Juno News - Trudeau’s cringy Operation Photo-Op continues

00:00:00.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on Operation Photo Op in Europe and it is not going well.

00:00:04.060 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:10.120 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. So today we're going to focus

00:00:13.480 almost entirely on our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his photo op blitz across Europe.

00:00:18.980 So he's there all week. He's done the same thing everywhere he goes. He shows up, he wears his

00:00:23.760 masks, he keeps up the COVID appearances and COVID theater while also smiling like a fool

00:00:28.920 and trying to look, the part of a Prime Minister trying to look super serious, whenever he goes

00:00:33.420 to give a speech or to say something of substance, it really blows up in his face mostly because he

00:00:38.980 is such a massive hypocrite, probably the least self-aware person I have ever seen in public

00:00:44.180 life, either that or just a complete dishonest gaslighter, someone who gaslights people by

00:00:50.240 saying the exact opposite of the truth to try to confuse them. Justin Trudeau has become the king

00:00:55.040 of that. We're going to go through all of it in detail today. So we started out in the UK earlier

00:01:00.160 this week and we saw him getting what was coming to him, frankly. I think that Justin Trudeau

00:01:05.040 throughout his career as a politician, he's always relied on the praise of the international

00:01:09.560 press, the spotlight, the intrigue, the sort of painting him as the anti-Trump, the counter-Trump,

00:01:15.760 the sort of liberal golden boy in this era of sort of populism. Justin Trudeau was praised

00:01:21.780 by the international media for so many years and he kind of attached his start to that. That is what

00:01:25.960 made him appealing to progressives in Canada. They liked the attention, they liked the positive

00:01:30.680 press that Justin Trudeau would receive and it really helped him at home domestically. So if he

00:01:35.140 was ever having a rough time in Canada, if he was ever under a lot of scrutiny, his team would just

00:01:39.740 simply plan a trip for him abroad and he would get the sort of positive praise of the media. It would

00:01:44.580 help change the channel from a bad domestic policy or a bad news cycle at home. Well, as we can see,

00:01:51.780 during this trip to Europe, that's just no longer the case. Fresh off of using the Emergencies Act

00:01:56.860 in Canada, fresh off using excessive force, police force against peaceful protesters, the entire

00:02:02.860 shenanigans of the thing. Justin Trudeau refusing to meet with these truckers, smearing them, lying and

00:02:08.160 saying that they were far-right extremists or that they were racist, mischaracterizing them, and then

00:02:12.800 ultimately using excessive force to clear out what was clearly a peaceful protest. That still stings.

00:02:19.520 Justin Trudeau may have been able to avoid scrutiny here at home in Canada, but when he goes abroad,

00:02:23.660 when he goes to meetings, especially in the UK, people were watching very carefully and they didn't

00:02:27.860 like what they saw. So Justin Trudeau, instead of leaving Canada, getting to go to Europe and

00:02:31.980 enjoying the sort of lighter, fluffier news coverage, more softball questions, the praise that

00:02:38.840 he's used to from a foreign audience. Instead, this is what he is met with when he gets to Europe.

00:02:43.160 Here he is in London, trying to get to 10 Downing Street, where the Prime Minister lives.

00:02:47.340 The only problem is that there is a sizable protest. There are people waving Canadian flags,

00:02:52.300 one upside down there. Puppet Trudeau, free Tamara Lich. There are people here that do not want

00:02:58.640 Justin Trudeau to get a free pass. Dictator Trudeau resign is what another sign said. And so because of

00:03:06.440 this protest, because of these crowds, Justin Trudeau simply could not get to the front gate of 10

00:03:11.400 Downing. And so what did he have to do? He had to sneak in the back door like some kind of a tyrant,

00:03:17.040 like some kind of a dictator. Here he is sneaking into the back for his meeting with Prime Minister

00:03:21.940 Boris Johnson. A little awkward handshake there where Boris goes to do a fist pump and Justin

00:03:28.540 tries to go in for the full handshake. This is what has come to for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,

00:03:33.180 having to sneak into the back door to avoid scrutiny for his record, for his behavior as

00:03:38.760 Prime Minister. You know, he can laugh and smile and pretend everything is fine and dandy. The reality

00:03:43.520 is that his reputation has been damaged. His reputation abroad, that whole thing that he

00:03:47.940 goes for when he goes abroad, trying to be the golden boy, trying to get the praise of the

00:03:51.720 international media to bring it back home to Canada to say, look at this great, look at this

00:03:55.660 great job I'm doing for the country. Look at this positive PR that I'm creating for Canada. Everybody

00:03:59.780 loves Canada. We're this pristine, progressive, liberal utopia. That is no longer the case. That

00:04:05.520 illusion has been shattered and people around the world are now seeing the reality of Justin Trudeau,

00:04:10.020 which ain't pretty, which ain't what he purported to be for so long. And now it's completely clear.

00:04:16.520 Justin Trudeau continues with the complete COVID theater. So this one's bizarre. So Justin Trudeau

00:04:22.700 on March 7th in the morning, he meets with the Queen of England, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. And

00:04:28.780 here he is standing just feet from the 95-year-old monarch who just recovered from COVID, maskless.

00:04:35.340 Okay, look, I'm for this. I'm for being maskless. I don't think that you should wear a mask

00:04:38.980 inside anymore. I never wear a mask. And here's Justin Trudeau in the UK where they don't have

00:04:43.240 mask mandates anymore. They don't even require little kids in schools to wear masks. And they've

00:04:47.480 moved on. As Boris Johnson said, they've moved on from COVID. Here he is meeting the Queen, no mask.

00:04:52.900 However, I guess the science changed. The science just has a tendency to suddenly change. And here he

00:04:58.600 is later that day, same day, March 7th, meeting with Labour Party leader Keir Stammer, wearing masks,

00:05:05.400 sitting down, trying to have a conversation. And they're wearing masks for some reason. So I guess

00:05:11.280 COVID was a threat over here, meeting the Labour Party leader, not a threat in Buckingham Palace.

00:05:17.040 Funny how science works like that. So what was the purpose of this trip? Why was Justin Trudeau in

00:05:22.540 the UK? What was the meat of the visit, aside from the photo ops, aside from the optics? Why was he

00:05:28.620 there? Well, alongside British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Canada and the United Kingdom announced

00:05:33.700 that they would rededicate themselves, along with the Group of Seven efforts, to counter Russian 0.70

00:05:38.580 propaganda and disinformation. So this is a quote from the joint statement. It says,

00:05:42.740 we'll continue to use the G7 rapid response mechanism for joint assessment and collective

00:05:47.780 action, including ramping up our collective engagement with the media, tech platforms and

00:05:52.620 civil society to tackle Russia's unprecedented information war. So they're there to talk about

00:05:59.860 censorship. They're there to try to shut down any Russian efforts to communicate what is happening

00:06:05.380 from their perspective. Nothing says liberal democracy quite like the resolve and the willingness

00:06:11.400 of our leaders to censor opinions that they don't like, to censor information they don't like. Look,

00:06:16.740 I completely agree that Russia pushes out an unprecedented amount of propaganda. This is a war.

00:06:22.440 This is a wartime effort. And we see the fog of war. We see propaganda. We see misinformation

00:06:26.820 left, right, and center. Sometimes it can be difficult to make your way through that. Of course,

00:06:31.460 the response and the answer to that is not censorship. It's not censoring certain opinions

00:06:35.600 that you don't like. The answer, of course, is to thoroughly rebuke the other side, to thoroughly

00:06:40.220 rebuke misinformation. Because when you censor something, it creates intrigue. People are more

00:06:44.700 interested. They want to find out what is going on. Whereas when you have more information and you allow

00:06:49.340 the other side to be refuted, when you have thorough information, that is how you get to the bottom of

00:06:55.380 something. So really, really misguided idea here. These guys, Justin Trudeau, is there promoting the

00:07:01.500 idea of democracy, promoting the ideas of freedom, whilst at the same time talking about censorship

00:07:06.940 and shutting down information. He doesn't like this, as we will see, was a theme across his trip

00:07:12.440 across Europe. So next, he headed over to Latvia. There was an ongoing Canadian military operation to

00:07:18.180 train the Latvia military there. It's actually a Canadian-led NATO deployment. So that's why you see so

00:07:23.080 many Canadian politicians in Latvia. And here is Justin Trudeau, once again, talking about his

00:07:28.140 favorite topic, which is censorship, shutting down information that we don't like.

00:07:32.040 The daily use of propaganda and disinformation to try and undermine the democracies and the values

00:07:39.480 that you have, something that is right now being weaponized against Ukraine, but also used very

00:07:46.060 actively in all democracies around the West. Notice how he says that, that there's misinformation

00:07:51.520 being weaponized against you in Ukraine, but also in all democracies. So he sort of leaves the door

00:07:56.340 open. He's talking specifically about a wartime measure to stop the flow of information from Russia.

00:08:01.540 That's, that's arguable. You could, you could at least have a reasonable debate about that. And then he just

00:08:05.340 slips it in. Oh, it's happening all over the West. And therefore, we all need to do something about it.

00:08:10.700 And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the fact that there is an unbelievable amount of fake

00:08:15.840 news and propaganda also coming from the Ukraine side. Almost every day we wake up to horrible,

00:08:20.340 horrific news in Ukraine of some horrific event happening only to learn hours or the next day that

00:08:26.460 it wasn't exactly what we thought. It wasn't what it seemed. We've seen endless, endless propaganda

00:08:30.900 coming from the Ukraine. The reality is that during wars, there is a lot of misinformation as part of

00:08:35.880 the reality, as part of why wars are so confusing. And so it's a little rich to hear Justin Trudeau only

00:08:41.220 talked about on one side, and then again, opened it up for this idea that, that yes, Russia has

00:08:46.180 misinformation that we need to tackle right now, but it does happen everywhere. So so more to come on that. And

00:08:51.080 as we know, Justin Trudeau is trying to introduce legislation, both with Bill C 10 and C 36, the last

00:08:55.880 parliament being resumed this time around is Bill C 11, trying to regulate algorithms on social media

00:09:02.660 platforms, trying to regulate and censor user generated content, and a bill to supposedly tackle hate

00:09:08.380 speech online, which would just give the government unprecedented powers, more powers to remove

00:09:13.200 content that they don't like, or that they disagree with. So Justin Trudeau is really becoming the

00:09:17.800 prime minister of censorship. And he is taking that message across Europe. And this is also from Latvia.

00:09:23.600 So when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't lecturing us about misinformation and talking about the need

00:09:28.880 for censorship to what strengthen our democracy, Justin Trudeau could be seen taking photo ops with the

00:09:35.340 Canadian forces that are stationed in Latvia. Here he is with his defense minister, Anita Nand laughing

00:09:41.240 it up, having a good old time posing for a photo. It looks like a sports photo. It looks like Trudeau is

00:09:46.400 posing with the Stanley Cup or something like that. He's got a big grin on his face. Like, look at this.

00:09:51.700 It's so awesome. Look at me with these cool guys. I'm one of them. I'm macho. I just don't understand

00:09:58.460 the big grin. I don't understand what he is thinking here. War is a horrible, awful, solemn thing.

00:10:05.220 You're not, not at the front lines, not with the people defending against the Russian invasion,

00:10:09.960 but, but pretty close with the head of Canada's mission in Europe, in Latvia, which is right there

00:10:15.820 in the Baltic Sea. And again, a serious calm moment, a solemn moment. Instead, Justin Trudeau with his big

00:10:22.840 silly grin. This guy is just, it's impossible to take Justin Trudeau seriously. It really is

00:10:28.560 impossible to take him seriously. He went over to Berlin next. Here he is on March 9th.

00:10:34.500 This is one of the most unbelievable comments that I have seen from Trudeau recent times. He is either

00:10:39.680 the least self-aware person that you have ever seen in your entire life, or he's just the king

00:10:44.720 of saying the exact opposite of his own actions. He is gaslighting the people. So here he is talking

00:10:50.680 about the importance of reaching out across the aisle, talking to people that you disagree with.

00:10:56.340 Isn't that rich? Can you imagine Justin Trudeau, the prime minister who just used the emergency act,

00:11:01.040 who just used martial law against his own people because he refused to talk to them. He disagreed

00:11:06.080 with them. He refused to even hear them out. He used excessive force against protesters because he

00:11:11.240 refused to talk about him. Here he is with, within all his infinite wisdom, telling the people of

00:11:17.280 Germany how important it is to talk to people we disagree with. This is, this is truly unbelievable.

00:11:22.080 Here's that clip.

00:11:23.080 The respect for the infinite dignity of each individual means no one should get left out.

00:11:32.240 And this is also true for people who hold different political views. We all need to commit to more

00:11:42.720 listening and less shouting. Diversity of ideas helps us learn from one another. Talking with people

00:11:52.480 who think differently from us is how we challenge ourselves. And challenging ourselves is how we grow.

00:11:59.440 Justin Trudeau has spent his entire career denigrating conservatives, painting conservatives as

00:12:05.120 somehow un-Canadian, unworthy of their having their own opinions, having a say in Canadian democracy.

00:12:11.600 And here he is talking about the importance of listening to people, reaching across the aisle,

00:12:16.240 listening to those who he disagrees with. It is, it is so frustrating to hear Justin Trudeau talk.

00:12:21.840 And again, I really don't understand. Is this some kind of a tacit recognition that he didn't do what he

00:12:28.480 should have done, that he should have listened to people across the aisle, that he should have

00:12:31.840 listened to people he disagrees with? I doubt it. I don't think Trudeau has that much self-awareness.

00:12:36.640 I think instead that he is gaslighting you. He is trying, he is saying the exact opposite of what

00:12:42.000 he does. And we've seen this before. Again, to go back to the trucker convoy, going back to

00:12:47.760 Justin Trudeau. He characterized those protests. He characterized the people who were in Ottawa,

00:12:53.520 who were protesting against his overzealous COVID policies. He characterized them in three ways,

00:12:59.120 as waving despicable flags, as desecrating the streets of Ottawa, desecrating the war memorial,

00:13:04.240 and stealing from the homeless. Of course, the way that you would characterize the rallies and the

00:13:09.040 protests in Ottawa were the exact opposite. It was an uprising of national unity and patriotism

00:13:14.480 characterized by the waving of Canadian flags. Not despicable flags, Canadian flags. There were

00:13:18.880 thousands upon thousands upon thousands of Canadian flags that we saw across the country at the

00:13:23.600 overpasses on Parliament Hill. They were Canadian flags. And yet Trudeau said that they were despicable

00:13:28.400 flags. The whole idea that people were desecrating a war memorial was never true. It was not true to

00:13:34.480 begin with. It was a fake news narrative. The reality was that people were going to painstaking

00:13:39.520 efforts to keep the city clean. There were street captains assigned. They were picking up garbage.

00:13:43.360 There was no garbage to be seen on the streets, according to reporters that were on the ground.

00:13:48.000 There were images of them cleaning the Terry Fox Memorial after someone had put a sign on there that

00:13:52.160 the media didn't like. And they did barricade around the war memorial to stop people from walking on it,

00:13:57.520 people who perhaps weren't aware of what it was. Protesters at one point moved those barricades,

00:14:02.160 and it was to pray so that they could pray and single Canada. Veterans themselves could pay respects

00:14:07.280 at the war memorial. Of course, Trudeau's media painted it as though something nefarious was

00:14:11.520 going on. They were moving those barricades to do something, some kind of desecration. So the way that

00:14:16.480 Trudeau, oh, and then when it came to food, the idea that they were stealing food from the homeless,

00:14:23.600 the protest again turned into a big block party. It turned into a big Canada Day festival. There

00:14:28.720 were barbecues everywhere. There were different kinds of food. Remember this guy, this Sikh individual

00:14:32.640 who was making samosas. This is how the protests were characterized. People giving away food for free.

00:14:38.080 Everything was free. Here's the samosa guy. 0.74

00:14:40.480 Irregardless of what faith you're from, what caste, creed, religion, doesn't matter. It's about the

00:14:46.640 community kitchen. We all eat as one and humanity's equal. So the seva concept, helping the community,

00:14:54.080 is what we're practicing here today. We're here alongside the truckers in the fight for freedom,

00:14:59.360 and we're doing our part from the Sikh faith. And we welcome everyone to come and have some samosas,

00:15:05.520 some tea, and some french fries. Again, everything that Justin Trudeau said,

00:15:09.680 the opposite was the case. This is one of my favorite videos from the Trucker Convoy. I'm

00:15:14.400 going to play it again because I just really like it. Justin Trudeau, this is how he characterized the

00:15:17.680 Trucker Convoy versus the images that we saw that were in complete contradiction to what Justin Trudeau

00:15:24.080 said. Here's that video. Over the past few days, Canadians were shocked and frankly disgusted

00:15:30.640 by the behavior displayed by some people protesting in our nation's capital. Hate can never be the

00:15:38.000 answer. So to those responsible for this behavior, it needs to stop. To anyone who joined the convoy,

00:15:45.920 but is rightly uncomfortable with the symbols of hatred and division on display, join with your

00:15:52.720 fellow Canadians. I love that video still every time I see it. It makes me smile because Trudeau is just

00:15:58.960 so out of touch. He's such a hypocrite. He's so contradictory and he clearly doesn't take his

00:16:03.280 own advice. The whole idea of talking to people you disagree with is not something that Justin Trudeau

00:16:07.840 does. Well, he wasn't done with his gaslighting again on March 9th in Berlin. This is what Justin

00:16:13.440 Trudeau had to say. At its best, democracy is always stronger than authoritarianism. Here is what that

00:16:19.440 looked like. We mustn't despair. Because at its best, democracy is always stronger than authoritarianism.

00:16:32.720 But if we're going to be honest with each other, democracy hasn't exactly been at its best

00:16:39.600 these past few years. Democracy hasn't been at its best these last few years. Gee, you think? Do you think it

00:16:45.360 had something to do with Justin Trudeau, your policies when it came to heavy-handed, over-the-top,

00:16:50.000 overzealous measures to combat COVID when it came to shutting down the economy, shutting down the

00:16:54.400 borders, shutting down small businesses? That was you. That was you that did that. That was you that used

00:16:59.600 excessive force against peaceful protesters. All the hallmarks of not democracy, no, authoritarianism.

00:17:05.280 And yet here he is saying that democracy is always stronger than authoritarianism. He is so out of

00:17:10.800 touch. He is so offside with his comments. It's unbelievable to just see the stark difference

00:17:17.440 between his own actions and his words. It really is unbelievable. Okay, so we've seen Prime Minister

00:17:23.200 Justin Trudeau. We've seen his defense minister, Anita Annan. Well, they weren't the only ones who were

00:17:27.760 on this European soiree. We also saw the foreign affairs minister, I think they call her global affairs

00:17:32.960 minister, Melanie Jolie, as well as finance minister, Chrysia Freeland. They were all there in Berlin,

00:17:39.520 and they were met with a CBC reporter. CBC asked the very valid question, why are you here? Aren't

00:17:46.480 there more important issues at home? The reality from this clip, it's about three minutes. I'm going

00:17:50.720 to play the whole thing. Two things you can see. One, Chrysia Freeland is the dominant figure here. 1.00

00:17:55.440 She's the finance minister, okay? She doesn't have a foreign portfolio. Her portfolio is domestic. She is 0.93

00:18:00.960 in charge of the finances of Canada, making sure that we balance our books, that we have the right

00:18:05.440 revenue, that we don't overspend. That is her job. So why is she in Europe? Well, of course,

00:18:10.080 she's sort of the de facto leader of the country. She's got the title Deputy Prime Minister, which is

00:18:13.920 a made-up title. We never had that position under Stephen Harper. So she's supposed to, again,

00:18:18.800 have a domestic role. Instead, she's out there, of course, because she is this Ukrainian activist

00:18:23.920 and superstar when it comes to her knowledge and her background with Putin, with Russia, with Ukraine.

00:18:30.960 She's very, very deeply involved in domestic politics in Ukraine. So that's the real reason 0.89

00:18:35.360 that she is there, because she's running the operation. Melody Jolie is sort of a puppet figure.

00:18:39.920 You can see the fundamental unseriousness of her. Watch when she comes in, the way that she talks,

00:18:45.600 the way that she giggles, the way that she tries to answer questions. She is not a serious person at all.

00:18:51.600 Here is what that clip looked like. A lot of Canadians are back at home, kind of wondering and watching

00:18:57.360 this trip and seeing a lot of photo ops, a lot of broad platitudes and not many specifics when it

00:19:02.560 comes to details. Why couldn't these meetings been done from Canada? Why does the Prime Minister,

00:19:08.320 the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence Minister need to be in Europe

00:19:12.800 right now when there are a lot of domestic issues at home that are very important? And some people view

00:19:17.600 this as a photo op trip to Europe. Well, the only person I've heard saying that was you. There are

00:19:26.560 many people that are saying that. But let me just say that this is a really, really important trip

00:19:32.720 for the Prime Minister and for Canada. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the most important geopolitical

00:19:43.280 issue in the world right now. And the fact that the Prime Minister has been able this week to have

00:19:49.440 direct conversations with our leading partners around the world is absolutely essential. It is his

00:19:56.640 responsibility and his duty at this critical moment to be here having those direct conversations,

00:20:04.400 particularly because Canada and the Prime Minister himself has a very close relationship with Ukraine.

00:20:14.000 We have a very good understanding of what the Ukrainians need and having the Prime Minister able

00:20:21.680 to have those conversations makes a big difference. And I will point out these are very sensitive security

00:20:27.360 issues. And it's hard to have these conversations even over secure lines. So it makes a big, big difference

00:20:36.720 to have these conversations, to have these meetings. I would say that you could judge us as a government

00:20:44.720 to be derelict in our duty to Canadians and the world were we not rolling up our sleeves and being

00:20:52.160 involved in these direct, very substantive conversations. If I can add, dealing with millions

00:20:58.800 of people fleeing Ukraine throughout Europe being dispersed and thousands of lives at stake and millions

00:21:07.680 of lives at stake is not that true. And I don't think any of that. I mean, the American, the American

00:21:11.680 President is doing it from the White House. Well, my colleague Lincoln and Kamala Harris. We're

00:21:16.560 going to Kamala Harris is in Poland. So just to say, you know, I reject your question. Yeah. And not

00:21:24.720 only that, I would say that Canadians expect us to be here. And that's exactly why we're here.

00:21:30.400 Okay, so first thing, the question there, again, I believe it was a softball like a plant question

00:21:34.720 that was put in by the CBC. The way he characterizes it is kind of amusing calling it a photo op,

00:21:40.160 light on substance heavy on on these photos. That is true. That is a rare moment of truth from a CBC

00:21:45.920 reporter. Then hearing Chrystia Freeland talking about the importance. Look, I'll be honest,

00:21:49.280 I have no problem with Justin Trudeau being in Europe right now. I have no problem with Melanie

00:21:53.520 Sholi, the foreign affairs minister being there in theory, other than the fact that she's just so 0.99

00:21:58.560 such a lightweight. Whenever she talks, it's just kind of embarrassing that this is a person who leads

00:22:03.920 Canada's foreign efforts. She is our top diplomat. I don't understand her for that role. I don't,

00:22:09.040 I don't, I just don't see it. The question I would have more is why is the finance minister there,

00:22:13.920 even the defense minister? I mean, I get that Canada has troops in Latvia if she wants to be

00:22:18.640 there to sort of build up morale. Again, another odd pick for a leader of the military, the defense

00:22:23.760 minister who has no experience whatsoever with the Canadian armed forces. Again, maybe at a time

00:22:30.000 like this, we could focus on boosting up our domestic military spends, boosting up our own

00:22:34.400 ability to defend our sovereignty at home in Canada. I'm talking about in the Arctic, in the north,

00:22:39.600 we could be focusing on that. We could be focusing on our own energy policy and how this all plays

00:22:44.400 into geopolitics, how the need for energy security, energy independence, more Canadian output, getting

00:22:50.720 pipelines built, increasing that capacity. Those are all important issues, not to mention the whole

00:22:55.040 fallout from the Emergencies Act, COVID. Our country is still so divided. We have two separatist movements.

00:23:00.400 We have a lot of issues at home that could be focused on as well. So a lot of people on Twitter,

00:23:05.280 I know I woke up this morning and Canadian media fail was trending. A lot of liberals and leftists

00:23:09.360 were saying, this just demonstrates how bad the Canadian media is. Of course, Trudeau should be

00:23:13.920 there. Of course, Melanie Jolie should be there. Sure. My question would be more to why is Chrystia

00:23:18.320 Freeland there other than the reality that we all know that she is really running the show. She is

00:23:22.080 really the one in charge. And if you had any doubt, look at this picture. This is a Melanie Jolie

00:23:26.400 Twitter's picture. Again, these people are so out of touch. They're so, they're so lacking

00:23:31.120 self-awareness that they don't even realize how silly they are. Everybody at home, everyone is

00:23:35.200 calling this operation photo op. Everyone is talking about how little a substance it is, how

00:23:39.520 it's all about optics. And yet here is the defense minister playing into that, showing this beautifully

00:23:44.320 artistic photo of her and the delegation walking through Berlin. Really, it does look like it's all

00:23:51.360 about the optics. It looks like it's all about the photo ops. And the reason that I wanted to point

00:23:55.120 this out is you can see Chrystia Freeland at the front here. She is leading the pack. She's walking 1.00

00:23:59.120 even in front of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. That is Trudeau behind her up front. Here is

00:24:03.360 Melanie Jolie. Back in the background, someone that the Trudeau government is basically trying to hide

00:24:07.760 and they don't really want him to be front and center at all is Stefan Dion, who used to be the

00:24:13.120 Foreign Affairs Minister and now he is the ambassador to Germany. But interesting how Chrystia Freeland is 1.00

00:24:19.120 marching out in front. She is a true leader of the show. She is the one calling the shots. So what was the

00:24:24.160 purpose of this trip? Why do we have this big entourage in Europe? Well, you know, we had some

00:24:29.760 minor announcements on increased military presence in Latvia, a lot of virtue signaling, a lot of

00:24:35.440 Justin Trudeau showing his inner authoritarian nature, talking about censorship and the need for

00:24:41.760 more censorship, being completely lacking self-awareness when he talks about listening to the

00:24:46.000 other side. So all we learned this week is everything that we already knew. Justin Trudeau is all about

00:24:50.880 optics, very light on substance. When it comes to the things that he actually wants to talk about,

00:24:55.200 he is not at all honest. He is not at all sincere in what he's talking about. He's totally out of

00:25:00.240 touch and lacking any kind of self-awareness. Finally, he's just not a serious person, not a leader.

00:25:07.440 I'm Kenneth Malcolm and this is The Kenneth Malcolm Show.

Juno News - March 10, 2022

Trudeau’s cringy Operation Photo-Op continues

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