Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney interrupted a question and answer session with Donald Trump at Monday's G7 summit before the U.S. president got too much into the weeds discussing ICE raids on "blue cities," according to CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes.
As Trump began to rehash his usual talking points, claiming former President Joe Biden allowed "murderers, killers, people from gangs, people from jails," into the United States, the Canadian leader — and host of the meeting which is being held in Alberta — stepped in.
"If you don't mind, just — I'm going to exercise my role, if you will, as G7 chair, since we have a few more minutes with the president and his team, and then we actually have to start the meeting to address some of these big issues," Carney said.
As the press yelled questions, and Trump appeared willing to talk more, the event was hurriedly ended.
Holmes noted the significance of Carney's action.
"I do just want to point out one thing that we all just took away from that, was that the prime minister learned his lesson from the last time he had this kind of interaction with Donald Trump, where it went completely off the rails," she said, referring to Trump's Oval Office meeting with Carney in May.
"The longer that Donald Trump took questions, the more aggressive it got, the more tense that Carney got in that meeting in the Oval Office. Here, he set the boundaries. He set the timeline. And, you saw the president there. He would have continued to take questions. Carney stepping in to say, 'We're moving forward now. We need to finish our conversations, the behind-the-scenes.'"
Holmes said that normally, when the U.S. president meets with a head of state, they "have these pleasantries, exchange a couple questions, and then it's over."
Donald Trump, however, "has been opening up these meetings to the public with the cameras," she continued. "And you can tell, Carney, here wanted to shut that off."