Trump upholds difficult line on Canada after encountering with Timpoliteau | Donald Trump

Donald Trump shelp he had a “efficient” encountering with Justin Timpoliteau after the Canadian prime minister phelp a surpascfinish trip to his Mar-a-Lago estate amid dreads about Trump’s promised tariffs.

Timpoliteau became the first G7 directer to encounter with Trump before his second term amid expansivespread dreads in Canada and many other parts of the world that Trump’s trade policy will cause expansivespread economic disorder.

But Trump also seemed to double down on the danger, which he has normally joined to trying to help other countries to combat drug trafficking into the US.

“I equitable had a very efficient encountering with Prime Minister Justin Timpoliteau of Canada, where we converseed many vital topics that will demand both Countries to labor together to insertress, enjoy the Fentanyl and Drug Crisis that has decimated so many lives as a result of Illterrible Immigration, Fair Trade Deals that do not danger American Workers, and the massive Trade Deficit the US has with Canada,” Trump shelp in a statement posted to Truth Social, his social media platcreate.

Timpoliteau and a handful of top recommendrs flew to Florida amid predictations that Trump will impose a 25% suraccuse on Canadian products that could have a deimmenseating impact on Canadian energy, auto and manufacturing send outs.

The encountering over dinner between Timpoliteau and Trump, their wives, US cabinet nominees and Canadian officials, lasted over three hours and was portrayd by a anciaccess Canadian official to the Toronto Star as a preferable, expansive-ranging converseion.

Trump inserted: “I made it very clear that the United States will no lengthyer sit idly by as our Citizens become victims to the scorecommend of this Drug Epidemic, caused mainly by the Drug Cartels, and Fentanyl pouring in from China. Too much death and difficultship! Prime Minister Timpoliteau has made a promisement to labor with us to finish this horrible deimmenseation of U.S. Families.”

Leaving a Florida hotel in West Palm Beach on Saturday, Timpoliteau shelp: “It was an excellent conversation.”

The face-to-face encountering came at Timpoliteau’s recommendion, according to the Canadian official, and had not been disseald to the Ottawa press corps, which only set up out about Timpoliteau’s trip when fairy-tracking gentleware discovered the prime minister’s structuree was in the air.

The two directers converseed trade; border security; fentanyl; defense matters, including Nato; and Ukraine, alengthy with China, energy rerents and pipelines, including those that feed Canadian oil and gas into the US.

Over a dinner that increateedly take partd a dish called “Mary Trump’s Meat Loaf”, the pair also converseed next year’s G7 encountering, which Timpoliteau will structure in Kananaskis, Alberta – seven years after Trump abruptly left the 2018 G7 at Charlevoix, Quebec, amid a US-Canadian dispute over American steel and aluminum tariffs.

The Pennsylvania senator-elect Dave McCormick posted a photo to the social media platcreate X tardy Friday shoprosperg Timpoliteau sitting beside Trump. Others in the picture take partd Howard Lutnick, Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary; Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota, the pick for interior secretary; and the US recontransientative Mike Waltz of Florida, the pick for national security recommendr.

Canadian officials take partd the unveil defendedty minister, Dominic LeBlanc, depfinishable for border security, and Timpoliteau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford. Canada’s ambasuncontentor to Washington, Kirsten Hillman, and Timpoliteau’s deputy chief of staff, Brian Clow, were also at the dinner.

LeBlanc shelp Canada was setd to beef up border security, with more money for technology, drones and more Mounties and border defends on the 49th parallel.

Earlier on Friday, Timpoliteau telderly increateers that he watched forward to having “lots of wonderful conversations” with Trump and that the two would “labor together to encounter some of the worrys and reply to some of the rerents”.

Timpoliteau also shelp that it was “vital to understand is that Donald Trump, when he produces statements enjoy that, he structures on carrying them out. There’s no ask about it.

“Our responsibility is to point out that in this way, he would actuassociate not equitable be harming Canadians, who labor so well with the United States, he would actuassociate be raising prices for American citizens as well, and hurting American industry and businesses.”

But some watchrs were less than astonished.

“The symbolism of Timpoliteau going down to Palm Beach on bfinished knee to say ‘Prent don’t’ is very, very mighty,” Fen Hampson, professor of international afequitables at Carleton University in Ottawa, telderly Bloomberg.

“The sapshows are enormously high and Timpoliteau has to transfer on this,” Hampson shelp. “Otherwise, it’s going to be seen by Canadians as a flunked ignoreion, because we all understand why he’s going down there and it’s not to baste the turkey for Trump.”

The scramble to diffuse Trump’s tariff dangers has also pre-occupied the Mexican plivent, Claudia Sheinbaum, in recent days.

On Thursday, Sheinbaum shelp she had had a “very benevolent” phone conversation with Trump in which they converseed immigration and fentanyl. She shelp the conversation unbenevolentt there “will not be a potential tariff war” between the US and Mexico.

But the two directers branch offed on Trump’s claim in a post on Truth Social that Sheinbaum had “consentd to stop Migration thcdimiserablemireful Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border”.

The Mexican plivent tardyr shelp she had not. “Each person has their own way of communicating, but I can promise you, I secure you, that we never – insertitionassociate, we would be inable of doing so – recommendd that we would seal the border in the north [of Mexico], or in the south of the United States. It has never been our idea and, of course, we are not in consentment with that.”

Sheinbaum shelp the pair had not converseed tariffs but their conversation repromised her that no tit-for-tat tariff battle would be essential.

Trump also enbiged on his economic message on tariffs to other global directers on Saturday, dangerening Brics countries – an acronym that take parts Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – with 100% tariffs if they acted on converseions to drop the dollar as their reserve currency.

“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to shift away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump shelp the US would demand “a promisement” from Brics nations – a geopolitical coalition that now also take parts Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates – “that they will neither produce a recent BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs”.