President Donald Trump rebuked Canada before a meeting of global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Canada gets a lot of freebies from us,” Trump said during his speech Wednesday, adding, “they should be grateful also, but they’re not.” Trump told the room packed with politicians and business leaders that he had watched Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos on Tuesday, noting the Canadian leader “wasn’t so grateful” for U.S. leadership. While Carney did not refer to Trump by name in his address, he did speak of a “rupture” in the world order and inferred the U.S. is at the center of those irrevocable changes. Trump on Wednesday said that “Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.” President Trump to Mark Carney at Davos: “Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements." pic.twitter.com/6s1mCvV6Cg— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) January 21, 2026 Carney’s comments, and Trump’s stark rebuke, come as Trump continues to press the issue of U.S. ownership of Greenland. Trump says the U.S. needs Greenland for purposes of national security, arguing that Canada would also benefit from U.S. control of the large island straddling the North Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean. He threatened tariffs last week against countries opposed to the U.S. acquiring Greenland. Carney, for his part, signed a trade deal with China last week reducing tariffs on electric vehicles and canola, Reuters reported. “For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order,” Carney said on Tuesday. “We joined its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability.” “We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient,” Carney said, adding, “American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.” “So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works,” the Canadian leader said. “Let me be direct: we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” Meanwhile, Carney insists the “old order is not coming back.” “We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just,” Carney said, adding, “this is the task of the middle powers.” Trump has pledged to build a “Golden Dome” on Greenland, a defensive weapon system that would operate similarly to Israel’s Iron Dome in blocking incoming missiles. “We’re building a golden dome that’s going to, just by its very nature, going to be defending Canada,” Trump said. Trump is scheduled to return from Davos on Thursday evening. The post Trump Rebukes Canada’s Mark Carney at Davos appeared first on The Daily Signal.