Last week, Denmark, this week, Canada.

Donald Trump goes to war, rhetorically, with America's next-door neighbor and largest trading partner,

disinviting Prime Minister Mark Carney from his new Board of Peace.

Why does the President go out of his way to embarrass America's friends?

Is Trump Board of Peace?

He seems to be, at least when it comes to our traditional allies.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. Let's acknowledge that Donald Trump's blunt attempts to get European nations to spend more on their own defense is good for Europe, good for America, and good for us taxpayers.

Let's also state the obvious. If you are interested in preserving Canada's independence and the independence of the free nations of Europe, you would build your militaries the way America has built its military.

But there are ways that allies talk to each other, even when they disagree.

And Donald Trump's way is not the usual way these things are done.

For instance, his offensive comments about NATO's contribution to the war effort in Afghanistan

and which more than a thousand European soldiers died, do nothing except alienated America's friends,

and by the way, insult the American and European soldiers who fought side by side in countless

battles over many years. The question is, how much damage is he doing? Joining me to discuss all

this, Peter Baker, the Chief White House correspondent at the New York Times, Leanne Caldwell is the chief Washington correspondent at Puck.

Stephen Hayes is the editor of the dispatch, and Idris Kalloon is a staff writer at the Atlantic.

Thank you all for being here.

I know that myself, I would rather talk about the snowstorm that's coming, but we're going to talk about the state of the world instead, because I don't have the weather equipment behind me.

I just have an inaccurate picture of the White House still.

Let me start with you, but before I ask you anything, I want you to listen to a little bit of what the Canadian Prime Minister

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