Canada is not for sale, says Carney, while Trump says: “Never say never”

Although President Donald Trump’s interest in Canada becomes the 51st state, according to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canada is not for sale.

Trump regularly said that he wants Canada to become a US state in the USA and spoke about the acquisition of Greenland and the Panama Canal for security purposes. The matter of Canada is not open to negotiations, said Carney.

“After you have met with the owners of Canada in the course of the campaign in the past few months, it is not for sale,” said Carney in the White House on Tuesday. “I will never be for sale, but there is the opportunity in the partnership and what we can assemble. We have done so in the past, and some of it, as the president said, is obliged to change our security and our partnership in terms of our security and my government.”

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President Donald Trump meets Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House on May 6, 2025.

While Trump recognized that Canada had strengthened his investment in military security, Trump said “never” said that in response that Canada would become another state.

“I had many, many things that were not feasible and they were feasible,” said Trump.

Later Carney said Canada’s attitude to this topic would not change.

“Respectfully that the Canadians’ view will not change,” said Carney.

Trump remains optimistic about the likelihood of acquiring Greenland: “I think it will happen”

President Donald Trump welcomes the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the White House on May 6, 2025.

The interaction takes place after Trump Time Magazine announced in an interview in April that he did not “trolled” when he discussed the possibility that Canada was part of Time’s Eric Cortellessa’s US Trump that the USA was “losing money” to support Canada, and the only solution on the table is to become a state.

“We take care of her military,” Trump told the magazine. “We take care of every aspect of your life and do not need it to make cars for us. In fact, we don’t want you to make cars for us. We want to make our own cars. We don’t need your wood. We don’t need your energy. We don’t need anything from Canada. And I say that the only way to become Canada to become a state.”

Nevertheless, Trump will continue to push to Canada to become a state, although he has doubts as to whether he would use military violence to achieve such goals, he said in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday.

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“Well, I think we will never get to this point,” said Trump. “It could happen.”

In the same interview, Trump doubled how important Greenland is for the United States in terms of national security. Although Greenland claimed that it is striving for independence from Denmark and is not interested in joining the United States, Trump regularly expressed a strong interest in securing Greenland – especially in view of an increase in Russian and Chinese presence in the Arctic.

“Something could happen with Greenland,” said Trump to NBC. “I will be honest, we need that for national and international security.”