The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 13, 2024


Justin Trudeau's strange inability to hold tools convincingly


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Justin Trudeau holds a hammer backwards on a construction site photo op. It's only the latest in a long line of weird things we've seen from the Prime Minister's office regarding the weird things he's seen on construction sites.

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00:00:00.000 I assume at this point you've all seen the photo of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holding a hammer backwards while at a construction site photo op,
00:00:08.880 taking a photo with some construction workers who look pretty awkward, with Justin Trudeau looking the most awkward.
00:00:14.560 And I know a lot of other commentators made entire videos about this photo.
00:00:19.480 I didn't really think it was worth it. It's not worth an entire video, just this one weird photo.
00:00:24.480 So, for your viewing pleasure, I went down the rabbit hole. And for the life of me, I cannot find a photo of Justin Trudeau not looking awkward on a construction site and holding a tool that's more complex than a pencil.
00:00:37.840 I don't know who is his comms team who keeps letting him go on construction sites and be photographed because it only makes him look more like a trust fund kid than he already was.
00:00:48.020 He's a trust fund kid of a trust fund kid. And it really shows. If he's in a kayak, if he's doing something recreational, if he's bungee dumping, it looks like he's in his helmet.
00:00:56.880 You give him a hammer, you give him a shovel, you give him a power drill. It's so weird.
00:01:01.500 It reminded me immediately of this old website, Kim Jong-un looking at things because there's this treasure trove of photos from North Korean propaganda of their dictator, the dear leader, just looking at stuff, just looking at stuff, just pointing at stuff, looking at stuff, just kneeling down, checking out a table,
00:01:22.680 you know, looking at some spaghetti or whatever is going on there, looking at some cribs. It's only ever weird. And with Justin Trudeau, I'll get to those photos in a second.
00:01:32.840 It is only ever the weirdest thing you've ever seen. It's like, again, it's his first day on the planet. As soon as you give him a hammer, it's like his eyes kind of light up and he doesn't know what to do.
00:01:41.640 But before I get to those photos, I just quickly want to plug the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary-Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:01:50.080 This is what the boundaries of the riding on the west side of Calgary will look like after the boundaries get changed in late April.
00:01:56.100 But if you live in this riding and you're a real conservative, buy a membership and vote for me number one on your ballot for the conservative nomination,
00:02:02.200 so we make sure we don't end up with a bunch of red Tory representatives who would have ran for the Liberals if they had a better chance in these ridings.
00:02:08.440 It's a big game that goes on. But anyways, without further ado, I quickly want to start off with the photo of Justin Trudeau wearing boots at a construction site a while back.
00:02:18.540 And, you know, the blame goes all around to his cabinet because I don't know what possessed these people to take photos like this,
00:02:25.380 all wearing new work boots that are like making their pants ride up, not wearing construction hats. It's terrible.
00:02:31.900 But that's the least terrible. And then you get to this one where Justin Trudeau wearing a mask is trying to drill a solar panel.
00:02:38.440 I don't know what he's trying to drill. I looked really closely. It didn't even look like there was some bracket he was trying to drill.
00:02:45.120 He just is holding a power drill while kneeling over a solar panel, not bracing himself or anything.
00:02:49.660 So he's obviously not putting pressure on it. I don't get it. It's so odd looking.
00:02:54.800 And here's him. I think it was during flooding where they were filling sandbags.
00:02:58.520 And this is, remember, famously, he got yelled at for disrupting the whole bag filling.
00:03:04.500 And he's holding a shovel backwards while trying to stick it in the dirt.
00:03:08.460 Like you could say, well, maybe he's trying to chip away at something. I don't know what he's trying to chip away at.
00:03:12.240 It's loose dirt. You should just be shoveling it like this.
00:03:14.860 Like, make no mistake. I am not a guy who's like natural around power drills.
00:03:19.420 I do not wield a chainsaw like Javier Mele from Argentina. Don't give me a hammer either.
00:03:26.000 But my team, if I had a team, would not be stupid enough to let me hold a hammer.
00:03:30.620 And here's Justin Trudeau holding a hammer trying to nail something.
00:03:34.180 He's just sort of like holding it against something while having this weird pose of like,
00:03:39.160 well, I don't know what he's attempting to do.
00:03:40.960 He just seizes up like he just took a bunch of ketamine every time you give him a power drill.
00:03:45.260 And it's not just construction sites. It's also on boats.
00:03:49.000 So when I guess when he was pretending to be a fisherman,
00:03:51.660 he just sitting there doesn't doesn't know what to do with the netting.
00:03:54.140 It's confusing to him. He's scared. He wants his mom.
00:03:57.000 He doesn't understand what this weird net is in front of him.
00:04:00.560 And I just quickly want to go back to the other one where he's holding the hammer backwards.
00:04:03.540 Like, again, who's his photographer?
00:04:05.600 Who isn't telling Justin like, hey, you know how you have it there?
00:04:08.300 Just turn it around and do that.
00:04:09.700 And then we don't look like idiots in putzes.
00:04:11.780 But no, his comms team is way overpaid.
00:04:15.360 This is where I actually sympathize with Justin Trudeau.
00:04:18.560 The man's incompetent and his team, who I hope is not less competent than him,
00:04:23.700 for some reason doesn't curb the bad imagistics he constantly generates for himself
00:04:28.680 by like trying to make himself look working class.
00:04:33.840 It's horrifying.
00:04:35.560 And then there's this photo of him in some like shot class,
00:04:38.180 very proud of his piece of wood that he cut with the help of the teacher.
00:04:43.020 I didn't get that photo, but like the teacher had to like show him how to like drill things
00:04:46.520 and cut things.
00:04:47.160 It was a bit odd.
00:04:48.580 Yeah, never do that.
00:04:50.360 The thing with these is that it's trying to make the person relatable.
00:04:53.160 Look, they're working class. 1.00
00:04:54.320 Look, they're working hard.
00:04:55.280 It's representative of the economy booming.
00:04:57.600 But what benefit do you really gain by taking these photos?
00:05:02.100 The only thing that could happen is that you make a fool of yourself
00:05:06.180 because no one's going to see you in a hard hat thinking,
00:05:08.300 oh man, he's the right guy for me.
00:05:10.200 Nobody thinks that.
00:05:11.480 So by going and taking these photos, you only run the risk of looking like a simpleton, 0.89
00:05:16.160 like not like kind of grappling onto a drill here.
00:05:19.620 Like he doesn't know what he's holding.
00:05:20.960 Like someone just handed him an alien artifact.
00:05:23.580 And he's wondering where like, you know,
00:05:25.900 he's wondering how this thing's supposed to pour champagne for him.
00:05:29.520 It's like, again, who's telling him to do any of this stuff?
00:05:34.280 I want to find if I want to see if I can quickly find the video of him trying to hammer something.
00:05:38.980 I can't find that one.
00:05:40.000 It doesn't matter.
00:05:40.740 But there's this other video, if you remember, of him trying to drive a nail into a wall.
00:05:44.900 And this woman's watching him on the construction site, 0.95
00:05:47.120 just like looking like just deer in a headlights because of how cringey it is.
00:05:52.460 Seeing him kind of like knock the hammer.
00:05:54.540 And he's not like swinging the hammer, holding it there, swinging the hammer into the nail.
00:05:58.260 He's like kind of like he's like kind of like doing this.
00:06:00.500 He's like punching the nail with the hammer and he's like missing a lot.
00:06:04.200 And he's having to like reset.
00:06:05.980 Goodness.
00:06:07.200 Politicians should stay in their office. 0.96
00:06:09.160 They should go to white collar working environments. 0.98
00:06:11.700 They should stand at a podium wearing a suit in front of a construction site.
00:06:16.340 Do not enter the construction site.
00:06:17.960 Do not put on boots.
00:06:19.060 Do not put on a hard hat.
00:06:20.100 Do not do anything.
00:06:21.300 If you're not allowed to be on the construction site without a helmet,
00:06:24.000 you're probably, you shouldn't be there in the first place.
00:06:26.600 Just a word of advice, guys.
00:06:28.580 Just look normal.
00:06:30.760 The imagistics of politics is very sensitive.
00:06:34.880 And Justin Trudeau was never the guy who needed to highlight his working class background.
00:06:39.180 Because guess what?
00:06:40.360 He doesn't have one.
00:06:41.600 His dad didn't have one either.
00:06:43.360 So him trying to like get down and dirty is just horrifying.
00:06:47.020 He's a guy.
00:06:47.640 He's like a surfer dude.
00:06:49.020 You don't bring your surfer dude friend to help you build a house.
00:06:52.340 He's going to screw it up.
00:06:53.460 Just give him like a clamato and make him sit on the sidelines.
00:06:57.260 Guys, that's Justin Trudeau's place.
00:06:59.280 He should be canoeing.
00:07:00.920 He should be bungee jumping.
00:07:02.720 He should be boxing.
00:07:04.040 He even looks like a competent boxer.
00:07:05.800 As many people share that photo of him being punched in the face, which is funny.
00:07:09.080 He's a good boxer.
00:07:10.220 But if he's not doing something that doesn't have a feeling of a rich person playing polo,
00:07:15.320 it's like he doesn't, he looks immediately like he's out of place and he has no way of
00:07:20.780 relating to any of these people.
00:07:22.000 Because he can't relate to any of these people.
00:07:23.520 Because in a certain sense, he fundamentally hates working class individuals.
00:07:28.280 Anyways.
00:07:29.160 But that should be it for me today.
00:07:31.080 There was way more photos than just this.
00:07:33.100 I maybe found one or two photos where he looked semi-competent.
00:07:36.280 And it was only whenever he was just standing at a construction site, never holding a tool.
00:07:40.800 But that should be it for me today, guys.
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00:08:48.480 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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