 O'Leary has praised Trump personally, calling him "smart as a fox", but tended to dismiss comparisons to him by noting that, in contrast to Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric and specifically his pledge to build a wall on the Mexico–United States border, "I'm of Lebanese-Irish descent, I don't build walls, I am very proud of the society we're building in Canada, I think it is the envy of the planet.There's no walls in my world.I wouldn't exist if Canada had walls."