In the White House, which rewards the power of photos, the paintings he made available after the first meeting with Marek Carney, spoke.
It was all smiles, thumbs up, friendly Photographic signatures AND warm movies In the social media of the US President Donald Trump after the first meeting with the Prime Minister.
“The new prime minister is a great guy,” Trump told reporters later at an unrelated press conference.
“It went very well. We had a very great meeting.”
This is in line with the tone, which he adopted at the beginning of an oval office meeting, which, according to his custom, to an unusual extent due to television cameras.
Trump said he had great respect for Carney. He banned the election race, which he called one of the greatest returns in political history. He called him a special Canada, said that he would defend him militarily and wanted a friendly relationship.
During the meeting at the Oval Office, Prime Minister Mark Carney told US President Donald Trump that Canada would never be for sale, saying that the opportunity between the two nations is partnership and what we can build together, including around security. Trump, who repeatedly raised the concept of Canada as 51 state, added “never say never”.
The meeting began so enemyly that the Associated Press header referred to Trump “radiating heat“For the Canadian leader.
As the part pulled in the camera, the reminder of the reminder began to get out of substantive challenges.
At the beginning there is no guarantee that the removed tariffs will disappear. At this point, there are not even any tips, at least not in public Like a negotiating process will work.
Old ambitions glanced under smiles and handshakes. It is now clearly clear that Trump did not joke with Canada's annexation. He really misses it.
To say, it's a distant dream. It seemed that he admits that Canadians were not interested, and said that he was not in his meeting program. Maybe once, he said. “Never speak.”
US President Donald Trump, sitting next to Prime Minister Marek Carney on Tuesday in the White House, returned to his concept of Canada as 51. Stan after the reporter's question, calling the artificial border and saying that “it would really be a wonderful marriage.” Carney rejected this idea again, saying that Canada will never be for sale.
This caused Carney's best moment. He ordered Trump to nod, smile and recognize as a one -time real estate tycoon, that some properties are not for sale.
Then the president dug up in Justin Trudeau. He again referred to the former prime minister of “Governor” and, taking into account Carney, said: “I didn't like his predecessor.”
Two take -out meetings
After the meeting, there were two basic ones among people observing Canada's relations.
First of all, considering the condition of the relationship, it easily cleaned the low strap.
“This is such a good start as we could expect,” said Louise Blais, a former Canadian consul in Atlanta, who in 2016 was one of the first Canadian diplomats who built connections with the original team of the Trump campaign.
Brian Clow, who managed relations in the US in the Trudeau office, summed it up as “the best script”.
Second to go? Get ready for a long, winding road. Achieving a comprehensive trade and security agreement will not be fast or easily, as Carney proposed.
“Before we go to the finish line, we hit rough patches,” said Blais CBC News. CLOW convened a meeting for the first of many, many steps.
SPOILER ALERT: Carney also knows about it. Later speaking on the roof of the Canadian embassy, he called the meeting as only one step.
“Today was the end of the beginning of the trial,” said Carney. “The question is: how will we cooperate in the future?”
There was some frames based on a key detail, perhaps because it is unsolved: will these negotiations take place quickly or as part of the already planned review of the Canada-Us-Myxic agreement, which cannot formally start, in accordance with US law, by the next year?
Trump sounds open to different approaches. Similarly, Carney. One of the possibilities is that conversations can develop in stages – some now, some next year.
One strong tip that Carney dropped concerns Trump's well -known goal: a tightening of car trading rules in North America.
With Trump's team willing to reduce car imports from Asia, Carney said that he told Trump that Canadian parts, steel and aluminum could be part of the solution.
This ensures why Carney proposed trade and security bonding with one negotiations; in order to justify Canadian imports as benefits in the field of US security.
But he did not provide any other details of their conversations with closed doors. When the reporter asked for more, Carney said, “That's why they are closed.”
Trumpland Roller-Coaster
So Carney left Washington without the fate of Volodymy Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president was a victim of perhaps the most catastrophic photo in the history of the oval office, and visitors to world leaders were now afraid of “Zelenskyy-ed”.
However, it is worth noting what happened next to Zelenskyy as an example of twists and turns with notoriously transactional Trump.
Recently they were on better conditions. They just had a meeting in the Vatican, which Zelensky called his best so far.
They got new analysts of Minerals contracts call victory. The New York Times just fell into a song “How Zelensky maneuver with Doghouse with Trump.”
But do you know who else had a decent first meeting with Trump after the US election on November 5? Justin Trudeau. In the initial accounts, his journey to Mar-a-Lago was friendly. In the initial statement later this monthTrump called it “very productive”.
However, within a few days Trump began to diminish Canada's sovereignty, in a cross -border slander campaign without parallel in modern history.
It is a reminder that in Trumpland vibrations have a one -day warranty. But one day Trump smiled when the reporter asked if it would be easier to work with the current Prime Minister of Canada than the last one.
“Yes,” Trump replied. “I like this guy.”