Western Standard - June 16, 2025


Trump Fields Questions After Bilateral Meeting with Canada at G7 Leaders' Summit

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Barack Obama Mark Trudeau Putin Pritzker Trump Biden
Digital pipelines Energy politics, immigration, and the crisis of the West

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7 minutes

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174.54

Word count

1,305

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158

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Learn English with Donald Trump. President Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G7 Summit in Canada to discuss trade, Iran, and other issues related to the world's most important trade deal, the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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00:00:00.000 Mr. President, welcome to Canada.
00:00:11.000 Thank you very much.
00:00:12.000 It's a great honor.
00:00:13.000 Happy birthday, a few days short.
00:00:15.000 A little bit.
00:00:16.000 A few days short, but didn't have a chance to see you on the day.
00:00:20.000 Happy birthday to the U.S. military as well, 250th.
00:00:23.000 And this is the 50th birthday, if you will, of the G7.
00:00:27.000 This marks the 50th birthday of the G7.
00:00:30.000 And the G7 is nothing without U.S. leadership.
00:00:34.000 And your personal leadership, the leadership of the United States,
00:00:37.000 many issues, geopolitics, economic, technology,
00:00:42.000 and working hand-in-hand with the United States,
00:00:45.000 Canada and the United States,
00:00:47.000 and the other G7 partners with your leadership.
00:00:51.000 I'm very much looking forward to the meeting.
00:00:52.000 I'm grateful to have you here.
00:00:53.000 Thank you very much, Mark.
00:00:54.000 I appreciate it.
00:00:55.000 We've developed a very good relationship,
00:00:57.000 and we're going to be talking about trade and many other things.
00:01:00.000 And we have a whole group of people,
00:01:02.000 some traders and some other people.
00:01:04.000 I see my top economy people.
00:01:07.000 But we have a very talented group of people, and you do too,
00:01:11.000 and I know they've worked together very well.
00:01:13.000 I look forward to that.
00:01:15.000 The G7 used to be the G8.
00:01:17.000 If Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn't want to have Russia in,
00:01:23.000 then I would say that that was a mistake,
00:01:25.000 because I think you wouldn't have a war right now if you had Russia in.
00:01:28.000 And you wouldn't have a war right now if Trump were President four years ago.
00:01:32.000 But it didn't work out that way.
00:01:34.000 But it used to be the G8.
00:01:36.000 And now it's, I guess, what's that, nine years ago, eight years ago,
00:01:40.000 it switched over.
00:01:41.000 They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a very big mistake,
00:01:45.000 even though I wasn't in politics and I was very loud about it.
00:01:48.000 It was a mistake in that you spend so much time talking about Russia,
00:01:52.000 and he's no longer at the table.
00:01:54.000 So it makes life more complicated.
00:01:56.000 But you wouldn't have had the war.
00:01:58.000 And other than that, I think we're going to accomplish a lot.
00:02:02.000 And I expect to.
00:02:04.000 And I think our primary focus would be trade and trade with Canada.
00:02:08.000 And I'm sure we can work something out.
00:02:10.000 Yeah, very good.
00:02:11.000 Thank you very much.
00:02:12.000 Mr. President, what is holding up a deal with Canada from your perspective?
00:02:25.000 It's not so much holding up.
00:02:26.000 I think we have different concepts.
00:02:28.000 I have a tariff concept.
00:02:29.000 Mark has a different concept, which is something that some people like.
00:02:34.000 But we're going to see if we can get to the bottom of it today.
00:02:37.000 I'm a tariff person.
00:02:39.000 I've always been a tariff. 0.65
00:02:40.000 It's simple.
00:02:41.000 It's easy.
00:02:42.000 It's precise.
00:02:44.000 And it just goes very quickly.
00:02:46.000 And I think Mark has a more complex idea, but also very good.
00:02:52.000 So we're going to look at both and we're going to see what's going on.
00:02:54.000 We're going to come out with something, hopefully.
00:02:57.000 Mr. President, do you think a deal is achievable within days, within weeks?
00:03:02.000 Is there that kind of runway?
00:03:04.000 Yeah.
00:03:05.000 It's achievable.
00:03:06.000 Both parties have to agree.
00:03:07.000 Yeah, sure.
00:03:08.000 Mr. President, have you heard any signals or seen any messages from intermediaries that
00:03:15.000 Iran wishes to de-escalate the conflict?
00:03:18.000 Yeah.
00:03:19.000 What have you heard?
00:03:20.000 What have you heard from the Iranians?
00:03:22.000 They'd like to talk.
00:03:23.000 But they should have done that before.
00:03:26.000 I had 60 days and they had 60 days.
00:03:29.000 And on the 61st day, I said, we don't have a deal.
00:03:32.000 They have to make a deal.
00:03:34.000 And it's painful for both parties.
00:03:36.000 But I'd say Iran is not winning this war. 0.86
00:03:40.000 And they should talk and they should talk immediately before it's too late.
00:03:44.000 And what would you say, in your opinion, what would it take for the U.S. to get involved in this conflict militarily?
00:03:50.000 I don't want to talk about that.
00:03:52.000 And you mentioned Putin.
00:03:53.000 Do you think that he should have a seat at the G7 today, that it should be the G8?
00:03:57.000 I'm not saying he should at this point, because too much water has gone over the dam, maybe.
00:04:03.000 But it was a big mistake.
00:04:05.000 Obama didn't want him.
00:04:07.000 And the head of your country, the proud head of your country, didn't want him.
00:04:12.000 This was a big mistake.
00:04:13.000 You wouldn't have that war. 0.72
00:04:15.000 You know, you have your enemy at the table.
00:04:17.000 I don't even consider him — he wasn't really an enemy at that time.
00:04:21.000 There was no concept.
00:04:22.000 If I were president, this war would have never happened.
00:04:25.000 But likewise, if he were a member of what was called the G8 at that time — it was always the G8 — you wouldn't have a war right now.
00:04:33.000 Why not?
00:04:34.000 What intelligence support are you providing Israel?
00:04:38.000 We've always supported Israel.
00:04:41.000 We have for a long period of time, strongly.
00:04:44.000 And Israel is doing very well right now.
00:04:46.000 Why not have China at the G8?
00:04:48.000 Why not have China here, the biggest economy in the world, after the United States?
00:04:51.000 Well, it's not a bad idea.
00:04:52.000 I don't mind that.
00:04:53.000 If somebody wants to suggest China coming in, I think we suggest. 1.00
00:04:57.000 But you want to have people that you can talk to.
00:04:59.000 You know, they — they don't talk to — Putin speaks to me.
00:05:02.000 He doesn't speak to anybody else.
00:05:03.000 He doesn't want to talk — because he was very insulted when he got thrown out of the G8.
00:05:07.000 As I would be, as you would be, as anybody would be.
00:05:11.000 He was very insulted.
00:05:12.000 And, I mean, he was thrown out by Trudeau, who convinced one or two people along with Obama.
00:05:19.000 He was thrown out.
00:05:20.000 And he's not a happy person about it, I can tell you that.
00:05:25.000 He doesn't want immigration.
00:05:26.000 He basically — he basically doesn't even speak to the people that throw him out.
00:05:30.000 And I agree with him.
00:05:31.000 On immigration, why are you ordering ICE to target Democratic inner cities?
00:05:38.000 Let's find that.
00:05:39.000 I don't know what you're saying.
00:05:41.000 You did a post last night where you said you want ICE to really target Democratic —
00:05:44.000 Yeah, I want them to focus on the cities because the cities are where you really have what's called sanctuary cities.
00:05:50.000 And that's where the people are.
00:05:51.000 I look at New York.
00:05:52.000 I look at Chicago.
00:05:53.000 I mean, you've got a really bad governor in Chicago and a bad mayor.
00:05:57.000 But the governor's probably the worst in the country — Pritzker.
00:06:01.000 But I look at how that city has been overrun by criminals.
00:06:05.000 And, you know, New York and L.A. Look at L.A.
00:06:08.000 L.A. — those people weren't from L.A.
00:06:10.000 They weren't from California, most of those people — many of those people.
00:06:13.000 And, yeah, that's the focus.
00:06:17.000 Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country.
00:06:21.000 Of that, vast numbers of those people were murderers, killers, people from gangs, people from jails.
00:06:29.000 They emptied their jails out into the U.S.
00:06:31.000 Most of those people are in the cities.
00:06:33.000 All blue cities.
00:06:35.000 All Democrat-run cities.
00:06:37.000 And they think they're going to use them to vote.
00:06:39.000 It's not going to happen.
00:06:40.000 Mr. President, you said it would take me a week to decide if you're worried.
00:06:45.000 That's it.
00:06:46.000 Thank you.
00:06:47.000 If you don't mind, just — I'm going to exercise my role, if you will, as G7 chair.
00:06:52.000 Since we have a few more minutes with the President and his team, and then we actually have to start the meeting to address some of these big issues.
00:06:58.000 So —
00:06:59.000 Thank you.
00:07:00.000 Thank you.
00:07:01.000 That's it.
00:07:02.000 That's it.
00:07:03.000 Thank you very much.
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