Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s ire, just landed himself a majority government after a series of special elections on Monday night. Candidates from Carney’s Liberal Party secured wins in two parliamentary districts, with pollsters forecasting a third in his favor later Tuesday, in a result that will now allow Carney to remain in power until at least 2029. It’s been a rough few days for Trump, who has consistently railed against Carney, whose own campaign was buoyed by the U.S. president’s repeated threats to turn Canada into the “51st state” by annexing the country. Between waging a war of words with the Catholic Church and scrabbling to maintain a tentative ceasefire in his actual war with Iran, Trump also endured the crushing defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, long the president’s closest ally in Europe, who was toppled Sunday after 16 years in office by a two-thirds majority of voters fed up with his government’s rampant corruption and crackdowns on civil liberties.
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