Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared some thoughts about President Trump to other world leaders in a video that was taken during a reception in Buckingham Palace.
“He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,” Trudeau told a small group of world leaders that included French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in video published on Twitter by CBC’s Politics & Power. The comment was in reference to Trump kicking off the NATO summit in London with a tense press conference with Macron.
“You just watched his team’s jaws drop to the floor,” Trudeau added in the video clip. Trump called a Macron comment “nasty” during the press conference. He also went after France for having a “very high unemployment rate.”
The president warned NATO allies that he will use trade as a weapon if they do not increase their share of defense costs. “There are some countries that aren’t fulfilling their commitment, and those countries are going to be dealt with,” Trump threatened.
When Trudeau was pressed at the conference about Canada falling behind in its obligations for NATO defense spending, the prime minister instead brought up the number of women in their NATO leadership.
