Has Donald Trump met his match in Canada’s Mark Carney? The Canadian prime minister is giving a news conference for the first time since his Trump-inspired election win. Watch live via the stream below.
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Here’s the scene in Ottawa, where we’re waiting to hear from Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is about to speak at a news conference.
We’re expecting him to set out some details of his plans for government, after his remarkable election win.
Could he also confirm a meeting with Donald Trump?
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg.
While the official details of the meeting are reportedly still being ironed out, it comes after Trump was full of praise for Carney during his cabinet meeting earlier this week.
The US president claimed Carney would visit „within the next week or less“ and went on to describe him as a „very nice gentleman“.
Watch: Carney says ‚Trump is trying to break us‘ after election win
Trump revealed that the two leaders shared a phone call on Tuesday, and he said Carney „couldn’t have been nicer“.
He also joked that both candidates in the Canadian election race – Carney and Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre – „hated Trump“, but that the conservative Poilievre „hated me more.“
A reminder, we’re expecting to hear from Carney at 4pm UK time in his first news conference since his election win, so it will be interesting to see whether the meeting is mentioned.
With Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking later, it’s a good time to remind ourselves of his remarkable rise.
From elite banker to a powerful political comeback story, with a smattering of ice hockey along the way, it’s quite the biography.
Tap below for a full profile of the man many across the world are looking to as someone who could stand up to Trump’s US…
Despite his ongoing row with Harvard (see our previous post), Donald Trump doesn’t have beef with every university in the US.
Last night, he visited the University of Alabama, and lapped up the adoration of the crowds in deep-red Republican territory.
He even posted on Truth Social about the experience earlier today…
„Congratulations to the class of 2025. Roll Tide,“ Trump told hundreds of Alabama graduates gathered at the campus’s Coleman Coliseum at the start of his commencement speech. „Roll Tide“ is a reference to a slogan of support and pride in the school’s football team, known as the Crimson Tide.
Trump used the event to celebrate the school and its graduates, offer some advice and tout his policy successes, such as slowing illegal immigration and forbidding transgender participation in collegiate sports.
Here are some pictures from the event…
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is continuing his battle with American universities today.
Earlier, he posted on Truth Social (where else?) with a new warning for Harvard, one of the most famous universities in the US.
Trump’s administration has been locked in a battle with the Ivy League institution, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Trump’s team has accused Harvard of ideological bias and allowing antisemitism during campus protests last year against Israel’s war in Gaza.
His administration began a review of $9bn (£6.7bn) in federal grants for Harvard in March, and demanded the university screens international students for those „hostile to American values“ and the end of all diversity, equality and inclusion programmes.
The university’s president Alan Garber has remained defiant and rejected those and other reforms, and Harvard is suing Trump’s government.
Now, the president says he’ll strip Harvard of its tax exempt status – something he’s already threatened to do before.
Here’s what he said earlier today…
Donald Trump was asked about Mark Carney during his cabinet meeting at the White House this week.
Trump claimed Carney will come to the White House „within the next week or less“.
The US president also called Carney a „very nice gentleman“ who, during their phone call on Tuesday, „couldn’t have been nicer“.
The president joked that both candidates in the Canadian election race – Carney and Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre – „hated Trump“, but that the conservative Poilievre „hated me more.“
Such is Donald Trump’s influence in 2025 that he’s being given credit for swaying elections in other countries.
On Monday, Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney completed a staggering turnaround for his party’s political fortunes.
His win in the Canadian election was largely based on his tough stance on Trump’s tariffs, which have threatened Canada’s economy.
The background
With his slogan „Canada Strong“, Carney saw off his main rival, Conservative Pierre Poilievre, who ended up losing his own seat in one of the biggest shocks of the contest.
Just a few months ago, Poilievre’s party had a big lead in the polls. But Trump’s tariffs unleashed a Canadian patriotism, and Poilievre struggled to adapt after previously trying to imitate Trump in some ways.
The unpopular Liberal Justin Trudeau, who had been prime minister for ten years, quit in January – paving the way for Carney, who won a contest in his party, and then with the country.
Carney has never been a politician before. He’s best known here for being the Bank of England governor during Brexit and other crises.
He used that reputation for dealing with tricky times in the election.
What’s happening today?
Carney will give a news conference in Ottawa at 4pm UK time today, his office said in a statement on Thursday.
It will be his first time addressing the media since his election win.
Earlier this week, Trump suggested the pair had a good phone call, and that Carney would visit the White House soon.
It will be interesting to see if Carney does visit Trump, given his tough talk about making Canada self sufficient, and pivoting the country towards other allies like the UK and Europe.
We’re back with updates on Donald Trump’s White House, his global tariffs, chaotic diplomacy and more.
Today, we’re expecting to hear from Canada’s Mark Carney – the newly-elected prime minister who has positioned himself as Trump’s primary opponent.
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In other developments…
Mike Waltz may have gone instead of Pete Hegseth because the role of a national security adviser isn’t one which is senate-confirmed, former director of global engagement at the White House, Brett Bruen, said.
Speaking on The World with Yalda Hakim, Bruen responded to speculation about why Waltz has left his post as national security adviser while Hegseth, who was also involved in Signalgate, was praised by Trump today for doing a „fantastic“ job.
As we reported a little while ago, Waltz left his position as national security adviser today, with secretary of state Marco Rubio set to replace him on an interim basis.
It comes after Waltz said he took „full responsibility“ for Signalgate, which saw him inadvertently adding a journalist to a highly sensitive chat with other senior US officials on the encrypted messaging service Signal.
The chat also included defence secretary Hegseth – who shared timings of US airstrikes, which could have put American military personnel at risk if leaked.
Separately, Hegseth shared messages on Signal with his wife and brother about military strikes.
Asked by Hakim why Waltz left as opposed to Hegseth, Bruen noted how the national security adviser role was „not a senate-confirmed position so it makes it easier for President Trump to swap in and out…“
He added: „Mike Flynn lasted 24 days and then there was a whole series of other national security advisers who were coming through that revolving door at the Trump White House.
“This is a position that can immediately be filled, Trump has done so with Marco Rubio.“
In regards to Rubio being appointed as interim national security adviser, Bruen said that, like Waltz, he is „someone who comes from that more establishment, internationalist wing of the Republican party, as small as that is these days, so I don’t know that we can yet make the assessment that the MAGA movement is on the ascendancy in the national security world…“
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