Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Canada’s premiers on Wednesday to discuss Ottawa’s plan to address U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about the Canada-U.S. border.
This is the second time Trudeau has met with premiers since Trump threatened to hit Canada with steep tariffs last month — and the first meeting since the prime minister’s dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
While taking part in a geography student awards ceremony in 2016, Vladimir Putin corrected a schoolboy who said Russia’s border with the U.S. ended at the Bering Strait.
“Russia’s borders have no end,” Putin said, before clarifying. “This is a joke.”
It was the same kind of mirthless, menacing crack that permeates Donald Trump’s repeated reference to Canada as the 51st state of America .
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to get on U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s good side for the sake of a smooth bilateral relationship, he’ll likely have to be openly deferential, says former U.S. National Security Advisor, John Bolton.
“It’s always possible, if somebody kisses the ring. I mean, that’s what Trump likes,” Bolton told CTV Power Play host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Wednesday, when asked if he thinks it’s possible for Trudeau and Trump to forge a better relationship than during the former president’s first term.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments likening Kamala Harris’s election loss to an attack on women’s rights and progress earned him criticism from the country’s premiers on Wednesday.
Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation — an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics — Trudeau said there are regressive forces fighting against women’s progress.
This was likely a deliberate act of sabotage.
Buckle your seatbelts because President-elect Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites.
We are entering a brand-new era of rebellion — man against the self-serving, out-of-touch political machines that ignore the will of the governed.
There is a great clanging and clamoring around the offices in Washington, D.C. and Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Political operatives, policy wonks, and opposition figures are all planning for the arrival of the second Donald Trump administration.
I’ve spoken with many of the people in the president-elect’s orbit who are planning how to staff Cabinet departments and set a new tone on the administration’s first day. Much of our discussion has focused on the approach to DEI, or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
The House Assassination task force released its final and longawait report on Tuesday.
The 180-page report claims the deadly shooting at Donald Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13 was ‘preventable and should not have happened.’
It was released just days after its final public meeting last week where Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe got into a screaming match with Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas).
When Donald Trump first visited Paris when President in 2017, he appeared as something of a passing curiosity; the apparent manifestation of America’s inexorable decline, captured in all its spray-tanned vulgarity. Seven years later he has returned to Paris as emperor, crowned by his client kings in none other than the spiritual home of modern Christendom: Notre-Dame. “It was a coronation,” as one European diplomat put it to me, laughing with incredulity at the spectacle.
What is so striking about this second coming of Trump is not just that the world appears to have accepted his victory this time, but to have actively embraced him as the harbinger of a new age, no longer seeking to protect the old one that has been discredited. The visual proof of this diplomatic embrace was captured in the image of Europe’s leaders in Paris, one after the other, moving to submit themselves at the feet of the new imperator.
The next few years promise a great deal of fun.
Donald Trump has called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, a day after meeting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Paris, claiming Kyiv “would like to make a deal” to end its war with Russia.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said both sides had suffered enormous losses in the war – which he claimed on the US election campaign trail he would be able to end “in 24 hours” if elected. Trump has already appointed the retired army general Keith Kellogg as his Russia and Ukraine envoy, tasked with ending the war.
“There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives are being needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed,” Trump said on Sunday.
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday sat down for his first network television interview since being elected on November 5. He outlined several sweeping policy changes — both domestic and international — during the course of the discussion.
Trump said he intends to enact many of the changes he has in mind for the economy, immigration, foreign and defense policy and more, as soon as he is sworn in on January 20, 2025.
Full interview from today between President Trump and Kristen Welker of Meet The Press.
Topics discussed include:
* Day One objectives
* Tariffs
* Fed Chair Jerome Powell
* Immigration and the border
* Dreamers
* Birthright citizenship
* Health care
* Aborti0n
* Defense… pic.twitter.com/zGLoFDUEdb
— Paul Villarreal (AKA Vince Manfeld) (@AureliusStoic1) December 8, 2024
In his first sit-down news interview since winning a second presidency in November’s election, Donald Trump renewed promises to pardon his supporters involved in the attack on the US Capitol in early 2021.
He also doubled down on promises of mass deportations and tariffs in the conversation with NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker – the latter of which he acknowledged could cause Americans to pay more after riding voters’ complaints about higher prices back to the White House at the expense of Vice-President Kamala Harris.
“I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day,” Trump said in the interview, claiming convicted Capitol attackers had been put through a “very nasty system”.
Canada and its prime minister, Justin Trudeau, have a Donald Trump problem.
The pair had an at-times rocky relationship during Trump’s first term in the White House, and the president-elect couldn’t resist getting in a dig last week during their impromptu meeting over dinner at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate.
Trudeau was complaining about the impact tariffs would have on Canada’s economy, according to people at the dinner, when Trump interjected. If Trudeau didn’t like it, he said, Canada could become America’s 51st state.
Canada as the 51st state? Apparently, that’s what U.S. president-elect Donald Trump suggested at his impromptu dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago last Friday.
When Trudeau said Canada couldn’t stomach 25 per cent tariffs, Trump mused about annexation and suggested that while prime minister is a better title, Trudeau could be governor of this 51st state. Sources told Fox News that another guest then suggested that Canada would be a very liberal state, whereupon Trump offered that Canada could be split into a conservative and a liberal state.
Kamala Harris’s losing campaign for president was infamous for its focus on vibe, a kind of inchoate feeling of joy that supposedly swept the nation and was supposed to sweep her into office. We all saw how that turned out. But now, there’s a new vibe in town, and you can feel it. The victory of Donald Trump and the astonishing popularity of his transition is only part of it. There’s more going on here. We may have just turned a corner on the road to civilization’s collapse into woke commie ruin.
h/t DS
Under the Trudeau regime, Canada and the U.S. may have been working at cross purposes but that will not be the case after Canada has elected a Conservative government.
When Justin Trudeau was first elected prime minister of Canada in 2015, it was partly because of the sort of empty bombast that had helped get Barak Obama first elected president in 2008. Obama had promised “Hope and Change” while Trudeau promised “Sunny Ways.” By the time Trudeau was first elected, America had already soured on Obama, among other things because of his abysmal economic management, his divisive rhetoric, and his stoking of racism.
