Posted on 05/06/2025 2:06:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he asked President Trump during their meeting Tuesday to stop calling his neighbors to the north the 51st state, insisting the president will not get his “wish.”
In a press conference at the Canadian Embassy following his meeting at the White House, a reporter asked Carney if he pushed Trump to stop calling Canada the 51st state because it offends Canadians, and the new prime minister responded “yes.”
“Today,” he said of when he pushed back on Trump’s 51st state remark, and added “exactly what you just said” when pressed for specifics on the comment to the president.
Trump has refused to back off on talk of Canada potentially joining the U.S., but he appeared friendlier toward Carney than he had been in recent months toward former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whom he repeatedly mocked and called “governor.”
“The president has made known his wish about that issue for some time. I’ve been careful always to distinguish between wish and reality,” Carney told reporters.
He said he would not speak for Trump when asked for the president’s response.
“We’ll see, look, I don’t know. He’s the president, he’s his own person. I would go back to showing the difference between a wish and a reality,” Carney said. “We’re very clear, I’ve been very clear publicly consistently. I’ve been clear in private. I was very clear again in the Oval Office, have been clear throughout.”
“The president, he understands that we’re having a negotiation between sovereign nations and that we will only pursue and accept a deal that is in the best interest of Canada, not just in the short term but in the medium and long term for Canada,” he added, referring to negotiations over tariffs.
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Did Trump tell him to go home and get his shinebox?
I’m sure President Trump laughed in his face.
Eh? Pound Sand. My some people are touchy ...
Shove it up your Carnhole
So he’s a window glass.... “clear”, “clear”, “clear”.
Trump: I wouldn’t stop for all the fish in the Gulf of America. Hoser.
Geez. No sense of humor, eh?
Carney, we do NOT want to shoulder the burden of your failed socialist garbage nation as a 51st state in the USA.
You suck.
Canada has become dysfunctional. Why do we want it?
The Carney needs to stop making Canada a circus side show.
Lol!
I’m not real impressed with their women.
https://www.ranker.com/list/hottest-canadian-women/michaelchoi
The hosers can keep Ontario and all that is East of it. We would like to take in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba as new US states. And maybe British Colombia.
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba = oil gas energy mining farming rich. They are producers, while the central government in Ontario bleeds them dry. This central government bureaucracy is top heavy with liberal-socialist Quebecois, due to bilingual requirements.
I’m not real impressed with their women...
Sorry I don’t recognize them with their burkas off. ;)
Trump said “OK, besides Greenland will be #51, so Canada will have to be the 52nd at best. Depending on what happens with the Canal Zone.”
I support Trump but he never should have said it.
How about Gay North Dakota?
Trump’s answer started like this: “You know, Governor...”
I hope he told the pussy Canadian to GFH...
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