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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Andrew Roth in Washington

Canada PM’s ‘elbows-up’ defense keeps Trump at bay as both parties play it cool

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, and Donald Trump in the Oval Office on 6 May.
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, and Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

There were two main tensions during Donald Trump’s meeting in the Oval Office with Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, the first beneficiary of a growing electoral phenomenon: the anti-Trump bump. For the first time this term, Trump was meeting with a prime minister elected in opposition to him, and try as the two leaders might, the tensions simmered just beneath the surface.

Both sought to play it cool.

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