Interesting that a Republican/ Conservative President would rather deal with a Liberal/ Democrat Prime Minister.
Trump is a showman.. and Carney is easy to make a "show" of...
Carney embraces China.. Trump hates China..
Carney is all about climate change and having a balanced carbon policy.. Trump thinks everything remotely related to this is hogwash.. Carney has gone so far to say he plans on putting into place a mechanism that implements tariffs on countries that have weaker carbon rules than Canada.. that puts Trump in a HUGE position of leverage when discussing US tariffs against Canadian products..
Carney loves "liberal" immigration policies.. Trump clearly hates open borders and liberal immigration policy..
The list goes on and on and on regarding their stark differences.. Im not sure if they agree on anything at all when it comes to the fundamentals of the primary fiscal or social issues circling the globe today..
Which makes Carney (and Canada) an easy target..
Its not going to be hard to get MAGA, or even the centrists on board with Trump tariff policy toward Carney... when Carney starts bitching about "new tariffs".. all Trump has to do is say "yeah... that carbon tariff you said you're going to implement...lets talk about that for a minute..."...
When Carney starts blithering about immigration and the rights foreigners should have to come to North America to seek better lives, etc... Trump just has to get a few folks to go onto Fox to speak to "Canadas policy on immigration isn't aligned with ours. we share a 5500 mile border with them.. we cant allow them to continue to take advantage of the US, not secure their borders, and have people using Canada as a crossing point.. Mexico is now doing their part.. Canada refuses to do theirs.. we need to sanction Canada.. tariffs are just the beginning..."..
After the last 4 years of southern border crisis, it will be easy to get everyone on the right and the center and even a lot of left leaners to get on board... No one wants a Northern Border Crisis (whether its real or not really wont matter.. its FAR too much of a hot and sensitive topic in the US right now.. if there is any potential for it to ever be real, that's enough...)...
He'll also play the Carney-China card to its full value (most Americans.. both left and right, understand the threat that China is to the US economically, militarily, socially, etc)..
He'll spend the next month or two painting Carney (and Canada) as a bunch of extreme, California-esque liberals that also love China and that have put themselves on a path of self destruction (much like California) with their social policies, lack of military capability, and lack of desire to change anything about it (proven by yet another far left liberal coming into office after Trudeau failed miserably the entire time he sat on the throne)..
At that point it wont matter how negotiations with Canada go.. If Canada capitulates, Trump does a victory dance and tells everyone around the world how brilliant his plan was... If Canada holds fast, Trump tells the world "see.. I told you we want nothing to do with those Chinese loving, whacko liberal Canadians.. they're not a good friend or partner anyway.. so who cares about the tariffs"....
He cant really take that approach with Polievre..
This isn't about Trump wanting to sit at a table with someone that has similar values to try to find some common ground and come up with a result that best suits both nations..
This is about Trump wanting to "win".. With Carney its a "win" no matter how things go.. With Polievre its only a win if we come to a reasonable agreement that's in the middle..
