In a shocking announcement that interrupted regular programming on CNN News, President Donald Trump downplayed the urgency of trade deals he had previously promised.
After boasting about imminent “deals” for weeks, the President revealed during an Oval Office meeting with Canada’s Prime Minister on Tuesday that such agreements may not be as critical after all. Trump boldly claimed, “We don’t have to sign deals.”
He continued, “We could sign 25 deals right now, Howard, if we wanted to. We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.” It comes as shameless Trump accepts ‘palace in the sky’ luxury jet from Royal Family.
Discussing Trump’s tactics on CNN, panelist Scott Jennings made his opinion clear, stating, “I’m sorry with all due respect to all these other countries making deals. They’re small and relatively unimportant. We’re the big player in the field, and everybody knows it.”
Jennings went further as he explained the advantage America has over China when negotiating, “And people would rather do business with us than do business with China because… they have all these strategies to inflict pain upon you if you don’t bend to their will or allow them to break the rules.”
On Tuesday, Trump gave a press conference in the Oval Office with Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney. During their meeting, Trump again suggested the country might become America’s “51st state.”
He described it as a “wonderful marriage.” Carney responded, “As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale.” Trump conceded, “That’s true.”
The tense meeting was their first encounter after Trump’s sweeping global tariffs. Within days of the tariffs’ announcement on April 2, White House officials said around 70 nations were already asking to make deals.
More than a month on, however, no such deals have been made. On Tuesday, the President was visibly annoyed when members of the press asked him about trade deals.
He fumed, “You keep writing about deals, deals, ‘when are we going to sign?’ I wish they’d stop asking how many deals are you signing this week.”
