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President Trump hosted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney astatine the White House connected Tuesday for their archetypal in-person gathering since Carney’s predetermination victory.
The gathering was shadowed by Trump’s tariffs against Canada and his repeated musings astir making the United States’s neighbour to the northbound the 51st state, thing Carney and different Canadian officials person consistently rejected.
Here are 5 takeaways from the meeting.
Carney says Canada 'not for sale'
During an on-camera Oval Office meeting, Trump doubled down connected his proposition that Canada would payment from becoming the 51st authorities adjacent arsenic Carney was adamant it would not happen.
"I inactive judge that. But it takes 2 to tango, right?" Trump said, suggesting Canada joining the U.S. would pb to large taxation cuts and different benefits for Canadian citizens.
Trump indicated helium and Carney would not beryllium discussing the imaginable of Canada becoming the 51st authorities arsenic portion of their backstage talks. But Carney made wide it wasn’t up for treatment anyway.
“It's not for sale. It won't beryllium for merchantability ever, but the accidental is successful the concern and what we tin physique together," Carney said, aboriginal adding that the views of the radical of Canada connected the contented would not change.
But Trump signaled helium would not springiness up connected the thought truthful easily.
“I accidental 'never accidental never.' I’ve had many, galore things that were not doable, and they ended up being doable,” Trump said. “Canada loves us, and we emotion Canada. That’s I deliberation the fig 1 happening that’s important. But we’ll see. Over time, we’ll spot what happens.”
Trump says Houthis 'don't privation to combat anymore'
Trump announced during his gathering with Carney that the Houthis person informed his medication they privation to halt warring and that strikes connected the rebel radical person been called off.
“We had immoderate precise bully quality past night. The Houthis person announced … oregon they announced to america astatine slightest that they don’t privation to combat anymore. They conscionable don’t privation to fight, and we volition grant that. And volition halt the bombings,” Trump said.
“They person capitulated, but much importantly we volition instrumentality their word. They accidental they volition not beryllium blowing up ships anymore,” helium added. “I volition judge their word, and we are going to halt the bombing of the Houthis, effectual immediately.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, sitting to the broadside of the president, argued the run against the Houthis successful Yemen was astir the “freedom of navigation issue.”
“A set of individuals with precocious weaponry that were threatening planetary shipping and the occupation was to get that to stop. If it’s going to halt past we tin stop. So, I deliberation it’s an important development,” Rubio added.
Houthi rebels had been targeting shipping successful the Red Sea, and the U.S. has engaged successful ongoing strikes against the group, which began successful March.
USMCA whitethorn not beryllium necessary, officials say
Trump suggested Tuesday that the commercialized statement from his archetypal term, U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), whitethorn not beryllium indispensable anymore.
“It’s inactive precise effective, but radical person to travel it,” Trump said of the agreement. “It was a transitional step, a small bit. As you know, it terminates reasonably shortly. It gets renegotiated precise shortly.”
“This was a transitional deal,” helium added. “I don’t cognize that it’s indispensable anymore.”
Trump signed the USMCA successful 2020, replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement. He announced successful March that the USMCA would beryllium exempted from a 25 percent tariff helium imposed connected each goods from Mexico and Canada.
As portion of the 2020 agreement, immoderate of the countries progressive tin determination to o.k. of the woody moving forward, oregon reason and revisit aspects of the woody opening successful 2026. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who was besides successful the Oval Office, suggested determination would beryllium “a existent revisiting of USMCA successful a year.”
When asked what changes helium would privation to marque to the USMCA, Trump said helium wasn’t definite if his medication would beryllium “dealing” with it astatine each but if they do, they could beryllium making “subtle changes” to it.
Trump downplays commercialized deals
Trump offered penetration into however helium is viewing commercialized negotiations with Canada and different nations, indicating they would not beryllium accepted commercialized deals and downplaying the thought that Canada could flight tariffs presently successful place.
“No,” helium said erstwhile asked if Carney tin accidental thing to assistance the tariffs connected Canada. “That’s the mode it is.”
The Trump medication has imposed 25 percent tariffs connected Canadian goods, though definite imports covered nether the USMCA signed successful 2020 are exempt.
At the aforesaid time, the medication has said it is negotiating with different countries aft the White House levied “reciprocal” tariffs connected dozens of different trading partners, including allies similar India, South Korea, Japan and the European Union.
“We don’t person to motion deals. We could motion 25 deals close now, if we wanted,” Trump said.
The president described his attack arsenic “flexible” and not “chaotic,” adding that the medication volition set tariffs connected trading partners if they’re not agreed to.
“One time we’ll come, and we’ll springiness you a 100 deals, and they don’t person to sign,” Trump said. “We volition motion immoderate deals but overmuch bigger than that is we’re going to enactment down the terms that radical volition person to wage to store successful the United States. Think of america arsenic a ace luxury store, a store that has the goods.”
Trump’s remarks came soon aft Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clarified that determination are not ongoing talks with China astir a commercialized woody aft medication officials, including Trump successful caller weeks, suggested determination were immoderate interactions with Beijing.
Trump little antagonistic toward Carney
Even arsenic Trump refused to backmost disconnected connected tariffs and speech of Canada perchance becoming the 51st state, helium was mostly friendlier toward the caller premier curate than helium had been successful caller months toward his predecessor.
Trump praised Carney arsenic “a precise talented person” and commended the premier curate connected his triumph successful Canada’s elections.
“He won a precise large predetermination successful Canada. And I deliberation I was astir apt the top happening that happened to him, but I can’t instrumentality afloat credit,” Trump quipped. “His enactment was losing by a lot, and helium ended up winning.”
Carney’s Liberal Party won Canada’s national elections past week successful a contention that was influenced heavy by Trump’s changeless speech of targeting the longtime state and making it a state.
Trump had mocked erstwhile Prime Minister Justin Trudeau successful social media posts arsenic “governor” successful the weeks earlier Trudeau announced helium would measurement down arsenic premier minister. The 2 men often had a frosty narration dating backmost to Trump’s archetypal term.
"This is not going to beryllium similar — we had different a small stroke up with idiosyncratic else,” Trump said astatine 1 constituent Tuesday, a notation to a contentious Oval Office gathering with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“That was overmuch different. This is simply a precise affable conversation," Trump added.
