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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Donald Trump on Tuesday that his country will never be for sale, shutting down the U.S. president’s repeated calls to make Canada the 51st state.
“There are some places that are never for sale,” Carney said in the Oval Office.
Canada is “not for sale” and “won’t be for sale ever,” the prime minister said.
Trump replied: “Never say never.”
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Carney also called him a “transformational president” who “revitalized international security” and Trump nodded “it’s true!” because he’s too stupid to realize it wasn’t a compliment.
Carney used “tranformational” twice, then Trump tried to use it but lost his train of thought.
That was the end of my watching tv cause my head hurt from his utter fucking stupidity.
Carney does like that word a lot, although not nearly as much as “if I may”
“If I may” is Canadian english for “please be quiet, I haven’t finished speaking”.
Agreed. It’s called “manners” and “diplomacy”. Something Trump knows nothing about.
Or shut your fucking orange pie hole I’m speaking right now.
Not just Canadian. Just really good manners. Something Trump doesn’t know anything about.
Or in American “shut the fuck up Donnie”
Your country’s leader may overuse turns-of-phrase. Mine is destroying a lifetime of political capital and hurting millions both domestically and internationally.
I’d choose your leader over mine in a hot second.
New deal, Canada becomes part of the US but we just let them be in charge and abandon our clearly failed political system
So much better than Trump’s mouth diarrhea
“If I may” is a polite way to interject in a conversation. Carney does this, because he understands that’s how it’s done in normal political meetings. This, was not a normal political meeting. This was Trump going on and on and on. About the beautiful White House, and the gold, blah, blah blah.
Same. I only watched it cuz I like watching carney in action. Everyone else in that room makes me want to vomit
So fucking embarrassing.
Okay so the thing is Trunp might be embarrassing for you, but the threats to our sovereignty are fucking serious to us. It’s like, not a joke. Trunp has nukes and the biggest military on Earth and he’s saying Canada doesn’t exist, shouldn’t exist, is artificial, only exists cause the US lets us be here, we’re communist/socialists therefore should be attacked, we should be a state etc. The US can’t walk back that shit. We don’t WANT to do business with the US. We don’t want anything to do with the US- for generations.
Mark Carney is the person we want at the helm right now in the rough waters ahead. Don’t underestimate him. What he did at that meeting was show diplomacy at its finest. Calm down. Let him do what he does best.
Where did I imply that any of this was funny?
I love this actually.
I think he handled him well.
He did. Carney fed Trump’s ego and used almost every one of his good-trigger words so Trump was placated.
If world leaders learned nothing else from the Zelenskiy debacle, it was that.
Imagine if Carney plays him so well that he becomes a trusted voice in Trump’s head, like Putin is. In such a scenario, Trump would pit Carney’s words on econ against his advisors. 😂
I know! I caught that too! Carney is awesome.
As an American, all I can say is “I’m sorry that we have inflicted this Orange Buffon on the world.” Thank you for seeing him as the pathetic loser he is.
By all means punish America for this. Our voters seem to be assholes and only concerned with the price of eggs. We need to suffer a little financially to learn our lesson.
As an American, I’d like to say “I’m sorry that we have inflicted this Orange Buffon on the world. TWICE.”
Respect for using a Canadian meme to make your apology. I see Letterkenny, I upvote.
Letterkenny and Shoresy are great fucking shows. Fight me; see what happens.
Thats’s correct and it’s also why America will find very little grace outside of your borders. Most Americans don’t leave their states though. So they don’t really gaf.
I was listening to a Jim Gaffigan bit he wrote during the first Trump admin which is even more true these days. Short version, he compares having Trump as President to having a parent who’s a raging alcoholic: what he does isn’t directly your fault but you still know you should apologize.
I’m kind of happy to see that basically no American other than orange dildo and his ass-kissers seems to agree that., even for trump, (which is saying a lot) this is a good idea… I don’t plan to ever step foot again in the US (sorry, something as been broken), but I’m glad to know not all of you have lost your mind. Cheers from Montréal.
I know it’s going to suck for a lot of people, but I hope that nobody buckles under Trump’s trade war pressure. Let the shitty Trump tariffs be the torch that lights the funeral pyre that is the husk of what used to be the United States.
Trump is just a symptom. He could get drone-bombed tomorrow and nothing would change. The people who were complicit in him regaining power must be severely punished, or else they will simply fall in lockstep with the next Republican stooge, and the only way to properly punish them is to inflict the maximum amount of suffering directly to them. Economic suffering is the bloodless route, and one that will be very effective in breaking the spell of propaganda.
Trump, a convicted rapist and felon with little education and a history of bankrupting everything he touches, thinks he’s going to out maneuver Carney, a man who’s highly educated, has run the bank of Canada, the Bank of England, and sat on the board of Brookfield, a company worth……over $900 US billion. Yeah, whatever.
Trump doesn’t even know when he’s being insulted, but nods and agrees.
OK Trump, time for a diaper change, warm bottle and a nap ya stupid fuck.
What would it even mean to “sell” Canada? Whatever deal they make, the US could just back out of once Canada became a state, and Canada wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. It’s a non-sensical idea.
Selling territories makes sense, but selling your own sovereignty does not.
Carney had to use a word Trump understands.
While reframing the conversation.
As a guy not big on the whole consent thing, I doubt Trump understands Never particularly well.
I’ve understood it more as buying the politicians out. That’s the only thing that could really be “for sale”, and thankfully we picked one that isn’t (at least not in this context).
It’s always been hilarious to me that he considers the entire country as one sole entity. Like if I said all the US would be one province.
This wasn’t a “meeting”. This was Trump embarrassing himself, as usual. Trump talks about Canada joining the US, saying “tremendous health care”. OK, really? Talking about Carney, right in front of him: “This man coming up through the ranks”. OMG! Look at Mark Carney’s resume you idiot. And, bringing up Wayne Gretzky?
… has Canada considered buying the us? After all, we are for sale.
Canada has a similar GDP to Russia so frankly shame on Canadians for not buying a President before they all sold out.
Carney should have said something like “if you want our countries to be friends, then start treating us like a friend and start acting like a friend.”
Talk to Trump at his level, akin to a 5 year old.
The sad thing is, this doesn’t sound odd or unusual whatsoever. Given the current lack of decorum, I automatically assume this is how everyone must speak to him.
Don’t underestimate Mark Carney. He was the former Governor of the Bank of England and was a prominent figure in discussions surrounding Brexit, particularly in relation to its economic implications that Brexit could bring to the UK economy. He argued AGAINST Brexit. He was right.
Vance would be begging to become another meme over that
Carney has been dealing with international finances and issues his whole career. He IS talking to Trump like he’s a 5 year old. A 5 year old out of control. Carney’s restraint and diplomacy was exemplary.
How would that even work? I’ll give you 100 dollars to be mine… then that 100 dollars becomes mine again?
And let’s not forget our health care. We may have challenges, but Canadians aren’t losing their homes and/or life savings because of medical emergencies. I dislocated and broke my arm last year from a bad fall. Long wait at emergency, but once x-rays were done and I saw a doctor, surgery was scheduled quickly. Total bill: $0.00
Wimpy sat there, too stupid to know he got insulted, and too scared to use his big boy voice. He only does that shit when he’s backed up by his homies or alone at a mic at a rally.
Literally stared at the carpet. You could see the gears turning, but the only thing really going through his mind was that he wanted a hamburger. And maybe a diaper change.
Damn fucking right. Eat shit Trump and moron sycophants.
He should have punched that orange bitch in the face so fucking hard
Then jersey him and feed him a few more.
and get all that orange bronzer stained on his fist.
Being the convicted rapist that he is, Trump can’t take no for an answer.
I’d love to be locked in a room with Trump for an hour, he’d survive but I’d tell the world afterwards what his end goal was and every secret he had.
Serious question: Do you think anybody would listen? There have been multiple former members of the White House staff and Cabinet you have come out with scathing tell-alls. Then there are the multiple communications leaks. Then outright just stating that they are going to do the thing.
I’m pretty sure we are well past the point of revealing his true end goals and ending him right there
Look man. If my favorite football team sucks and makes shitty deals for players and has a losing record, I’m still going over the top saying they’re gonna beat our main rivals and are the best ever. Hell I don’t even need to understand why they suck or what they could even do to get better. They’re my team! I can’t let you talk shit about them.
- MAGAt philosophy
Probably not but I’d enjoy the hour but of course I wouldn’t actually resort to hurting him if possible.
I do want to know if he is actually a Russian Asset though.
if possible
Unless your EEG looks like a topographical map of Iowa, you should be jumping at him almost immediately or you’ll go insane. I cannot imagine the torture of listening to him talk for an hour without being able to physically make it stop.
I’m a bit of a sociopath what he says doesn’t really bother me I’d just be interested in getting the truth out of him.
I don’t want to hurt him mainly due to the legal system. As I don’t want the consequences but I would push the limits until he talked a lot.
I’m N Irish so I think he’d get I was serious and start talking almost immediately due to the accent and the various drills/saws scattered around. If he doesn’t he would regret it even though I’d keep him alive. I don’t want to be a killer but he has a hell of a lot of explaining to do in my opinion and zi seriously want to know whose pulling his strings.
Bold of you to assume he knows who is pulling his strings.
That’s something I’m sure would become clearer with questioning whether it’s Putin, vance or someone else.
It’s probably no one that either you or Trump has heard of.
He doesn’t have any secrets, he’s literally telling everyone exactly what he intends to do. People haven’t been listening.
It’s not a joke you dumb cunt. It was said with its full intention.
”The price is you stepping down and agreeing never to run for any political office under pain of death”
Still wouldn’t be worth it. We can’t expect Canadians to sacrifice themselves to the shitty US system, even the one without Trump.
Too cheap. It needs to be “the immediate resignation from office of anyone in the US who would want to purchase or otherwise take control of Canadian territory”.
Still too cheap. It should be “The complete dissolution of the United States as a singular entity”.
Might as well skip the middle part, he’s never going to do any of that anyway.
