Trump Drops NEW Map Erasing Canada — Carney Hits Back In Real Time

Trump posted a map on September 7 with no caption. The American flag stretched across Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. One label covered all of it: United States of America. Iceland summoned the American ambassador to object. Denmark's prime minister said Greenland had already said no, repeatedly. Mexico's president said her country would never be a colony of anyone. Macron flew to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, a French island chain off Canada's east coast, and Carney met him there. The two pledged closer cooperation on defense, space, and energy. Carney said both countries were being shaken by new storms. Canada's military received new orders after that. Officers began studying what would happen if Washington followed through on its annexation talk.
Carney explained the reasoning to the New York Times, saying his job required examining extreme outcomes. He called it risk management and said it was not a prediction. On October 5, Trump told reporters he was in no rush to restart trade talks with Canada.

Trump does not call Mark Carney a prime minister. He calls him a governor. He used the same word on Justin Trudeau, and he said it again this week. He also posted a cartoon of himself in a USA hockey jersey standing over Carney on the ice. The caption read: Get up, governor. One day later he posted a map of North America with the American flag covering Canada. Carney let it pass at first. He told reporters he could handle it. Then he stopped letting it pass. During a speech, he copied Trump's accordion hand gestures while describing a clean energy deal.
He told the room it matched eighteen Hoover Dams, and he smiled as he said it. CNN called it the moment Carney stopped taking the high road. The two leaders are now trading in public. One uses a title. The other uses a gesture. Both are talking past the trade file that started this.