening in Canada, he insisted, in a post on Truth Social, that Canadians should “vote for the man” who would make their country part of the United States.

He also called Canada “a beautiful landmass” and referred to the border between the two countries as an “artificially drawn line from many years ago.”