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Carney says Canada "won't beryllium for sale, ever"
President Trump and Canada's caller Prime Minister Mark Carney met connected Tuesday successful the Oval Office, wherever Carney told Mr. Trump that Canada is not for sale, and ne'er volition be.
Video of their meeting, which tin beryllium watched successful the video subordinate above, shows the 2 leaders talking astir existent estate, with Mr. Trump saying he's "a existent property developer astatine heart."
"When you get escaped of that artificially drawn enactment ... erstwhile you look astatine that beauteous enactment erstwhile it's together, I'm a precise creator person, but erstwhile I looked astatine that ... I said, 'That's the mode it was meant to be,'" Mr. Trump told reporters.
Mr. Trump besides said they wouldn't beryllium discussing the U.S. acquiring Canada unless "somebody wants to sermon it," but said it would beryllium a "wonderful marriage."
Carney past said: "As you cognize from existent estate, determination are immoderate places that are ne'er for sale. We're sitting successful 1 close now, Buckingham Palace that you visited, arsenic well. And having met with the owners of Canada implicit the people of the run the past respective months, it's not for sale, it won't beryllium for sale, ever."
President Donald Trump (R) meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney successful the Oval Office astatine the White House connected May 6, 2025 successful Washington, D.C.
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Tuesday was the archetypal clip Mr. Trump and Carney met since Carney's Liberal Party won past week's election. Mr. Trump had said helium would speech to Carney astir making Canada the United States' 51st state, and besides said helium didn't expect it to get to the constituent of subject force, noting: "I conscionable don't spot it."
He didn't accidental that about Greenland.
"Something could hap with Greenland, I'll beryllium honest," Mr. Trump told NBC News' "Meet the Press."
Kaia Hubbard and Kathryn Watson contributed to this report.
Sarah Lynch Baldwin is simply a lawman managing exertion of CBSNews.com. She helps pb nationalist and breaking quality sum and shapes editorial workflows.
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