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The US president said it was “easy to deal with” liberals than conservatives, and that Canadian Tory leaders are taking it as a compliment
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OTTAWA – US President Donald Trump said he is “easy to deal with” liberals than conservatives, and conservative leader Pierre Poillivre has taken it as a compliment.
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“What do you know? At that point, that’s true,” Polyeve said.
“I’m a strong leader and I’m a tough guy to deal with. I’m stuck with my beliefs. I’ll always put Canada first,” he added.
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The liberal minister laughed at Trump’s comments and downplayed Poilierbre’s comments.
“I couldn’t care much about Donald Trump wants or thinks in the context of Canadian politics,” said Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson before the Cabinet meeting on Canada-US relations.
“It’s fair enough to think that if that’s the biggest win, Polyeve will be able to get.”
Finance Minister François Philippe Champagne was surprised to hear that conservatives were calling themselves “tough.”
“Really? I don’t know. I’ve seen them for 10 years, they don’t look very difficult to me.”
Poilierbre says it’s no wonder Trump has to deal with the liberal prime minister in his place, and in his view pointed to the ways in which liberals have been hampering energy resource projects, hiking taxes and driving investment in the US over the past nine years.
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The decision came about the same time that Trump was re-elected for his second term in the United States.
Pointing to the worker behind him, Polyelb said:
“It’s exactly the weak, compromised, conflicted leadership that Donald Trump wants, and that’s why he supported Mark Carney yesterday.”
Trump did not explicitly support Carney in an interview with Fox News.
In an interview aired Tuesday evening, Trump was asked about the changes in votes in Canada, indicating that Carney’s Liberal’s Liberal could form the next government after the next election, overtaking the Polyavel Conservatives, which had enjoyed a comfortable lead for the past 18 months.
“I think it’s actually easier to deal with liberals, but maybe they’ll win, but I really don’t care. That doesn’t matter to me at all,” Trump said.
The US President continued to take shots with Polyerre, saying, “The running conservatives are stupid, not my friend.”
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“I don’t know, but he said something negative. So when he said something negative, I couldn’t really care about it,” he said.
It’s not the first time Trump has criticized a conservative Canadian leader.
In an interview with an audience published in February, Trump said he was referring to Polyavel’s “He’s not a Maga man” and his “Great American Again” slogan. “I mean, he’s not really that way, he’s not a Trump guy,” Trump added.
“President, that’s true. I’m not a mag. I’m the first for Canada.
In that same interview, Trump appears to have warned conservatives like PolyAble to not bulge their breasts that quickly.
“They all make that mistake,” he said. “They think they’re going to be tough guys and they’re going to knock Trump out.
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