Trump’s oval office meeting with Carney did not reach Zelensky level tension. But it was not all the neighborhood
Cnn
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It was not the controversial meeting that the oval office has ever seen. It was not the warmest either.
Instead, the long -awaited meeting on Tuesday between President Donald Trump and his new Canadian counterpart Mark Carney fell somewhere in the middle: neither openly hostile nor externally Chummy, demonstrating very little neighborhood, at least the type used on the neighbors we love.
Midi talks have carefully illustrated the new dynamic between the formerly adapted nations, including the 5,525 miles border – the longest in the world – once guaranteed a degree of cooperation but which, in Trump, represents something very different.
“Someone drew this line several years ago with, like a sovereign, just a straight line just at the top of the country,” said Trump in the Oval office when his meeting was taking place. “When you look at this beautiful training when it is together – I am a very artistic person, but when I looked at it, I said:” That’s how it was supposed to be. “”
This is not how Carney believes it was supposed to be.
“I’m glad you can’t say what put my mind to me,” Carney told journalists later in the day at the time Trump made this remark.
However, Carney did not fully hold his language.
In a meeting dominated by Trump’s comments – he spoke 95% of the time on all kinds of subjects, from the Middle East to the presidential library of Barack Obama to the state of the high -speed train in California – it is the decline of the new Prime Minister on the ambition of the president to make Canada the 51st American state that was distinguished.
“As you know in real estate, there are places that are never for sale,” he said, attracting a “it’s true” sequence from Trump before Carney continues.
Carney said to Trump: Canada is not for sale
“We are sitting in one right now. You know, the Buckingham Palace that you have also visited,” he continued, while Trump was nodding another “real”.
“And after meeting the owners of Canada in the past campaign in recent months, it is not for sale,” he concluded. “It will never be for sale.”
With this declaration, Carney essentially made what he had come to Washington, indicating in the clearest terms possible that Canada is not annexed by its neighbor in the South.
Of course, he said that for weeks, most of the federal elections last month in Canada who saw his liberals riding a shocking from the victory to make victory on a wave of anti-top feeling.
Before arriving at the White House, Carney also sought to send the message by announcing an upcoming visit to King Charles III, Canada’s official head of state, using the sovereign to assert that Canada’s sovereignty was not to be discussed.
These messages, if they heard them, did not make Trump backfire, not even when seated in front of Carney in the oval office.
“Never say,” Trump shrugged, while Carney blocked the word “never” again and again next to him. “I had a lot, a lot of things that were not achievable, and they ended up being doable and only doable in a very friendly way.”
However, the president did not support the question further and the meeting did not fall from the rails. For a subject that caused so much visceral anger in Canada, the question has been essentially defused, for the moment, in the oval office.
After the journalists left the play, Carney told Trump that he was not “useful” to repeat his idea of annexing Canada.
“But he is the president,” he said, recalling the exchange at a solo press conference after the end of the meeting, “and he will say what he wants.”
Trump, however, did not deploy the insult against Carney, which he used against his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. “As far as Governor Carney is said to call him, no, I haven’t done it yet – and maybe I won’t,” said Trump during a White House event later in the day.
Carney said they had agreed to meet again at the G7 summit he organized in Alberta, to which Trump had not been determined before.
However, the relations between Washington and Ottawa remain at their point the lowest in memory.
As Carney was in Blair House, through Pennsylvania avenue de la Maison Blanche, preparing to leave for his meeting with Trump, the president launched a large social truth, declaring that Canada depended too much on the United States.
“We don’t need anything they have, apart from their friendship, that we always hope to maintain,” wrote Trump. “They, on the other hand, need everything of us!”
As Carney arrived, however, Trump did not seem interested to fight public.
“We have difficult points to review, and it will be good,” said Trump after praising Carney for “one of the greatest feedback in the history of politics”.
See Trump’s response when asked to lift Canadian prices
The meeting ended a little suddenly with Trump declaring that the United States did not need Canadian cars or steel, and that there was nothing that Carney could not say or do who would make him lift prices.
“Just as it is,” said Trump.
But according to Trump’s White House standards, where another chef was reprimanded and expelled in the oval office earlier this year, everything was relatively soft.
Even Trump admitted that he had seen worse.
“We had another little explosion with someone else,” said Trump, a veiled allusion to his fight with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “It was very different. It’s, it’s a very friendly conversation.”
