Elon Musk called Justin Trudeau an ‘insufferable tool’ after the Canadian prime minister called the re-election of Donald Trump a setback for women’s rights.
The relationship between the liberal Trudeau and conservative Trump has been a source of fascination in recent weeks, with the pair having an apparently friendly Mar-a-Lago meeting followed by Trump’s continued joking that Canada should become the 51st state.
In 2022, he compared the prime minister to Hitler in a meme criticizing his crackdown on Freedom Convoy protests.
The image depicts the Nazi dictator Hitler with the text: ‘Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau… I had a budget.’ The reference to a ‘budget’ is unclear and suggests the meme is recycled from some prior controversy over Canada‘s government spending.
Earlier this month, reports emerged detailing Trump’s meeting with Trudeau in West Palm Beach, Florida on November 29.
Earlier this month, Just a few days after the meeting, Trump also publicly embraced his joke by posting a picture of himself standing next to a Canadian flag overlooking a mountain range.
It came after Trump posted to social media that he wants to impose a 25 percent tariff on Canada and Mexico if the North American neighbors do not take action to quell illegal crossings into the U.S. through shared borders.
In the same post last month, Trump also threatened an additional 10 percent import tariff on China after Beijing did not impose a death penalty on drug dealers as was promised.
Part of Trump’s hardline policy proposals related to the border crisis is stopping the flow of deadly Chinese-produced fentanyl, which usually comes into the U.S. by drug traffickers bringing it over the southern border.