Canadian PM Carney jokes Trump after teleprompter glitch

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a lighthearted reference to U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, August 5, after a teleprompter malfunctioned during a housing policy announcement in Toronto. Carney paused his French-language speech to inform the audience in English that the device had stopped working, adding, "Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy." The remark drew laughter from the crowd and appeared to reference an incident from September 2025, when Trump claimed he was sabotaged after encountering a stalled escalator and a malfunctioning teleprompter during his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The exchange occurred against a backdrop of increasingly strained relations between the two nations. Later on Wednesday, speaking at the Red Rock Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, Trump criticized Canada while discussing his tariff policies ahead of the November midterm elections. He listed several countries he said had used tariffs against the United States, including Canada, and stated, "I love the people, but they're nasty, nasty leadership." There was no indication Trump was directly responding to Carney's...