Canada PM’s ‘elbows-up’ defense keeps Trump at bay as both parties play it cool

But divisions over tariffs and Trump's desire to annex northern neighbor simmer under surface as leaders meet

• Five takeaways from the Carney-Trump meeting

There were two main tensions during Donald Trump's meeting in the Oval Office with Canada's new prime minister, Mark Carney, the first beneficiary of a growing electoral phenomenon: the anti-Trump bump. For the first time this term, Trump was meeting with a prime minister elected in opposition to him, and try as the two leaders might, the tensions simmered just beneath the surface.

Both sought to play it cool.