TORONTO — (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that his first call with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was “extremely productive” and Carney said talks on a new relationship will begin after the Canadian election next month.
The call came as Trump has declared a trade war on Canada and has threatened to use economic coercion to make Canada the 51st U.S. state, a position that has infuriated Canadians. Trump avoided any mention of that in his social media post.
The U.S. president, in his post, said the two sides “agree on many things and will be meeting immediately after Canada’s upcoming Election to work on elements of Politics, Business, and all other factors, that will end up being great for both the United States of America and Canada.”
Trump later called the prime minister by his first name Mark. He didn’t refer to the prime minister as governor as he did with Carney’s predecessor Justin Trudeau.
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