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President Donald Trump began the bilateral assembly with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney joking that he’s “probably the greatest thing that happened to him.”

After congratulating Carney on his latest win, Trump acknowledged that his latest aggressive habits towards Canada helped Carney’s get together, the Liberals, make a comeback.

The Conservative Party of Canada was virtually 23 factors forward of the Liberals within the polls in January.

“I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him,” Trump joked.

Carney responded with a humorous look to reporters.

The president known as Carney’s win “one of the greatest comebacks in the history of politics,” together with his personal.

President Donald Trump welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to the White House for the primary time on Tuesday.

The two shook palms and smiled in a quick photo-op earlier than heading contained in the White House for a extra formal assembly.

Just moments earlier than he’s anticipated to fulfill with Mark Carney, the newly elected Prime Minister of Canada, Trump took to Truth Social to complain in regards to the unfair stability between Canada and the U.S.

“I look forward to meeting the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. I very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one simple TRUTH — Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things?”

“We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain. They, on the other hand, need EVERYTHING from us! The Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly blocked army assist flights to Ukraine inside days after Donald Trump entered workplace with out the administration figuring out.

An order from the U.S. army instructed freight airways at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and a U.S. base in Qatar to halt 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and different weapons certain for Ukraine, in response to Reuters.

That verbal order reportedly got here from Hegseth’s workplace, in response to U.S. Transportation Command data reviewed by Reuters, sparking mass confusion throughout Washington, D.C. and in Kyiv, underscoring what officers and critics have warned is a Pentagon in disarray and pushed by haphazard decision-making .

On Capitol Hill, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted robust questions from lawmakers in regards to the president’s tariff plan, which has rattled U.S. inventory markets and anxious customers.

Bessent instructed lawmakers there haven’t been any negotiations with China on tariffs regardless of Trump claiming there have been talks.

However, he did say there have been negotiations with 17 out of 18 of the U.S.’s largest buying and selling companions.

Mark Carney’s first Oval Office go to as Canadian prime minister is “really just to check a box,” a White House official instructed Politico underneath the situation of anonymity.

Other members of Trump’s crew additionally appeared detached forward of the 11.45 a.m. assembly on Tuesday.

“Just another world leader coming to visit. One of many,” one other White House staffer instructed the outlet.

“No bells and whistles for the new guy,” a 3rd official mentioned.

President Donald Trump has introduced two nationwide holidays for Americans to commemorate U.S. victories within the First and Second World Wars – however has made clear they received’t be days off for Americans.

The Republican made the announcement on his Truth Social platform on Monday, declaring that May 8 and November 11 can be marked as public holidays to honor the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 and the signing of the armistice that introduced an finish to the First World War in 1918 respectively.

“We won two world wars, but we never took credit for it – Everyone else does! All over the world, the allies are celebrating the victory we had in World War II,” Trump wrote.

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