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Canadian PM Trudeau roundly mocked for political, fashion blunders during disastrous trip to India

Alex Lockie




Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, normally a darling of Western media, has been roundly, and sometimes savagely, mocked for a trip to India that included cultural, fashion, and political blunders at every turn.

Trudeau's trip began to go awry right off the bat. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, known for his social-media savvy, did not make any posts welcoming Trudeau, who was greeted off the plane by a low-level agricultural minister.

On Tuesday, Trudeau's wife, Sophie, posed for a photo with Jaspal Atwal, a Sikh separatist who was once convicted of trying to assassinate an Indian politician.

Back in Canada, Trudeau's liberal party has ties to the country's Sikh community, some of whom support the Khalistan movement, which backs a new Sikh state in India's Punjab region. When Outlook India magazine pointed this out, it found itself disinvited from a dinner with Trudeau.

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau feted the world over as the new face of 'liberalism' seem to find it difficult to accommodate critical media coverage," the magazine wrote.

Though Trudeau assured India's government that he didn't back the separatist movement, Canada's diplomatic mission had also sent a dinner invitation to Atwal — which it later rescinded.

But the political blunders paled in comparison with the more visible cultural missteps. On several occasions Trudeau and his family appeared dressed in traditional Indian clothing, something other Western politicians don't usually attempt with such vigor.

Prominent Indian personalities expressed their distaste for Trudeau's dress, with India Today calling it "tacky." Trudeau showed up at an event full of Bollywood stars in full traditional dress, while the movie stars themselves simply wore black suits.

On social media, popular Indian personalities put it more bluntly, calling for Trudeau to "have some chill" and calling his outfit choices "fake and annoying."

At one point, Trudeau, wearing traditional dress, broke into the Indian dance called the Bhangra, to a mixed reaction on Twitter.

Back at home, the trip hasn't played well for Trudeau, who was criticized for making his visit largely about photo opportunities and less about handling business.

"I don't know if Justin Trudeau thinks that international trade missions are reality-TV shows, but they are not," the Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer, Trudeau's main opponent, told Reuters.

On CTV, a major Canadian news broadcaster, the host Don Martin said, "If this is Trudeau putting Canada 'back' on the world stage, we should get off."

Trudeau's hometown paper, the Ottawa Citizen, compared Trudeau's India trip to George H.W. Bush's 1992 trip to Tokyo, where Bush vomited on Japan's prime minister.

"As for what 'the work, achievements and objectives' of this cavalcade of embarrassment might amount to, it would have been better, in hindsight, if Trudeau had gone to India alone, invited himself to dinner with Modi, and thrown up in his lap," the Citizen wrote.

Five days into the trip, when Modi finally acknowledged Trudeau's trip on social media, he did so with a picture of Trudeau in normal dress from 2015.

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No, seriously, what a complete douchebag. I am embarrassed for the Canadian people. This guy is a blight on their nation.

he is a moron

thats what you get when you elect morons

he has zero common sense

his claim to fame was simply that he was not Stephen Harper

Canada went from a psychotic narcissistic autocrat to a guy who never made it past coloring in kindergarten

Yes, we use the term so casually around here, but he does, in fact, appear to be a genuine moron.

Nepotism at its finest.

Dang. He's starting to make Obama look like an alpha male.

Amazing. I would never have thought that a new standard for utter cluelessness in world "leaders" would have been set in such a short time after January, 2017. This guy truly has no idea what he's doing.

Utter buffoonery.

Man, Canada is not having a good week.

he should be charged with unlawful cultural appropriation

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Dang. He's starting to make Obama look like an alpha male.

Now that's funny. True too

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
he should be charged with unlawful cultural appropriation

Bingo! Why aren't the liberals howling about this. I think its worse than serving ribs and watermelon for Black Appreciation Month.

He and his family look stupid.

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Originally posted by rusbro:
Dang. He's starting to make Obama look like an alpha male.

He's the chai boy of the Free World-and has the uniform to prove it.

Did anyone ever do a DNA kit to determine if he's Pierre's kid?

The Canadians deserve what they get with president Zoolander.

Maybe General Custer should have gone around in full Sioux regalia, or MacArthur in Japanese shogun garb, or Obama in full Saudi dress.

A disrespectful mockery.

And of course, he has surrounded himself with like-minded geniuses to run government. I received a cartoon from a Canadian friend that reads " I have seen smarter cabinets at Ikea".

Apparently succeeding at international politics takes more than just being a pretty boy? Who'd have thunk...I mean, Justin Beiber did it...

He just wants to be the Beatles.

RMD

Considering Justy is a subject of The Queen, I'll go ahead and call him a numpty, a cockwomble and a ponce.

Siddhartha he ain't.
There's something about his mug I would like to slap silly.

^^^ It reminds you of what it would be like to have Gavin Newsome as President.