U.S. President Donald Trump has made some of his most detailed public comments about Canadian politics. They include doubt about Pierre Poilievre's commitment to MAGA and taking credit for the departure of Chrystia Freeland.
U.S. President Donald Trump has made some of his most detailed public comments about Canadian politics. They include doubt about Pierre Poilievre's commitment to MAGA and taking credit for the departure of Chrystia Freeland.In an interview with a U.S. conservative writer, President Donald Trump held forth on Canada's political scene. U.S. President Donald Trump often talks about Canada. Frequently disparagingly, and lately menacingly.
He broke from that pattern in a just-published interview with a U.S. conservative writer who asked him about the country's upcoming election.with The Spectator, Trump is asked whether Canada's Conservatives can still pull off a win in the next election, despite the tightening polls. Writer Ben Domenech asks the president about those polls shifting amid comments Trump has been making about Canada, which, Domenech says, the governing Liberals have "leaned into.""I think his biggest problem is he's not a MAGA guy, you know? I mean, he's really not. He's not a Trump guy at all," the U.S. president replies.
The president then swerved off topic to once again complain about how the 2020 election was stolen from him, a falsehood he has clung to even after having won a second term.If Trump was lukewarm on the Conservative leader, he was positively frigid on one of the Liberal leadership candidates, Chrystia Freeland, with whom he has aTrump took credit for her departure as finance minister.
" can only cause ill will for Canada. In fact, Governor Trudeau understood that. I call him 'governor.' Governor Trudeau understood that. And he actually fired her because ofHe asked Domenech about the Liberal leadership race: "Who's going to get the nomination, do you think?"Alexander Panetta is a Washington-based correspondent for CBC News who has covered American politics and Canada-U.S. issues since 2013.
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