Trump live: Carney reiterated Canada ‘is not for sale’ during ‘constructive discussion’ with president
Canadian prime minister’s Oval Office test comes a week after being elected on an anti-Trump platform
President Donald Trump and newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney came face-to-face at the White House on Tuesday for a high-stakes meeting.
Just days after winning an election campaign with an aggressive focus on Trump, Carney said he would make a bid for a comprehensive deal on trade and national security, while hoping to reset frayed U.S.-Canada relations.
Trump, meanwhile, played the upper hand, claiming the U.S. doesn’t need ‘anything’ from Canada except ‘friendship,’ but Canada needs ‘everything’ from the U.S.
The high-stakes meeting between the two leaders is set against the backdrop of Trump’s repeated threats to annex Canada and the imposition of sweeping 25 percent tariffs.
During their Oval Office meeting, Trump once again said he would like to see Canada become the 51st state.
But, Carney pushed back, saying Canada is “not for sale” and “won’t be for sale, ever.” He reiterated that Canadians will never change their mind about joining the U.S.
“Never say never,” Trump responded.
Carney mouthed the words “never” to the press.
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that he is skeptical of striking a U.S.-Canada trade deal, calling the Canadian government a “socialist regime.”
“I mean, this is really complex, because they have been basically feeding off of us for decades upon decades upon decades, right?,” he told Fox Business Monday, a day before Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was due at the White House for his highly anticipated first meeting with Donald Trump.
“They have their socialist regime, and it’s basically feeding off of America, I mean, the president calls it out all the time. Why do we make cars in Canada? Why do we do our films in Canada? Come on,” Lutnick continued.
“So, I think … it’s going to be a fascinating meeting, I’m glad I’m going to be there listening, but it’s going to be a fascinating meeting tomorrow. I just don’t see how it works out so perfect.”
Pence says Trump’s J6 pardons ‘sent wrong message’
On his first day back in office, Donald Trump issued full commutations and pardons for more than 1,500 supporters charged with crimes connected to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Mike Pence, who was evacuated from the U.S. Capitol during the January 6, 2021 riots, said that Trump’s act of clemency “sent the wrong message.”
“I was deeply disappointed to see President Trump pardon people that engaged in violence against law enforcement officers on that day,” Pence, who had received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for defying Trump’s calls to help overturn the result of the 2020 election.
“The President has every right under the Constitution to grant pardons, but in that moment, I thought it sent the wrong message.”
After Trump continued to claim that the results of the 2020 election were “rigged,” Pence repeatedly told Trump that there was no evidence of fraud to alter the election’s outcome, according to a filing by special counsel Jack Smith late last year.
But Trump ignored his vice president, and at a rally on January 6, 2021, urged his supporters to “fight like hell” in order to “stop the steal.” Later that day, his followers stormed the Capitol to try to overturn the election results.
Phone logs revealed in Smith’s filing show that once back at the Oval Office, Trump tweeted: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done.”
While storming the Capitol, some rioters were heard chanting: “Hang Mike Pence.”
Angelina Jolie’s father submitted foreign film tariff plan to Trump: ‘Make Hollywood Great Again’
Further light has been shed on Donald Trump’s desire to impose tariffs on foreign-made films, with Jon Voight reportedly providing the president with a partial roadmap to aid the Hollywood film industry.
On Sunday, Trump took to social media to brand foreign film production a “National Security threat.”
Details about the controversial plan have been scarce following Trump’s rant, but Deadline has now reported that a team comprised of Voight, special adviser Steven Paul, and SP Media Group/Atlas Comics president Scott Karol has submitted a proposal to Trump at his Mar-A-Lago resort, detailing how film production in the US can be boosted.
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Trump admin blocks Harvard from future research grants
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced that Harvard University would no longer be eligible for any new federal grants in a blistering letter shared to social media on Monday evening.
In the letter addressed to Alan Garber, the president of Harvard, McMahon accused of “disastrous mismanagement.”
“This letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek grants from the federal government, since none will be provided,” she wrote.
The White House has previously threatened to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status and its eligibility to host foreign students. The administration had announced last month a freeze of more than $2 billion in federal funds committed to the nation’s oldest university, which are likely to last well into the summer.
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Trump characterized the images as harmless jokes, but communications experts disagree.
The AI-generated images, which surfaced over the weekend, show Trump in papal vestments and wielding a red lightsaber reminiscent of Star Wars villains.
These posts appear consistent with Trump's provocative style, often used to energize supporters and antagonize critics.
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‘Do not expect white smoke’: What Carney said ahead of Trump meeting
Ahead of Mark Carney’s first face-to-face meeting as Canadian prime minister with Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, he played down the idea of any immediate breakthroughs.
The high-stakes head-to-head between the two leaders comes after Trump’s antagonistic posturing toward Canada – including repeated annexation threats and the imposition of sweeping 25 percent tariffs.
“Do not expect white smoke out of that meeting,” Carney said in French in his first press conference as prime minister Friday, referring to the signal the Vatican sends to indicate a new pope has been selected.
Carney is expected to make a bid for a comprehensive deal on trade and national security, while hoping to reset frayed U.S.-Canada relations.
“Our focus will be on both the immediate trade pressures, and the broader future economic and security relationship between our two sovereign nations,” he added.
“My government will fight to get the best deal for Canada. We will take all the time necessary-but not more-to do so.”
Read in full: McMahon accused Harvard of 'disastrous mismanagement' in letter
In a blistering three-page letter addressed to Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University, Education Secretary Linda McMahon accused the institution of “disastrous mismanagement” as she announced it would no longer be eligible for any new federal grants.
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Vice President JD Vance’s younger half-brother is vying to become the mayor of Cincinnati.
Cory Bowman, 36, an evangelical pastor and coffee shop owner, has never held public office before.
But Bowman said that he didn’t want to see incumbent Mayor Aftab Pureval, a Democrat, make a re-election bid unchallenged at Tuesday’s primaries. Fellow Republican challenger Brian Frank has also entered the race.
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What has Mark Carney said about Trump since succeeding Trudeau?
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal Party last week won the country’s general election, a snap contest that followed the sudden departure of Justin Trudeau.
At the start of this year, the Liberals looked all but certain to drift to defeat when the country went to the polls amid growing frustration over their party’s failure to rein-in inflation under Trudeau, with Poilievre waiting in the wings ready to pounce.
But the inauguration of Donald Trump across the border saw Canadians – angered by the American’s “51st state” rhetoric and imposition of 25 percent tariffs – band together in a surge of patriotism.
After being elected on an anti-Trump platform, Carney readied for his first major test on Tuesday: a high-stakes, face-to-face meeting with the U.S. president in the Oval Office.
Ahead of the encounter, Joe Sommerlad and James Liddell have outlined what Carney has had to say about his American counterpart since succeeding Trudeau.
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