The Candice Malcolm Show - 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.

00:00:04.080 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:10.160 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. So today we're going to focus

00:00:13.520 almost entirely on our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his photo op blitz across Europe.

00:00:19.000 So he's there all week. He's done the same thing everywhere he goes. He shows up, he wears his

00:00:23.780 masks, he keeps up the COVID appearances and COVID theater while also smiling like a fool

00:00:28.940 and trying to look the part of a Prime Minister trying to look super serious. Whenever he goes

00:00:33.460 to give a speech or to say something of substance, it really blows up in his face, mostly because he

00:00:39.000 is such a massive hypocrite, probably the least self-aware person I have ever seen in public

00:00:44.220 life, either that or just a complete dishonest gaslighter, someone who gaslights people by

00:00:50.280 saying the exact opposite of the truth to try to confuse them. Justin Trudeau has become the king

00:00:55.080 of that. We're going to go through all of it in detail today. So we started out in the UK earlier

00:01:00.200 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

00:01:09.580 press, the spotlight, the intrigue, the sort of painting him as the anti-Trump, the counter-Trump,

00:01:15.780 the sort of liberal golden boy in this era of sort of populism. Justin Trudeau was praised

00:01:21.800 by the international media for so many years, and he kind of attached his star to that. That

00:01:25.660 is what made him appealing to progressives in Canada. They liked the attention, they liked

00:01:30.060 the positive press that Justin Trudeau would receive, and it really helped him at home

00:01:34.180 domestically. So if he was ever having a rough time in Canada, if he was ever under a lot

00:01:38.280 of scrutiny, his team would just simply plan a trip for him abroad and he would get the sort

00:01:43.000 of positive praise of the media. It would help change the channel from a bad domestic policy

00:01:48.020 or a bad news cycle at home. Well, as we can see during this trip to Europe, that's just

00:01:53.640 no longer the case. Fresh off of using the Emergencies Act in Canada, fresh off using excessive

00:01:59.040 force, police force against peaceful protesters, the entire shenanigans of the thing. Justin

00:02:04.380 Trudeau refusing to meet with these truckers, smearing them, lying and saying that they were

00:02:08.740 far-right extremists or that they were racist, mischaracterizing them, and then ultimately using

00:02:13.700 excessive force to clear out what was clearly a peaceful protest. That still stings. Justin

00:02:19.900 Trudeau may have been able to avoid scrutiny here at home in Canada, but when he goes abroad,

00:02:23.800 when he goes to meetings, especially in the UK, people were watching very carefully and they

00:02:27.780 didn't like what they saw. So Justin Trudeau, instead of leaving Canada, getting to go to Europe

00:02:31.760 and enjoying the sort of lighter, fluffier news coverage, more softball questions, the praise that

00:02:38.860 he's used to from a foreign audience. Instead, this is what he is met with when he gets to Europe.

00:02:43.300 Here he is in London trying to get to 10 Downing Street where the Prime Minister lives. The only

00:02:47.980 problem is that there is a sizable protest. There are people waving Canadian flags, one upside down

00:02:53.040 there. Puppet Trudeau, free Tamara Lich. There are people here that do not want Justin Trudeau to get

00:03:00.740 a free pass. Dictator Trudeau resign is what another sign said. And so because of this protest,

00:03:06.920 because of these crowds, Justin Trudeau simply could not get to the front gate of 10 Downing.

00:03:11.940 And so what did he have to do? He had to sneak in the back door like some kind of a tyrant,

00:03:17.180 like some kind of a dictator. Here he is sneaking into the back for his meeting with Prime Minister

00:03:21.960 Boris Johnson. A little awkward handshake there where Boris goes to do a fist pump and Justin tries

00:03:28.880 to go in for the full handshake. This is what it's come to for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,

00:03:33.160 having to sneak into the back door to avoid scrutiny for his record, for his behavior as

00:03:38.780 Prime Minister. You know, he can laugh and smile and pretend everything is fine and dandy. The reality

00:03:43.560 is that his reputation has been damaged. His reputation abroad, that whole thing that he goes

00:03:48.200 for when he goes abroad, trying to be the golden boy, trying to get the praise of the international

00:03:52.060 media, to bring it back home to Canada, say, look at this great, look at this great job I'm doing for

00:03:56.500 the country. Look at this positive PR that I'm creating for Canada. Everybody loves Canada. We're this

00:04:00.860 pristine, progressive, liberal utopia. That is no longer the case. That illusion has been shattered

00:04:06.920 and people around the world are now seeing the reality of Justin Trudeau, which ain't pretty,

00:04:10.860 which ain't what he purported to be for so long. And now it's completely clear. Justin Trudeau continues

00:04:17.580 with the complete COVID theater. So this one's bizarre. So Justin Trudeau on March 7th in the morning,

00:04:24.500 he meets with the Queen of England, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. And here he is standing just feet

00:04:30.860 from the 95-year-old monarch who just recovered from COVID maskless. Okay, look, I'm for this. I'm

00:04:36.640 for being maskless. I don't think that you should wear a mask inside anymore. I never wear a mask.

00:04:41.000 And here's Justin Trudeau in the UK where they don't have mask mandates anymore. They don't even

00:04:44.540 require little kids in schools to wear masks. And they've moved on. As Boris Johnson said,

00:04:49.360 they've moved on from COVID. Here he is meeting the Queen. No mask. However, I guess the science

00:04:54.100 changed. The science just has a tendency to suddenly change. And here he is later that day,

00:05:00.080 same day, March 7th, meeting with Labour Party leader Keir Stammer, wearing masks, sitting down,

00:05:06.220 trying to have a conversation. And they're wearing masks for some reason. So I guess COVID was a threat

00:05:12.820 over here meeting the Labour Party leader, not a threat in Buckingham Palace. Funny how science

00:05:17.960 works like that. So what was the purpose of this trip? Why was Justin Trudeau in the UK? What was

00:05:24.240 the meat of the visit, aside from the photo ops, aside from the optics? Why was he there? Well,

00:05:29.500 alongside British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Canada and the United Kingdom announced that they

00:05:34.160 would rededicate themselves, along with the Group of Seven efforts, to counter Russian propaganda

00:05:39.240 and disinformation. So this is a quote from the joint statement. It says, we'll continue to use the G7

00:05:44.700 rapid response mechanism for joint assessment and collective action, including ramping up our

00:05:49.420 collective engagement with the media, tech platforms and civil society to tackle Russia's 0.87

00:05:54.460 unprecedented information war. So they're there to talk about censorship. They're there to try to shut

00:06:01.740 down any Russian efforts to communicate what is happening from their perspective. Nothing says

00:06:08.160 liberal democracy quite like the resolve and the willingness of our leaders to censor opinions that

00:06:14.100 they don't like, to censor information they don't like. Look, I completely agree that Russia pushes 0.51

00:06:18.840 out an unprecedented amount of propaganda. This is a war. This is a wartime effort. And we see the

00:06:24.520 fog of war. We see propaganda. We see misinformation left, right and center. Sometimes it can be difficult

00:06:29.100 to make your way through that. Of course, the response and the answer to that is not censorship,

00:06:34.260 is not censoring certain opinions that you don't like. The answer, of course, is to thoroughly

00:06:38.180 rebuke the other side, to thoroughly rebuke misinformation. Because when you censor something,

00:06:43.060 it creates intrigue. People are more interested. They want to find out what is going on. Whereas

00:06:47.520 when you have more information and you allow the other side to be refuted, when you have

00:06:52.040 thorough information, that is how you get to the bottom of something. So really, really misguided

00:06:57.700 idea here. These guys, Justin Trudeau, is there promoting the idea of democracy, promoting the ideas

00:07:03.240 of freedom, whilst at the same time talking about censorship and shutting down information.

00:07:08.580 He doesn't like this, as we will see, was a theme across his trip across Europe. So next,

00:07:14.040 he headed over to Latvia. There is an ongoing Canadian military operation to train the Latvia

00:07:19.080 military there. It's actually a Canadian-led NATO deployment. So that's why you see so many Canadian

00:07:23.660 politicians in Latvia. And here is Justin Trudeau, once again, talking about his favorite topic,

00:07:29.080 which is censorship, shutting down information that we don't like.

00:07:32.060 The daily use of propaganda and disinformation to try and undermine the democracies and the values

00:07:39.500 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.

00:07:49.520 But notice how he says that, that there's misinformation being weaponized against you in

00:07:53.040 Ukraine, but also in all democracies. So he sort of leaves the door open. He's talking

00:07:57.000 specifically about a wartime measure to stop the flow of information from Russia. That's,

00:08:02.000 that's arguable. You could, you could at least have a reasonable debate about that. And then he

00:08:05.200 just slips it in. Oh, it's happening all over the West. And therefore we all need to do something

00:08:10.120 about it. And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the fact that there is an

00:08:14.300 unbelievable amount of fake news and propaganda also coming from the Ukraine side. Almost every day, 0.84

00:08:19.180 we wake up to horrible, horrific news in Ukraine of some horrific event happening only to learn

00:08:24.380 hours or the next day that it wasn't exactly what we thought. It wasn't what it seemed. We've seen

00:08:29.360 endless, endless propaganda coming from the Ukraine. The reality is that during wars, there is a lot of

00:08:34.720 misinformation. That's part of the reality as part of why wars are so confusing. And so it's a little

00:08:39.980 rich to hear Justin Trudeau only talk about on one side, and then again, open it up for this idea

00:08:44.360 that, that yes, Russia has misinformation that we need to tackle right now, but it does happen

00:08:49.000 everywhere. So, so more to come on that. And as we know, Justin Trudeau is trying to introduce

00:08:53.040 legislation, both with Bill C-10 and C-36 in the last parliament being resumed. This time around

00:08:58.180 is Bill C-11 trying to regulate algorithms on social media platforms, trying to regulate and

00:09:04.380 censor user generated content and a bill to supposedly tackle hate speech online, which would just give the

00:09:09.880 government unprecedented powers, more powers to remove content that they don't like, or that they

00:09:15.300 disagree with. So Justin Trudeau is really becoming the prime minister of censorship. And he is taking that

00:09:20.460 message across Europe. And this is also from Latvia. So when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

00:09:25.040 isn't lecturing us about misinformation and talking about the need for censorship to what

00:09:30.320 strengthen our democracy, Justin Trudeau could be seen taking photo ops with the Canadian forces that

00:09:36.380 are stationed in Latvia. Here he is with his defense minister, Anita Nand, laughing it up, having a good

00:09:42.460 old time, posing for a photo. It looks like a sports photo. It looks like Trudeau is posing with the

00:09:47.140 Stanley Cup or something like that. He's got a big grin on his face. Like, look at this. It's so

00:09:52.040 awesome. Look at me with these cool guys. I'm one of them. I'm macho. I just don't understand the big

00:09:58.860 grin. I don't understand what he is thinking here. War is a horrible, awful, solemn thing. You're not at

00:10:06.540 the front lines, not with the people defending against the Russian invasion, but pretty close with

00:10:11.860 the head of Canada's mission in Europe, in Latvia, which is right there in the Baltic Sea. And again, a serious

00:10:19.020 calm moment, a solemn moment. Instead, Justin Trudeau with his big, silly grin. This guy is just, it's

00:10:25.360 impossible to take Justin Trudeau seriously. It really is impossible to take him seriously. He went over to

00:10:31.940 Berlin next. Here he is on March 9th. This is one of the most unbelievable comments that I have seen from

00:10:38.080 Trudeau recent times. He is either the least self-aware person that you have ever seen in your

00:10:42.720 entire life, or he's just the king of saying the exact opposite of his own actions. He is gaslighting

00:10:49.000 the people. So here he is talking about the importance of reaching out across the aisle,

00:10:54.160 talking to people that you disagree with. Isn't that rich? Can you imagine Justin Trudeau, the prime

00:10:59.060 minister who just used the emergency act, who just used martial law against his own people because he

00:11:04.420 refused to talk to them. He disagreed with them. He refused to even hear them out. He used excessive

00:11:09.240 force against protesters because he refused to talk about them. Here he is with, within all his

00:11:14.500 infinite wisdom, telling the people of Germany how important it is to talk to people we disagree with.

00:11:20.940 This is, this is truly unbelievable. Here's that clip.

00:11:22.920 The respect for the infinite dignity of each individual

00:11:28.220 means no one should get left out. And this is also true for people who hold different political

00:11:38.480 views. We all need to commit to more listening and less shouting. Diversity of ideas helps us learn

00:11:49.860 from one another. Talking with people who think differently from us is how we challenge ourselves

00:11:56.240 and challenging ourselves is how we grow.

00:12:00.000 Justin Trudeau has spent his entire career denigrating conservatives, painting conservatives as somehow

00:12:05.660 un-Canadian, unworthy of their having their own opinions, having a say in Canadian democracy. And here he is 0.94

00:12:12.500 talking about the importance of listening to people, reaching across the aisle, listening to those who he

00:12:17.760 disagrees with. It is, it is so frustrating to hear Justin Trudeau talk. And again, I really don't understand.

00:12:24.060 Is this some kind of a tacit recognition that he didn't do what he should have done, that he should

00:12:29.820 have listened to people across the aisle, that he should have listened to people he disagrees with?

00:12:33.200 I doubt it. I don't think Trudeau has that much self-awareness. I think instead that he is gaslighting

00:12:39.020 you. He is trying, he is saying the exact opposite of what he does. And we've seen this before. Again,

00:12:43.880 to go back to the trucker convoy, going back to Justin Trudeau, he characterized those protests.

00:12:50.940 He characterized the people who were in Ottawa, who were protesting against his overzealous COVID

00:12:56.160 policies. He characterized them in three ways, as waving despicable flags, as desecrating the

00:13:01.980 streets of Ottawa, desecrating the war memorial, and stealing from the homeless. Of course, the way

00:13:06.700 that you would characterize the rallies and the protests in Ottawa were the exact opposite. It was

00:13:11.500 an uprising of national unity and patriotism characterized by the waving of Canadian flags,

00:13:16.760 not despicable flags, Canadian flags. There were thousands upon thousands upon thousands

00:13:20.580 of Canadian flags that we saw across the country at the overpasses on Parliament Hill. They were

00:13:25.760 Canadian flags. And yet Trudeau said that they were despicable flags. The whole idea that people

00:13:30.700 were desecrating a war memorial was never true. It was not true to begin with. It was a fake news

00:13:35.820 narrative. The reality was that people were going through painstaking efforts to keep the city clean.

00:13:41.140 There were street captains assigned. They were picking up garbage. There was no garbage to be seen on the

00:13:45.260 streets, according to reporters that were on the ground. There were images of them cleaning the

00:13:49.460 Terry Fox Memorial after someone had put a sign on there that the media didn't like. And they did

00:13:54.760 barricade around the war memorial to stop people from walking on it, people who perhaps weren't aware

00:13:58.820 of what it was. Protesters at one point moved those barricades, and it was to pray so that they could

00:14:04.040 pray and single Canada. Veterans themselves could pay respects. At the war memorial, of course, Trudeau's

00:14:09.160 media painted it as though something nefarious was going on. They were moving those barricades to do

00:14:13.900 something, some kind of desecration. So the way that Trudeau, oh, and then when it came to food,

00:14:19.160 the idea that they were stealing food from the homeless. The protest, the protest again,

00:14:25.920 turned into a big block party. It turned into a big Canada Day festival. There were barbecues

00:14:29.560 everywhere. There were different kinds of food. Remember this guy, this Sikh individual who was

00:14:32.940 making samosas. This is how the protests were characterized. People giving away food for free.

00:14:38.180 Everything was free. Here's the samosa guy. Irregardless of what faith you're from, 1.00

00:14:42.900 what caste, creed, religion, doesn't matter. It's about the community kitchen. We all eat as one,

00:14:49.060 and humanity's equal. So the seva concept, helping the community, is what we're practicing here today.

00:14:56.180 We're here alongside the truckers in the fight for freedom, and we're doing our part from the Sikh

00:15:01.320 faith. And we welcome everyone to come and have some samosas, some tea, and some french fries.

00:15:07.740 Again, everything that Justin Trudeau said, the opposite was the case. This is one of my favorite

00:15:12.280 videos from the trucker convoy. I'm going to play it again because I just really like it.

00:15:16.120 Justin Trudeau, this is how he characterized the trucker convoy versus the images that we saw that

00:15:21.160 were in complete contradiction to what Justin Trudeau said. Here's that video.

00:15:25.060 Over the past few days, Canadians were shocked and frankly disgusted by the behavior displayed by

00:15:32.220 some people protesting in our nation's capital. Hate can never be the answer. So to those responsible

00:15:40.140 for this behavior, it needs to stop. To anyone who joined the convoy, but is rightly uncomfortable

00:15:47.700 with the symbols of hatred and division on display, join with your fellow Canadians.

00:15:53.720 I love that video still. Every time I see it, it makes me, makes me smile because Trudeau is just

00:15:58.860 so out of touch. He's such a hypocrite. He's so contradictory and he clearly doesn't take his

00:16:03.420 own advice. The whole idea of talking to people you disagree with is not something that Justin

00:16:07.260 Trudeau does. Well, he wasn't done with his gaslighting again on March 9th in Berlin. This is

00:16:13.080 what Justin Trudeau had to say. At its best, democracy is always stronger than authoritarianism. Here is what

00:16:19.360 that looked like. We mustn't despair because at its best, democracy is always stronger than

00:16:29.660 authoritarianism. But if we're going to be honest with each other, democracy hasn't exactly been at its

00:16:38.580 best these past few years. Democracy hasn't been at its best these last few years. Gee, you think?

00:16:45.160 Do you think it had something to do with Justin Trudeau, your policies when it came to heavy-handed,

00:16:49.360 over-the-top, overzealous measures to combat COVID when it came to shutting down the economy,

00:16:54.120 shutting down the borders, shutting down small businesses? That was you. That was you that did

00:16:58.100 that. That was you that used excessive force against peaceful protesters, all the hallmarks of not

00:17:03.440 democracy, no authoritarianism. And yet here he is saying that democracy is always stronger,

00:17:08.580 than authoritarianism. He is so out of touch. He is so offside with his comments. It's unbelievable

00:17:14.880 to just see the stark difference between his own actions and his words. It really is unbelievable.

00:17:22.180 Okay, so we've seen Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. We've seen his defense minister, Anita Anand.

00:17:26.900 Well, they weren't the only ones who were on this European soiree. We also saw the foreign affairs

00:17:31.380 minister, I think they call her global affairs minister, Melanie Jolie, as well as finance minister,

00:17:36.420 Chrystia Freeland. They were all there in Berlin, and they were met with a CBC reporter. CBC asked

00:17:42.920 the very valid question, why are you here? Aren't there more important issues at home? The reality

00:17:49.480 from this clip, it's about three minutes, and I'm going to play the whole thing. Two things you can

00:17:52.700 see. One, Chrystia Freeland is the dominant figure here. She's the finance minister, okay? She doesn't 1.00

00:17:57.420 have a foreign portfolio. Her portfolio is domestic. She is in charge of the finances of Canada,

00:18:03.220 making sure that we balance our books, that we have the right revenue, that we don't overspend.

00:18:07.500 That is her job. So why is she in Europe? Well, of course, she's sort of the de facto leader of the 0.94

00:18:11.700 country. She's got the title Deputy Prime Minister, which is a made-up title. We never had that position 0.63

00:18:15.920 under Stephen Harper. So she's supposed to, again, have a domestic role. Instead, she's out there,

00:18:20.840 of course, because she is this Ukrainian activist and superstar when it comes to her knowledge and her

00:18:27.340 background with Putin, with Russia, with Ukraine. She's very, very deeply involved in domestic politics

00:18:33.500 in Ukraine. So that's the real reason that she is there, because she's running the operation.

00:18:37.760 Melanie Jolie is sort of a puppet figure. You can see the fundamental unseriousness of her. Watch when 0.52

00:18:43.820 she comes in, the way that she talks, the way that she giggles, the way that she tries to answer

00:18:48.060 questions. She is not a serious person at all. Here is what that clip looked like. 0.96

00:18:53.220 A lot of Canadians are back at home, kind of wandering and watching this trip and seeing

00:18:58.400 a lot of photo ops, a lot of broad platitudes, and not many specifics when it comes to details.

00:19:04.780 Why couldn't these meetings have been done from Canada? Why does the Prime Minister,

00:19:08.460 the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence Minister need to be in Europe

00:19:12.880 right now when there are a lot of domestic issues at home that are very important? And some

00:19:17.280 people view this as a photo op trip to Europe.

00:19:19.720 Well, I, the only person I've heard saying that was you, but...

00:19:26.540 There are many people that are saying that.

00:19:28.220 But let me just say that this is a really, really important trip for the Prime Minister

00:19:33.720 and for Canada. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the most important geopolitical issue in the

00:19:44.140 world right now. And the fact that the Prime Minister has been able this week to have direct

00:19:50.060 conversations with our leading partners around the world is absolutely essential. It is his

00:19:56.720 responsibility and his duty at this critical moment to be here having those direct conversations,

00:20:04.020 particularly because Canada and the Prime Minister himself has a very close relationship with Ukraine. We

00:20:14.260 have a very good understanding of what the Ukrainians need and having the Prime Minister able to have those

00:20:22.340 conversations makes a big difference. And I will point out, these are very sensitive security issues. And it's hard to have these conversations, even over secure lines. So it makes a big, big difference to have these conversations, to have these meetings.

00:20:38.340 I would say that you could judge us as a government to be derelict in our duty to Canadians and the world were we not rolling up our sleeves and being involved in these direct, very substantive conversations.

00:20:56.340 If I can add, if I can add, dealing with millions of people fleeing Ukraine throughout Europe being dispersed and thousands of lives at stake and millions of lives at stake is not fine. And I don't think any of that.

00:21:10.580 I mean, the American, the American president is doing it from the White House.

00:21:14.340 My colleague Lincoln and Kamala Harris.

00:21:16.500 We're going to, Kamala Harris is in Poland tomorrow.

00:21:19.340 Well, just to say, you know, I reject your question. Yeah. And not only that, I would say that Canadians expect us to be here. And that's exactly why we're here.

00:21:30.460 Okay, so first thing, the question there, again, I believe it was a softball, like a plant question that was put in by the CBC. The way he characterizes it is kind of amusing, calling it a photo op, light on substance, heavy on on these photos. That is true. That is a rare moment of truth from a CBC reporter.

00:21:46.460 Then hearing Chrystia Freeland talking about the importance. Look, I'll be honest, I have no problem with Justin Trudeau being in Europe right now. I have no problem with Melanie Jolie, the foreign affairs minister, being there in theory, other than the fact that she's just so, such a lightweight.

00:21:59.920 Whenever she talks, it's just kind of embarrassing that this is a person who leads Canada's foreign efforts. She is our top diplomat. I don't understand her for that role. I don't, I don't, I just don't see it.

00:22:10.200 But the question I would have more is why is the finance minister there, even the defense minister? I mean, I get that Canada has troops in Latvia if she wants to be there to sort of build up morale.

00:22:20.100 Again, another odd pick for a leader of the military, the defense minister who has no experience whatsoever with the Canadian Armed Forces.

00:22:27.900 Again, maybe at a time like this, we could focus on boosting up our domestic military spends, boosting up our own ability to defend our sovereignty at home in Canada.

00:22:37.540 I'm talking about in the Arctic, in the north. We could be focusing on that.

00:22:41.000 We could be focusing on our own energy policy and how this all plays into geopolitics, the need for energy security, energy independence, more Canadian output, getting pipelines built, increasing that capacity.

00:22:52.980 Those are all important issues, not to mention the whole fallout from the Emergencies Act, COVID. Our country is still so divided.

00:22:58.980 We have two separatist movements. We have a lot of issues at home that could be focused on as well.

00:23:04.240 So a lot of people on Twitter, I know I woke up this morning and Canadian media fail was trending.

00:23:08.120 A lot of liberals and leftists were saying this just demonstrates how bad the Canadian media is.

00:23:12.780 Of course, Trudeau should be there. Of course, Melanie Schurdy should be there.

00:23:15.880 Sure. My question would be more to why is Chrystia Freeland there other than the reality that we all know that she is really running the show. 0.98

00:23:21.800 She is really the one in charge. And if you had any doubt, look at this picture.

00:23:25.060 This is a Melanie Jolie Twitter picture. Again, these people are so out of touch.

00:23:29.000 They're so there's they're so lacking self-awareness that they don't even realize how silly they are.

00:23:34.000 Everybody at home, everyone is calling this Operation Photo Op.

00:23:36.700 Everyone is talking about how little a substance it is, how it's all about optics.

00:23:40.560 And yet here is the defense minister playing into that, showing this beautifully artistic photo of her and the delegation walking through Berlin.

00:23:49.540 Really, it does look like it's all about the optics. It looks like it's all about the photo ops.

00:23:53.820 And the reason that I wanted to point this out is you can see Chrystia Freeland at the front here. 0.99

00:23:57.700 She is leading the pack. She's walking even in front of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:24:01.220 That is Trudeau behind her up front. Here is Melanie Jolie.

00:24:04.500 Back in the background, someone that the Trudeau government is basically trying to hide and they don't really want him to be front and center at all,

00:24:10.000 is Stefan Dion, who used to be the Foreign Affairs Minister, and now he is the ambassador to Germany.

00:24:17.360 But interesting how Chrystia Freeland is marching out in front. 1.00

00:24:20.180 She is a true leader of the show. She is the one calling the shots.

00:24:23.640 So what was the purpose of this trip? Why? Why? Why do we have this big entourage in Europe?

00:24:28.380 Well, you know, we had some minor announcements on increased military presence in Latvia.

00:24:33.440 A lot of virtue signaling, a lot of Justin Trudeau showing his inner authoritarian nature,

00:24:39.460 talking about censorship and the need for more censorship,

00:24:43.040 being completely lacking self-awareness when he talks about listening to the other side.

00:24:46.960 So all we learned this week is everything that we already knew.

00:24:49.780 Justin Trudeau is all about optics, very light on substance.

00:24:52.700 When it comes to the things that he actually wants to talk about, he is not at all honest.

00:24:56.800 He is not at all sincere in what he's talking about.

00:24:59.220 He's totally out of touch and lacking any kind of self-awareness.

00:25:03.860 Finally, he's just not a serious person, not a leader.

00:25:07.600 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - March 10, 2022

Trudeau’s cringy Operation Photo-Op continues

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript