Bessent says Mark Carney walked back blunt Davos comments in call with Trump

Published January 27, 2026 9:48am ET



Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney “aggressively” walked back his comments made at last week’s Davos summit in a follow-up call with President Donald Trump.

A day before Trump accused his Canadian counterpart of being “ungrateful” to the United States in his Davos speech, Carney called on smaller countries to unite against economic coercion from greater powers without explicitly naming Trump.

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