Trudeau roundly mocked for political, fashion blunders during disaster trip to India
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Clearly, an inept government. When traditional Liberal suppoerters slam the feds, it's time for Trudeau to look in the mirror and ask how he could be so stupid.
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What really happened on Trudeau's India trip: Trade concerns overshadowed by wardrobe choices, extremism talk
Evan Dyer · CBC News
A look at criticisms justified and otherwise during the prime minister's eventful trip
Rarely has the journalistic echo chamber rung more hollow than on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's trip to India.
It's an interesting exercise to see how many of the analyses were written by people thousands of kilometres from India, and how many quote the same Carleton University academic, Vivek Dehejia.
His thoughts, pitched to reporters even before the trip began, appeared in reports from CNN to China's Xinhua, as well as almost every Canadian outlet, (including CBC).
The reality is this trip drifted somewhat from Day 1, featured a few successes and one major self-inflicted wound with the presence of Jaspal Atwal, and ended in a surprisingly warm glow when the Trudeau government finally gave the Indians what they'd been waiting for all along.
Had the trip begun with a bilateral summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ended with a family visit to the Taj Mahal, instead of the other way around, it might have avoided most of the issues that arose.
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What really happened on Trudeau's India trip: Trade concerns overshadowed by wardrobe choices, extremism talk
Evan Dyer · CBC News
A look at criticisms justified and otherwise during the prime minister's eventful trip
Rarely has the journalistic echo chamber rung more hollow than on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's trip to India.
It's an interesting exercise to see how many of the analyses were written by people thousands of kilometres from India, and how many quote the same Carleton University academic, Vivek Dehejia.
His thoughts, pitched to reporters even before the trip began, appeared in reports from CNN to China's Xinhua, as well as almost every Canadian outlet, (including CBC).
The reality is this trip drifted somewhat from Day 1, featured a few successes and one major self-inflicted wound with the presence of Jaspal Atwal, and ended in a surprisingly warm glow when the Trudeau government finally gave the Indians what they'd been waiting for all along.
Had the trip begun with a bilateral summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ended with a family visit to the Taj Mahal, instead of the other way around, it might have avoided most of the issues that arose.
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Justin Trudeau: cultural appropriator
Christian Butler
Columnist
Has his ludicrous India trip burst the Trudeau bubble?
1 March 2018
Spiked
138 comments
You know we’re living in strange political times when a newspaper like the New York Times can seriously describe a nation’s leader as someone ‘whose eye-catching sock selection has become global news’. The leader in question is Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, whose right-on celebrity status has always been a useful distraction from his failures in parliament. But it now seems that the international swooning over Trudeau may finally be over, after his widely mocked state visit to India.
The cringey Canuck spent eight painstaking days humiliating his home nation at the taxpayers’ expense, posing for his trademark photo-ops before finally signing a trade deal with India. He wore a different coloured Indian outfit every day, posing for photos at various tourist hotspots. He even started Bhangra dancing at one point, and went to meet Bollywood stars dressed in a golden Sherwani (they wore black suits). A bemused New York Post remarked ‘Justin Trudeau is more Bollywood than Bollywood’.
It’s surprising Trudeau wasn’t accused of cultural appropriation for all this. But then again, Trudeau’s international fanboys have learned to keep their usual outrage in check where he is concerned. Recently Trudeau corrected a woman when she said ‘mankind’ instead of ‘peoplekind’ during a Q&A. It was both ridiculous and ‘mansplaining’ at the same time. Trudeau later claimed he was making a bad joke. I genuinely don’t believe that he was, but I’ll certainly agree that it wasn’t funny.
Trudeau’s India trip hasn’t only been a source of social-media mockery. He’s caused considerable offence in India due to the mysterious presence of Jaspal Atwal, a Sikh nationalist convicted of attempting to murder an Indian minister in Canada in 1986, who was pictured with Trudeau’s wife on the trip. He’s a former member of the International Sikh Youth Federation, which is considered a terrorist organisation in India, the US, the UK and Canada. Trudeau denies having anything to do with Atwal’s invitation.
Though Trudeau’s supporters have in recent days tried to shift the focus on to the Canada-India trade deal he signed, that amounted to a half-day of work during his eight-day sojourn. His $1 billion deal was inevitably overshadowed by his days of clowning for clickbait.
After this and the ‘peoplekind’ debacle, it seems the bubble has finally burst around Trudeau, a man who confuses virtue-signalling with statesmanship.
Christian Butler is a spiked columnist. Follow him on Twitter: @CPAButler.
Picture: YouTube
Justin Trudeau: cultural appropriator | Politics | spiked
Christian Butler
Columnist
Has his ludicrous India trip burst the Trudeau bubble?
1 March 2018
Spiked
138 comments
You know we’re living in strange political times when a newspaper like the New York Times can seriously describe a nation’s leader as someone ‘whose eye-catching sock selection has become global news’. The leader in question is Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, whose right-on celebrity status has always been a useful distraction from his failures in parliament. But it now seems that the international swooning over Trudeau may finally be over, after his widely mocked state visit to India.
The cringey Canuck spent eight painstaking days humiliating his home nation at the taxpayers’ expense, posing for his trademark photo-ops before finally signing a trade deal with India. He wore a different coloured Indian outfit every day, posing for photos at various tourist hotspots. He even started Bhangra dancing at one point, and went to meet Bollywood stars dressed in a golden Sherwani (they wore black suits). A bemused New York Post remarked ‘Justin Trudeau is more Bollywood than Bollywood’.
It’s surprising Trudeau wasn’t accused of cultural appropriation for all this. But then again, Trudeau’s international fanboys have learned to keep their usual outrage in check where he is concerned. Recently Trudeau corrected a woman when she said ‘mankind’ instead of ‘peoplekind’ during a Q&A. It was both ridiculous and ‘mansplaining’ at the same time. Trudeau later claimed he was making a bad joke. I genuinely don’t believe that he was, but I’ll certainly agree that it wasn’t funny.
Trudeau’s India trip hasn’t only been a source of social-media mockery. He’s caused considerable offence in India due to the mysterious presence of Jaspal Atwal, a Sikh nationalist convicted of attempting to murder an Indian minister in Canada in 1986, who was pictured with Trudeau’s wife on the trip. He’s a former member of the International Sikh Youth Federation, which is considered a terrorist organisation in India, the US, the UK and Canada. Trudeau denies having anything to do with Atwal’s invitation.
Though Trudeau’s supporters have in recent days tried to shift the focus on to the Canada-India trade deal he signed, that amounted to a half-day of work during his eight-day sojourn. His $1 billion deal was inevitably overshadowed by his days of clowning for clickbait.
After this and the ‘peoplekind’ debacle, it seems the bubble has finally burst around Trudeau, a man who confuses virtue-signalling with statesmanship.
Christian Butler is a spiked columnist. Follow him on Twitter: @CPAButler.
Picture: YouTube
Justin Trudeau: cultural appropriator | Politics | spiked
I feel bad for his kids... They didn't deserve to be paraded around in such costumes
He had to at least pretend in order to justify a taxpayer funded vacation
I wouldn't put it past him
Mr and Mrs Dress-Up - Sophia played a part in the charade too. I remember thinking when she did a contorted yoga position on national TV that she might be a tad flaky. If anything my position on that has strengthened overtime, Cap.
The Selfie-King - at it again during Women's Day (surprised he didn't appear in tights or a skirt) is much more than just a clown in funny socks. He is a complete and total embarrassment to our country. He shouldn't be allowed out of Canada. His arrogant attitude to the whole fiasco that was his trip to India is yet another mark of his immaturity and inability to admit his mistakes.
I am beginning to think (fear) that the PM exists in a bubble which he either can't or won't leave. It is as if he is at a certain remove from everything and everyone. Even his selfies, hugs and glad-handing have a feeling of artificiality. His mental abilities are bit troubling. Why would he continue to state that one of his ministers was a Nobel Laureate in the face of all evidence to the contrary? In addition to being in a bubble, I wonder if he is simply having flash backs as a result of illegal substances partaken in his youth?
Ah............you picked up on that too, Eagle.
LOL, pete
It is probably to much to hope that should they indeed travel to Arabia, Sophie might find a magic lamp and put her genie back in the bottle...................nah.
Right on Mowich. The ironic thing is those who whine and bitch about Trump just have no idea how good they have it. I guess international law forbids a trade, eh? :lol:
I knew you have a queen.
Justin Trudeau shows the dangers of becoming a republic.
Both Trudeau and Trump show the benefits of a constitutional monarchy. I suppose one could have a monarchy and call it a republic like they've done in Germany, but the German president essentially has similar functions to the British monarch.
Sure, but Trump isn't being roundly mocked for political, fashion blunders during disaster trip to India, is he?
Nope, just pretty much everything else.
They're both a couple of inept unqualified clowns.
