Donald Trump changes tune on Justin Trudeau

After months of publicly expressing disdain for Canada’s prime minister, U.S. President Donald Trump turned over a new leaf on Monday upon announcing that the two leaders had reached a trade agreement.

Trump had heaped public scorn upon Trudeau, sometimes using a sneering voice to describe him, in the four months since Trudeau criticized Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs. He described Trudeau by using such words as “dishonest and weak” or “meek and mild.” He dispatched senior aides to television shows where they called Trudeau “amateurish,” “rogue” and “sophomoric,” and said there was “a special place in hell” for backstabbers like the prime minister.

He threatened to punish “the people of Canada” for Trudeau’s behaviour. As recently as five days ago, Trump claimed that he had told Trudeau to “forget about it” when Trudeau requested a private meeting, which meeting request Trudeau said did not happen.

U.S. President Donald Trump turned over a new leaf on Monday upon announcing that the two leaders had reached a trade agreement. Trump called Trudeau a “good man.”
“I think Justin’s a good person who’s doing a good job,” Trump said at his news conference in the White House Rose Garden. Trump acknowledged their relationship “got a little bit testy” in recent months, but he said all of that was now in the past.

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