'I like this man': Carney will get heat phrases from Trump. The remainder has to attend

[ad_1] In a White Home that prizes the ability of images, the pictures it shared after a primary assembly with Mark Carney spoke volumes.

It was all smiles, thumbs up, pleasant picture captions and heat movies on U.S. President Donald Trump's social media feeds after his preliminary encounter with the prime minister.

"The brand new prime minister's a terrific man," Trump informed reporters later within the day, at an unrelated information convention.

"It went very effectively. We had a really nice assembly."

That is in keeping with the tone he adopted on the outset of their Oval Workplace assembly, which performed out, per his customized, to an unusual diploma in view of TV cameras.

Trump mentioned he had plenty of respect for Carney. He complimented his election race, which he referred to as one of many biggest comebacks in political historical past. He referred to as Canada particular to him, mentioned he would defend it militarily, and needed a pleasant relationship.

WATCH | Not on the market, Carney says: Canada received’t ever be on the market, Carney tells Trump at White Home

Throughout a gathering within the Oval Workplace, Prime Minister Mark Carney informed U.S. President Donald Trump that Canada won't ever be on the market, occurring to say that the chance between the 2 nations ‘is within the partnership and what we will construct collectively,’ together with round safety. Trump, who has repeatedly raised the notion of Canada because the 51st state, added ‘by no means say by no means.’ The encounter started so congenially that The Related Press headline referred to Trump "radiating heat" for the Canadian chief.

Because the on-camera portion dragged on, nonetheless, over the course of 33 minutes, the reminders started piling up of the substantive challenges forward.

For starters, there is no assure U.S. tariffs will come off. There's not even any indication at this level, no less than not publicly, of how the negotiating course of will work.

Beneath the grins and handshakes, outdated ambitions peeked via. It is now abundantly clear Trump wasn't joking about annexing Canada. He actually does lengthy for it.

That mentioned, it is a distant dream. He appeared to concede Canadians aren't , and mentioned it wasn't on his assembly agenda. Perhaps sometime, he mentioned. "By no means say by no means."

WATCH | An 'synthetic' border, Trump says: Trump says he nonetheless believes Canada ought to be 51st state — however provides ‘it takes two to tango’

U.S President Donald Trump, sitting subsequent to Prime Minister Mark Carney on the White Home on Tuesday, returned to his notion of Canada because the 51st state after a query from a reporter, calling the border synthetic and saying it might ‘actually be a beautiful marriage.’ Carney dismissed the concept, once more, saying Canada won't ever — ever — be on the market. This prompted Carney's finest second of the day. He bought Trump to nod, smile and acknowledge, as a one-time real-estate mogul, that some properties are usually not on the market.

Then the president took some digs at Justin Trudeau. He referred, once more, to the previous prime minister as "governor" and, in view of Carney, mentioned: "I did not like his predecessor."

Two assembly takeaways After the assembly, there have been two fundamental takeaways amongst individuals who watch Canada-U.S. relations.

First is that, given the rock-bottom state of the connection, this simply cleared a low bar.

"That is pretty much as good a begin as we may have hoped for," mentioned Louise Blais, Canada's former consul in Atlanta who, in 2016, was among the many first Canadian diplomats to construct connections to Trump's authentic marketing campaign crew.

Brian Clow, who managed U.S. relations in Trudeau's workplace, summed it up as "the best-case situation."

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"We will hit some tough patches earlier than we get to the end line," Blais informed CBC Information. Clow referred to as the assembly the primary of many, many steps.

Spoiler alert: Carney is aware of this too. Talking afterward the rooftop of the Canadian Embassy, he referred to the assembly as having been only one step.

"Immediately marked the top of the start of a course of," Carney mentioned. "The query is: How we'll co-operate sooner or later?"

He was a bit cagey on a key element, maybe as a result of it is unresolved: Will these negotiations occur rapidly, or below the already deliberate overview of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Settlement, which can not formally begin, below U.S. legislation, till subsequent 12 months?

Trump sounds open to totally different approaches. So does Carney. One risk is that the talks may unfold in levels — some now, some subsequent 12 months.

The one robust trace Carney dropped pertains to a widely known Trump goal: tightening the principles for the North American auto commerce.

<img loading="lazy" alt="Two men are face-to-face, sitting in chairs." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7519580.1745679879!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-trump-vatican-pope.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7519580.1745679879!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-trump-vatican-pope.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7519580.1745679879!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-trump-vatican-pope.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7519580.1745679879!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-trump-vatican-pope.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7519580.1745679879!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-trump-vatican-pope.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7519580.1745679879!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/aptopix-trump-vatican-pope.jpg?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523" data-cy="image-img"/> Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, proper, and Trump discuss as they attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican on April 26. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Workplace/The Related Press) With Trump's crew keen to cut back auto imports from Asia, Carney mentioned he informed Trump that Canadian elements, metal and aluminum might be a part of the answer.

This presents a glimpse into why Carney proposed tying commerce and safety into one negotiation; to make the case for Canadian imports, as benefiting U.S. safety.

However he provided no different particulars from their closed-door talks. When a reporter requested for extra, Carney mentioned: "That is why they're closed-door."

<img loading="lazy" alt="A man in a suit smirks while speaking at a podium with the U.S. Capitol in the background." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7528053.1746562863!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/trump-carney-20250506.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7528053.1746562863!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/trump-carney-20250506.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7528053.1746562863!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/trump-carney-20250506.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7528053.1746562863!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/trump-carney-20250506.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7528053.1746562863!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/trump-carney-20250506.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7528053.1746562863!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/trump-carney-20250506.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.5128205128205128" data-cy="image-img"/> Carney speaks on the roof of the Canadian Embassy in Washington after assembly with Trump. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press) The Trumpland roller-coaster So Carney left Washington with out struggling the destiny of Volodymy Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian president was the sufferer of maybe probably the most catastrophic picture op within the historical past of the Oval Workplace, with visiting world leaders now fearing getting "Zelenskyy-ed."

But it surely's price noting what occurred subsequent to Zelenskyy for example of the twists and turns of coping with the notoriously transactional Trump.

They have been on higher phrases these days. They only had an encounter on the Vatican that Zelenskyy referred to as their finest but.

They bought a brand new minerals deal analysts are calling a win-win. The New York Occasions simply ran a chunk headlined, "How Zelensky Maneuvered Himself Out of the Doghouse With Trump."

However you realize who else had an honest first assembly with Trump after the Nov. 5 U.S. election? Justin Trudeau. By preliminary accounts, his journey to Mar-a-Lago was pleasant. In an preliminary assertion later that month, Trump referred to as it "very productive."

But, inside days, Trump began belittling Canada's sovereignty, in a marketing campaign of cross-border denigration with out parallel in fashionable historical past.

It is a reminder that, in Trumpland, the vibes include a one-day guarantee. However on this in the future, Trump was all smiles when a reporter requested if he'd discover it simpler to work with Canada's present PM than the final one.