US president singles out Mark Carney day after prime minister warned world is undergoing geopolitical ‘rupture’
Donald Trump has said Canada should be “grateful” for the “freebies” it gets from the US, a day after its prime minister, Mark Carney, warned the world was undergoing a geopolitical “rupture”.
Speaking those attending the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Switzerland, the US president singled out Carney’s speech that was sharply critical of US foreign policy.
“Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful, also, but they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful,” Trump told the audience. “Canada lives by the United States. Remember that, Mark, next time you make your statements.”
In the rambling and peevish speech, Trump repeated his intention to seize control of Greenland in order to build his proposed Golden Dome missile defence system, which Canada is hoping to join. Trump said the Golden Dome was “going to be defending Canada”.
