In a white house that evaluates the power of the pictures, the pictures that it shared after a first meeting with Mark Carney spoke volumes.
It was all smiling, thumbs up, friendly photo signatures and warm videos about the social media feeds of US President Donald Trump after his first encounter with the prime minister.
“The new prime minister is a great guy,” Trump later told reporters at a press conference that is not related.
“It went very well. We had a very great meeting.”
This is in accordance with the tone that he took at the beginning of her Oval Office meeting, which, in view of the TV cameras, played out in an unusual degree in view of the TV cameras.
Trump said he had a lot of respect for Carney. He congratulated his electoral breed, which he described one of the greatest comebacks in political history. He called him Canada Special for him, said he would defend it militarily and wanted a friendly relationship.
During a meeting in the Oval Office, Prime Minister Mark Carney informed the US President Donald Trump that Canada would never be for sale, and that the opportunity between the two nations in the partnership and what we can assemble, including security, in the Birten partnership. Trump, who repeatedly raised the term Canada as 51st state, added: “Never say.”
The encounter began so sympathetic that the heading associated press on Trump “radiation heat” for the Canadian leader.
When the part pulled in front of the camera, the memories began to put the material challenges over the course of 33 minutes.
For the beginning there is no guarantee that US tariffs will fail. At this point there is not even a note at this point, at least not publicly from Like the negotiating process will work.
Old ambitions looked through under the smile and handshake. It is now very clear that Trump didn’t joke about creating Canada. He really longs for it.
That means it is a distant dream. He seemed to admit that Canadians are not interested and said it was not on his meeting agenda. Maybe one day, he said. “Never say.”
US President Donald Trump, who was sitting in the White House next to Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday, returned to his presentation of Canada as a 51st state, which artificially described the border and said it was “really a wonderful marriage”. Carney released the idea again and said Canada will never be for sale – ever.
This prompted Carney’s best moment of the day. He made Trump nod, smile and recognition as a unique real estate mogul that some properties are not for sale.
Then President Justin Trudeau took some excavations. He again referred to the former prime minister as “governor” and said in view of Carney: “I didn’t like his predecessor.”
Two meetings with the meeting
After the meeting there were two basic snack bars among people who observe the relationships between Canada and the USA.
First, in view of the rocky condition of the relationship, this was slightly a low bar.
“This is as good as we could hop all,” said Louise Blais, Canadian consul in Atlanta, which was one of the first Canadian diplomats in 2016, building the connections to Trump’s original campaign team.
Brian Clow, who headed the US relationships in Trudeau’s office, summarized it as a “Best Case Scenario”.
The second snack? Prepare yourself for a long, winding road. It will not be quick or easy to achieve the comprehensive trade and security contract proposed by Carney.
“We will meet some difficult patches before we come to the finish line,” Blais told CBC News. Clow called the meeting the first of many, many steps.
Spoiler alarm: Carney knows that too. Later on the roof of the Canadian embassy, he described the meeting as just one step.
“Today was the end of the beginning of a process,” said Carney. “The question is: How will we work together in the future?”
He had a little detail a little cage, perhaps because it is unsolved: Will these negotiations not literally begin or as part of the already planned review of the Canada-USico Agreement according to the US Act until next year?
Trump sounds open to different approaches. Carney too. One possibility is that the conversations could develop in phases – some now, some next year.
The only strong indication that Carney dropped refers to a well-known Trump goal: tightening the rules for the North American car trade.
With Trump’s team that wanted to reduce car imports from Asia, Carney said, he said Trump that Canadian parts, steel and aluminum could be part of the solution.
This provides an insight into the question of why Carney connects trade and security into a negotiation. In order to achieve Canadian imports, the US security will benefit.
But he offered no further details from her conversations with closed doors. When a reporter asked more, Carney said: “That’s why they are closed.”
The Trumpland Roller-Coaster
So Carney Washington left without the fate of Volodmy Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president was the victim of the perhaps most catastrophic photo surgery in the history of the Oval Office.
But it is worth mentioning what happened in addition to Zelenskyy as an example of the twists and turns of the known transactional trump.
They have been better lately. They had only one encounter in the Vatican that Zelenskyy called her best.
You have a new mineral-deal analyst that describes a win-win situation. The New York Times was leading a piece that was maneuvered by Trump from the dog house from the dog house from the dog house. “
But do you know who had a decent first meeting with Trump after the US election on November 5th? Justin Trudeau. After the first reports, his trip to Mar-A-Lago was friendly. In a first explanation later this month, Trump called it “very productive”.
Within a few days, Trump, Canada’s sovereignty began to reduce a campaign of cross -border disposal without parallel in modern history.
It is a memory that the mood in Trumpland is equipped with a one -day guarantee. But on this one day, Trump smiled when a reporter asked if he was easier to work with Canada’s current prime minister as the last.
“Yes,” replied Trump. “I like this guy.”
