President Trump Asked Point Blank Who He Thinks Will Win The Election In Canada

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During an event in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Donald Trump spoke about Canada's election.

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00:00A lot about it. Thank you for the question.

00:01A second question.

00:04Canada has an election coming up.

00:05Do you have a prediction for that?

00:07And what do you think the results of that?

00:08With respect to Canada?

00:09With the negotiations?

00:10Oh, I don't want to predict other nations' elections.

00:14It's tough enough doing this one.

00:18Look, I love the Canadian people.

00:21I like Canada.

00:22But it's costing us $200 billion a year to support Canada.

00:27$200 billion.

00:28And I say, why are we doing that?

00:31You know what?

00:31We can make our own cars.

00:33We have more energy than they do.

00:35We have more energy than anybody in the world.

00:37We don't need their lumber, obviously.

00:39We have more lumber.

00:41We have a lot of lumber.

00:42We have a lot of everything that they sell us.

00:45But in particular cars, they took a large percentage of the car making,

00:49and I want to bring it back to this country.

00:50I really don't want cars from Canada.

00:53So when I put tariffs on Canada, they're paying 25%,

00:56but that could go up in terms of cars.

01:00When we put tariffs on, all we're doing is we're saying,

01:03we don't want your cars in all due respect.

01:07We want, really, to make our own cars,

01:09which is what we're doing in record numbers.

01:11Now, you know, we're going to be at record levels in a very near future

01:14because of all the plants, the car plants that are being built.

01:17And I'd rather see them made in Michigan and made in South Carolina

01:21and made in different states.

01:23Tennessee, we have a lot of great car making states,

01:28and we have some that aren't car making yet,

01:29but they will soon be car making states.

01:32And that's what I want to see for our country.

01:35At the same time, I want to help Canada.

01:38As to, I have spoken to the current prime minister.

01:42He was very, very nice, I will say.

01:44We had a couple of very nice conversations, very good.

01:47But I don't think it's appropriate for me

01:50to get involved in their election.

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