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President Donald Trump mocked transgender people in front of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose child identifies as nonbinary, during an Oval Office meeting in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that was intended to focus on trade relations but instead became a showcase of Trump’s familiar culture war politics.

The meeting, held in the presence of reporters, aimed to emphasize renewed cooperation between the two countries, which remain deeply economically intertwined. But as The Independent reported, it “devolved into a political rally disguised as a routine press availability.” Trump repeatedly veered off topic to attack Democrats, the media, and transgender people, boasting that under his leadership, “We have strong borders. We have no men in women’s sports. We’re not going to take your child away and change the sex of your child.”

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[–] n4ch1sm0@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Typical neolib capitulation- ahem I mean tolerance. That's worked great for the Americans, I'm sure it'll work for the Canadians /s

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 10 points 20 hours ago

As much as Canadians would like to say fuck off to all things American, cutting ties like that would cripple us economically and potentially result in the destruction of our country. Tanking our economy to spite the States would not only destroy lives, but it would give Danielle Smith more fodder for AB separation, which in turn would result in a broken Canada, and eventually no Canada at all.

At the very least, Carney still needs to "play nice" for the moment, and I'm really hoping once things are in place with other markets he publically tells Trump to pound sand. I'm saving my judgement for the end of his first year. He's arguably got the hardest road of any PM in decades. That said, I really wish he'd put his elbows back up.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Antagonizing the US has worked great for Cuba after all.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Cuba actually had another friend willing to protect them for decades, even. We don't have a partner that would definitely always choose us over them.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Appeasement, if you’re nasty

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Did America have some sort of 10x larger neighbor I'm not aware of?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They tolerated the bullshit trump did. At least that's how I read it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yeah, but that has nothing to do with my initial comment.

I basically said he's letting the foreign moron talk until he goes away. Unfortunately, I used the word "tolerate", and that triggered people's pre-programmed scripts about authorities allowing the domestic spread of genocide denial or whatever.