President Donald Trump interrupted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s glowing Oval Workplace tribute to him with a joke announcement about the USA and Canada turning into one nation.
Carney had been praising Trump as “a transformative president,” pointing to his securing of “unprecedented commitments of NATO companions to protection spending” and extra. However as Carney started to trace at what he referred to as “in lots of respects, an important” of Trump’s achievements, Trump jumped in and mentioned: “The merger of Canada and the USA.”
Laughter broke out within the room.
“No,” Carney mentioned, with a smile.
“I’m solely kidding,” Trump added.
“That wasn’t the place I used to be going,” Carney then added, earlier than persevering with: “On this solemn day of commemoration of the horrific assaults of Oct. 7, for the primary time in a long time, lots of, 1000’s of years, there’s a actual prospect of peace [in the Middle East] that you simply’ve made doable. Canada stands foursquare behind these efforts and can do no matter we are able to to help them.”
Trump thanked Carney for his remarks.
Trump repeatedly taunted former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with the title “governor” and even shared mock maps on-line exhibiting what a merged U.S.-Canada could seem like.
