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Trump says Carney will visit within the next week, calls him a ’nice gentleman’
By Catharine Tunney, CBC News, RCI
Prime Minister Mark Carney regularly said in his campaign speeches that the United States wanted Canada’s land and resources, and that it would ‘never happen.’ Photo: CBC / Evan Mitsui
PMO hasn’t yet commented on president’s timeline.
U.S. President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit the White House within the next week or less
as the two countries chart a new way forward following a federal election that was largely seen as a rebuke of the president’s trade war and his 51s state ambitions.
I think we’re going to have a great relationship,
Trump said Wednesday, where he weighed in on the results of the Canadian election.
He called me up yesterday and said, ‘let’s make a deal.
WATCH | Trump says Carney will travel to White House ‘very shortly’
Trump says Carney will travel to White House ‘very shortly’
U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, offered comments on the Canadian election and the main party leaders’ views on him — and said he expects Prime Minister Mark Carney to come to the White House ‘within the next week, or less.
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The president said both Canadians running for office hated Trump,
an acknowledgement of the deep rejection of his policies and rhetoric that surfaced during the election.
And it was the one that hated Trump, I think the least, that won. I actually think the Conservatives hated me much more than the so-called Liberal,
said the president.
He went on to say Carney couldn’t have been nicer
and called him a very nice gentleman.
The Prime Minister’s Office has not yet commented on Trump’s timeline of this visit.
Trump and Carney had already agreed the countries would begin negotiations on a new economic and security deal, no matter who won Monday’s election.
This article is republished from RCI.
