US President Donald Trump jokingly told Canada\u2019s Prime Minister he would be shot if he used an honorary key to the White House, Mark Carney has revealed.<\/p>\n
Carney told the anecdote to a crowd of hundreds of people in Co Mayo as he concluded a two-day visit to Ireland.<\/p>\n
On Sunday evening, the chairman of Mayo County Council handed the visiting prime minister a civil scroll honouring his career and unofficial position as an ambassador of Mayo on the global stage.<\/p>\n
At the event in Westport, Carney said: \u201cTo put this honour in context: About a year and a half ago, a little less than that, another great leader, Cathaoirleach, gave me a gift and he said \u2018Mark, this is very special\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Continuing to mimic Trump\u2019s voice and mannerisms, he added: \u201c\u2018This is unique. It\u2019s a key, it\u2019s a key to the White House.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018No one else has it, no one else has it\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carney said he asked the US president what the key would do and received the response: \u201cWell, they\u2019ll either let you in or they\u2019ll shoot you. They\u2019ll probably shoot you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the gift given to him on Sunday evening, he said: \u201cWith this honour. I know that every door in Mayo will be opened.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he knew this was also true for those who do not get such honours, adding: \u201cAnd that\u2019s the true honour of this county and of this country.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo thank you for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump jokingly told Canada\u2019s Prime Minister he would be shot if he used an honorary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-499737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}