Carney in Washington for 1st assembly with Trump to debate tariffs, Canada-U.S. relations

Repeat after us: it is simply 1 assembly

Regardless of the wall-to-wall media scrutiny of Carney’s journey to Washington, it is value remembering what that is: one assembly.

His interlocutor, Trump, is a famously transactional determine whose interactions will activate a dime.

Living proof? Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian chief was the sufferer of maybe probably the most catastrophic picture op within the historical past of the Oval Workplace. Each world chief visiting Washington now fears getting “Zelenskyed.”

However guess what? Zelenskyy and Trump are actually on higher phrases. They simply had an encounter on the Vatican that Zelenskyy referred to as their greatest interplay but.

They have a brand new minerals deal that analysts are calling a win-win. The New York Instances simply ran a chunk headlined, “How Zelensky Maneuvered Himself Out of the Doghouse With Trump.”

You realize who had first assembly with Trump after the Nov. 5 U.S. election? Justin Trudeau. By preliminary accounts, his journey to Mar-a-Lago was pleasant.

Then a couple of days later, Trump began belittling Canada’s sovereignty, in a marketing campaign of cross-border denigration with out parallel in fashionable historical past.

So backside line: it is a lunch assembly. Chill.