Carney's first visit to the White House since his election comes as the U.S.-Canada trade relationship has been upended as a result of Trump's tariffs.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Donald Trump on Tuesday that his country will never be for sale, shutting down the U.S. president’s repeated calls to make Canada the 51st state.

“There are some places that are never for sale,” Carney said in the Oval Office.

Canada is “not for sale” and “won’t be for sale ever,” the prime minister said.

Trump replied: “Never say never.”

  • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
    196·
    24 days ago

    Carney also called him a “transformational president” who “revitalized international security” and Trump nodded “it’s true!” because he’s too stupid to realize it wasn’t a compliment.

    • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      78·
      24 days ago

      Carney used “tranformational” twice, then Trump tried to use it but lost his train of thought.

      That was the end of my watching tv cause my head hurt from his utter fucking stupidity.

      • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
        192·
        24 days ago

        Carney does like that word a lot, although not nearly as much as “if I may”

      • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        24 days ago

        Same. I only watched it cuz I like watching carney in action. Everyone else in that room makes me want to vomit

        • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
          14·
          23 days ago

          Okay so the thing is Trunp might be embarrassing for you, but the threats to our sovereignty are fucking serious to us. It’s like, not a joke. Trunp has nukes and the biggest military on Earth and he’s saying Canada doesn’t exist, shouldn’t exist, is artificial, only exists cause the US lets us be here, we’re communist/socialists therefore should be attacked, we should be a state etc. The US can’t walk back that shit. We don’t WANT to do business with the US. We don’t want anything to do with the US- for generations.

      • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        24 days ago

        He did. Carney fed Trump’s ego and used almost every one of his good-trigger words so Trump was placated.

        If world leaders learned nothing else from the Zelenskiy debacle, it was that.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          23 days ago

          Imagine if Carney plays him so well that he becomes a trusted voice in Trump’s head, like Putin is. In such a scenario, Trump would pit Carney’s words on econ against his advisors. 😂