Carney tells Trump Canada will ‘never’ be for sale as leaders meet at White House

Hi all. I’m Jenna, and I’m the elder concern writer for CBC News.

Trump says no, CUSMA is not dead. “It was really precise effective, and it’s inactive precise effective. But radical person to travel it,” helium said of the escaped commercialized statement negotiated betwixt the U.S., Canada and Mexico during his archetypal administration.

Asked if the woody — which is up for renewal successful 2026 — volition beryllium renegotiated, Trump said helium doesn’t adjacent cognize “if it’s indispensable anymore.”

Trump says helium inactive believes successful 51st authorities but says they won’t discuss

Trump was asked astir however superior helium is erstwhile helium taunts Canada astir being the 51st state.

The president said helium thinks it would beryllium champion for Canada and said arsenic a existent property developer, erstwhile helium sees the representation without the borderline helium thinks, “That’s the mode it was meant to be.”

He did, however, accidental the 2 leaders won’t beryllium discussing it today.

Carney jumped in, saying that successful existent estate, determination “are immoderate places that are ne'er for sale.”

“Never accidental never,” quipped Trump.

Trump says helium ‘was the top happening to happen’ to Carney

Trump said helium “was the top happening to happen” to Carney, a motion to however overmuch the Canadian predetermination was shaped by the U.S. commercialized war.

Carney made an “oh yeah” look to idiosyncratic successful the country and disconnected camera.

Trump praises Carney successful Oval Office

It was a antithetic Donald Trump successful person. The U.S. president was filled with praise for Canada's premier curate arsenic they sat down successful the Oval Office.

He credited Carney with 1 of the top comebacks successful governmental history.

“Canada chose a precise talented idiosyncratic — a bully person,” Trump said. “You ran a truly large contention … I watched the debate.”

Trump conceded that determination volition beryllium hard conversations but downplayed that. He started by bragging astir each the caller golden trim successful the Oval Office.

Carney, for his part, called Trump a "transformational" president, and said helium wants to find ways to enactment together.

Headed into the Oval Office

Both Trump and Carney gestured with their fists successful the aerial earlier heading inside.

They volition soon beryllium seated side-by-side successful the Oval Office wherever reporters with the Canadian and U.S. property volition effort to bombard them with questions.

A affable archetypal handshake

Carney and Trump were each smiles and exchanged a affable handshake astatine the White House entrance. Trump met Carney astatine the beforehand doorway of the West Wing.

There appeared to beryllium nary powerfulness moves done assemblage language.

Fun humanities fact: Trudeau practised his palm-up handshake connected Trump's enarthrosis connected the level down to Washington earlier their meeting. There was nary motion of that today.

Carney heads into the White House

Carney is connected his mode into the White House to conscionable with Trump, down schedule.

Before helium arrived, a Canadian emblem was brought retired and posted extracurricular the door.

Carney was scheduled to get astatine 11:30 a.m. ET astatine the White House, but we’re intelligibly down schedule.

A root tells our colleagues connected the crushed that the hold is connected the American side.

Carney is acceptable successful the car but needs the greenish airy from the White House.

FACT CHECK: Trump’s assertion that the U.S. ‘subsidizes’ Canada by $200B

The fig Trump uses has fluctuated.

He pegged the “subsidy” to Canada astatine $100 cardinal successful December. The pursuing month, helium upped it to $200 billion, past $250 billion.

In a Truth Social station this morning, helium repeated the $200-billion figure. But nary of those numbers are factual.

Trump seems to beryllium lumping successful the commercialized deficit, on with what helium calls “free” subject extortion and different unspecified things.

A commercialized shortage is not a subsidy. It conscionable means the U.S. buys much goods from america than we bash from them.

The U.S. commercialized shortage with Canada successful 2024 was $63 billion. If you instrumentality lipid retired of that, it’s really Canada that has the commercialized shortage (in different words, the U.S. has a commercialized surplus with america for astir goods).

Placing a dollar fig connected subject extortion and co-operation would beryllium overmuch much difficult. Canada has failed to unrecorded up to a NATO committedness to walk 2 per cent of GDP connected the military. Carney is promising to conscionable that by 2030.

Trump welcomes Carney with, ahem, elbows up

Carney called the U.S. president a bully negotiator. Well, 1 of the keys to negotiating is mounting the terms.

Trump appears to beryllium doing that by fundamentally asking: what tin Canada bash for me?

The president issued a broadside connected his Truth Social relationship minutes earlier Carney’s scheduled arrival, denigrating the value of Canada to the U.S. economy.

He said helium wants a bully narration with Carney, and wants Canada's friendship, but again questioned the basal presumption of the Canada-U.S. partnership.

Trump again wondered wherefore the U.S. needs Canada's lumber and cars, and again questioned wherefore the U.S. protects Canada militarily.

"That volition be, astir likely, my lone question of effect [at this meeting]," helium wrote connected Truth Social.