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.”
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.
I know! I caught that too! Carney is awesome.
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.
So fucking embarrassing.
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.
Where did I imply that any of this was funny?
https://lawandsocietymagazine.com/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet-bond-play-forced-trump-to-drop-tariffs/
I love this actually.
Mark Carney is the person we want at the helm right now in the rough waters ahead. Don’t underestimate him. What he did at that meeting was show diplomacy at its finest. Calm down. Let him do what he does best.
Same. I only watched it cuz I like watching carney in action. Everyone else in that room makes me want to vomit
Carney does like that word a lot, although not nearly as much as “if I may”
“If I may” is Canadian english for “please be quiet, I haven’t finished speaking”.
Or in American “shut the fuck up Donnie”
Not just Canadian. Just really good manners. Something Trump doesn’t know anything about.
Agreed. It’s called “manners” and “diplomacy”. Something Trump knows nothing about.
Or shut your fucking orange pie hole I’m speaking right now.
“If I may” is a polite way to interject in a conversation. Carney does this, because he understands that’s how it’s done in normal political meetings. This, was not a normal political meeting. This was Trump going on and on and on. About the beautiful White House, and the gold, blah, blah blah.
Your country’s leader may overuse turns-of-phrase. Mine is destroying a lifetime of political capital and hurting millions both domestically and internationally.
I’d choose your leader over mine in a hot second.
Sorry. If I may, I suspect the listener may need repetition to be comfortable in the conversation, since it will re-use words he’s already figured out.
New deal, Canada becomes part of the US but we just let them be in charge and abandon our clearly failed political system
So much better than Trump’s mouth diarrhea
I think he handled him well.
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.
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. 😂