President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was withdrawing his invitation for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to join the Board of Peace, which was initially proposed as part of the president’s plan to reconstruct the Gaza Strip following the peace deal the Trump administration negotiated between Israel and Hamas.
In a Thursday evening post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “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.”
The Board of Peace was established by the president on Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Fox News reported that world leaders from Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Central and Southeast Asia joined Trump on stage for the launch of the Board of Peace. The outlet noted that Israel, China, Russia, France, Germany, Belarus, Vietnam, Ukraine, Ireland, Greece, and Finland have also been invited to join the board.
Trump’s withdrawal of the invitation for Carney to join the Board of Peace comes after the president criticized the Canadian prime minister for not being “grateful” to the United States.
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“We’re building a Golden Dome that’s going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way,” Trump said at the World Economic Forum. “They should be grateful also.”
“But they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful,” Trump added. “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’s comments at the World Economic Forum came after the Canadian prime minister appeared to indirectly reference Trump during his own speech in Davos.
“It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry,” Carney said during his speech at the World Economic Forum. “That the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.”