The Apprentice: Carney plays nice during first White House visit | Blaze Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

92% : Trump nodded and said, "That's great.
76% : Trump introduced Carney like an old friend and valued colleague: It's a great honor to have Prime Minister Mark Carney with us.
71% : " For his part, Trump seems to have been sincere -- after all, the president endorsed Carney on three different occasions and was happy to take credit for his victory in typical Trumpian fashion.
63% : Instead, Trump called Carney "a talented person."
61% : " The prime minister explained that Trump was so transformational because of his "focus on the economy, with a relentless focus on the American worker, securing your borders, ending the scourge of fentanyl and other opioids, and in securing the world.
51% : Carney described Trump as "a transformational president.
46% : Trump had Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while Carney looked to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, Public Safety Minister David McGuinty, and International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
46% : Trump genially agreed to disagree, insisting that his relationship with Carney was "very friendly," even as he reiterated his position that the U.S. did not want to buy any Canadian cars or steel.
45% : Given that Carney won Canada's April 28 federal election largely by vowing to stand up to Trump, a little tension might have been expected at the White House news conference.
43% : Trump held forth in his usual manner, talking about any issue that came to mind except tariffs.
40% : Clearly any tariff talk was going to go on behind closed doors -- at least Trump certainly wasn't giving anything away during the two leaders' first official appearance together.
40% : For most of the conversation with the anxious media, Trump behaved as if Carney weren't even sitting beside him, almost never referencing his presence or even why he was in Washington.
38% : Nor did Trump budge on the existing tariffs on cars and steel.
37% : When a reporter asked if there was anything Canada could do to roll the tariffs back, the president replied with a flat "no." Trump quickly moved the conversation to a happier subject: how much he loathed former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his deputy, former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
33% : " There was one moment of defiance from Carney as Trump again raised the specter of Canada becoming part of the United States.
28% : On the campaign trail, Carney vowed to fight Trump and his tariffs every chance he got -- tough talk that had no small part in securing his victory.
20% : Carney insisted that Trump must stop alluding to Canada as the 51st state if negotiations are to proceed unimpeded.
20% : " Carney insisted that Trump must stop alluding to Canada as the 51st state if negotiations are to proceed unimpeded.

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