President Donald Trump has disinvited Canada from his “Board of Peace” days after Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a blistering speech in Davos, Switzerland, warning of “an era of great power rivalry” and suggesting the US-led world order was over and was “not coming back.”
The speech, given at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, was seen as a rebuke of Trump’s policies, including his tariffs regime, his threats to force Canada to become the 51st state of the United States, and his efforts to acquire Greenland.
In a Truth Social post Thursday night, Trump wrote in the format of a letter, “Dear Prime Minister Carney:
“Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.”
Last week, Carney’s office said he planned to accept Trump’s invitation to the “Board of Peace,” Reuters reported. The Independent has reached out to Carney’s office for comment.
Trump signed the charter of his “Board of Peace” in Davos Thursday. He plans to chair the international organization and has invited world leaders to join.
More than 20 countries have said they will join the board, which will focus on securing peace in conflict zones, NBC News reported. Russian president Vladimir Putin has been invited, while those who have accepted include Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Argentina’s Javier Milei, Hungary’s Victor Orban and the leaders of countries including Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco and Pakistan.
Notably, several European countries, including the United Kingdom and France, have indicated that they would not be joining the board at this time.
Trump has said permanent members will have to pay $1 billion to join, although he has not explained in detail what that money would be used for. When asked on his flight back to the U.S. on Thursday he said: “That's a lot of money, but it's nothing compared to the value of peace.”
He has also suggested he could be head of the Board of Peace for life. Asked about France turning down the offer to join and Britain not committing to it so far, citing Putin’s possible involvement, Trump said: “Well, I think they're going to want to. There are some countries like Italy who told me she wants to sign. She wants to be in desperately. But I think she has to go back to her legislative branch.”
In Carney’s Davos speech, which prompted a standing ovation and received widespread praise, the Canadian prime minister said: “It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.”
This past week, tensions between the United States and Europe reached a boiling point after Trump threatened to place tariffs on several European countries to pressure the sale of Greenland, a mineral-rich, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.
During his own speech in Danvos Wednesday, Trump said, “No nation, or group of nations, is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States. We're a great power, much greater than people even understand.”
The president tried to reassure America’s allies that the U.S. acquisition of Greenland “would not be a threat to NATO,” the military alliance that both the U.S. and Denmark are part of. He added, “The United States is treated very unfairly by NATO.”
He also hit back at Carney’s speech the day before, apparently stung by the Canadian prime minister’s implicit criticism, saying, “Canada gets a lot of freebies from us. They should be grateful, also, but they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful. … Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.”
Trump continued his rant against NATO Thursday, writing on Truth Social shortly before disinviting Canada from his international peace organization, “Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks.”
The president also railed against Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom for attending the global economic meeting.
“Gavin Newscum, as a ‘Lame Duck’ Governor of a Failing State, should not be at Davos running around screaming for the attention of Foreign Leaders, and embarrassing our Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday night.
While in Davos, Newsom told European leaders to “have a backbone” against Trump. “I can’t take this complicity. People rolling over. I should’ve brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders,” he said.
In response to Trump’s Truth Social post Wednesday, Newsom wrote on X that he lives “rent free” in the president’s head, meaning that Trump is constantly thinking of the governor.
Trump-Greenland latest: Relations with US suffered a ‘big blow’, EU says
A TV show about the NYPD is now a legal drama starring the city and Dr. Phil’s son
Ukraine war latest: Kyiv, Russia and US to open first trilateral peace talks in UAE
TikTok deal: ByteDance finalizes agreement to hand off US operations and avoid ban
Paris Hilton joins AOC to push ban on non-consensual AI-generated pornography
School officials call on agents to release body cam from 5-year-old’s detention
