US President Donald Trump “Seemed positively delighted” on the impact he had on Canada federal electionsaid an American journalist by telling a recent interview with the president.
Ashley Parker was one of the three writers at The Atlantic who interviewed Trump in the oval office for an article Published at the end of last month, before the Canadians elected a liberal minority government in last week’s elections.
The transcription of the interview Includes a brief section on Canada, where Trump once again declared that it was serious to make Canada an American state and thought about the “narrow” electoral race between the Liberals and the Conservatives.
“Trump somehow said:” Once I have become a presence in the Canadian elections, I really transformed it into a careful call; I sort of throwing it from the conservatives to the liberals “, told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that broadcast on Sunday The western block.
“It is not his political ideology, but he seemed delighted with what he considered the disproportionate influence he had during the elections of another country.”
The Liberals had been 25 points behind the conservatives as recently as December, according to the Ipsos survey, but the resignation of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Trump attacks against the economy and the sovereignty of Canada rejected the Liberals.
The electoral campaign was dominated by the way the next government would react to Trump and negotiate a new relationship with the United States, which Surveys have shown that the Liberals were extremely considered the best party to approach.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney should meet Trump In Washington, DC, Tuesday to launch discussions on trade and security.
According to The Atlantic Transcription of the interview, the editor -in -chief of the magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, asked Trump if he wanted “seriously” that Canada becomes an American state.
“I think it would be great,” said Trump, what Goldberg stressed that a hypothetical Canadian state will probably elect the Senators and Democratic Representatives of Congress.
“Many people say that, but I agree with that if it should be,” said the Republican president before pivoting the Canadian elections.
“You know, until I arrived, remember that the conservative led 25 points,” he said.
“Then, I was hated by enough Canadians for me to launch the election in a call, right? I don’t even know if it is a careful call. But the curator, they did not like Governor Trudeau too much, and I would call him Governor Trudeau, but he didn’t like it.”
Trump made remarks similar to journalists at a cabinet meeting The day after the elections, after his call with Carney where Trump congratulated the Prime Minister for his victory.
“They both hated Trump, and he’s the one who hated Trump, I think, the least who won,” Trump said last week. “I actually think that the conservative hated me much more than the so-called liberal.”
He also said at the time that he thought that a “good relationship” with Canada was possible under Carney.
Although Trump says again, he thinks that Canada is part of the United States would be “brilliant”, Parker said that the president did not seem as serious about the threat of annexation as his main priorities.
“I would say, he said that, but he did not seem to say as well as some of his other deep beliefs, for example, immigration and prices, and he also did not offer a kind of plausible plan on the way he plans to get there,” she said.
THE Atlantic The article also presents a previous telephone conversation in which Trump notes that in his second presidential term, “I direct the country and the world.”
Parker said that the commentary reflects the disproportionate influence that it now exerts through its creation of often volatile policies – in particular on the global economy.
“I think that a more precise version of this is that it makes the world somehow to look at its will and to respond to its actions,” she said.
“A classic example of this is simply prices. What Trump has done with prices … There is no country in the world that does not pay attention or does not deal with ramifications or repercussions or trying to understand what a potential trade war with the United States and President Trump could mean.”
Canada’s question only occurred during the interview with the oval office after Trump noticed that “one of the things I have succeeded in foreign relations”.
“I think Canadians would disagree,” said Goldberg.
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