The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 10, 2025


Trudeau embarrasses himself and Canada on American media shows!

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Justin Trudeau
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Wyatt Claypool
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Justin Trudeau Donald Trump Elizabeth May Mark Carney Danielle Smith Pierre Poilievre Jagmeet Singh David Eby Arya Chandra Arya Chrystia Freeland Frank Bayless Melanie Jolie Jimmy Carter Jake Tapper John Bolton Kim Jong-un Xi Jinping Jen Psaki
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Justin Trudeau went on a media circuit to try and defend Canada. It didn t go well, but it did at least give us some context as to why Canada is not the 51st state, and why we should be proud of being Canadian.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Truly every day is full of examples as to why Justin Trudeau failed as Canada's Prime Minister.
00:00:09.780 He's been awful for our economy, our security, our social cohesion, and he's even bad at defending Canada as a concept.
00:00:18.080 We already know his famous line about how Canada is the world's first post-national state,
00:00:23.660 but when he went down to the U.S. to attend former President Jimmy Carter's funeral, he went on a bit of a media circuit of the more center-left to left outlets,
00:00:34.200 and he did an abysmal job trying to defend the existence of Canada.
00:00:39.840 Why Canada matters? What is the culture of Canada? Check this out. Here's a clip from when he was on Jake Tapper's show on CNN.
00:00:47.880 President-elect Trump has been needling you a bit, calling you Governor Trudeau, talking about making Canada the 51st state.
00:00:54.820 Did you have any interaction with him today?
00:00:56.580 No, not today. But that's not going to happen. Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian.
00:01:03.920 One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we're not American.
00:01:07.920 Why would you say that? Can I just jump in here and say that if you are tasked with defining what it means to be Canadian,
00:01:18.480 and you say not being American, you have failed, you have lost your job as a Canada explainer.
00:01:25.080 This guy is the Prime Minister of the country, been Prime Minister for almost 10 years,
00:01:29.840 and he cannot figure out a way of actually defining what it means to be Canadian when he goes on to U.S. media.
00:01:36.120 It's basically that we're just a bunch of spiteful non-Americans. 1.00
00:01:40.680 There is such a depth of pride that that's not actually an issue.
00:01:45.680 What I think is happening in this is President Trump, who's a very skillful negotiator, is getting people to be somewhat distracted by that.
00:01:56.460 You've just figured this out? You took the bait. How long did it take you to figure this out?
00:02:02.300 It's like I and a few other people, obviously many of you in the audience agreed with me that Trump was just trying to mess with Canadian diplomats
00:02:11.520 and trade negotiators by throwing out this red herring, but he didn't seem to understand that at the time,
00:02:17.840 but he's pretending like, oh, I understand Trump. He's a very good negotiator. I know his tactics.
00:02:22.940 You obviously didn't because you took the bait and were setting your hair on fire about Canada not joining as the 51st state.
00:02:29.960 By that conversation, to take away from the conversation around 25% tariffs on oil and gas and electricity and steel and aluminum and lumber and concrete
00:02:40.300 and everything the American consumers buy from Canada is suddenly going to get a lot more expensive if he moves forward on these tariffs.
00:02:46.800 And that's something that I think we need to be focusing on a little bit more.
00:02:50.900 I will give him that that is a perfectly legitimate point on why a 25% tariff on Canadian exports into the U.S. would be a bad thing.
00:03:01.320 By the way, when did we lose the thread during the last couple of weeks that the tariffs are not actually going to happen as long as we do basic border security?
00:03:10.900 Like, Premier Danielle Smith in Alberta, who I can sometimes be critical of, seems to understand this.
00:03:17.680 They're going to put drones along the U.S.-Alberta border.
00:03:21.040 They're going to put more police in the area, beef up border security.
00:03:24.620 It really doesn't cost all that much.
00:03:26.700 But for some reason, we've, like, memory-holed Trump's whole point about the border and why the 25% tariffs might come into place.
00:03:34.340 And we've just, because we want to have a fight with the U.S. and we want to pretend to be big and tough, or at least our liberal and NDP politicians want to pretend to be big and tough.
00:03:44.000 When all we had to do, like what Smith's done and like what Pierre Polyev's done, just say,
00:03:48.500 OK, we'll work with you guys to beef up border security, but you guys have to do it too because we don't want illegal guns coming into Canada.
00:03:54.720 Perfect. 0.99
00:03:55.040 And then you get idiots like David Eby, who's like, we need to have, like, a counter plan to fight the U.S. economically. 1.00
00:04:02.340 We need to put counter tariffs on them. 1.00
00:04:04.860 Jagmeet Singh saying this stuff.
00:04:06.300 You get liberals saying this stuff. 1.00
00:04:07.420 I'm like, guys, let's not do that because it's stupid. 1.00
00:04:11.500 Also, David Eby, you're the main fentanyl trafficker in this country. 0.99
00:04:15.700 So maybe at the family dinner table of all the provinces and territories, you shouldn't speak on this one because you're kind of the problem when it comes to Canada having a very loose border for drugs and whatnot because you're the main drug problem.
00:04:30.200 Because you decriminalize drugs in your province.
00:04:33.960 Anyways, I need to move on to this next clip, which is somehow worse from Justin Trudeau.
00:04:39.020 That was more of a failed attempt to defend Canada.
00:04:42.480 That big swing and a miss.
00:04:43.660 Now we have this clip where Trudeau trying to justify Canada again or trying to, you know, snipe back at Trump because it is smart that with Trump jabbing Canada, and it's obviously meant to kind of be funny to Americans, that Canadians should say something funny as well.
00:05:01.560 If anything, and I don't know why I have to say this, Elizabeth May actually had a kind of good response like a week ago when she said Canada doesn't want to be the 51st state, but what about California being the 11th province? 0.94
00:05:15.200 It's, you know, combating a silly statement by Trump with an equally silly statement, even though Elizabeth May is a ridiculous politician.
00:05:22.460 It really is a broken clock is right twice a day kind of a situation with Elizabeth May because usually she just says something silly anyways, but it happened to line up in this case. 0.96
00:05:33.400 But here we go.
00:05:34.560 Here is a video of Justin Trudeau basically attacking Canadian provinces by trying to crib Elizabeth May's strategy.
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00:06:07.820 And without further ado, here is the second clip of Trudeau on Jen Psaki's show this time, I believe, on MSNBC.
00:06:15.740 I'm assuming he didn't bring up his intention to publicly say he was going to annex through economic means your country.
00:06:21.660 It actually it actually sort of came up at one point and and then he's talking about it came up at one point when he was at Mar-a-Lago.
00:06:28.740 Right. And and then we started musing back and forth about this.
00:06:33.780 And when I started to suggest, well, maybe there could be a trade for Vermont or California from for for certain parts.
00:06:42.000 He you can even see he trails off there because when he starts talking about how there can be a trade for California and Vermont for certain other.
00:06:50.520 And he was going to say provinces. And then he realized how stupid that is. 1.00
00:06:54.640 And at this point, why doesn't he just let loose and say he hates Alberta and Saskatchewan? 1.00
00:06:59.580 Just say it. Come on. You're not even going to be the prime minister by like mid-March.
00:07:04.340 So just blast off, dude. But imagine that he somehow screwed up.
00:07:09.680 Elizabeth May, resident NyQuil connoisseur, he somehow screwed up Elizabeth May, the Green Party leaders line, 1.00
00:07:16.760 by then implying that there are certain provinces that he dislikes and would like to trade away.
00:07:22.140 By the way, this is the most. Yeah, that totally happened, man.
00:07:26.140 Story I've ever heard. Justin Trudeau did not have this exchange with Donald Trump.
00:07:31.860 He just realizes he has to retcon his dinner at Mar-a-Lago to make it look like he was in there.
00:07:38.160 He was you know, he was jabbing to they were having a good time.
00:07:41.580 And Trudeau was like basically going down to Mar-a-Lago hat in hand and he was being messed with.
00:07:50.500 Everyone knows that he was being messed with because Trump dislikes him.
00:07:54.040 Even like let's just jump over to hear a good clip from a guy I actually don't mind, even though everyone hates his guts.
00:08:00.680 John Bolton made this point that Trump and he's not even someone who likes Trump.
00:08:05.060 And he just makes the point like, yeah, Trump's obviously kidding.
00:08:07.460 And he's just trying to mess with Trudeau because he doesn't like Trudeau.
00:08:09.540 I guarantee you, Trudeau was not Mar-a-Lago trading jokes with Trump.
00:08:14.220 He probably got jabbed by Trump and got really scared and didn't say anything because this is the first time we've heard this story from Trudeau that he was making this idea that we should then take Vermont from you guys.
00:08:25.900 Because we talked about so, you know, the so-called kiss the ring approach a number of weeks ago.
00:08:31.960 So, given the fact that he sort of doubled down on so much of the rhetoric, do you think the same approach is still worthwhile pursuing?
00:08:40.380 Well, I would just say it was Justin Trudeau that went down to kiss the ring.
00:08:44.480 He doesn't like Justin Trudeau.
00:08:45.980 He thinks he's a Twinkie.
00:08:48.140 I do like that.
00:08:49.440 He thinks he's a Twinkie.
00:08:50.940 I mean, Canada's in a difficult position now.
00:08:53.340 You don't have an election until later in the year.
00:08:56.600 The Liberal Party has to pick a new leader.
00:08:58.580 Trump doesn't like Christy Freeland either.
00:09:02.000 And let's be clear.
00:09:03.480 Do we think that Trump's going to like Mark Carney?
00:09:07.240 Do we think that he's going to like Frank Bayless?
00:09:11.420 Arya Chandra Arya?
00:09:13.660 That other guy who's running?
00:09:15.300 Probably not.
00:09:17.200 And I think, again, once Polyev becomes prime minister, which has like a 99% likelihood of happening, I think him and Trump are going to get along fine.
00:09:26.080 Because the reality here is that Trump respects people who have the capacity to push back, who have the capacity to be tough.
00:09:34.540 That's why Trump seems to have an affinity for sometimes respecting dictators in such a way I actually disagree with.
00:09:40.720 Probably don't be too nice to like the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un.
00:09:45.580 Don't be too nice to Xi Jinping.
00:09:47.140 Don't say that you're friends.
00:09:48.420 I think it's just not a generally good rhetorical strategy.
00:09:51.540 But the whole point is the lesson here is that Trump likes people who are in command, who seem in control and are not heady and fussy.
00:10:00.420 And even then, Trump even has the ability to be a little petty.
00:10:03.120 But that's not the type of way I'm talking about where like you don't like people saying bad things about you.
00:10:07.000 I mean, like, Justin Trudeau is constantly harping on about tiny details, talking about like inclusion and things that are just fussy and annoying.
00:10:17.360 Inclusion and diversity and we need to respect everyone and make everyone feel included.
00:10:22.420 It's like, stop.
00:10:23.580 That's what makes Trump not like you.
00:10:26.480 People can like or dislike Trump.
00:10:28.640 And people think in seemingly liberal circles and even some conservative circles that understanding Trump is anti-Canadian.
00:10:36.180 I seem to be like getting like people thinking like, oh, why it doesn't care about the UNX, about the US annex in Canada.
00:10:44.320 Because I knew it was a joke.
00:10:45.660 Somehow I'm less patriotic because I refused to take the bait the way that Justin Trudeau and Melanie Jolie and Jagmeet Singh and so many other politicians did.
00:10:54.460 The good thing is conservative MPs didn't take the bait.
00:10:58.320 Honestly, Elizabeth May didn't take the bait. 0.97
00:11:00.640 Stop equally equating patriotism with being irrationally mad at the US over nothing, over a joke.
00:11:09.000 Anyways, so that is it for me today, guys.
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00:11:24.900 I'll see you guys next time.
00:11:26.460 I have probably another video coming out because the news is absolutely chock full these days, even though I was sad to see Justin Trudeau go. 0.78
00:11:33.900 Maybe actually on the way out here, I need to play this stupid meme.
00:11:36.960 This is for all of you people who like to stick to the very end of the video. 0.95
00:11:40.200 I like the stupid meme that I put up that's representative of my attitude towards Justin Trudeau right now. 0.86
00:11:47.740 Because as crappy of a prime minister as he is, I'm going to miss the guy when he's finally gone in mid-March. 0.98
00:11:54.480 Because goodness, could you imagine having to talk about Mark Carney at length? 0.91
00:11:59.360 The man is the color beige personified.
00:12:02.760 Christia Freeland, same thing.
00:12:05.220 This is me whenever I hear Justin Trudeau's back in the news.
00:12:08.300 What's he up to, man?
00:12:09.700 What's he doing?
00:12:10.500 I am beaming with, like, pride every time he makes a headline, like he's my own son.
00:12:17.380 Because, oh my goodness, he's done well by Canadian commentators who actually get to talk about something interesting.
00:12:23.560 He's probably doing something horribly wrong, but at least it's interesting to talk about.
00:12:28.600 Mark Carney's going to do things equally wrong, but it's going to be, like, boring bureaucratic things.
00:12:33.580 Anyways, so that's it.
00:12:35.320 See you guys later.
00:12:36.120 See you guys later.