On October 27, 2025, journalist Judy Trinh asked Mark Carney a pointed question about Donald Trump. She started by noting Trump had said he didn’t want to see Carney as they were about to cross paths at APEC. The exchange begins at 17:00 in the video below, and ends with this:

“Is the U.S. toying with Canada, and how did your relationship with Donald Trump go south so fast?”

“That’s a question for him.”

The entire “spat” between Trump and Carney is beyond hilarious, of course. It seems to have begun with an ad Ontario ran in some U.S. markets that used a speech by Ronald Reagan to criticize tariffs. It caused Trump to brashly cut off trade talks and even threaten an additional 10% tariff on Canadian goods.

The funny part isn’t that Canada has to continue to show enormous backbone in the face of an authoritarian that’s hell bent on harming his own people, through economic devastation and the tearing up of civil and legal rights. The funny part is that Trump always seemed kind of sweet on Carney. And then he wasn’t. Like he figured out that Mark was always going to put Canada first. This isn’t your marriage, Donald. You’re the mistress we have to tolerate so that our union holds. But at the end of the day, you’re not getting the ring. Mark is always coming back to us. He was always doing it for us. I know that hurts your feelings. But you should have known better than to think your charms were any match for his. He’s got you beat, because our marriage is solid. It can withstand this, and you’ll just have to go home alone. No staying over, no breakfast. A quick fuck. And you can just go home, sorrowful and full of despair, once we get what we need.

We never liked that Mark seemed to be cheating on us with a fascist dictator anyway.

A little much? Maybe.

If we choose not to see this as funny, it is deeply disturbing. It is scary that such a powerful man acts out of purely personal motivation. It makes you worry for America, for the world, for us. Because as yet, no one is taking his power away, and no one seems willing to stop him from using it.