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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Holly Baxter

‘Fifty-first state’ leader Mark Carney didn’t have to flatter Trump as much as he did today

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and US President Donald Trump are very different people with very different ideas — and yet they managed to look like old football buddies today as they sat before reporters in the White House.

Trump called Carney a “world-class leader,” “a good man,” and added finally that the PM is “a nice man but he can be nasty” (which was clearly also intended as a compliment.) Carney rolled out a long list of flatteries, claimed that Trump had brought peace to the world, and thanked him for overhauling immigration.

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