Elon Musk calls Trudeau an ‘insufferable tool’ after PM’s Trump jab

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Elon Musk is once again predicting that it won’t be long before Canadians get their chance to send Justin Trudeau packing at the polls.

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After Donald Trump ribbed the Canadian prime minister, referring to the deeply unpopular leader as the “governor” of the “Great State of Canada,” Trudeau called the incoming president’s recent re-election a setback for women’s progress.

“It wasn’t supposed to be that way. We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult sometimes, march towards progress. And yet, just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president,” Trudeau said at an Ottawa gala for Equal Voice, an organization that is dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics. “Everywhere, women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack, overtly and subtly. And I want you to know that I am, and always will be, a proud feminist.”

After marketing professor Gad Saad shared a clip of Trudeau’s “grotesque” remarks, Musk weighed in with thoughts of his own.

“He’s such an insufferable tool,” Musk tweeted. “Won’t be in power for much longer.”

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Musk’s assessment of Trudeau’s quickly evaporating political future quickly racked up hundreds of comments and more than 8,300 likes on X.

“I love when Elon trolls Trudeau,” one person wrote. “It warms my heart.”

“I love your insults,” a second chimed in, with a third person adding, “Canadians cannot stand him. His constant virtue signaling and his patronizing little voice drive us insane. He’s always talking down to us like we don’t know what’s happening and he will always jump at an opportunity to divide the country more than he already has.”

After Trump’s re-election last month as America’s 47th president, Musk was asked by one follower when voters can expect change in Canada.

“@elonmusk we need your help in Canada getting rid of Trudeau,” one person pleaded tagging the billionaire in a post to X. 

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“He will be gone in the upcoming election,” replied Musk, who has been tapped by Trump to co-lead a “department of government efficiency” aimed at cutting bureaucratic waste.

Back in 2022, Musk compared Trudeau to Adolf Hitler in a social media post that supported truckers protesting vaccine mandates. “Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau,” the meme featuring a picture of Hitler read. He later deleted the tweet.

Trump’s decisive win in November prompted discussions about relations between Canada and the U.S. Following Trump’s victory, the incoming president promised to slap a 25% tariff on Canadian products entering the U.S.

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“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,” Trump wrote in a post to his Truth Social platform, complaining that “thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada, bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before.”

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In response, Trudeau flew unannounced to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., to meet with the incoming commander-in-chief.

After the two sat down for a hastily arranged dinner, Trudeau said they “shared a productive wide-ranging discussion.” The day afterwards, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that they discussed “many important topics that will require both Countries to work together to address.”

But Trudeau was not invited to stay at Mar-a-Lago and had to spend the night at a hotel in West Palm Beach.

In the days following the dinner, news trickled out that seemed to indicate that the meeting might not have been as smooth as Trudeau was making it seem.

Paraphrasing their discussion over dinner Friday night from conversations he had with two people at the table, Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy said that when Trudeau informed Trump that tariffs would “kill the Canadian economy,” Trump joked that “if the Canadian economy can’t survive without ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion a year then maybe Canada should become the 51st state.”

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Trump further teased his dominance over Trudeau by sharing a photo on social media of himself standing atop a mountain alongside a Canadian flag along with the caption, “Oh Canada!”

This week, Trump belittled Trudeau yet again.

“It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account just after midnight Tuesday. “I look forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for all!”

Speaking to host Kristen Welker on NBC News’ Meet the Press this past Sunday, Trump likened the U.S.-Canada trade deficit to being a type of subsidy.

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“We’re subsidizing Canada to the tune over $100 billion a year. We’re subsidizing Mexico for almost $300 billion. We shouldn’t be — why are we subsidizing these countries? If we’re going to subsidize them, let them become a state,” he said.

In response, Trudeau said Canada will “respond to unfair tariffs in a number of ways, and we’re still looking at the right ways to respond.”

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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