This would have been glorious to see. It was Trump in a press conference going off the rails and Prime Minister Carney stopping him. I think all of us would like to have seen that. It’s probably the first time in history that someone has legitimately been able to break off Trump’s rambling, and it was stopped. Wonderful! From Raw Story:
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney interrupted a question and answer session with Donald Trump at Monday’s G7 summit before the U.S. president got too much into the weeds discussing ICE raids on “blue cities,” according to CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes.
As Trump began to rehash his usual talking points, claiming former President Joe Biden allowed “murderers, killers, people from gangs, people from jails,” into the United States, the Canadian leader — and host of the meeting, which is being held in Alberta — stepped in.
H0 H0 H0. Yes, folks, you are reading this, and yes, it was done! As the host of the G7 conference, PM Carney had *every* right to interrupt and stop Trump’s blathering. After the press conference going completely sideways when the Prime Minister came to visit the White House, he *knows* what will happen.
“If you don’t mind, just — I’m going to exercise my role, if you will, as G7 chair, since we have a few more minutes with the president and his team, and then we actually have to start the meeting to address some of these big issues,” Carney said. As the press yelled questions, and Trump appeared willing to talk more, the event was hurriedly ended.
Well done, sir, well done. And PM Carney *does* have every right to end the press conference when Trump went sideways. What Trump was saying had *nothing* to do with the G7 conference. Plus, he has already said he will not sign the document to increase sanctions on Russia. Good grief! He’s *still* waffling around when Russia is *destroying* Ukraine?! Dadgum!! So, on a better subject, let’s have some more from Kristen Holmes:
Holmes noted the significance of Carney’s action.
“I do just want to point out one thing that we all just took away from that, was that the prime minister learned his lesson from the last time he had this kind of interaction with Donald Trump, where it went completely off the rails,” she said, referring to Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Carney in May.
“The longer that Donald Trump took questions, the more aggressive it got, the more tense that Carney got in that meeting in the Oval Office. Here, he set the boundaries. He set the timeline. And, you saw the president there. He would have continued to take questions. Carney stepping in to say, ‘We’re moving forward now. We need to finish our conversations, the behind-the-scenes.'”
Holmes said that normally, when the U.S. president meets with a head of state, they “have these pleasantries, exchange a couple questions, and then it’s over.” Donald Trump, however, “has been opening up these meetings to the public with the cameras,” she continued. “And you can tell, Carney, here wanted to shut that off.”
About time someone dared to do it. About d*mn time. Now you see why I wish I’d seen this. I would be laughing and applauding. Kudos to you, Prime Minister Mark Carney. Congratulations! Well played. Thanks for sticking with me!
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The REAL reason Frump left early.
He was shown up as a bloviating moron.
And, maybe, he didn’t want to embarrass himself any further? Nahhhh he’s not that self-aware 😉 but yes!!