As the liberal Establishment helped promote the image of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as the new “David” standing up to the “Goliath” of Donald Trump, with his much-publicized Davos speech on Jan. 20, Trump responded to Carney in his predictably petulant fashion in his own Davos speech:
“Canada gets a lot of freebies from us. By the way, they should be grateful also, but they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful. They should be grateful to us, Canada. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements,” Trump said. Back in the United States, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Dear Prime Minister Carney: Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.”
Carney responded on Jan. 22: “Canada doesn’t live because of the United States. Canada thrives because we are Canadian…. We are masters in our home, this is our own country, it’s our future, the choice is up to us.” In a speech the same day before a cabinet retreat in Quebec City, Carney said: “We can show that another way is possible, that the arc of history isn’t destined to be warped toward authoritarianism and exclusion; it can still bend toward progress and justice"—a rather offensive attempt to hijack Dr. Martin Luther King’s concept of the arc of history bending towards justice, for his own efforts to salvage the bankrupt liberal financial system and its collapsing institutions which Carney represents.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is trying to position himself as the Democratic presidential candidate in 2028, quickly praised Carney: “I respect what Carney did because he had courage of convictions. He stood up and I think we need to stand up in America and call this out with clarity,” Newsom said.
The New York Times ran a Jan. 22 op-ed by leading columnist David French attempting to codify and promote Carney’s call for an alliance of London-led “middle powers” into what they called “The Carney Doctrine.”
“On Tuesday, Mark Carney called Donald Trump’s bluff.… If the middle powers answer Carney’s call, they could form an economic and defense alliance that rivals American power. Combine the economies of the European Union and countries like the United Kingdom and Canada and the militaries of the key European nations, and you have a nuclear-armed defense and industrial alliance that cannot simply be cowed into submission.”
