Trudeau met with Trump to explain away hot mic moment before being called ‘two-faced’

Published December 5, 2019 8:54am ET



Hours before being called “two-faced,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President Trump to explain the “context” surrounding a conversation caught on a hot microphone at this week’s NATO summit during which Trudeau and other world leaders are heard making fun of the American president.

“He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,” Trudeau said Tuesday night during a reception at Buckingham Palace in London. “You just watched his team’s jaws drop to the floor.”

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