Trump says he’ll meet with Carney at the White House ‘within the next week’ [Video]

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House “within the next week.”

“I spoke to him yesterday,” Trump said of Carney. “He couldn’t have been nicer and I congratulated him.”

Carney and Trump spoke on the phone Tuesday after the Liberals’ stunning win in Monday’s election — a come-from-behind victory that was driven by many Canadians’ anger over the president’s tariffs and taunts about making Canada a U.S. state.

Carney has said previously he’s open to meeting with Trump if the president starts respecting Canadian sovereignty and is willing to talk about a common approach to trade.

The Prime Minister’s Office did not confirm a date for the meeting between the two leaders. The PMO’s readout of Tuesday’s phone call said only that Trump and Carney would meet in the near future.

Trumps said he expects to have a …