Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Carney didn’t reach

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It wasn’t the most contentious meeting the Oval Office has ever seen. Nor was it the warmest.
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Instead, the highly anticipated meeting Tuesday between President Donald Trump and his new Canadian counterpart Mark Carney fell somewhere in the middle: neither openly hostile nor outwardly chummy, evincing very little neighborliness, at least the type used on neighbors one likes.
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The midday talks illustrated neatly the new dynamic between the once-friendly nations, whose 5,525-mile border — the world’s longest — once guaranteed a degree of cooperation but which, to Trump, represents something very different.
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“Somebody drew that line many years ago with, like, a ruler, just a straight line right across the top of the country,” Trump said in the Oval Office as his meeting was getting underway. “When you look at that beautiful formation when it’s together – I’m a very artistic person, but when I looked at that, I said: ‘That’s the way it was meant to be.’”

That is not how Carney believes it was meant to be.

“I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind,” Carney told reporters later that day about the moment Trump made that remark.
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Still, Carney didn’t entirely hold his tongue.

In a meeting dominated by Trump’s comments — he spoke 95% of the time on all manner of topics, from the Middle East to Barack Obama’s presidential library to the state of high-speed rail in California — it was the new prime minister’s pushback on the president’s ambition to make Canada the 51st US state that stood out.

“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” he said, drawing a begrudging “that’s true” from Trump before Carney carried on.
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[davidsolano 0]

That exchange honestly made me laugh — classic Trump moment.  Carney handled it pretty well, though, keeping his cool and slipping in that “never for sale” line perfectly. You can really feel the tension between the two, but also a bit of dry humor under it all — kind of like a Geometry Dash Lite level where you’re dodging obstacles with a straight face.