President Donald Trump slammed Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, after its election losses, saying, “It was the one that hated Trump, I think, the least that won.”

He said Poilievre, who lost his own seat in Parliament and saw his party fail to meet high expectations, “hated me much more than the so-called liberal” Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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“I think we’re going to have a great relationship,” Trump said at his Cabinet meeting in response to a question about whether he was interested in rebuilding a relationship with Canada. Carney “called me up yesterday, and he said, ‘Let’s make a deal.’ He was running for office, they both hated Trump.”

Carney’s Liberal Party fell short of winning a majority but still triumphed over the Conservatives with 169 seats to 144, also capturing the nation’s popular vote by about 2 points.

“I spoke to him yesterday, couldn’t have been nicer, and I congratulated him,” Trump added. “It was a very mixed signal because it’s almost even, which makes it very complicated for the country. It’s a pretty tight race, but he’s a very nice gentleman, and he’s going to come to the White House very shortly, within the next week or less.”

Trump on the Canadian election: "It was the one who hated Trump the least who won." pic.twitter.com/7hQfklpk9w

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 30, 2025

While Poilievre is much closer to Trump politically, he made his final argument before voters went to the polls by blasting the president. “President Trump, stay out of our election,” he said Monday in a post on X. “The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box. Canada will always be proud, sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be the 51st state.”

Trump had posted earlier that day on Truth Social, suggesting Canadians should somehow vote for him to lead the country.

The president bragged before the Canadian election that he had hurt Poilievre politically.

“You know, until I came along, remember that the conservative was leading by 25 points,” he said in an interview with the Atlantic. “Then I was disliked by enough of the Canadians that I’ve thrown the election into a close call, right? I don’t even know if it’s a close call.”

Poilievre’s Conservative Party had more than a 20-point lead over the Liberal Party in the CBC’s polling averages in January before support plummeted in mid-March as former Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned.

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Carney, who had never held political office before taking Trudeau’s place, took the reins and never looked back. He successfully ran on anti-Trump sentiment.

“As I’ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water,” Carney told supporters Tuesday in Ottawa. “President Trump is trying to break us so he can own us. That will never happen.”