CNN Fact-Checker Spots 2 Biggest Lies In Trump Meeting With Mark Carney

Daniel Dale said the president did “better than usual,” and told only two enormous lies about America’s trade relationship with Canada.

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale says President Donald Trump did “better than usual” Tuesday — and told only two lies about America’s trade relationship with Canada — during his Oval Office meeting earlier that day with newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“President Trump did not repeat a lot of the lies about Canada that I’ve been fact-checking for months,” Dale confirmed on the air Tuesday. “I counted at least 11 false claims from the president about Canada in 2025; he told two of them, by my count, during this meeting.”

“So, better than usual,” he continued. “But it’s worth fact-checking those two.”

The falsehoods in question: Trump claimed during his televised meeting with Carney that the U.S. subsidizes Canada “to the tune of maybe $200 billion a year” — and that America doesn’t “do much business” with the continental ally.

“This $200 billion figure he uses to describe the trade deficit with Canada … it’s imaginary,” Dale explained Tuesday. “The trade deficit with Canada is not even close to that high. It was about $36 billion, not $200 billion, last year.”