Donald J. Trump

Oval Office Opening Remarks to the Press with Canadian Prime Minister Carney

delivered 6 May 2025, White House, Washington, D.C.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much, everybody. It's a great honor to have Prime Minister Mark Carney with us. As you know, just a few days ago he won a very big election in Canada. And I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him. But I can't take full credit. They were -- His party was losing by a lot and he ended up winning. So, I really want to congratulate him -- was one of -- probably one of the greatest comebacks in the history of politics, maybe even greater than mine, you know. But I want to just congratulate you. That was a great election, actually. We were watching it with interest and I think candidate Joe's a very talented person, a very good person, because we spoke before the election quite a few times. And it's an honor to have you at the White House and the Oval Office.

You see the new and improved Oval Office as it becomes more and more beautiful with love. You know, we handle it with great love and 24 karat gold. That always helps, too, right? But it's -- it's been a lot of fun going over some of the beautiful pictures that were stored in the vaults, that were for many, many years -- in some cases over a hundred years. They were stored in vaults of the great Presidents or almost great Presidents, all -- all having a reason for being up, every one of them. So, it's very interesting.

But I just want to congratulate you and [you] ran a really great race. I watched the debate. I thought you were excellent and I think we have a lot of things in common. We have some tough, tough points to go over and that'll be fine. But we're going to also be discussing Ukraine-Russia, the war, because Mark wants it ended as quickly as I do I. I think it has to end.

We had some very good news last night. The Houthis have announced that they are not -- or they've announced to us at least that they don't want to fight anymore. They just don't want to fight. And we will honor that and we will -- we will stop the bombings. And they have capitulated. But more importantly they -- we will take their word. They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore, and that's what the purpose of what we were doing. So, that's just news -- we just found out about that.

So, I think that's very, very positive. They were -- They were knocking out a lot of ships going, as you know, sailing beautifully down the various seas. It -- It wasn't just the canal. It was a lot of other places. And I will accept their word, and we are going to stop the bombing of the Houthis, effective immediately. And Marco [Rubio], you'll let everybody know that, okay? Do you have something to say about that by the way? It's pretty big announcement.

SECSTATE RUBIO: Yeah, this was always a freedom of navigation issue. These guys -- These are you, know, a band of individuals with advanced weaponry that were threatening global shipping, and the job was to get that to stop. And if it's going to stop, then we can stop. And, so I think it's an important development.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: And we'll have, maybe, before we're going to, as you know, the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. We're going to UAE and Qatar. And that'll be, I guess, Monday night. Some of you are coming with us. I think before then, we're going to have a very, very big announcement to make -- like, as big as it gets. And I won't tell you on what, but it's going to -- and it's very positive.

I'd also -- I'd tell you if it was negative or positive. I can't keep that out. It is really, really positive. And that announcement will be made either Thursday or Friday or Monday before we leave. But it'll be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years, about a certain subject, very important subject So, you'll all be here.

Mark, would you like to say a few words?

PRIME MINISTER CARNEY: Well, thank you Mr. President. I'm -- I'm on the edge of my seat, actually. But thank you for your hospitality and a -- and above all for -- for your leadership. You're a -- You're a transformational President -- the focus on the economy, with a relentless focus on the American worker, securing your borders, providing -- ending the scourge of fentanyl and other opioids, and -- and securing the world.

And I've been elected with -- with my colleagues here. With the help of my colleagues here, I'm going to spread -- spread the -- the credit to transform Canada, with a similar focus on the economy, securing our borders again on fentanyl, much greater focus on defense and security, securing the Arctic and developing the Arctic. And, you know the history of Canada and the U.S. is we're stronger when we work together and there's many opportunities to work together and I look forward to, you know, addressing some of those issues that we have, but also finding those areas of mutual cooperation so we can move forward.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Great. That's great. Very nice. Thank you very much

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