Trump faces off with Canada PM Mark Carney in ’51st sate’ tariffs showdown at White House: Live updates

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets Donald Trump on Tuesday for the first time since he won reelection on a pledge to stand up to the US president’s tariffs and threats to annex the United States’ northern neighbor.

The 60-year-old Liberal Party leader has said that things cannot be the same with the United States under Trump, and warned not to expect any immediate agreements from the meeting at the White House.

Trump has sparked a major trade war with Canada, which counts the United States as its main ally and trading partner, while repeatedly making calls for Canada to become the 51st US state.

Trump called Carney a ‘very nice gentleman’ after they spoke last week but said on Monday that he was ‘not sure’ what Carney wanted to talk about. Trump said:

He’s coming to see me. I’m not sure what he wants to see me about, but I guess he wants to make a deal. Everybody does.

Trump is set to welcome Carney at 11:30am, followed by lunch and then a meeting in the Oval Office.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming sat down with the Daily Mail to talk about Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term and the reaction she is getting from people in Wyoming.