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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jun 3, 2020, 01:44 PM Jun 2020

Canada's Justin Trudeau was asked about Trump's protest response and his pause is already legendary

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on television fielding questions from reporters Tuesday morning. There’s a lot to talk about these days, with the economic crisis and COVID-19 continuing to be an enormous public health issue. But our northern neighbor is also overseeing a country that is facing protests against police brutality and racial injustice in multiple cities.

In a clip you can see below, Prime Minister Trudeau was asked “You’ve been reluctant to comment on the words and actions of the U.S. president. But we do have Donald Trump calling for military action against protesters. We saw protesters tear gassed yesterday, to make way for a presidential photo op. I would like to ask you what you think about that. And if you don’t want to comment what message do you think you are sending?”

Prime Minister Trudeau then took a 21-second pause to collect his thoughts on Donald Trump’s actions in regards to the Black Lives Matter protests going on across the country. For 21 seconds, Trudeau was at a loss of what to say exactly. It is an excruciatingly long pause. At the end he makes an almost worldly sorrowful sigh and sound before giving his diplomatic response.

PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU: We all watch in horror and consternation, what’s going on in the United States. It is a time to pull people together, but it is a time to listen. it is a time to learn what injustices continue—despite progress over years and decades.



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Canada's Justin Trudeau was asked about Trump's protest response and his pause is already legendary (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
Pierre would be proud of his son. roamer65 Jun 2020 #1
21 seconds... jcgoldie Jun 2020 #2
Borrowed from Pete Seeger who borrowed it from Ecclesiastes Brother Buzz Jun 2020 #5
In the classic book and TV series The Handmaid's Tale manhattan123 Jun 2020 #3
That is how silence can sometimes say so much. Jamastiene Jun 2020 #4

roamer65

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1. Pierre would be proud of his son.
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 02:00 PM
Jun 2020

That pause was pure Pierre Trudeau.

His dad would pause and give you a steely eyed glare...then he would cuss you out.

manhattan123

(302 posts)
3. In the classic book and TV series The Handmaid's Tale
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 02:04 PM
Jun 2020

Canada, of course, was where many of the enslaved and forcibly impregnated women fled to as they escaped the U.S.

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