“I look forward to meeting the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney,” Trump wrote. “I very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one simple TRUTH — Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things?”

Trump didn’t stop there, adding another ‘Truth’: “We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain. They, on the other hand, need EVERYTHING from us! The Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence.”

Carney, for his part, has not shied away from confronting Trump. At a rally in Ottawa during his campaign, he declared: “As I’ve