Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that, in the wake of the largest mass shooting in Canada&#8217;s history, the Liberal government would be unilaterally outlawing at least 1,500 &#8220;assault-style&#8221; firearms, &#8220;effective immediately,&#8221; including, it now seems, shotguns, hunting rifles, airsoft guns, and even gun-related websites.
Assault weapons have been banned in Canada since the late 1970s, but back in late April, a Nova Scotia man, disguised as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, went on a thirty-mile rampage using &#8220;assault-style&#8221; weapons to murder at least 22 people, including his longtime girlfriend.
In a speech last week, Trudeau &#8220;announced the ban of over 1,500 models and variants of assault-style firearms, including two guns used by the gunman as well as the AR-15 and other weapons that have been used in a number of mass shootings in the United States,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2020/05/in-the-aftermath-of-shooting-that-kills-22-canada-bans-sale-of-assault-style-weapons.html">Associated Press</a>.
Canada has no Second Amendment, so the government can ban weapons without running afoul of enumerated Constitutional rights. But it seems Canadian government officials weren&#8217;t particularly clear &#8212; or were intentionally vague &#8212; about the definition of an &#8220;assault weapon&#8221; and, according to <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/read-the-full-list-of-military-style-guns-now-banned-in-canada#comments-area">a list published Monday</a>, the list of banned guns includes 10- and 12-gauge shotguns &#8212; a necessity for hunting in many of Canada&#8217;s more remote locales &#8212; hunting rifles, a BB gun, and even the website AR15.com.
&#8220;The Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association (CSAAA) and the Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) said their legal experts have concluded Public Safety Minister Bill Blair &#8216;banned almost every modern 12-gauge and 10-gauge shotgun in Canada with removable chokes because they exceed the maximum bore diameter of 20 mm,'&#8221; Canadian conservative website, the <a href="https://www.westernstandardonline.com/2020/05/gun-groups-warn-liberals-have-made-common-hunting-rifles-illegal/">Western Standard reported</a>.
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister Bill Blair looked Canadian gun owners in the eye last Friday and said they would not take guns suitable for hunting away from us,” CSAAA said in a statement, adding that millions of these &#8220;common hunting firearms&#8221; are in Canadian homes, making hunters &#8212; including hunters who must kill animals to survive &#8212; criminals under Canadian law.
The group also said that &#8220;many large bore hunting rifles – some more than 100 years old and valued at more than $100,000 have become prohibited,&#8221; even none of the guns in question are &#8220;semi-automatic,&#8221; or &#8220;military style.&#8221;
The list also bans <a href="https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Arfcom-banned-in-Canada/5-2323970/?fbclid=IwAR1Xn9Iy5sNZQCQIiPeCEryZLA23ubH8MLqSoLrqakCm2xX4Xq7Z25bnV8M">AR15.com</a>, a gun owners&#8217; forum, and airsoft rifles that bear a strong resemblance to &#8220;military style&#8221; weapons, including the <a href="https://twitter.com/donkeychucker2/status/1257493807265992707">Blackwater BW-15 Carbine, a BB gun</a>.
To be fair, the list also bans missile launchers, rocket launchers, and any military style artillery, in case those weren&#8217;t already illegal under Canadian law.
It took no more than two days for Canada&#8217;s gun laws to target the wrong person, as well. A woman, dressed up as a Stormtrooper for a Star Wars-themed &#8220;May the 4th&#8221; promotion, was tackled to the ground and arrested over her toy blaster gun after an onlooker reported a person with a &#8220;weapon&#8221; to local law enforcement. <a href="https://globalnews.ca/video/6908239/woman-in-star-wars-stormtrooper-costume-arrested-by-lethbridge-police-on-may-4th">GlobalNews.ca</a> reports that the Alberta government is looking into whether the police, in that case, used excessive force.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is banning &#8220;military-grade assault weapons&#8221; after the country’s deadliest mass shooting last week.
A gunman disguised as a law enforcement officer killed 22 people in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on April 19. The shooter was armed with two rifles and several handguns, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superintendent Darren Campbell said according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/canada-assault-weapons-ban-trudeau-nova-scotia-shooting">The Guardian</a>.
&#8220;These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada,&#8221; Trudeau said. &#8220;Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country.&#8221;
Just one of the guns possessed by the shooter could be described as a &#8220;military-grade assault weapons,&#8221; according to Campbell. Law enforcement also said the new ban would likely not have stopped the shooter from getting the weapons, which he had likely obtained illegally from the United States and Canada.
Trudea said that gun owners would have two years to comply with the new law and that he would push parliament to approve a gun buyback program, a form of gun confiscation, to remove weapons outlawed under the law from Canadian society, according to <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bj9y/canada-trudeau-just-banned-1500-military-grade-assault-style-weapons">Vice</a>.
Canada’s opposition party, led by MP Andrew Scheer, slammed the prime minister, accusing him of using a tragedy to support his agenda of gun control.
&#8220;Justin Trudeau is using the current pandemic and the immediate emotion of the horrific attack in Nova Scotia to push the Liberals’ ideological agenda to make major firearms policy changes. That is wrong,&#8221; Scheer said in a statement.
The Conservative leader said that Trudeau was attempting to override Parliaments authority with unilateral executive action, and the prime minister should wait until the current pandemic is dealt with and the RMCP has completed its investigation into the shooting before more action is taken.
&#8220;As the RCMP has made clear, the NS shooter did not have a firearms license, so all of his guns were illegal. Taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens does nothing to stop dangerous criminals who obtain their guns illegally,&#8221; Scheer said.
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Trudeau has led the Liberal party pushing for tougher gun restriction since his first campaign for prime minister in 2015. Then, he promised to enact tougher restrictions on what type of firearms are legal to own. In the most recent election in 2019, Trudeau escalated his rhetoric and promised to ban &#8220;military-style assault weapons.&#8221;
&#8220;As long as Canadians are losing their loved ones to gun violence, not enough has changed,&#8221; Trudeau said in September. &#8220;We know you do not need a military-grade assault weapon, one designed to kill the largest amount of people in the shortest amount of time, to take down a deer.&#8221;
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Trudeau Bans ‘Military-Grade Assault Weapons’ After Mass Shooting, Pushes Confiscation

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be handling his own coronavirus pandemic, but he&#8217;s still committed to pursuing radical environmental policies and ingratiating himself to the global environmental elite.
Saturday night, while most Canadians sheltered at home, under &#8220;social distancing&#8221; order designed to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, Trudeau suggested on social media that those sheltering in place turn off their electricity to save the planet.
&#8220;You’re already at home tonight, so why not unplug for <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EarthHour?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#EarthHour</a> at 8:30PM local time? Whatever you do tonight, <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayAtHomeAndStaySafe?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#StayAtHomeAndStaySafe,</a>&#8221; Trudeau tweeted.
His plan met with swift and crushing criticism on social media, as Twitter users pointed out how necessary fossil fuels have become in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
&#8220;Turning off the ventilators to save the planet,&#8221; one user mocked.
&#8220;Unplugging my ventilator for <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EarthHour?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#EarthHour</a>, thank you Justin,&#8221; chortled another.
Still others suggested that pressing environmental polices that could have a dramatic, negative impact on the Canadian economy was a bit of a misfire during a time where more than 500,000 Canadians are out of work. A few even reminded Trudeau that he just wrote a $2.65 billion check to help &#8220;developing countries&#8221; fight climate change &#8212; money that a suffering Canada could use to help bolster its own flagging economy.
That&#8217;s not Trudeau&#8217;s only issue, though. While a tasteless, ill-timed social media post is probably bad enough for most Canadians worried about whether their government is taking an active role in handling the growing pandemic, Trudeau is pairing his &#8220;Earth Hour&#8221; commitment to a massive, 50% carbon tax hike designed to punish businesses that consume too much carbon &#8212; and that tax is set to go into effect in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown.
<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6741773/coronavirus-carbon-tax-increase/">Global News reports</a> that Trudeau has refused to say whether he&#8217;ll put at least a temporary hold on the hike, even as groups beg and plead with the government to halt their environmental crusade.
“The Canadian economy is facing a serious challenge. Adding a 50 per cent increase in the carbon tax is a further hit to grain farmers’ bottom line and Canadian consumers’ food bills. Now is not the time to be to be adding to our household expenses,” the head of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association said in a statement earlier this week.
In response, Trudeau actually defended the measure, saying it would hurt some Canadians upfront, but save money in the long run.
“We know that it is important that we put more money in the pockets of Canadians at this point when they’re stressed,” Trudeau told reporters. “Our plan on pricing pollution puts more money upfront into people’s pockets than they would pay with the new price on pollution. We’re going to continue to focus on putting more money in people’s pockets to support them right across the country.”
It&#8217;s not as if coronavirus hasn&#8217;t hit home for Trudeau &#8212; his wife tested positive for the deadly virus and was forced to quarantine. The PM announced on Saturday that she is now &#8220;symptom free&#8221; and has been for several days.

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On Monday morning, the Associated Press reported that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he will close the country’s borders to non-citizens.
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BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will close his country&#39;s border to non-citizens amid <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> pandemic &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a>
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<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6682040/coronavirus-trudeau-address-nation/">GlobalNews.ca</a> reported:
<blockquote>Speaking to reporters from Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Trudeau said Canada will be closing it’s borders to people who are not Canadian citizens, or permanent residents of Canada. Trudeau said exceptions will be made for air crews, diplomats, immediate family members and U.S. citizens. He said second, airlines will ban anyone who is showing symptoms of the virus from getting on a plane. “That means anyone who has symptoms will not be able enter Canada,” he said.</blockquote>
Trudeau said Pearson International Airport, Vancouver International Airport, Montreal Trudeau Airport and Calgary International Airport will still receive international flights. He added that domestic flights and flights from the U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean will still be in service.
Canada&#8217;s Minister of Health Patty Hajdu stated: &#8220;Now is the time to pull out all the stops to flatten the curve or slow the rate of infection. This will be very hard and it will require much personal sacrifice. It will require all of us helping in many different ways. The measures that we take now will protect people in our communities that are most at risk and ensure that our healthcare system can meet any surge in demand.&#8221;
She continued, &#8220;All of us can take actions to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Stay at home; wash your hands well and often. Practice social distancing. I know that many people are thinking of running out of food and other essential supplies; please note that we are not running out of food or other supplies. The Retail Council of Canada is working very closely with our government to ensure that our supply chain remains strong. Please don&#8217;t buy more than you need in a two-week period. Remember your neighbors; those people that buy just in time. Buy only what you need; be kind to one another. Even though this is going to be very hard, Canada is strong; Canadians are strong, and we&#8217;ve been through times that are hard before. The things that we do now that require sacrifice and generosity will get us through this time together.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeaus-wife-sophie-has-coronavirus">The Daily Wire</a> reported last Friday that Trudeau&#8217;s wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, had been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus. Trudeau&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/americas/sophie-gregoire-trudeau-coronavirus/index.html">said</a> in a statement:
<blockquote>The Prime Minister is in good health with no symptoms. As a precautionary measure and following the advice of doctors, he will be in isolation for a planned period of 14 days. Also on the advice of doctors, he will not be tested at this stage since he has no symptoms. For the same reason, doctors say there is no risk to those who have been in contact with him recently.&#8221;</blockquote>
Sophie Trudeau later delivered a personal statement:
<blockquote>First, I&#8217;d like to say a big thank you to all of you who have reached out to me asking how I&#8217;m doing. Although I&#8217;m experiencing uncomfortable symptoms of the virus, I will be back on my feet soon. Being in a quarantine at home is nothing compared to other Canadian families who might be going through this and for those facing more serious health concerns. We will get through this situation together. Please share the facts and take your health seriously. I send you all my courage and warm thoughts (but only &#8216;get better&#8217; hugs from afar!)&#8221;</blockquote>
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, has been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, which originated in China.
&#8220;The Prime Minister is in good health with no symptoms. As a precautionary measure and following the advice of doctors, he will be in isolation for a planned period of 14 days,&#8221; the Prime Minister&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/americas/sophie-gregoire-trudeau-coronavirus/index.html">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;Also on the advice of doctors, he will not be tested at this stage since he has no symptoms. For the same reason, doctors say there is no risk to those who have been in contact with him recently.&#8221;
Sophie Trudeau later delivered a personal statement on the diagnosis, writing, &#8220;First, I&#8217;d like to say a big thank you to all of you who have reached out to me asking how I&#8217;m doing. Although I&#8217;m experiencing uncomfortable symptoms of the virus, I will be back on my feet soon. Being in a quarantine at home is nothing compared to other Canadian families who might be going through this and for those facing more serious health concerns.&#8221;
&#8220;We will get through this situation together,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Please share the facts and take your health seriously. I send you all my courage and warm thoughts (but only &#8216;get better&#8217; hugs from afar!)&#8221;
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The announcement from Trudeau&#8217;s office comes as other high profile figures have announced in recent days that they have contracted the disease.
On Thursday, actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, gave an update on their condition after they revealed on Wednesday that they had been infected with the virus.
“Hello folks,” Hanks began. “Rita Wilson and I want to thank everyone here Down Under who are taking such good care of is. We have Covid-19 and are in isolation so we do not spread it to anyone else.”
“There are those for whom it could lead to a very serious illness,” the statement continued. “We are taking it one-day-at-a-time. There are things we can all do to get through this by following the advice of experts and taking care of ourselves and each other, no?”
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-crying-in-baseball-tom-hanks-posts-message-from-coronavirus-quarantine">reported</a> that Hanks then appeared to make a reference to a quote that he said while staring in the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own.”
“Remember, despite all the current events, there is no crying in baseball,” Hanks said.
Also on Thursday, Australia’s minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton, revealed that he had been infected with the virus, which comes after he met with Ivanka Trump, Attorney General William Barr, and White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway last week.
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“The containment processes of self isolation, identifying and tracing of contacts, all of these measures worked to successfully slow the rate of transmission of this virus,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday. “And that’s why Australia right now is in a position where we have low rates of this virus and the number of cases that have presented. But we’ve always known that the number of cases will rise.”
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing anger from his own countrymen after he was photographed chatting, shaking hands, and even bowing to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, after the rogue nation shot down a commercial airplane with 57 Canadians aboard.
Iran reportedly shot down the plane in January, after launching a series of missiles at Iraqi military bases housing American troops, an effort taken in response to the United States&#8217; killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani who, the White House said at the time, was in Iran trying to foment anti-American sentiment and organize anti-American militia operations.
Iran initially denied downing the airliner, but after United States and international intelligence organizations pinned the crash on a pair of surface-to-air missiles filed from inside Iran, the country <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/11/iran-admits-shooting-down-ukrainian-airliner-unintentionally">finally issued a statement taking responsibility</a> and blaming &#8220;human error&#8221; for the &#8220;unforgivable mistake&#8221; that killed more than 150 passengers and crew, per The Guardian.
There were 57 Canadians aboard the Ukrainian Airlines plane, headed to Kiev, Ukraine, where they planned to catch a connecting flight to Toronto, according to the BBC.
&#8220;The plane was bound for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and many on board had a connecting flight to Toronto, Canada&#8217;s largest city and a transit hub,&#8221; the British outlet reported, identifying why so many Canadians were killed in the attack. &#8220;Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that, all told, 138 people on that flight were en route to Canada.&#8221;
&#8220;There is also no direct flight between Canada and Iran, and the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev and then to Toronto is popular because it is one of the most affordable options for the journey,&#8221; the BBC added.
At the time of the attack, Trudeau insisted that he would demand “closure, accountability, transparency and justice” from the Iranians. But last week, at a conference in Munich, Germany, Trudeau seemed oddly cozy with the Iranian delegation, according to <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6551594/justin-trudeau-iran-plane-crash-handshake/">GlobalNews.ca</a>.
&#8220;Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing criticism over new photographs showing him shaking hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;The meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday quickly sparked criticism online given that Iran shot down a passenger plane last month near Tehran killing all 176 on board, including 57 Canadians. Since then, it has refused to hand over the black boxes recovered from the crash site.&#8221;
Trudeau, who has fallen under criticism for failing to treat American president Donald Trump with due respect, defended his congenial interaction with the Iranians when asked about it by reporters, even as Iranian state television reportedly played the handshake off as a sign of forgiveness.
“I made a promise to families in Canada to do everything I could to make sure that they get answers, that we have a full and complete investigation, that we understand exactly what happened,” Trudeau told reporters. “I went by to impress upon the foreign minister of Iran how important it is that we work together.”
Not everyone was impressed with Trudeau&#8217;s gesture.
“Not a good look to see PM Trudeau with smiling FM Zarif of Iran after Canadians killed at the hands of Iranian incompetence and malice on Ukrainian plane- not to mention the innocent Iranian protestors‘ killed,” one expert on Iranian-Canadian relations tweeted.
Others, including a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Canada, suggested Trudeau should have better considered the implications of being filmed palling around with Iranian officials.
“Look, I get that leaders sometimes have to shake hands with unsavoury people,” he tweeted. “But Iran just killed 63 Canadians. Maybe the PM could’ve avoided this particular photo op. Maybe a UNSC seat isn’t worth a firesale of every last thing Canadians hold dear.”
And, GlobalNews.ca reports, families of the plane crash victims are &#8220;furious.&#8221;
The Canadian delegation tried to wave off the controversy, suggesting that Trudeau was forceful in private meetings, demanding that Iran turn over the flight&#8217;s black boxes to international officials, but they offered no proof of Trudeau&#8217;s position.
Oddly enough, Trudeau did have some harsh words for at least one party he holds responsible for the airplane being shot down: Trump. Back in January, the Canadian Prime Minister pinned the incident squarely on the president&#8217;s shoulders, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/justin-trudeau-blames-plane-crash-on-trump-and-irans-escalation-2020-1">Business Insider reported at the time</a>.
&#8220;If there were no tensions, if there was no escalation recently in the region, those Canadians would be right now home with their families,&#8221; he said.
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A social media post from a Maryland police department featuring the image of a suspect in a bank robbery is stirring up even more attention online than intended, or at least the wrong kind of attention — so much so, in fact, that the department decided to abruptly pull the post and replace it with an explanation for why it felt compelled to do so.
After a PNC Bank in Perryville, Maryland was robbed at around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the local police department posted a notice on its Facebook page that included an image apparently taken from one of the bank&#8217;s surveillance cameras.
Before the post was deleted, The New York Post tweeted out its coverage of the story, along with the image included in the Perryville Police Department&#8217;s original Facebook post:
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&#8220;A man in Maryland disguised himself with blackface while robbing a bank, police said,&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/man-in-blackface-robs-maryland-bank/">The New York Post</a> reported Wednesday. &#8220;The suspect walked into the PNC Bank in Perryville, a small town near the Delaware border, and robbed the bank by passing a note at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, local police said.&#8221;
&#8220;The bank robber, who is white, was wearing a white coat, maroon hat and covered his face with dark paint, authorities said,&#8221; the Post reports. Police say the suspect, who is still at large, is &#8220;about 5-foot-5 and in his late 20s or early 30s,&#8221; the outlet notes.
But, as is apparent in the Post&#8217;s report, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PerryvillePoliceMD/posts/2546942158885536">Facebook</a> post announcing the robbery and presenting the photo of the white suspect in blackface was pulled down by the police department.
A follow-up post by the department offers an explanation for the its rationale in scrubbing the image from its page — citing &#8220;many&#8221; &#8220;derogatory&#8221; and &#8220;vulgar&#8221; comments posted in response — and pleads with followers to keep things &#8220;relevant&#8221; going forward.
&#8220;In lieu of our recent post and its many comments (some being derogatory and/or vulgar), we have elected to take down/remove the post,&#8221; the department explained. &#8220;We do appreciate those who had contributed any information in regards to the Bank Robbery. We ask that in future posts regarding a crime that we limit any commenting to relevance of the incident and details. Thank you.&#8221;
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The explanation has inspired a few responses on the department&#8217;s page. &#8220;What did you expect? I mean remove the victims from the story and it was comical,&#8221; one follower posted. &#8220;Pressure from the governor?&#8221; another response reads. &#8220;Why?&#8221; asks another follower.
As noted by <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/01/30/man-fitting-the-description-of-gov-ralph-northam-wanted-in-connection-with-a-maryland-bank-robbery/">Twitchy</a>, the incident has also generated some buzz on Twitter, with some folks offering theories on who the suspect might be, including one much-criticized Democratic governor:
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I’m no detective but I would start looking around the Virginia governors mansion for clues. <a href="https://t.co/fz7r1VSic2">https://t.co/fz7r1VSic2</a>
&mdash; Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1222900813158211584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Along with Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) — who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrat-governor-ralph-northam-responds-ryan-saavedra">apologized</a> for being allegedly featured in a high school photo either in black face or dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and then reversed, questioning whether he was actually in the photo — some Twitterers suggested that maybe the suspect traveled down to the state from Canada.
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I’m no snitch, but has anyone seen Justin Trudeau recently <a href="https://t.co/R1VgIUG6Zf">https://t.co/R1VgIUG6Zf</a> <a href="https://t.co/vbq5a3hYEw">pic.twitter.com/vbq5a3hYEw</a>
&mdash; Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) <a href="https://twitter.com/Harry1T6/status/1222901358971326465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-robert-downey-jr-explains-why-he-played-blackface-role-in-joe-rogan-interview">WATCH: Robert Downey Jr. Explains Why He Played Blackface Role In Joe Rogan Interview</a>

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now blaming U.S. &#8220;escalation&#8221; in the Middle East for the death of 57 Canadians, who were killed when Iranian forces shot down a Ukrainian plane, killing all 176 on board.
Trudeau said the Canadians killed would be &#8220;home with their families&#8221; right now if tensions in the Middle East had not risen because of U.S. actions.
&#8220;I think if there were no tensions, if there was no escalation recently in the region, those Canadians would be right now home with their families,&#8221; Trudeau said in an interview with Global television.
“This is something that happens when you have conflict and war. Innocents bear the brunt of it and it is a reminder why all of us need to work so hard on de-escalation, moving forward to reduce tensions and find a pathway that doesn’t involve further conflict and killing,&#8221; he said.
Trudeau also said the international community has been &#8220;very, very clear about needing to have a non-nuclear Iran,&#8221; but added that it needs to continue &#8220;managing the tensions in the region that are brought about by U.S. actions as well.&#8221;
President Trump this month ordered U.S. forces to take out terrorist and Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani after Iran fired missiles into Baghdad, killing an American. In response, Iran fired more missiles into Iraq, targeting U.S. military bases. In the chaos, Iranian forces shot down the Ukranian plane, which they at first denied but then acknowledged they had &#8220;unintentionally&#8221; downed the plane.
Trudeau&#8217;s comments mirror those of Iran, which blamed the death of those killed by the Iranian surface-to-air missile on &#8220;U.S. adventurism&#8221; that prompted both countries&#8217; militaries to go on high alert.
In the interview, Trudeau said he had spoken with Trump about the incident.
“I have spoken to him and I have talked about the need to de-escalate tensions,” he said. “I’ve talked about the tremendous grief and loss that Canadians are feeling, and the need for clear answers on how this happened and how we’re going to make sure it never happens again.”
Trump has no made no comment on talking with Trudeau.
The two have a rocky relationship. Last month, Trump called the Canadian prime minister &#8220;two-faced&#8221; after Trudeau and other foreign leaders were seen on video ridiculing Trump at a NATO summit near London.
Meanwhile in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday called the shooting down of the Ukrainian plane an &#8220;unforgivable error&#8221; and pledged to punish those responsible.
Rouhani added that &#8220;one person cannot be solely responsible for the plane crash&#8221; and said the country is in the midst of a full investigation. After Iranians protested against the government, Rouhani said his government is &#8220;accountable to Iranians and other nations who lost lives.&#8221;
&#8220;For our people it is very important in this incident that whoever was at fault or negligent at any level&#8221; is prosecuted, he said. &#8220;Anyone who should be punished must be punished. Iranian armed forces admitting their mistake is a good first step &#8230; We should assure people that it will not happen again.&#8221;
An Iranian judiciary spokesman, Gholamhossein Esmaili, said there have been arrests. &#8220;Clearly, as President Rouhani has said, Iran made a terrible mistake. It is good they have apologized.&#8221;

President Trump And First Lady Welcome Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau And His Wife Gregoire To The White House

Canadian PM Trudeau Blames U.S. ‘Escalation’ In Middle East For Death Of 57 Canadians

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Some commentators used to call it President Donald Trump’s “superpower.” For whatever reason, no matter the quality of the opposition research hurled into the public eye about then-candidate Trump or President Trump, it would just not seem to stick. &#8220;Teflon Don,&#8221; they have called him. For a day, maybe even a week, his poll numbers would drop — but for nearly an entire term, he has nonetheless hovered at around <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html">45% favorability</a>. Ultimately, he has seemed <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/06/15/trumps-superpowers-have-their-limitations/">“immune to the sort of gaffes that typically wound other politicians.”</a>
But as the Democratic Party presidential primary rages on, it has become clear that President Trump doesn’t have a superpower at all. The game of politics has simply changed from that which we were accustomed. In the previous era, where politicians were polished and consumers of political debate were competent, politics amounted to a game of gaffe avoidance. The first one to give up the act was clearly the less competent contender, so we voted for the other guy.
Times have changed. Pseudo media outrage has made nothing outrageous anymore. Hyper-partisan reporting out of Washington and New York has deemed quality reporting increasingly irrelevant. Between that and an ever-changing social media landscape, people simply have shorter memories than in the past. Things only matter as they are happening and are quickly deemed ephemeral or meaningless. Brett Kavanaugh was only an alleged rapist until his U.S. Supreme Court nomination could no longer be defeated. Net neutrality only killed people until it didn’t. And so forth.
With the media’s malpractice and the general populace&#8217;s consumption of their product, the important stories that matter are often overlooked. As such, it often seems that nothing that is actually helpful comes from our frenetic, never-ending news cycle.
Let&#8217;s then return to Trump’s ‘superpower,’ which is not actually exclusive to him at all. If it were exclusive, for instance, then gaffe machine former Vice President Joe Biden would not still be the frontrunner for his party&#8217;s 2020 presidential nomination. He would be long gone by now. But despite all his manifold gaffes, he stays at the top with the hypocritical ‘anti-1%’ one-percenter, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
It’s quite clear that the non-charismatic and, frankly, not particularly talented Joe Biden does not have any such &#8220;superpower.&#8221; Certainly, no charisma has helped him remain at the top, yet there he remains. The lesson to learn for voters, then, is that President Trump’s steadfast base of support and &#8220;teflon&#8221; status is the new norm — and is likely not specific to him.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) made the mistake of thinking that bad press does sticks in our generation. He gave up his Senate seat for no reason. Not only did he make a mistake — <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/454135-al-franken-says-he-absolutely-regrets-resigning">he knows he did</a>. Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA), clearly more in tune with our political age, successfully weathered the storm and now is being affirmatively <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-ralph-northam-came-back-from-the-political-dead/2019/12/27/941e4a46-282b-11ea-b2ca-2e72667c1741_story.html">supported</a> by the Left for having done so. By the time Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was <a href="https://time.com/5680759/justin-trudeau-brownface-photo/">busted</a> for the same offense as Northam, no one seemed to care.
In a world where nothing sticks to anybody and memories are short, in a world where journalists are so gutless that they will <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/01/the-media-is-lying-about-the-attacks-on-the-embassy-in-baghdad/">lie about events that led to the death of Americans</a> while also brutally under-reporting about the<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/"> Afghanistan Papers</a>, politics is different. In many ways, actually, it’s much simpler.
Welcome to our new world, appropriately ushered in with the start of a new decade. Where the candidate who jumps into the race with the most name recognition and resources will nearly always hold on to his/her base, where the primary debates are rendered essentially meaningless, and where we don’t even force our politicians to act anymore.
They don’t need to, after all, because nothing sticks, nothing matters, and even if something significant does happen, it will be neglectfully reported anyway.
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Elliot Fuchs is a political consultant and writer. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Elliot_Fuchs">@Elliot_Fuchs</a>.

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On Thursday, speaking at U.N. Watch’s Inaugural New York Gala Dinner, former U.N. Ambasador Nikki Haley blistered the Justin Trudeau-led government of Canada for supporting a U.N. resolution offered by North Korea, Egypt, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and the Palestinians that denied the legitimacy of the state of Israel, calling Canada’s action a “deal with the devil.”
The resolution explicitly referred to contested lands between the two countries as “Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
As <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada-made-deal-with-the-devil-by-supporting-anti-israel-resolution-former-u-s-ambassador-to-un?fbclid=IwAR1aLQtcvIsNA6c1PEE-fIPgW3a5pOMaUPkxPQDivWH8-q7mvkPmfC99fJM">The National Post</a> reported, Haley lashed out with fiery rhetoric, blasting:
<blockquote>It’s just easier not to rock the boat when the crowd is all going one way. It’s hard to be the only one going the other direction. But standing alone on behalf of American interests and values is not something to be embarrassed by. Standing alone for freedom and human dignity is something to be proud of. In America, we don’t celebrate the mob. We celebrate the person who has the courage and conviction to stand up to the mob. Now we’re seeing an example of this cultural corruption playing out in real time.</blockquote>
Haley pointed out the self-serving cynicism of Canada’s move:
<blockquote>But Canada is now seeking one of the rotating two-year seats on the Security Council. It faces a vote in the General Assembly. Two weeks ago, Canada surprised Israel’s friends by voting for a North Korean resolution that challenges the legitimacy of Israel. This is a resolution that Canadian governments for years have voted against. One observer said Canada is making a “Faustian bargain,” trading its integrity for a seat on the Security Council. I speak from experience when I say the United Nations presents many such opportunities to strike a deal with the devil.</blockquote>
Haley also stated, “If we want to talk about security in the Middle East, we should talk about Iran or Syria or Hezbollah or Hamas or ISIS or the famine in Yemen. There are about ten major problems facing the Middle East, and Israel doesn’t have anything to do with any of them,” as <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Nikki-Haley-Canada-made-a-deal-with-the-devil-610240">The Jerusalem Post</a> reported.
Haley addressed the Trump administration’s decision to leave the U.N. Human Rights council, explaining, “Many encouraged us to remain on the council because the United States, they said, provided the last shred of credibility the Human Rights Council had. And that was precisely why we decided to leave. The United States should not lend any credibility to this cesspool of political hypocrisy and corruption.”
Israel’s ambassador to Canada, Nimrod Barkan, <a href="https://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/how-trudeau-changed-course-on-the-jewish-state">told</a> the Globe and Mail:
<blockquote>We regret the Canadian change and we will express our regret officially to the Canadian representative in Israel, hopefully next week. We think the resolution is not a substantive resolution, but an attempt to delegitimize Israel and is part of the whole package that should be rejected out of hand. It was a surprise … we had no inclination or hint that Canada would change its vote on the regular annual UN resolutions and we trusted Canada, knowing that this is a circus of anti-Israeli resolutions. The UN is not court. It is an exercise in public relations and they have an automatic majority that votes against Israel … so we don’t think Canada should co-operate with this exercise.</blockquote>

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Nikki Haley Blisters Canada For Abandoning Israel At UN: They Struck A ‘Deal With The Devil’

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mocked President Donald Trump on Tuesday at a NATO summit in London, saying that Trump&#8217;s team&#8217;s &#8220;jaws drop[ped] to the floor&#8221; after watching the president&#8217;s behavior.
Trudeau&#8217;s mockery of Trump became international news, and the president immediately canceled a press conference that he was scheduled to participate in at the conclusion of a NATO summit in London.
On Friday, however, Trump got the last laugh after jobs reports were released for both countries that showed very different performance numbers to put it mildly.
CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/06/us-nonfarm-payrolls-november-2019.html">noted</a> the following highlights from the U.S. jobs report:
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<li>Nonfarm payrolls surged by 266,000 in November, better than the 187,000 expected by economists polled by Dow Jones.</li>
<li>The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5% from 3.6%, back to the 2019 low and matching the lowest jobless rate since 1969.</li>
<li>Average hourly earnings rose by 3.1% from a year ago, slightly above the 3% expected by economists polled by Dow Jones.</li>
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CNS News <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/158593000-employed-november-24th-record-breaker-trump">reported</a> that the 158,593,000 Americans who were employed in November marked “the 24th record of Trump&#8217;s presidency” in terms of the overall number of Americans in the workforce.
“This is a ‘who would have thought moment?’” Becky Frankiewicz, president of staffing company ManpowerGroup’s North America division, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/november-jobs-report-11575633600">told</a> The Wall Street Journal. “No one would have ever guessed we could be sitting at 3.5% unemployment with 110 months of job gains.”
Trudeau&#8217;s economy took a very different turn than the U.S. economy did as it registered the biggest drop in employment in a decade.
&#8220;Canada’s job market unexpectedly weakened for a second-straight month, registering the biggest drop in employment since 2009 and casting doubt on the resiliency of the domestic outlook,&#8221; The Financial Post reported. &#8220;The economy lost 71,200 jobs in November, Statistics Canada said Friday in Ottawa, following a decline of 1,800 in the prior month.&#8221;
&#8220;The report missed the median economist forecast for a gain of 10,000 jobs,&#8221; The Financial Post continued. &#8220;The unemployment rate increased to 5.9 per cent in the month, from 5.5 per cent in October, the biggest one-month jump since 2009. The decrease in employment was broad-based among both the goods-producing and service-producing sectors.&#8221;
Julia Pollak, labor economist at ZipRecruiter, noted, &#8220;Canada’s jobs report is disappointing, showing job losses for the second month in a row. But observers should remember that the numbers are highly volatile and that this is still the strongest year for job growth in Canada in 17 years.&#8221;
Donald Trump Jr. had a different take, writing on Twitter: &#8220;For perspective the US is about 10X the population of Canada so this would be the equivalent of America shedding 700,000 jobs. Yikes! Maybe Justin should watch <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" data-focusable="true">@realDonaldTrump</a> &amp; learn how to create jobs&#8230; or go back to being a substitute drama teacher. Either way Canada wins!&#8221;
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For perspective the US is about 10X the population of Canada so this would be the equivalent of America shedding 700,000 jobs. Yikes!
Maybe Justin should watch <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> &amp; learn how to create jobs&#8230; or go back to being a substitute drama teacher.
Either way Canada wins! <a href="https://t.co/uwq0sGJFdD">https://t.co/uwq0sGJFdD</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1203116583427678213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trudeau&#8217;s mockery of Trump surprised some who noted online that he did not have a lot of room to make fun of anyone after his embarrassing blackface scandal earlier this year.
&#8220;Numerous photographs and videos surfaced earlier this year that showed Trudeau wearing blackface which is universally seen as racist and condescending to black people,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported. &#8220;Trudeau was later humiliated by school children who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-canadian-schoolchildren-destroy-justin-trudeau-over-blackface-photos">confronted him on camera</a> about why he choose to wear racist blackface.&#8221;
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A new high quality video of <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> dancing in blackface
Read more: <a href="https://t.co/Ytarj5Heih">https://t.co/Ytarj5Heih</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/elxn43?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#elxn43</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrudeauBlackface?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrudeauBlackface</a> <a href="https://t.co/vyrIiJpHdO">pic.twitter.com/vyrIiJpHdO</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1178027994285260800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ezra Levant, founder of The Rebel, a Canadian publication, tweeted out a video clip Trudeau mocking Trump, writing: “Just like at the G7 meeting last year, Justin Trudeau was meek and obedient to Donald Trump when they were face to face. But the moment Trump left the room Trudeau bad-mouthed him. Here he is doing the same in London, mocking Canada’s greatest NATO ally.”
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Just like at the G7 meeting last year, Justin Trudeau was meek and obedient to Donald Trump when they were face to face. But the moment Trump left the room Trudeau bad-mouthed him. Here he is doing the same in London, mocking Canada’s greatest NATO ally. <a href="https://t.co/hGENrbnHg7">pic.twitter.com/hGENrbnHg7</a>
&mdash; Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1202013710153388032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Levant later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadas-justin-trudeau-mocks-trump-at-nato-summit-thats-ironic-coming-from-trudeau">highlighted</a> how Trudeau has been awkwardly ignored by world leaders on the international stage multiple times.

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Trump Gets Last Laugh With Trudeau After Jobs Reports Released For Both Nations

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NATO just finished a two-day summit in London, giving western leaders a chance to escape their dying societies and spend time insulting the President of the United States, which defends and supports what’s left of them.
Emmanuel Macron the president of the nation formerly known as France went toe to toe with President Trump, saying his former country wouldn’t pay more for defense because France had already sent so many fighters to the Middle East. When it was pointed out that the French fighters had actually been unassimilated Muslim immigrants fighting for ISIS, Macron responded by saying, “True, but look how well I dress and what a charming accent I have.” Macron then returned to Paris where everyone is having a general strike to protest the fact they live in France.
Justin Bieber or Trudeau or whatever his name his — the prime minister of Metrosexualia or Canada or some damn place no one’s heard of — was caught on a hot mike complaining about Trump during a cocktail party. The Bieb or the Trude or whatever said he had been late for the party because Trump had held a forty minute press conference.
Apparently Trudeau had never heard of this quaint American custom where the leader speaks to the press as a way of informing the public about his actions. In Canada, of course, the public doesn’t care about the leader’s actions because he’s the leader of Canada.
Anyway, Bieber said he was angry he had to just stand there during the long press conference without saying anything because no one asked him questions — because he’s the leader of Canada. Trudeau said he was so annoyed by the experience he was going to head back to his country as soon as he could locate an airline that flies there and a pilot who knows where it is.
Trump said after being disrespected by the world leaders he was happy to return to the U.S. where everyone was always so nice to him.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trudeau-caught-on-hot-mic-mocking-trump-trump-gives-mixed-response-to-two-faced-trudeau">WATCH: Trump Responds After ‘Two-Faced’ Trudeau Caught On Hot Mic Mocking Him</a>

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NATO Leaders Take Time Off From Their Dying Societies To Insult Trump [Satire]

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President Donald Trump will head back to Washington, D.C., this afternoon after completing his remaining meetings at the NATO Summit in London rather than stay for another evening of mixers after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was captured on tape mocking him at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday night.
The NATO gathering has been acrimonious and Trudeau, as well as a handful of other world leaders, were left angry after Trump suggested that NATO allies begin making bigger financial contributions to the alliance&#8217;s military efforts rather than rely on the United States to underwrite the vast cost of NATO peacekeeping.
Trudeau was captured talking about the President by cameras filming interactions between the NATO leaders at a reception hosted by Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday. Trudeau laughed at Trump&#8217;s tardiness and suggested to the UK&#8217;s Prime Minister Boris Johnson that Trump&#8217;s staff was trying desperately to rein in the American president.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EmmanuelMacron</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BorisJohnson</a> and other VIPs shared a few words at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday. No one mentions <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> by name, but they seem to be discussing his lengthy impromptu press conferences from earlier in the day. (Video: Host Pool) <a href="https://t.co/dVgj48rpOP">pic.twitter.com/dVgj48rpOP</a>
&mdash; Power &amp; Politics (@PnPCBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/1202008162997538817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump replied to Trudeau&#8217;s mockery on Wednesday, outlining his efforts to prod Canada, the UK, and others into taking a more active role in paying for NATO efforts which, Trump says, Trudeau and others didn&#8217;t appreciate. NATO members have a &#8220;non-binding&#8221; agreement to contribute 2% of their countries&#8217; gross domestic product to defense and Trump made it a priority to confront the leaders of nations who aren&#8217;t making good on that promise.
&#8220;I called him out on the fact he is not paying 2 percent, and I guess he&#8217;s not very happy about it,&#8221; Trump told reporters, adding that Canada has yet to meet its NATO military spending goals.
Indeed, the President had testy interactions with several nations he accused of shorting the NATO piggybank. Before news broke of yesterday&#8217;s tiff between Trump and Trudeau, the predominant story was Trump&#8217;s tangle with French president Emmanuel Macron over what he believed to be French under-payment.
Trudeau skirted the issue when asked about his comments Wednesday morning, telling reporters that &#8220;[l]ast night, I made a reference to the fact that there was an unscheduled press conference before my meeting with President Trump. And I was happy to take part of it. But it was certainly notable,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nato-summit-braces-friction-after-bruising-first-day-n1095296">according to NBC News.</a> He said his &#8220;jaws dropping&#8221; remark was in reference to Trump&#8217;s suggestion that the next G7 summit will be at Camp David in the United States.
Boris Johson denied that he took part in Trudeau&#8217;s apparent criticism, calling the report &#8220;absolute nonsense&#8221; and adding that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t know&#8221; how those rumors began.
The President announced on Twitter, however, that he wouldn&#8217;t stay to be mocked a second night in a row, and that he would be returning to Washington, D.C., as soon as his remaining meetings are over, cutting a final press conference off his official schedule.
&#8220;Just finished meetings with Turkey and Germany. Heading to a meeting now with those countries that have met their 2% GOALS, followed by meetings with Denmark and Italy,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;When today’s meetings are over, I will be heading back to Washington. We won’t be doing a press conference at the close of NATO because we did so many over the past two days. Safe travels to all!&#8221;
The President made good on his promise, boarding Marine One at approximately 9:30 EST to rendevous with his ride back across the Atlantic.

NATO Leaders Summit Takes Place In The UK &#8211; Day Two

Trump Cancels NATO Press Conference, Heads Back To DC After Being Mocked By Trudeau

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On Wednesday, Piers Morgan blasted the European leaders who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadas-justin-trudeau-mocks-trump-at-nato-summit-thats-ironic-coming-from-trudeau">mocked President Trump</a> at a meeting for NATO leaders in Europe, snapping that they acted like “spiteful little Mean Girls.”
Morgan was referring to the hot-mic video clip showing French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte joking about Trump at Buckingham Palace.
In an <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7756013/PIERS-MORGAN-makes-Mean-Girls-think-theyve-got-right-mock-President-Trump.html">op-ed for The Daily Mail</a>, Morgan commenced by recalling the film “Mean Girls,” writing that he thought of the scene in which “Gretchen Wieners, one of the ghastly trio of vain, self-obsessed, sneaky, gossipy and gutless ‘Plastics’, cracks up during a Shakespeare class and launches into a bitter tirade.”
Morgan quoted the character wailing:
<blockquote>Why should Caesar get to stomp around like a giant, while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? What’s so great about Caesar? Hmm. Brutus is just as cute as Caesar. Brutus is just as smart as Caesar. People totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar. And when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody, huh? Because that’s not what Rome is about. We should totally stab Caesar!</blockquote>
He noted in response to the leaders mocking Trump, “There they all were, sniggering and bitching away like spiteful little Mean Girls about U.S. President Donald Trump, the modern-day Caesar.”
Morgan commented:
<blockquote>It was a very revealing clip for many reasons. First, the pathetic cowardice of them all huddling in a group mocking Trump behind his back like schoolkids who give it the Billy Big Balls swagger about their teacher the moment the teacher’s left the room. Second, the brazen disrespect they showed to the President of the United States, by far the most important member world leader at the NATO summit. And third, the unbelievable stupidity of none of them realizing there were TV cameras in the room that might capture their duplicity.</blockquote>
After noting the nasty behavior of Trudeau, Morgan turned to Princess Anne, daughter of the Queen, and the fact that she was nodding along with the mockery, adding, “ … something inside me flipped and I found myself mouthing my own words of indiscretion: ‘What the hell are you lot all laughing at?’ This is the same Princess Anne whose brother Andrew wasn’t able to attend the reception because he’s just been fired from public life in shameful disgrace over his support for serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.”
Morgan referred to Trudeau as “the most ultra-liberal virtue-signalling snowflake in global politics — he’s the clown that wanted to abolish the word ‘mankind’ because it’s sexist.” He mentioned the photos of Trudeau in blackface, then snapped, “Like all PC-crazed preachers, he was found to be a shameless hypocrite.”
Morgan noted Trump asking Trudeau if Canada was yet paying the NATO requirement of 2% of Canada’s GDP on defense. Morgan wrote Trudeau “stammered and blustered, before eventually admitting it pays just 1.4%.”
Of Macron, Morgan wrote, “Even the French can’t stand the arrogant condescending pipsqueak, with his approval ratings plunging to under 30% and two-thirds of his countrymen saying they’re dissatisfied with his performance.” He pointed out that Macron called NATO ‘brain-dead” because of Trump’s lack of leadership, yet Trump has successfully lobbied countries to pay their share into NATO.
Morgan noted that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson avoided being seen with Trump because of next week’s UK General Election.
Morgan concluded:
<blockquote>As a result of this hot-mic chortling at Trump being leaked, the President has naturally been exposed to much ridicule both here in London at the NATO summit and back home in the US where the media’s already reveling in his supposed humiliation. But Trump hasn’t been humiliated at all. He’s just had to endure the petty mockery of a jealous bunch of Mean Girls who like to make fun of him behind his back but don’t have the courage to do it to his face.
The real embarrassment is on them, not him.</blockquote>
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Piers Morgan Blasts European Leaders Mocking Trump: ‘Sniggering And B****ing Like Spiteful Little Mean Girls’

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At a NATO summit reception at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught on a hot mic appearing to mock President Trump while chatting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron. Asked about the viral clip the next day, Trump offered a mixed assessment of the &#8220;two-faced&#8221; Trudeau before offering an explanation for why Trudeau probably isn&#8217;t &#8220;happy&#8221; with him.
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While none of the world leaders say Trump&#8217;s name in the 25-second hot mic video, the context strongly suggests President Trump and his performance earlier that day at a press conference was the subject of their discussion.
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&#8220;Is that why you were late?” Johnson, who appears amused, asked Macron.
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&#8220;He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,&#8221; Trudeau interjected.
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Video of the moment went viral:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EmmanuelMacron</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BorisJohnson</a> and other VIPs shared a few words at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday. No one mentions <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> by name, but they seem to be discussing his lengthy impromptu press conferences from earlier in the day. (Video: Host Pool) <a href="https://t.co/dVgj48rpOP">pic.twitter.com/dVgj48rpOP</a>
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The exchange came after what the left-leaning <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-impeachment-inquiry-rages-at-home-trump-unsettles-the-world-stage-at-nato/2019/12/03/26f75d48-15f4-11ea-8406-df3c54b3253e_story.html">Washington Post</a> describes as Trump having &#8220;pronounced, prodded and pushed America’s allies into a state of unbalance — seizing the global stage to both bully and banter, all while keeping himself at the center of attention&#8221;:
<blockquote>Over the course of three one-on-one meetings with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Macron and Trudeau, Trump turned what were expected to be brief photo opportunities into his own personal daytime cable show. As the other leaders largely bore witness, the U.S. president — frequently affable, occasionally bored — held forth for a collective two hours, fielding questions on topics ranging from the impeachment investigation he left at home to the British election campaign he flew into here.</blockquote>
Asked about the viral video on Wednesday, President Trump took a swipe at Trudeau before offering some praise.
&#8220;Well, he’s two-faced,&#8221; said Trump, who&#8217;s famous for coining memorable epithets for his political enemies.
After smacking the Canadian PM, Trump did something a little unexpected: he praised him. &#8220;And honestly with Trudeau, he’s a nice guy,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;I find him to be a very nice guy.&#8221;
&#8220;The truth is I called him out on the fact that he’s not paying 2%, and I guess he’s not very happy about it,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;He&#8217;s not paying 2%, and he should be paying 2%. It&#8217;s Canada, they have money, and they should be paying 2%. So I called him out on that, and I&#8217;m sure he wasn&#8217;t happy about it. But that’s the way it is.&#8221;
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JUST IN: Asked about video of NATO leaders caught on camera speaking candidly, President Trump says PM Trudeau &quot;is two-faced,&quot; but adds &quot;honestly, he&#39;s a nice guy.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/p8P5VAVOB8">https://t.co/p8P5VAVOB8</a> <a href="https://t.co/pbaDJpD0mC">pic.twitter.com/pbaDJpD0mC</a>
&mdash; MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1202222191531704320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump then announced on Wednesday that his scheduled press conference was <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1202218639547621377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1202218639547621377&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2Fed-morrissey%2F2019%2F12%2F04%2Fcnn-ap-guess-whos-talk-nato-summit%2F">canceled</a> and he was heading back to Washington.
Trump&#8217;s reflexive &#8220;Two-Faced&#8221; Trudeau comment has been echoed by other Trudeau critics, including Ezra Levant, founder of Canadian outlet The Rebel, who tweeted in response to Trudeau&#8217;s Trump mockery:
“Just like at the G7 meeting last year, Justin Trudeau was meek and obedient to Donald Trump when they were face to face. But the moment Trump left the room Trudeau bad-mouthed him. Here he is doing the same in London, mocking Canada’s greatest NATO ally.”
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Just like at the G7 meeting last year, Justin Trudeau was meek and obedient to Donald Trump when they were face to face. But the moment Trump left the room Trudeau bad-mouthed him. Here he is doing the same in London, mocking Canada’s greatest NATO ally. <a href="https://t.co/hGENrbnHg7">pic.twitter.com/hGENrbnHg7</a>
&mdash; Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1202013710153388032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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While The Washington Post spends most of its coverage of the NATO summit trashing Trump&#8217;s performance, the paper also admits that his &#8220;freewheeling style&#8221; has ended up &#8220;yielding results,&#8221; as NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg highlighted.
&#8220;Stoltenberg — praising Trump’s “leadership on defense spending” as helping to add more than $130 billion to military coffers from Canada and European allies since 2016 — seemed to acknowledge the ways in which Trump’s often capricious, freewheeling style has simultaneously distressed allies while, at times, also yielding results,&#8221; the Trump-criticizing Post reported.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadas-justin-trudeau-mocks-trump-at-nato-summit-thats-ironic-coming-from-trudeau">Canada’s Justin Trudeau Mocks Trump At NATO Summit. That’s Ironic Coming From Trudeau.</a>
This article has been expanded to include more of Trump&#8217;s response to Trudeau.
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WATCH: Trump Responds After ‘Two-Faced’ Trudeau Caught On Hot Mic Mocking Him

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared to mock President Donald Trump on a hot mic Tuesday evening with other world leaders while at a Buckingham Palace reception for the ongoing NATO summit.
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7753821/Justin-Trudeau-Emmanuel-Macron-Boris-Johnson-caught-appearing-gossip-Trump.html">noted</a> that none of the leaders used Trump&#8217;s name but it was clear that is who they were talking about as Trudeau was standing alongside British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, and British Princess Anne.
The Washington Post also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/04/trump-macron-trudeau-johnson-video-candid-joking-nato/">reported</a> that &#8220;the group appeared to be joking about President Trump’s performance earlier in the day.&#8221;
“Is that why you were late?” Johnson asked Macron.
“He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,” Trudeau interjected, later adding, &#8220;you just watched his team’s jaws drop to the floor.&#8221;
Ezra Levant, founder of The Rebel, a Canadian publication, tweeted out a video clip of the interaction and wrote: &#8220;Just like at the G7 meeting last year, Justin Trudeau was meek and obedient to Donald Trump when they were face to face. But the moment Trump left the room Trudeau bad-mouthed him. Here he is doing the same in London, mocking Canada’s greatest NATO ally.&#8221;
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Just like at the G7 meeting last year, Justin Trudeau was meek and obedient to Donald Trump when they were face to face. But the moment Trump left the room Trudeau bad-mouthed him. Here he is doing the same in London, mocking Canada’s greatest NATO ally. <a href="https://t.co/hGENrbnHg7">pic.twitter.com/hGENrbnHg7</a>
&mdash; Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1202013710153388032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The mockery coming from Trudeau is ironic given the Canadian PM&#8217;s widely mocked past performances on the public stage with other world leaders and recent embarrassing scandals, among them the racist blackface scandal that he somehow managed to survive politically.
Numerous photographs and videos surfaced earlier this year that showed Trudeau wearing blackface which is universally seen as racist and condescending to black people.
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A new high quality video of <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> dancing in blackface
Read more: <a href="https://t.co/Ytarj5Heih">https://t.co/Ytarj5Heih</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/elxn43?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#elxn43</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrudeauBlackface?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrudeauBlackface</a> <a href="https://t.co/vyrIiJpHdO">pic.twitter.com/vyrIiJpHdO</a>
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Trudeau was later humiliated by school children who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-canadian-schoolchildren-destroy-justin-trudeau-over-blackface-photos">confronted him on camera</a> about why he choose to wear racist blackface.
Trudeau was also the subject of public criticism after he was &#8220;ignored&#8221; by other world leaders at the G7 Summit in 2017 and this year at the G20.
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Trudeau’s disastrous visit to the NATO summit makes me long for the simpler days when world leaders just ignored him: <a href="https://t.co/rjSVt8eIWd">pic.twitter.com/rjSVt8eIWd</a>
&mdash; Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1202165969029881859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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This year’s G20 meeting wasn’t much better — alphabetically, Canada was seated between Brazil and China, neither of whose leaders had much time for Trudeau: <a href="https://t.co/5N9Abdh9TQ">pic.twitter.com/5N9Abdh9TQ</a>
&mdash; Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1202166968561917952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trudeau was also met with backlash after he praised <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/11/rubio-calls-fidel-castro-evil-murderous-dictator-107616">murderous</a> Cuban dictator Fidel Castro after Castro&#8217;s death in 2016, saying that he was a &#8220;remarkable leader&#8221; who &#8220;was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century.&#8221;
Contrast that with Trump&#8217;s celebratory remarks over Castro&#8217;s death: &#8220;Fidel Castro is dead!&#8221;
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Fidel Castro is dead!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/802499192237080576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2016</a></blockquote>
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That remark is nothing compared to the comments Trudeau made about the murderous Chinese communist party, which has millions of people locked up in concentration camps.
In 2013, when asked which country he most admired, Trudeau <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/justin-trudeau-s-foolish-china-remarks-spark-anger-1.2421351">said</a>, &#8220;There&#8217;s a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime.&#8221;
Even the left-leaning New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/sunday/trudeau-brownface-canada.html">published</a> an op-ed by a Canadian living in the United States who admitted that Canadians say to each other that Trudeau &#8220;is getting so embarrassing.&#8221;
Trudeau has openly advocated for accepting returning Islamic terrorists into Canada because he believes that they can be rehabilitated into “powerful” voices against radicalism.
“We know that actually someone who has engaged and turned away from that hateful ideology can be an extraordinarily powerful voice for preventing radicalization in future generations and younger people within the community,” Trudeau <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-trudeau-returning-isis-fighters-theyll-be-emily-zanotti">said</a>.
The Post Millennial <a href="https://www.thepostmillennial.com/four-embarrassing-justin-trudeau-plastic-gaffes/">noted</a> other examples of embarrassing behavior from Trudeau, including:
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<li>Blocking much-needed access to straws for disabled people</li>
<li>Awarding a plastic manufacturer a $35 million grant immediately after saying at the G7 summit that he was going to curb single-use plastics</li>
<li>Spending $300 a month on bottled water, and then when pressed on the issue, stuttering and claiming he drinks &#8220;paper like drink-box water bottles&#8221;</li>
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Watch Trudeau&#39;s stumbling response to reporter who asked him &quot;What do you and your family do to cut back on plastics&quot;
Good hair doesn&#39;t buy you smarts!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/plasticpollution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#plasticpollution</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sunnyways?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#sunnyways</a> <a href="https://t.co/GsmQzFQqbp">pic.twitter.com/GsmQzFQqbp</a>
&mdash; Canadabuster (@Canadabuster) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canadabuster/status/1138083509048881152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trudeau has also been mocked and criticized for dressing in garments from other cultures and trying to dance.
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Here is a video of Justin Trudeau dancing/attempting to bhangra (h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/jillianfward?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jillianfward</a>.
Merry Christmas!!! <a href="https://t.co/gtAnbY3a5C">pic.twitter.com/gtAnbY3a5C</a>
&mdash; Siraj Datoo (@dats) <a href="https://twitter.com/dats/status/943781929383587840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2017</a></blockquote>
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This video of Trudeau dancing on stage in India is just too much. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Peoplekind?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Peoplekind</a> deserve better. <a href="https://t.co/Wm9T2DU2ul">pic.twitter.com/Wm9T2DU2ul</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/967458460777332738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Inviting an attempted murderer to an official event wasn’t the only misstep in Justin Trudeau’s highly-choreographed India visit. The usually media-savvy Canadian PM’s Bollywood-inspired wardrobe and costume changes raised eyebrows in both countries <a href="https://t.co/s4sHkY9ryG">pic.twitter.com/s4sHkY9ryG</a>
&mdash; TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/967217634864373761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Holds News Conference

Canada’s Justin Trudeau Mocks Trump At NATO Summit. That’s Ironic Coming From Trudeau.

A gun store owner in Canada attempted to change &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; to &#8220;White Friday&#8221; in response to the Justin Trudeau blackface scandal that nearly derailed his re-election.
Speaking with <a href="https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/pembroke-gun-store-advertises-white-friday-sale-but-owner-insists-he-s-not-racist-1.4701434">CTV Ottawa</a>, Lance Perkins, owner of Perkins Guns and Ammo, said that he dislikes the phrase &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; because of Justin Trudeau.
“I don’t know why people got upset,” Perkins told the outlet, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/canada-gun-store-black-friday-white-friday-sale">Fox News</a>. “My ‘White Friday’ sale in regards to selling guns or crossbows or anything in the store, had nothing to do with colour, it’s just a sale … we’re allowed to have sales in Canada.&#8221;
The sign in question read:
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ALL YOU PEOPLE
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Perkins displayed the sign on November 14th, but changed it shortly after people began to denounce it as racist — a charge he fervently rejected.
“This year, I don’t really know why people got offended by the use of the word ‘white.’ I couldn’t use the word ‘black’ because of Trudeau using blackface,” he said. “All you see in the newspaper is Black Fridays … Black Fridays … and you know what, I said we’re not American, let’s go with a different shade, a different color. I picked white because it resembles white snow, it resembles Christmas. Why not go with something brighter than black.”
This past September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau became embroiled in controversy when past photos surfaced of him wearing blackface and brownface in the early 2000s. Trudeau <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/don-lemon-praises-justin-trudeaus-blackface-paul-bois">apologized for the photos</a>, saying he did not believe they were racist at the time.
“I shouldn’t have done it. I should have known better, but I didn’t,” he said. “And I’m really sorry.”
Critics of the Perkins sign apparently took serious issue with Perkins&#8217; use of the phrase &#8220;you people,&#8221; which cost sports broadcaster Don Cherry his job when he used the phrase while asking immigrants to wear a poppy to honor Canadian veterans.
“I believe the man is a great Canadian; he did not pick out anybody in regards to race,” said Perkins. “But he wasn’t racist … he just said what was on his mind.”
The phrase &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; and its ultimate meaning has been an evolving one since the 1960s. Fox News provided some history:
<blockquote>&#8220;Black Friday&#8221; is the popular shopping day held the day after American Thanksgiving, during which retailers host big sales as consumers head into the holiday season. The title dates back to Philadelphia in the 1960s, when police officers used the term to &#8220;describe the chaos that ensued&#8221; with car and foot traffic as people shopped for the holidays and descended upon the city ahead of the Army-Navy football game, held the Saturday after Turkey Day, according to History.com.
But the term didn’t sit well with local retailers, who tried, unsuccessfully, to change the term to &#8220;Big Friday&#8221; to try to &#8220;remove any negative connotations.&#8221; Eventually, The New York Times explains, &#8220;retailers managed to spin a new connotation: The day the books went from red ink to black,&#8221; thanks to of all the post-Thanksgiving Day sales.</blockquote>

Canadian Gun Store Owner Changes Black Friday To ‘White Friday,’ Blames Justin Trudeau’s Blackface

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau narrowly won re-election in Canada&#8217;s national elections Tuesday, as his Liberal Party held on to around 150 seats in Parliament, but failed to secure himself a Liberal majority.
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50134640">The BBC reports</a> that Liberals are projected to win 157 seats &#8212; 13 short of the majority that Trudeau would have needed to continue governing with a mandate. Canada&#8217;s Conservative Party, which saw a surge in support in recent weeks, is projected to take 121 seats, a gain of around 30 seats. The Conservative Party also won the popular vote, 34% to the Liberal Party&#8217;s 33%.
Canada&#8217;s left-leaning parties, the Liberals and the New Democrats, both suffered losses, and came out of Monday night&#8217;s election with less support than they enjoyed in the last election. According to the BBC, however, the New Democrats leader, Jagmeet Singh, may become &#8220;kingmaker,&#8221; if he decides to ink a deal with Trudeau (or, less likely, Trudeau&#8217;s conservative opposition) to form a coalition government.
The big news of the night, though, was that Bloc Québécois, the province of Quebec&#8217;s separatist party, gained 20 more seats than it earned in 2015, at its previous high.
Trudeau was clearly happy with the result, which he considered, the BBC says, a referendum on his leadership, even though his Liberal Party ultimately suffered. Speaking to a crowd in his native Montreal, Trudeau claimed that Canada &#8220;rejected division and negativity &#8230; and they rejected cuts and austerity and voted in favour of a progressive agenda and strong action on climate change.&#8221;
That Trudeau pulled out a victory is an achievement in itself, however. The past year has been a rough one for Trudeau, first facing allegations that the self-proclaimed feminist had bullied a female minister out of his government after she, an attorney general, refused to pull back on prosecuting an energy company with ties to some of Trudeau&#8217;s close friends. Other female ministers made similar allegations about Trudeau&#8217;s bullying, and an ethics committee sided with the alleged victims.
Late last month, the famously woke Trudeau was broadsided by a set of photos and videos from his past, showing him dressed in racially charged costumes and made up in blackface. Trudeau was revealed to have dressed as Aladdin for an &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221; themed fundraiser, complete with brown makeup on his face and hands, and as singer Harry Belafonte, to perform Belafonte&#8217;s hit &#8220;Day-O&#8221; in a video.
Trudeau apologized for the incidents but had difficulty explaining how he was still dressing in racially inappropriate costumes in the early 2000s, when he was well into his twenties, and when it was abundantly clear that blackface was considered racist.
Although the incidents didn&#8217;t seem to matter to voters, they did dog Trudeau as his victory was announced. On Twitter, plenty of commentators saw a certain poetic justice in his new &#8220;minority&#8221; government.
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Jussie Trudeau is now a real minority — and he doesn’t have to wear blackface! <a href="https://t.co/u7Zkx1J8Jd">https://t.co/u7Zkx1J8Jd</a>
&mdash; Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1186482800297295872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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someone explain to Justin that minority here does not mean he has to go shoe polish shopping
&mdash; Shirley Serious (@_therealNobody) <a href="https://twitter.com/_therealNobody/status/1186470753031450624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trudeau finally gets to be a real minority.
&mdash; Game_Enders (@GameEnders1) <a href="https://twitter.com/GameEnders1/status/1186474387769180160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump weighed in on Trudeau&#8217;s victory on Twitter, wishing the Prime Minister good luck in his second term: &#8220;Congratulations to <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau" data-mentioned-user-id="14260960" data-scribe="element:mention">@JustinTrudeau</a> on a wonderful and hard fought victory. Canada is well served. I look forward to working with you toward the betterment of both of our countries!&#8221;

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Holds Election Night Watch Party In Montreal

Justin Trudeau Wins Re-Election In Canada But Loses Majority Government

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have entered the last weekend of his re-election campaign in a neck-and-neck race with Canadian conservative party leaders, but his poll numbers weren&#8217;t the most shocking thing he encountered.
<a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/10/18/justin-trudeau-blackface-protesters-campaign-reelection/">TMZ reports</a> that Trudeau was dogged, Saturday and Sunday, by a group of protesters clad in &#8220;blackface&#8221; reminding attendees of Trudeau&#8217;s final campaign events that the Prime Minister dressed in very inappropriate, clearly racist costumes as recently as the early 2000s.
<section id="cb-69f8cb29df355f6db71ffa67f89c86a2" class="canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink ">&#8220;[Trudeau] was greeted by a group of protesters, at one of his stops, decked out in blackface while holding up the old blackface photos of Trudeau that threw him into a storm of controversy,&#8221; according to the entertainment news outlet. &#8220;The demonstrators also had signs reading, &#8216;We&#8217;re Aladdin Too! Orillia Blackface Club Welcomes Trudeau.'&#8221;
Justin Trudeau has been trying to make amends since photos surfaced, weeks ago, showing him in full blackface for an &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221;-themed event in 2001. It eventually surfaced that Trudeau had donned inappropriate costumes several times in recent history, including for a video where he posed as singer Harry Belafonte for a performance of one of Belafonte&#8217;s signature songs.
At least two versions of the latter incident have surfaced, including a high-resolution video.
The famously woke Trudeau tried to downplay the incidents, claiming in a public apology, that he was too young to understand the ramefications of his behavior, though he was nearly thirty when he painted his arms, hands, and face brown for an Aladdin costume. He also tried to claim that he selected his costumes during a time when blackface was not considered as inappropriate, even though the earliest example of Trudeau&#8217;s racially inappropriate behavior was from 2001.
To pay penance, Trudeau even made an appearance on a Canadian kids show, where a pair of young black girls confronted him on the subject of blackface. Trudeau was, oddly, unable to fully explain why he thought the costumes were appropriate.
&#8220;Um, it was something I shouldn&#8217;t have done because it hurt people,&#8221; he told the twins. &#8220;It&#8217;s not something you should do and that is something that I learned. It&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t know back then but I know it now. And I&#8217;m sorry I hurt people.&#8221;
Trudeau&#8217;s habit of employing blackface isn&#8217;t his only scandal, though. The self-proclaimed feminist is also accused of bullying out a female, indigenous minister in his government &#8212; an attorney general &#8212; after she refused to bow to his demand that the Attorney General&#8217;s office cease prosecuting an energy company with ties to Trudeau and some of his closest friends. That incident cost him a lot of support within his own party (even if they were quick to forgive the blackface incidents).
Canadians go to the polls to select their majority party this week, and Trudeau, who was once extremely popular in Canada, is now facing the possibility that he will not be re-elected. Trudeau&#8217;s Liberal Party is now running neck-and-neck with the country&#8217;s conservatives, and even if it pulls out a victory, will likely be forced to create a coalition government. That means that Trudeau won&#8217;t have quite the mandate &#8212; or quite the power &#8212; he now enjoys.
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Justin Trudeau Faces Protesters In Blackface On Last Day Of Campaign

Former President Barack Obama took the unusual step of making an endosement in a foreign election Wednesday, giving his unqualified support to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau &#8212; but he still hasn&#8217;t endorsed his former Vice President, Joe Biden, for the 2020 Democratic nomination.
Obama made his official endorsement on Twitter.
&#8220;I was proud to work with Justin Trudeau as President. He&#8217;s a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big issues like climate change. The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbors to the north support him for another term,&#8221; Obama wrote.
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I was proud to work with Justin Trudeau as President. He&#39;s a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big issues like climate change. The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbors to the north support him for another term.
&mdash; Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1184528998669389824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Canadian election is next Monday and so far, Trudeau&#8217;s Liberal Party, which holds a majority in Parliament now, is <a href="https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/">neck and neck with the Conservatives.</a> If the Liberal Party doesn&#8217;t pull out a victory, Trudeau will lose his status as Prime Minister.
Canadian state television is predicting that neither party will win a majority and that whomever serves as Prime Minister will preside over a coalition government &#8212; something Justin Trudeau doesn&#8217;t necessarily want to do. His closest allies in the election are the New Democrats Party and the Green Party and both have taken shots at Trudeau in recent weeks as the election draws to a close.
Now Barack Obama, who has long been a friend and ally of Trudeau, both in office and out of it, is breaking one of his cardinal rules &#8212; not intervening in foreign affairs &#8212; and throwing his support behind the embattled leftist leader.
It&#8217;s not clear how this benefits Trudeau, since Obama&#8217;s word is largely a celebrity endorsement at this point, and it&#8217;s unknown how much cache Obama still has among Canadians. It may help Trudeau escape accusations that he&#8217;s insensitive to racial issues; late last month, photos surfaced of Trudeau dressed in black- and brown-face for parties that took place in the early 2000s. Trudeau apologized for the costumes, suggesting that he was young and did not know better, but had a hard time escaping the fact that black- and brown-face weren&#8217;t acceptable at any point in the twenty-first century.
Obama&#8217;s endorsement shows that Trudeau can still court knowledgeable, woke leftist icons, thus assuring voters that he remains a paragon of progressivism despite his checkered past. And it may be working; just hours after Obama endorsed Trudeau, the Liberal Party was making hay out of his Twitter, using it to fundraise.
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And, just under two hours after <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarackObama</a> tweets that he hopes Canadians reelect <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> here’s the LPC fundraising email. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/elxn43?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#elxn43</a> <a href="https://t.co/8B3muujfMM">https://t.co/8B3muujfMM</a> <a href="https://t.co/xOWk6C0eGC">pic.twitter.com/xOWk6C0eGC</a>
&mdash; Rachel Aiello (@rachaiello) <a href="https://twitter.com/rachaiello/status/1184559949206171649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The person hardest hit by Obama&#8217;s endorsement won&#8217;t be Canadian Conservative Party leader, Andrew Scheer (he hasn&#8217;t even responded to Obama&#8217;s social media missive), but rather former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been an official contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination for at least six months and has yet to receive the stamp of approval from his former boss.
Back in April, when Biden first announced his official bid for the presidency, Obama issued some lukewarm praise for his former right-hand man, but stopped short of any formal endorsement (and the praise was issued through a spokesperson, not on Obama&#8217;s official Twitter feed).
“President Obama has long said that selecting Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 was one of the best decisions he ever made,” Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill told media in an email that day. “He relied on the vice president’s knowledge, insight, and judgment throughout both campaigns and the entire presidency. The two forged a special bond over the last 10 years and remain close today.”
Another source told the Daily Beast at the time that Obama was actually keeping his options open and encouraging a robust primary process before making a formal declaration of support.
“President Obama is excited by the extraordinary and diverse talent exhibited in the growing lineup of Democratic primary candidates,” <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-obama-praises-joe-biden-but-doesnt-endorse-2020-run">the Daily Beast reported the source as saying</a>. “He believes that a robust primary in 2007 and 2008 not only made him a better general election candidate, but a better president, too. And because of that, it’s unlikely that he will throw his support behind a specific candidate this early in the primary process—preferring instead to let the candidates make their cases directly to the voters.”
That&#8217;s rough for Joe, and even rougher now that he&#8217;s slipping in the polls and, reportedly, spending so much money he may not be able to sustain his campaign into next year.

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