The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 15, 2026


Trump Mocks ＂Elbows Up＂ Carney after Concessions - More US Tariffs!


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Trump takes a shot at the Gordie Howe Bridge and the Canadian government for making a deal with the U.S. to keep it open. Plus, Canada hires an American at a top position in the PM's office.

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00:00:00.000 Good thing we elected Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals, or else Canada would be getting humiliated right now by President Donald Trump, he said sarcastically.
00:00:10.920 If you've watched the last few episodes of my show, you are already well aware of the embarrassing concessions that Carney made to Donald Trump to get the Gordie Howe Bridge open.
00:00:21.600 A bridge, mind you, that Canada paid for 100% and was originally supposed to take 100% of the
00:00:29.740 total revenues until the construction was paid off. But now, we are effectively going to do a
00:00:35.800 50-50 revenue share after some maintenance costs with the state of Michigan from the very beginning.
00:00:41.800 All because Prime Minister Mark Carney is scared of directly negotiating with Trump,
00:00:46.640 so he keeps making what he thinks are minor concessions to keep Trump at arm's length.
00:00:52.400 But this was not a minor concession. It was a massive symbolic concession. And in the aftermath
00:00:59.220 of all of it, Trump is just mocking and humiliating Canada and Mark Carney further.
00:01:05.420 This is what he posted today on his Truth Social account, a now infamous photo from the Oval Office
00:01:11.920 of Trump sitting next to a map of North America where Canada has the American flag over top of it.
00:01:19.400 Notice how Mexico doesn't. Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, is somewhat respected by
00:01:25.560 Donald Trump. Mark Carney and the liberals are not respected by Trump at all. He sees them weak
00:01:31.340 because Carney is weak. He has the spine of a jellyfish. And it didn't just end there with that 0.88
00:01:37.780 photo. It went on to other things that are going to probably result in more concessions from Carney
00:01:44.700 and the Liberals. Check out this post from Six Buzz that says, the U.S. is moving to impose an
00:01:52.140 8.26% tariff on most fresh Canadian mushrooms after a trade investigation into alleged unfair
00:01:59.420 pricing. I really doubt there's any unfair pricing. This is just yet another humiliation on top of the
00:02:06.320 many others that Canada has suffered through, you will have liberals on social media saying
00:02:11.580 8.26%, no big deal. I thought you guys were the elbows up crowd. It's really infuriating
00:02:19.400 watching all of these liberal shills on social media or on the legacy media, seeing all these
00:02:25.320 liberal media flax saying that, well, things would be worse if Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives
00:02:30.680 were in charge. Really? Every time I see Polyev and the Conservatives sketch out what they would
00:02:35.640 be doing on trade and negotiating with Donald Trump, it sounds way better. They have a way
00:02:41.020 better plan of getting good leverage on the Americans, as well as being able to play hard
00:02:46.700 ball with them to maybe make some concessions, but only in favor of getting something back. 0.84
00:02:52.180 The liberals make tons and tons and tons of concessions for nothing back in return. And 0.56
00:02:58.160 this is the elbows upside. I have never advocated being, you know, obstinate against the Americans,
00:03:04.460 of wanting to fight the Americans and diversify trade around the world simply to spite the U.S.
00:03:10.420 That's never been my position. That's the liberal position, and they do the exact opposite.
00:03:15.020 I would actually like to be friendly to the United States, but I understand the value of playing
00:03:19.840 hardball. But right after we made a big concession on the Gordie Howe Bridge, we're going to have a
00:03:26.320 new tariff applied to us by the Americans. And it doesn't stop there. Also in the aftermath of this,
00:03:33.860 Mark Carney is going to hire an American at a top position in his office. Check this out. I just
00:03:41.220 need to pull this next part up. This is absolutely wild that we're letting this happen. This is from
00:03:47.360 Trending Politics on X. It was originally reporting on a global news article, but suspiciously that
00:03:53.720 global news article was taken down despite all of the information being verified. It says,
00:03:58.860 Prime Minister Mark Carney just handed day-to-day control of his office to an American political
00:04:03.540 operative who worked for Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg. Her title didn't exist until
00:04:07.920 this week, and even the Globe and Mail can't fully explain how she got here. Her name is Maya Johnson.
00:04:14.380 She surfaced in Canadian politics last year, coming from New York City to volunteer on Carney's
00:04:18.900 leadership campaign. But this year, she was inside the PMO as his senior advisor on Canada-US
00:04:24.540 relations. Now Carney has made her chief operating officer a corporate title never before used in the
00:04:30.540 prime minister's office. The chief of staff runs the political agenda. Johnson runs the machine 0.72
00:04:35.020 itself, making sure the day-to-day work of the government happens as desired. Now, I'm just
00:04:39.980 going to stop reading there because I now want to go to a post that Mario Zelaya made. He did a
00:04:45.180 really good summation of what's going on here. Mario Zelaya here says, bringing it back up on
00:04:51.600 screen, breaking, for the first time in Canadian history, the prime minister of Canada is naming
00:04:56.880 a COO to his office. The COO is Maya Johnson, is an American that worked on political strategy
00:05:04.800 for the Democrats. In June, the ethics commissioner fined her for failing to file disclosures
00:05:09.720 required of Canadian public office holders. She was made senior advisor for Canada-US relations
00:05:15.700 in Carney's PMO, and an unelected American is running the prime minister's office and advising
00:05:20.560 him on how to deal with America. Carney was elected to handle Trump, handed his most sensitive
00:05:26.360 of U.S. file to an American, Megamark really is making America great again. I do think that that
00:05:32.040 is a good summation of all this. I actually don't mind if you hire an American into your office as 1.00
00:05:36.960 the prime minister. Yes, you're a Canadian prime minister. You should be primarily like 95%
00:05:42.220 hiring Canadians. I don't mind if you hired an American for a role that they were really well
00:05:47.580 suited to and you needed their expert opinion. She's not done a good job. And this looks really 1.00
00:05:53.500 pathetic that we're having to go into America to find talent to try and lead Mark Carney through 0.94
00:05:59.040 negotiations with the Americans. Negotiations that Carney isn't even showing up for. He literally 0.97
00:06:04.440 has failed to show up to multiple meetings in order to defend Canadian workers while the US
00:06:10.660 ponders putting even more tariffs on other countries. It's absolutely insane. It's just
00:06:17.060 humiliation on top of humiliation in the aftermath of these tariffs on mushrooms i would not be
00:06:23.880 surprised obviously i'm about to be i'm being jokey here but mark carney should just give
00:06:29.240 donald trump the province of prince edward island in exchange for maybe lowering the amount of
00:06:34.940 tariffs he's going to put on mushrooms in 2027 elbows up prime minister guys it's almost like
00:06:41.960 simply just saying that you're good at negotiating and you're good at making deals
00:06:46.220 doesn't mean you're actually good at it. All of these people are the sort of people in 2015-2016
00:06:52.240 when Trump was running for the Republican presidential primaries, they would have
00:06:57.220 laughed at him when he kept saying, I'm a dealmaker. They'd be like, oh, he's so unsophisticated.
00:07:01.640 He talks like some random construction worker about making deals. He doesn't have PhDs and
00:07:07.940 master's degrees like us. Yes. He actually might have a master's degree. I don't know that.
00:07:13.100 but he's actually good at making deals. Carney was the guy in liberal debates who we should have
00:07:18.960 realized sucked at this when asked how he would deal with Donald Trump. He literally said, 0.90
00:07:23.320 I'd use diplomacy. What the heck does that mean? I'm going to use diplomacy. This isn't a game of
00:07:29.620 Dungeons and Dragons where when an obstacle comes up, you're like, I'm going to roll a 20-sided
00:07:35.420 dice to use my diplomacy. Oh, we rolled a two. I guess we failed. Yes, you can't just use diplomacy.
00:07:42.020 you have to have a plan and you actually have to be able to give some details. Carney isn't not
00:07:47.480 telling us the details because he doesn't want to ruin his strategy. He's not telling us the
00:07:52.900 details of his plan because he has no plan. And so there is no details to give. In just a second
00:07:59.040 here, I want to show you a video from the excellent Chevrolet Majumdar, who is the
00:08:03.520 conservative critic on Canada-US relations. And he's been doing an absolutely amazing job,
00:08:10.160 Not only dog-walking David Cochran on his own CBC show, but mocking Mark Carney's absolutely abysmal representation of Canada in America.
00:08:21.860 Check this out.
00:08:22.860 I'm going to show you potentially the most expensive chair you've ever seen.
00:08:27.840 Could be this one.
00:08:29.580 This week, American officials considered new tariffs that could affect Canadian jobs.
00:08:35.300 Other countries showed up to make their case.
00:08:37.700 Canada didn't send anyone.
00:08:39.840 Mexico was there. Peru was there. Canada filed incomplete paperwork. No one was there to speak
00:08:46.720 for our Canadian workers. We sent a note. This isn't about politicking. It's about showing up.
00:08:53.600 If your job depends on someone fighting for you, would an empty chair be good enough?
00:08:59.440 If you build cars, if you make steel, if you work in forestry, if you and your family depends on
00:09:05.760 canadian trade to the united states you deserve someone in the room making your case when canadian
00:09:12.560 jobs are on the line canada's chair should never be empty i thought this was a really good way of
00:09:18.480 portraying this issue because this is actually how you can win over liberals you have to point
00:09:23.520 to the hypocrisy of what is going on here carney was elected to be the elbows up guy i don't even
00:09:29.120 agree exactly with an elbows up strategy i thought it was a very aggressive confrontational way of
00:09:35.680 of trying to basically approach the Americans.
00:09:37.800 I think we can approach them as friends
00:09:39.560 at the same time we play hardball.
00:09:41.320 But Carney has been stepping on their toes
00:09:43.480 while making concessions.
00:09:45.060 The entire strategy is incoherent.
00:09:47.200 We make concessions on the digital services tax,
00:09:49.720 on the increase of the streaming tax,
00:09:51.460 on some of our tariffs that we put on them
00:09:53.620 that the Americans didn't have reciprocal versions of.
00:09:56.160 We have made a lot of concessions left and right.
00:09:58.900 And at the same time,
00:09:59.740 we're also like just ticking them off for no reason. 1.00
00:10:02.960 One, it's embarrassing we're hiring an American
00:10:04.920 as a COO, the PMO. At the same time, it is kind of a little bit provocative to be hiring someone 0.99
00:10:13.340 from Hillary Clinton's campaign, Hillary Clinton's scheduler from the 2016 presidential election.
00:10:19.760 I'm not saying that we should just make decisions based on what Donald Trump likes,
00:10:23.720 but we're not even using these provocative actions to get leverage. We give concessions
00:10:30.100 away for nothing in return. We go and sign a deal with China, not because we want to get 0.92
00:10:34.380 leverage with the Americans and we're willing to scrap that deal. Apparently, we just like China
00:10:38.940 now. That's all we really wanted was just to cozy up with China for the sake of it. A country that 0.95
00:10:45.140 Mark Carney said was the biggest national security threat to Canada. He claims that he now wants a
00:10:52.160 fortress North America deal. At the same time, we find out a few months ago, he was texting European
00:10:57.160 leaders telling them to not try and repair their relationship with the Americans. Trump probably
00:11:02.680 reads the Wall Street Journal when stuff like that comes out. And that's why Carney doesn't
00:11:06.660 want to get into a physical space with him to negotiate anything, because Trump's going to call
00:11:11.860 him out on all this stuff. Mark Carney's going to look like an idiot. And Mark Carney thinks Trump's 1.00
00:11:16.660 the idiot, and he doesn't want to find out it's the other way around. Anyways, I then also just 1.00
00:11:22.400 want to comment on the fact that, remember back in the 2025 federal election, when Donald Trump
00:11:29.300 was being interviewed on Fox News and asked who he would like to win the race, you know,
00:11:35.480 the federal Canadian election, who he'd want to become the prime minister of Canada. Remember
00:11:41.300 who Trump said? He didn't say pure poly and the conservatives. You know, the people that
00:11:47.580 the liberals in the media keep saying would basically keep making, would make concessions
00:11:51.860 constantly to Donald Trump. No, no, no. He wanted Mark Carney and the liberals to win. I need to
00:11:57.460 go find this clip it's quite incredible that this thing isn't being thrown in the liberals faces
00:12:02.420 every single day this is like a ready-made uh this is like a ready-made advertisement for the
00:12:08.500 conservatives right now against the liberals the this video this infamous one when he was
00:12:14.020 on laura ingram's show on fox news isn't that going to be make them more hostile to us and
00:12:18.740 possibly i'd rather deal with a liberal than for china closer to canada and that would really put
00:12:23.780 us in a bind the conservative that's running is stupidly no friend of mine i don't know him but
00:12:29.060 he said negative things so when he says negative things i couldn't care less i think it's easier 0.92
00:12:33.460 to deal actually with a liberal fact check true it's very easy easy to deal with a liberal he
00:12:41.700 doesn't even have to make any deals with mark carney and mark carney's giving him tons of stuff
00:12:46.340 maybe a deal gets signed one day but trump's going to keep farming all these easy concessions before
00:12:51.620 we even get to the actual table where we negotiate out the rest of the trade deal. 1.00
00:12:57.620 It's so bloody stupid, people. I just need to check on one thing, and if that doesn't come 0.99
00:13:04.500 up with anything, then it will probably be the end of the show. But before I get to the last
00:13:09.000 thing I wanted to mention, I just wanted to say, if you are still watching this episode and you are
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00:13:36.960 okay i did find what i wanted to play thanks to northern perspective for clipping the exact
00:13:45.260 segment that I also wanted to use. Even the CBC, even the awful host David Cochran has to acknowledge
00:13:54.240 what has been going on recently with Mark Carney is embarrassing. And this is why we are probably
00:13:59.740 going to start seeing a slide in the Liberals polling in some of the swing areas of the country
00:14:05.640 that they outperformed on previous election results. The Liberals and the Conservatives
00:14:12.200 were both stuck in that mid-30s level in previous elections, and although both of the parties
00:14:17.040 increased their vote, there were some of these sort of suburban areas like Peterborough, the
00:14:23.540 sort of Ottawa area, certain areas of the GTA and Vancouver and Kelowna that the Liberals did
00:14:28.640 really well on because of the elbows-up stuff. If that is proven to be a complete fraud, which it
00:14:34.340 is, I think we are going to see a massive shift in the polling in those specific regions. But check
00:14:40.580 out this segment from the CBC where Kate Harrington pushes back on on David Cochran I believe it's
00:14:46.900 Katie Harrington and absolutely well not only kind of embarrasses him but gets him to admit
00:14:54.020 that what Carney has been doing recently has been embarrassing you run into a risk of economic
00:14:58.560 self-harm though if you dig in on this one right if the bridge stays closed I mean this is this is
00:15:02.840 the this is the leverage play we are we are we are in a perpetual state of economic self-harm
00:15:07.820 the longer that we have tariffs in place.
00:15:10.760 This is another component of that.
00:15:12.780 But again, it just, it begs the question,
00:15:14.740 where are we at in terms of the broader discussion around this deal?
00:15:17.960 I think considering the prime minister ran on securing a better deal,
00:15:22.600 being the guy to negotiate with Trump,
00:15:24.460 we don't get a whole lot of details as Canadians about agreements like this one,
00:15:28.220 when phone conversations happen with the president, the status of negotiations.
00:15:32.440 And I think it's pretty ballsy, frankly, to ask Canadians for their support
00:15:35.620 and then provide none of that information over the course of the last 16 months.
00:15:39.780 My understanding, Kate, and I don't know this for sure
00:15:42.200 because even the government officials I was speaking with today
00:15:44.440 is that the money that goes to the development agency from the province
00:15:46.920 will be spent on the American side of the border, right?
00:15:49.140 So, you know, it is for them. 0.79
00:15:50.980 It is a straight concession.
00:15:53.360 I mean, it may benefit Windsor if it increases traffic flows coming the other way,
00:15:56.640 but very indirectly, very, very indirectly.
00:15:59.820 It is unquestionably a concession to get what Canada was entitled to.
00:16:04.260 It's great he can admit it, since when he was on with Chevrolet Majumdar, the, again, the U.S. and the Canada-U.S. trade critic, relations critic, he kept trying to spin it as, well, not really a concession.
00:16:17.040 It was, in fact, a small victory, if you think about it, to which I said, the analogy is like, if a mugger took your wallet, took all the money out of it, and then gave you your wallet back, if you considered it a victory that you still had the wallet, the least, you know, the thing that doesn't actually have that much value to it.
00:16:34.300 No, we didn't get any victories. We simply weren't left as wounded as we may have could have been.
00:16:41.600 but is it possible as as the mayor says uh believes and and the prime minister says that
00:16:46.660 it doesn't really amount to much just given the payback nature of infrastructure projects that
00:16:51.160 cost as much he's still trying to win he's still trying to basically massage it out and make it
00:16:56.120 sound good well the mayor of windsor didn't attack the the prime minister on it he's saying it's not
00:17:00.660 that bad of course he's gonna say it's not that bad he's an ally of the prime minister and like
00:17:07.420 But at the same time, David Cochran is having to admit that it is a concession, which he couldn't
00:17:14.140 admit really under when he was interviewing Shavloy Majumdar. Anyways, I'm a little all over
00:17:18.940 the place towards the end of the video here. But anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys
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