O'Leary: Activity at Mar-a-Lago covered by 'off-the-record social media policy'
"Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary said in a new interview conversations and other activities at President-elect Trump’s Florida resort Mar-a-Lago are covered by an “off-the-record social media policy.”
"So much activity has happened there," O'Leary, who vocally backed Trump during the 2024 presidential election, said during his Monday appearance on Fox News’s “Jesse Waters Primetime.”
“I have been part of it, many others as well, it’s off-the-record social media policy. Which is fantastic because it’s not on the presidential record. If you really want to find out what he is thinking, you really have to go there - gotta meet with him, and a lot of the people you are talking about now going through this confirmation process - that’s where they’ve been for the last eight weeks,” O'Leary said.
“So it’s been a unique form of transitional government I would say and everybody has a good idea of what is on the agenda."
O'Leary, alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, met with the president-elect over the past weekend. During the meeting, O'Leary and Smith discussed tariffs, pipelines and why “a strong Canada-U.S. partnership matters now more than ever,” according to his post on Instagram.
“I told Trump straight: the Trudeau policies have been a disaster, but Canada isn't done. Alberta has massive potential, and Danielle is leading the charge to bring capital back,” O'Leary wrote in the Monday post.
In late November last year, Trump threatened to slap a 25 percent on Canadian goods coming into the U.S. if Ottawa did not fortify border security and crack down on fentanyl coming into America.
“What’s been really interesting about this transition over the last eight weeks is that Mar-a-Lago location has become Davos 2025,” O'Leary said on Monday, referring to the Swiss city where the World Economic Forum is held. “You don’t have to go to Switzerland anymore."
Trump has also suggested the U.S. and Canada merge, an idea the businessman said last week was “very interesting.”
“And so, within that idea, there’s some very interesting concepts,” O’Leary said on NewsNation’s show “The Hill.". “One of them would be the economic union, ’cause … Canadians don’t wanna give up their sovereignty but … what he said was, ‘Let’s get more powerful,’ ’cause economic success is power in today’s world.’”