Trump Says He's Had 'Very, Very Good Talk' With Canada's PM Over Tariffs

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At a press briefing in the Oval Office, President Trump discussed his talk with Canadian PM Mark Carney.

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00:00says that they will be implementing retaliatory tariffs.

00:03You said if that were to happen, that you would be responding with large-scale tariffs.

00:08Will you be following through with that promise?

00:10Well, absolutely.

00:12But we had a very good conversation.

00:15Mark called me today at 10 o'clock.

00:18We put out a statement.

00:19We had a very, very good talk.

00:20He's going through an election now, and we'll see what happens.

00:24But we are — we have Liberation Day, as you know, on April 2nd, because — and I'm

00:31not referring to Canada, but many countries have taken advantage of us, the likes of which

00:36nobody even thought was possible for many, many decades — for decades.

00:40And you know, that has to stop.

00:42We're going to end up with a very good relationship with Canada and a lot of the other countries.

00:46Some we probably won't.

00:47It won't be so pleasant.

00:49But with — I think most countries will — are agreeing with me.

00:54I actually — many of them have actually apologized.

00:57They said, look, we have taken advantage.

00:59And I don't blame them as much as I blame the people that stood — in this case, I

01:05can say the men, because so far they've been all men, haven't they?

01:08But the men that sat right there and behind the Resolute desk — mostly the Resolute

01:13desk, you know.

01:14I don't know if you know, you have a choice of seven desks.

01:17The Resolute is the one I like, but some chose other ones.

01:21But they sat right behind a desk, right in this location, and they let our country be

01:28hurt very badly.

01:29But I didn't do that.

01:30So — but we had a very good talk, the prime minister and myself.

01:35And I think things are going to work out very well between Canada and the United —

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