Don’t ignore the budding bromance between King Charles III and Donald Trump, says multi-millionaire entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary.
‘We are in fascinating times on this one,’ remarked O’Leary, Shark Tank star and new Daily Mail columnist, after the president enthusiastically embraced the idea of an historic new US-UK global partnership.
On Friday, Trump reacted on Truth Social to an exclusive Daily Mail report that King Charles is preparing to propose that the United States become an ‘associate member’ of the British Commonwealth.
‘I Love King Charles. Sounds good to me!’ the president wrote.
The Commonwealth is a voluntary organization of 56 independent and equal states united by a commitment to democracy and the rule of law, among other Western values. King Charles is the head of the Commonwealth, a role he inherited from Queen Elizabeth II.
To O’Leary, this dramatic overturn and Trump’s enthusiastic response is illuminating.
‘People have been so focused on the bombastic noise that comes out of Trump that they lose sight of the signal,’ said O’Leary.
‘The noise,’ as O’Leary calls it, includes Trump’s call to make Canada the 51st US state and the subsequent sabre-rattling by Canadian politicians.
Don’t ignore the budding bromance between King Charles III and Donald Trump , says multi-millionaire entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary.
On Friday, Trump reacted on Truth Social to an exclusive Daily Mail report that King Charles is preparing to propose that the United States become an ‘associate member’ of the British Commonwealth.
O’Leary, however, claims that no one is seriously considering the issue of Canada’s sovereignty, and the outrage ginned up over the issue is driven by domestic Canadian politics, as voters there prepare to vote in elections to determine their next prime minister, next month.
‘[Interim Canadian Prime Minister] Mark Carney is obviously using [trade talks with Trump], whether it works or not, to rally his base to vote for him,’ explained O’Leary, who the dismissed the conflict as a distraction.
Instead, O’Leary advises observers to focus on ‘the signal’ that Trump is sending – which, he says, is the formation of an economic union between Canada and the United States to counter the growing global influence of tyrants worldwide.
In one move, says O’Leary, Trump could create the world’s largest economic engine – one that is dedicated to freedom of speech and democracy.
‘You’ve got this behemoth adversarial force in China and Russia and North Korea teaming up,’ he explains. ‘And what’s the answer to that? Economic union.’
King Charles ‘understands’ this challenge, says O’Leary, and that is why the monarch is purposefully strengthening Trump’s hand in talks with Canada.
The Daily Mail exclusively reported that the proposal for America to join the British Commonwealth was originally backed by Queen Elizabeth during Trump’s first term as president, but the idea was never realized.
But now, it is again ‘being discussed at the highest levels’ of British government – and plans are underway to reveal the plan during Trump’s upcoming state visit to the United Kingdom.
O’Leary predicts the Queen’s initial endorsement of the proposal will go a long way with his Canadian countrymen.
‘The Queen was the most beloved leader on Earth, period… and she’s still very much part of the DNA of Canada,’ he says, adding, ‘the Canadians are proud of their history and their legacy with Britain.’
‘It’s smart politics [by King Charles],’ O’Leary says, and a show of ‘respect’ by Trump.
‘The Queen was the most beloved leader on Earth, period… and she’s still very much part of the DNA of Canada,’ he says, adding, ‘the Canadians are proud of their history and their legacy with Britain.’
A source also told The Daily Mail that ‘The Commonwealth is a great forum for resolving differences between nations, and the King has shown that he is a natural peacemaker.’
Finally, O’Leary points to another ‘signal’ sent by the president.
Trump signed an executive order on Friday to immediately increase US production of critical minerals like copper, uranium, gold and potash – a vital ingredient in fertilizer.
The move is intended to lessen US reliance on Chinese imports to provide these materials, which are needed for American civilian and military manufacturing industries.
Yet, O’Leary notes, it may take the US years to fully ramp up its critical mineral production, while Canada is already a lead producer, ‘It takes decades to make those mines viable. Meanwhile, Canada is rich with these already.’
‘It’s remarkable at the same moment that [Trump was embracing the Commonwealth proposal], he did the executive order to remove legislation and regulation around the extraction of precious metal in the US.’
‘One of the reasons he wants to have a very viable, tariff-free relationship with Canada is to [open market access to] precious metals, minerals, water, paper, electricity, power, oil, gas, you name it.’
The next deadline to watch in the trade war is April 2, the day the Trump administration says it will unveil its plan for reciprocal tariffs against its trading partners.
O’Leary believes – and hopes – that the ridiculous nature of current US-Canadian relations will then become painfully clear.
‘[There are] 243% tariffs on Vermont butter going into Quebec. So, there’s going be a reciprocal tariff. And the butter coming out of Quebec is going be tariffed at the same amount.
‘Then the two sides look at each other and say, “How stupid is this? It’s better to have no tariffs then let the best butter win.”‘