Trump's Oval's office meeting with Carney did not achieve a tension at Zelensky level. But it wasn't all the neighborhood

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It wasn't the most controversial meeting that the oval office ever seen. It wasn't the warmest either.

Instead, the eagerly awaited meeting fell between President Donald Trump and his new Canadian counterpart Mark Carney somewhere in the middle: neither openly hostile nor external and wob

The lunch discussions illustrate the new dynamics between the once friendly nations, the 5,525-mile border of which has guaranteed the longest of the world one, a certain level of cooperation, which represents something completely different about Trump.

“Someone pulled this line with a ruler many years ago, only a straight line directly over the top of the country,” said Trump in the oval office when his meeting was going on. “If you look at this beautiful formation when she is together – I am a very artistic person, but when I looked at it, I said: 'That's how it should be.'”

Carney doesn't believe that it should be.

“I am glad that you couldn't say what happened to me,” said Carney later that day when Trump made this remark.

Nevertheless, Carney didn't quite hold his tongue.

In a meeting that was dominated by Trump's comments-he spoke 95% of the time across all types of topics, from the Middle East to the Presidential Library of Barack Obama to the state of high-speed rail in California, the setback of the new Prime Minister was to make Canada to make Canada on 51st US state.

“As you know about real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” he said, pulling a contradicting “that's true” by Trump before Carney continued.

“We are sitting in one. You know, Buckingham Palace, which you also visited,” he continued when Trump nodded another “true”.

“And after you have met with the owners of Canada in the course of the campaign in the past few months, it is not for sale,” he concluded. “It will never be for sale.”

With this statement, Carney essentially achieved what he had come to Washington and explained so clearly that Canada is not annexed by his southern neighbor.

Of course, he has said that for weeks, most of the tax in Canada in the last month in Canada, in which his liberals came to a shocking gain in awarding a wave of the anti-trump feeling.

Before Carney arrived in the White House, he also tried to send the news by announcing an upcoming visit to King Charles III, Canada's official head of state, used the sovereign to be pointed out that Canada's sovereignty had no debate.

This news, when he heard you, did not make Trump withdraw, even if he sits opposite Carney in the oval office.

“Never say never,” Trump twitched when Carney kept tasting the word “never” next to him. “I had many, many things that were not feasible, and they were feasible and only feasible in a very friendly way.”

Nevertheless, the president did not push the matter on and the meeting did not fall off the rails. For the time being, the problem in the Oval Office was essentially decided for a topic that caused so much visceral trouble in Canada.

After the reporters left the room, Carney to Trump said that it was not “useful” to repeat his idea of ​​growing Canada.

“But he is the president,” he said, recalling the exchange at a solo press conference after the end of the meeting: “And he will say what he wants.”

However, Trump did not use the insult to Carney, which he used against his predecessor Justin Trudeau. “As far as Governor Carney is concerned, no, I haven't done that yet – and maybe I won't be going to it,” Trump said later in the day of the White House, which was not related.

Carney said they had agreed to meet the next month on the G7 summit, which he organized in Alberta, which Trump had not previously decided to participate.

Nevertheless, the relationships between Washington and Ottawa remain in the lowest point.

When Carney was out of the White House in the Blair House in the Pennsylvania Avenue and prepared for his meeting with Trump, the president started a broad side on the social of truth and explained that Canada was excessively dependent on the United States.

“We need nothing more than her friendship, which we hopefully always maintain,” wrote Trump. “On the other hand, you need everything from us!”

However, when Carney arrived, Trump didn't seem to be interested in fighting publicly.

“We have some difficult points to pass and that will be fine,” said Trump, after praising Carney for “one of the greatest comebacks in politics.”

The meeting ended somewhat abruptly when Trump explained that the United States did not need Canadian cars or steel, and that there was nothing that Carney could say or do what would make him raise tariffs.

“The way it is,” said Trump.

But according to the standards of the Trump White House, in which another leader was insulted and driven out in the Oval Office at the beginning of this year, everything was relatively mild.

Even Trump admitted that he had seen worse.

“We still had a little blow with someone else,” said Trump, a veiled allusion to his fight with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “It was very different. It's a very friendly conversation.”