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.”
My biggest problem with what Carney has been doing, is that I voted for him this time. I voted for him because I didn’t want Conservative domestic policies to be implemented in response to Trump’s tariffs…and I didn’t want a Conservative strategy for dealing with Trump himself.
Now, we’re watching Carney doing literally everything that I explicitly didn’t vote for. It’s like we voted for Carney…but what we got, was Pierre Poilievre wearing a Carney suit. This has been the biggest bait and switch in Canadian politics, that I’ve got very seen. It feels like fraud.