Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau

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Trump aide says ‘there’s a special place in hell’ for Justin Trudeau

An absolute stunning statement.

 

Josh Katzowitz

Tech

Posted on Jun 10, 2018   Updated on May 21, 2021, 1:54 pm CDT

After what was a disastrous G-7 summit this weekend, with Donald Trump saying American allies had used the U.S. as their own personal piggy bank and refusing to sign a joint communique with the rest of the world’s powers, the administration has gone all in on attacking Canada.

On Sunday, Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic adviser, said Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had “stabbed us in the back” while Trump aide Peter Navarro said “there’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy” with the president.

Both interviews—Kudlow’s on CNN and Navarro’s on Fox News—were extraordinary in the way they full-heartedly attacked one of America’s biggest allies and trade partners.

Kudlow also said Trump wasn’t going to let Trudeau push Trump around.

That comes after Trudeau’s press conference on Saturday. After Trump left the summit early to fly to Singapore to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Trudeau conducted a press conference in which he said Canada would not be pushed around by Trump’s tariff threats.

Responded Navarro: “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door. And that’s what bad faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference.

“That’s what weak, dishonest Justin Trudeau did and that comes right from Air Force One. And I’ll tell you this: To my friends in Canada, that was one of the worst political miscalculations of a Canadian leader in modern Canadian history.”

The political community seemed stunned at the harsh language and attacks on Trudeau, whose country was blamed by Trump earlier this week for burning down the White House in 1812 (it was actually the British).

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1005824776496087041

From Trudeau’s former foreign policy adviser.

https://twitter.com/rolandparis/status/1005593544629760000

On the plane from the G-7 to Singapore, Trump also personally attacked Trudeau, tweeting, “PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, ‘US Tariffs were kind of insulting’ and he ‘will not be pushed around.’ Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy!”

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*First Published: Jun 10, 2018, 10:42 am CDT