U.S. President Donald Trump addressed Prime Minister Mark Carney directly in a speech Wednesday to the World Economic Forum, saying that “Canada lives due to america.”
“I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful, but they must be grateful to us. Canada lives due to america,” Trump said.
“Keep in mind that Mark, the subsequent time you make your statements.”
Trump spoke on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to a room of tons of of world government and business leaders, and follows Carney’s speech a day earlier.
The comments about Canada were made within the context of Trump’s continued push for the U.S. to amass Greenland, a territory of NATO ally Denmark which he says the U.S. needs for “national security.”
“All we would like from Denmark for national and international security and to maintain our very energetic and dangerous potential enemies at bay is that this land on which we’re going to construct the best golden dome ever built,” said Trump.
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“We’re constructing a golden dome that’s going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending Canada. Canada gets a number of freebies from us, by the way in which. They must be grateful also, but they’re not.”
Although Carney didn’t mention Trump directly in his speech on the WEF, he underscored Canada’s solidarity with Denmark and Greenland in making its own decision on its future.
“We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to find out Greenland’s future,” said Carney in his speech.
“Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland and calls for focused talks to attain our shared objectives of security and prosperity within the Arctic.”
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