Read the transcript of Carney and Trump’s Oval Office meeting
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During their meeting, Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump touched on trade, security and Trump’s threat of making Canada the 51st American state.
Prime Minister Mark Carney met U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House on Tuesday, and both leaders took questions from reporters in the Oval Office after making opening remarks.
The conversation touched on trade, security and Trump’s constant threat of making Canada the 51st American state. Here’s a transcript of their press conference:
DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much, everybody. It’s a great honour to have Prime Minister Mark Carney with us. As you know, just a few days ago, he won a very big election in Canada. I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him. But I can’t say that. His party was losing by a lot and he ended up winning. So I really want to congratulate him. It was probably one of the greatest comebacks in the history of politics. Maybe even greater than mine. But I want to just congratulate you, it was a great election, actually.
We were watching it with interest, and I think Canada chose a very talented person, a very good person. And we spoke before the election quite a few times. And it’s an honour to have you at the White House in the Oval Office.
You see the new and improved Oval Office as it becomes more and more beautiful with love. We handle it with great love and 24 carat gold. That always helps too. But it’s been a lot of fun going over some of the beautiful pictures that were stored in the vaults that were for many, many years, in some cases over 100 years, stored in vaults of the great presidents or almost great presidents or all having a reason for being up every one of them. So it’s very interesting, but I just want to congratulate you. And you ran a really great race. I watched the debate. I thought you were excellent. And I think we have a lot of things in common. We have some tough, tough points to go over, and that’ll be fine. We’re going to also be discussing Ukraine-Russia, the war, because Mark wants it ended as quickly as I do. I think it has to end.
We had some very good news last night. The Houthis have announced that they are not or they’ve been announced to us, at least, that they don’t want to fight anymore. They just don’t want to fight. And, we will honor that. And we will stop the bombings. And they have capitulated. But more importantly, we will take their word. They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore. And that’s what the purpose of what we were doing.
So that’s just news. We just found out about that. So, I think that’s very, very positive. They were knocking out a lot of ships sailing beautifully down the various seas. It wasn’t just a canal. It was a lot of other places. And I will accept their word. And we are going to stop the bombing of the Houthis effective immediately. And, Marco, you’ll let everybody know that. OK. Do you have something to say about that? By the way? A pretty big announcement.
MARCO RUBIO: This was always a freedom of navigation mission. These guys are a band of individuals with advanced weaponry that were threatening global shipping. And the job was to get that to stop. And if it’s going to stop and then can stop it and I think it’s an important development.
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