Fightin’ Mark Carney took a swing at the champ. It didn’t go so well.

Last week, the Canadian prime minister was the Diva of Davos, telling his European brethren to stand up to Donald Trump. He warned them that “compliance will not buy safety,” urging them that “middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.”

Carney didn’t mention Trump by name, but he did refer to “American hegemony” and said that “great powers” are using economic integration as “weapons.”

If that wasn’t clear, Carney added, “The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”

Nostalgia might not be a strategy, but I can remember when Canada used to be free, used to be tough, used to elect an occasional conservative prime minister to forecheck the lefties in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. These days, they crack down on free speech, freeze their truckers’ bank accounts, swap spit with tranny athletes, and vote to replace the blackfaced bastard son of a Cuban communist with a weak-kneed central-banking globalist. (Despite Trump playfully referring to Canada’s former PM as “Governor Trudeau,” there was never any truth to the rumor that he was planning to annex Canada and dub it Gay North Dakota.)

Carney had set the stage earlier this month when he cozied up to China, hailing “a new world order” and lauding the lying, thieving Communist Chinese as a “more predictable” partner than the United States. As the Washington Post’s editorial board noted, “Carney and Xi did not simply agree to new trading parameters. They put on a show.”

That show included Carney’s swipe, which no doubt got under Trump’s skin: “I had discussions with President Xi about the situation in Greenland, about our sovereignty in the Arctic, about the sovereignty of the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark. And I found much alignment of views in that regard.”

The Davos elite cooed over Carney’s remarks, and the Guardian’s gushing headline was typical of the global media’s response: “Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump.”

Unflinching, eh? Um, no.

Trump fired back at Davos. “They should be grateful to us, Canada,” he said. “Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, before you make your statements.”

Trump, though, wasn’t finished. On Saturday, he hit back even harder:

If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a “drop off port” for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life.

As a trading partner, Canada needs the U.S. a lot more than the U.S. needs Canada. And Carney knows it. Which is why his tough talk had such a short shelf life. As Reuters reports, in a Monday call with Trump, Carney caved. “I was in the Oval with the president today,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News’s Sean Hannity last night. “He spoke to Prime Minister Carney, who was very aggressively walking back some of the unfortunate remarks he made at Davos.”

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard the expression “aggressively walking back,” but it conjures up some delicious imagery.

Bessent, for his part, has become quite the bulldog in defense of his boss — especially as it concerns leftist pretenders looking to make a name at Trump’s expense. “I think Gavin Newsom may be cracking up with some of these things he’s saying,” said Bessent last week. “I think he may be in over his hairdo. And being on the national stage is very different than being governor of California with no signature achievements. But to say strange things like, ‘President Trump is a Tyrannosaurus Rex,’ what the hell does that mean? I could say, ‘Gavin Newsom is a Brontosaurus with a brain the size of a walnut.’”

As for those kneepads, I hope the Oleaginous One has an extra pair for Canada’s Carney.