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Gawd! He has to talk to our president like a five year old— “We did big things.”…. You are a smart man doing a dumb thing!” What an embarrassment to our nation!

Trudeau must of had to bite his tongue , to call Trump a smart gay...

Donald a smart man????

You know there's an old saying that I'm sure Trump is very wise about you keep your friends close and your enemies closer I would say the way Canada is talking they consider us an enemy look at all these other countries that suddenly lined up against America who bailed all of them out of World War II and who brought down the Berlin Wall that shows how thankful you are and America's been paying the highest of the EU and the United Nations than any of you chicken countries I would just laugh at all of you you don't get it and all these comments are from Liberal Democrats who hate Trump it's real obvious that's who his fan base is Trudeau the little boy from the north who's not smart enough to come in from the cold poor guy he's in for a rude awakening she thinks he's going up against America and that we believe any of his BS

Great to hear a smart leader. Shame the US can’t manage to elect one

Merci Monsieur Trudeau!! sauf que Trump is not SMART at ALL!! he is just DUMM

I can't believe he just said that t rump was a very smart guy! What planet does he live on!

I got lost when he said trump was a smart guy ??????

But Donald is not a smart man he is a greedy fool doing the Kremlin’s bidding to wreck the US economy and drive a wedge between us and our allies. Donald is pure evil.

Donold is not a smart man. He's a lying dotard.

Justin, you are too nice, Donald is in no way smart.....not intellectually, not street smart, I mean the dude chose to look like that, that isn't smart...

me to Justin Trudeau : your're a very smart guy, please keep on !

Such a smart man, I wish we had him for President! Not the uneducated stupid clown we have! People! Don’t be fooled, this isn’t about fentanyl! Watch closely people, this is Dump smoking mirrors into stealing from all of us! And in the meantime we will be paying the price for his stealing!!!

DJT is NOT a smart man

Trump is smart? No Justin ?

Smart person don't do dumb things, Dump person do dumb things.

Trump is not a smart guy.

Sorry Trudeau, you're wrong, trump is NOT a smart guy.

Calling Trump smart. Is dumb. It’s untruthful and it’s not working to suck up to him. Make his base see what he is, an authoritarian piece of sh*t.

he's not a smart guy though

In what fucking world is Trump a smart man??

Our dumb PM Trudeau is punishing Canadians by adding tarrifs to US products they need for their businesses and not given them time to find alternative canadian sources. He is not as smart as premier Doug Ford who is just adding surtaxes to products sold to US from Canada. He doesn't care if he did he would end poroguing of parliament and increase spending on military and border protection on all sides of our country he says that Trump is going to cause a recession in Canada we already have on caused by 9 years of Liberal federal government backed by NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.

Trump is anything but smart. People give him way too much credit. Way too much.

The trump “smart”? What a lie! It is an idiot and a moron

Donald a smart man? He tries to be polite. Trump is an idiot, for Putin he is a useful idiot.

Is there any smart decision Trump made so far? The US administrations is now lead by a bunch of greedy and narcissistic so called “businessmen”.

Trudeau is so handsome and smart and good. I wish he was our leader here in the US. Can you come here and help us, please? We need help. I understand why you have to fight back against Trump. I can't stand Trump and what he and our government is doing but I don't know how to stop it. I sure didn't vote for him. Thank you Mr. Trudeau for all of your great work and commitment and governance. I stand with Canada.

Great, now Trudeau actually has a chance to win the next election again because Trump is making him look smart. FML!

Trudeau lost me when he called Donald 'a very smart guy'. I'm onboard with retaliating against Trump's tariffs even if it increases prices of goods I want to buy.

I'm no admirer of Trudeau, but this was a great speech. (Can you imagine Donnie making a coherent speech like this? ?) but I disagree with him on one thing: Donnie is NOT a very smart guy. (Although I know why Trudeau felt he had to say that).

Canada gonna lose n they know it . They dont mind us paying tariffs . Why do any Americans want us to pay but not them . Because u not too smart

You give him way too much credit. He is NOT a very smart guy

Doesn't make sense to at least half of us Americans either. Please, sock it to him! And us! DT makes up all of this in his head. And NO, he is not a very smart guy!

Trump isn’t a “smart guy”. He’s president because the average US voter is very, very stupid.

the only lie was when he said Trump was smart

So sorry Canada ?? , the best and only excuse we have here in the US is that the trump administration does not know what he or they of what they are doing. They are the worst administration in American history. And No, trump is not a smart guy at all. Sorry again, Canada.

I only disagree with 4 words : “ … you are very smart …”

The WSJ could not be more wrong about felon trump being a smart individual. He has shown time and time again that he is the dumbest person to ever sit in the White House. trump knows very little about business, communication, tact, generosity, and kindness. trump is all for trump. It's as simple as that. trump hates America, and sides with a war criminal, a dictator, and murderer. Save America. IMPEACH trump NOW!

Is Donald really a smart man?

The only thing the Prime Minister said that was not true is that Donald is a smart man. Not True, Trump is just a good conman.

Trudeau is wrong on one important. Yrump is not a “very smart guy”. He has the intellect, emotions and thoughts of a very spoiled, bratty and angry 11 year old. He wants to be a superhero, but is actually a Creature from the Greed Lagoon.

Wes Clark is a smart man, and he doesn't understand this process. Russia is now the USAs strongest ally. Weird.

Except...Donald is not a smart man!

Trudeau got one thing wrong. Trump is not very smart. Not even remotely smart

Americans believe a failed con man to run the economy, with all those bankruptcies, among many other failures, that doesn’t seem smart

Donald Trump is not a smart man, he is a stupid ignorant, small minded vile human being, he belongs in prison.

Canada should join the EU. And one more thing: Donald is not smart.

Great speech, but he needed to be corrected about Trump being smart, Trump is as smart as a doorknob.

This is what a leader should be, eloquent, polite, articulate and smart.

Trudeau said Trump was a smart man.??? Trump is the stupidest, most unread president the US has ever had.