Prime Minister Mark Carney was the youngest world leader who meets the US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, an event that gives an unusual importance for political observers and has become a viewer sport.
As reported by The Associated Press, the interaction “gave an insight into the change of Oval Office meetings from short and boring encounters in precarious matters, which often force foreign guides to choose between meeting or confronting the American president.”
Since Trump defines the terms, the meetings for foreign leaders have become a “no-win situation” who are looking for an audience with Trump, Maggie Haberman, correspondent of the New York Times, told Anderson Cooper from CNN.
Carney, she said, clearly came in with a prepared line that Canada was not for sale, but then had to navigate to ensure that the meeting did not remember the debacle when Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited in February.
CBC News Erin Collins and Power & Politics Moderator David Cochrane unpack the big headlines from Mark Carney’s meetings with Donald Trump in Washington. Former Liberal Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Coppps also says that Carney is “artistic” in his delivery.
Haberman and Cooper suggested that there was a kind of spectrum of how the leaders of the world turned to Trump in the Oval Office. The positive visit by the British Prime Minister Keir Starrer at one end and the catastrophic meeting with the Ukranian president on the other. She suggested Carney to knock more towards the spectrum of the pararmar.
It can be too early to see whether the Approach of the Canadian Prime Minister for Trump will use all the advantages. But what about French President Emmanuel Macron, Starrer and Zelenskyy who only met Trump at the end of February? Here is a look at your different approaches for dealing with the US President and what results you have achieved.
French President Emmanuel Macron
The approach:
Macron’s meeting with Trump was characterized by hugs and extended hand beats, indications of “Love Donald” and repeated proclamations of her friendship and “very special relationship”.
Helen Cook, director of the Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs at Loughborough University London, wrote in an essay for the academic website The Conversation that Macron provided a “master class in the diplomatic arts”.
“Unknown body language and public affection.
She also praised Macron for “gently correcting” Trump when the president claimed that Europe would get 60 percent of the help he granted Ukraine. Macron touched Trump’s arm and said: “No, to be honest, we paid.”
French President Emmanuel Macron met with a strong focus on Ukraine on Monday with the US President Donald Trump. Once Macron threw in to deny Trump’s frame about how European financing flows into Ukraine, and said: “We have provided real money to be clear.”
Cook said that Macron “even exceeded himself on this occasion and exceeded his host with a certain degree”.
Macron, who has built up a friendly relationship with Trump over the years, was the first European leader to began his second term since the beginning of the President. The meeting was three years since the invasion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Macron took the opportunity to convince Trump as part of a peace agreement about the need for security guarantees in Ukraine.
Trump expressed the desire for a ceasefire as soon as possible and said he was trying to arrange one between Ukraine and Russia. But Macron asked a more conscious approach, starting with a ceasefire and then with a peace agreement that contains security guarantees.
“This peace must not mean the handover of Ukraine. It must not mean ceasefire without guarantees. This peace must allow Ukrainian sovereignty and Ukraine allow to negotiate with other stakeholders about the problems that affect it,” said Macron.
The results:
Macron described the discussions with Trump as a “turning point”. But as Peter Baker wrote of the New York Times’s chief of the White House of the White House: “In all hugs and hand fibers Clubby, they could not hide the growing gap between the USA and Europe via the Ukraine decline.”
As Baker noted, Trump did not mention any guarantees or Ukrainian sovereignty.
British Prime Minister Keir Starrer
The approach:
Sharmer certainly used the magic offensive on his first visit to the White House. Like Macron, he hoped to secure some security guarantees for Ukraine in every peace agreement with Russia. But rigiders were also looking for a liberation from Trump’s punitive tariffs for British steel and aluminum imports.
In a meeting in the White House, US President Donald Trump and the British Prime Minister Keir Strandmer discussed the end of the war in Ukraine, but while Trump suggested that a ceasefire was imminent and that Russia could trust to honor a deal was more careful.
Part of Starrer’s approach was to address Trump’s great affinity for the monarchy. He gave Trump a personalized letter from King Charles, who invited Trump to a second state visit.
“It was a precision-controlled step that was specially designed for the former moderator of the TV game show,” wrote Tristen Naylor, director of the Oxbridge Diplomatic Academy, on the website medium.
“In addition, Sir Keir delivered his performance with language, which was borrowed directly by Trump’s characteristic pattern and offered superlatives and compliments at every occasion,” wrote Naylor.
Parmer also praised Trump for his efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, and said that he had “created a moment of enormous opportunity to achieve a historical peace agreement”.
But he was in relation to Ukraine that Trump avoided. For example, rigid Russia described as an intruder and warned that there can be no peace “rewarding the attacker”.
In his part, Trump was also full of praise for Sarmherer and said that the prime minister was a “very hard negotiator” who “worked hard” to convince him not to impose tariffs and “deserved whatever they pay for it”.
“I think we could have a real trade agreement very well in which the tariffs would not be necessary, we will see,” said Trump.
The results:
On Thursday, the United States and Great Britain announced plans for a trade agreement with Great Britain, which still has to be concluded and the basic line tubes that Trump unveiled in April
It would lead to more beef and ethanol exports to Great Britain. In return, however, the British officials stated that Trump’s auto tariffs would increase from 27.5 percent to 10 percent to a quota of 100,000 vehicles and import taxes for steel and aluminum to zero.
Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
The approach:
Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy turned into a public panco of the Ukranian President, who was insulted by the US President and Vice President JD Vance, who presented him to show that he did not show enough gratitude for the America’s help for his country.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s key message to the USA was as good as an oval office meeting with President Donald Trump confused into a publicly screaming match. Ellen Mauro from CBC cuts through the chaos of this day to reveal what Ukraine was really afterwards and how a history of diplomatic disappointment desperately left the country according to US security guarantees.
The shouting match broke out after Vance emphasized the need for diplomacy to solve the conflict. Zelenskyy, with the arms entangled against Putin, provided Putin in no conversations, and found that Vance had never visited Ukraine.
Trump and Vance called Zelenskyy “disrespectful”, with Trump said that Zelenskyy was “not in a good position”.
“You don’t have the cards at the moment. With us you are starting to have cards,” said Trump.
The blowup led to the rest of Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House, and it went without signing a deal that enables the two countries to develop the natural resources of Ukraine together.
The results:
This confrontation prompted the White House, the US military aid and the secret service to briefly pause Ukraine. But Trump and Zelenskyy have another personal meeting, this time for about 15 minutes, while last month he attended Pope Francis’s funeral in the Vatican at the burial of the Vatican.
Trump said it was “a nice meeting”, while Zelenskyy said it was her best discussion so far.
“Maybe it was the shortest, but it was the most important in terms of content,” he said in his office. “In my opinion, this tête-à-tête format worked with all respect for our teams.”
Days later and after months of tense negotiations, the United States and Ukraine signed a deal that gives Washington access to the critical minerals and other natural resources in the country and that Kyiv hopes that they will back up long -term support for its defense against Russia.
According to the Ukrainian officials, this new version of the deal for Ukraine is far more advantageous than earlier versions, which Kyiv reduces to a junior partner and gave Washington under -playing rights to the country’s resources, reported Associated Press.
