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Transcript: Trump Meets With Canada’s Mark Carney At the White House & Q&A – Oct 7, 2025

Read the full transcript of President Trump’s remarks at the bilateral meeting with Canadian PM Mark Carney at the White house on October 7, 2025, and Q&A with reporters.

President Trump Welcomes Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much, everybody. It’s an honor to have the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, who I have made very popular. He’s an extremely popular Prime Minister, and I’m very honored to do it because I liked him. Right from the beginning, I’ve liked him, and we’ve had a good relationship. We have some natural conflict, but we will probably work that out. But we’ve had a very strong relationship, and your hosting of the various countries that showed up, that was a beautiful job you did, and I appreciate it very much.

We’re going to be talking about trade, we’re going to be talking about a lot of different things. We’ll certainly be talking about Gaza. We’re in very serious negotiations to, I guess you could say, depending on the way you count, 3,000 years, you could say 500 years, you could say, but it’s been raging for a long time. And I think there’s a possibility that we could have peace in the Middle East. It’s something even beyond the Gaza situation. We want a release of the hostages immediately, et cetera. And so our team is over there now. Another team just left, and other countries, literally every country in the world has supported the plan. I don’t think there’s anybody that hasn’t, actually, not that I’ve seen. But there’s a real chance that we could do something, so you may have some questions on that later.

But in the meantime, we’ll spend some time, and we’ll make some deals, and we’ll do some things that are good for both of our countries.