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“Even though you’re a very smart guy” rofl

Mr Prime minister, you call trump a smart guy. NO, he is an idiot, he is a criminal, a rapist, a person that stole state secrets, he possibly gave some of those secrets to dictator putin.\nA totally stupid idiot, he is in musk and putins pockets.

To call that orange-faced parasite 'smart' is beyond laughable! It's hysterical!! He's the dumbest person in the room to be doing what he's doing!! Bullies aren't smart! That's why they bully!! The only thing drumpf is good at is bullying!! Canada doesn't back down from bullies!! We stand up to them!! If they want to fight dirty, we'll fight dirtier!! We don't like wars of any kind, but if we're pushed, WE WILL FIGHT BACK!!! What I find the saddest of all is that it's all us little guys on both sides of the border that are paying the price because of a narcissistic misogynistic megalomaniacal who's done nothing but spread hate and chaos everywhere he goes and his rich oligarchs who care more about money than they do about the workers who's labour helped make them rich!! If it wasn't for the little guy, they'd have NOTHING!! \n?? TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE!!\n? FOREVER!!

Donald isn't a very smart guy!

Donald is not a smart man of course. But, in terms of approaching a fascist and a criminal, since Canada will be hurt, Trudeau has to be the decent guy he is. Brilliant speech, the best I have heard ever. The guy is poised and knows how to speak. He is smart and compared to him, Trump is incredibly stupid. Bravo. Let me be clear, Trump is a traitor, a bully, a conman, totally lacking in compassion...he is driven by his perverse megalomania and narcissism. He is, in reality a very mentally sick man. And the Republicans are his pathetic cowardly accomplices. Given the continued support, Trump will run American into the gourd, even risk a war to get the attention he needs so badly.

I love Canadians but not this guy. President Trump is smart to do this for us. Trudeau is evil.

No. trump is not a really smart guy. He’s an effing idiot.

Trump a smart guy? Uh, no.

It's just Trump. One dumb man who, for some dumb reason, speaks and represents a lot of people under the name of the country they live in. Maybe someone will figure out that someone can only make so many bad decisions before they remove that person from making more bad decisions. We have the village idiot in charge of things. Most[people in America like you and other leaders more than the person who is pretending to lead here. He's the fool of fools. You don't have to call him a smart guy just to make him feel good, he just does dumb things all the time. Either way, it's a fun show, I only hope the missiles start to fly and we all destroy ourselves. \n \nHenry Limpet: Doesn't it kind of give you a thrill of hope, George? \nGeorge Stickel: Hope for what, Henry? \nHenry Limpet: With the war in Europe and new weapons being invented all the time, why, well what if men were actually foolish enough to destroy themselves completely? Then, you see, the fish in the ocean would develop into a new race of men and - well, this time they might turn out better, you see? \n \nOne can only hope.

Trump is a smart guy ? !!! Kissing his ass will work.

So impressed with Trudeau and Canada as a whole. This should make any self respecting American citizen feel embarrassed to compare their apology for a president to this man and his team. P.S. Note to Trudeau - Trump is NOT a very smart guy, don't do what the rest of the world is trying to do, flatter this susceptible idiot hoping to get him on side, it won't, it just makes him certain that he is so special and clever and makes his behaviour 100% worse.

I wouldn't go as far as to say Trump is a smart guy!!! This was one of the dumbest things he's done and there's been plenty!!!

Trudeau lied. He called Trump a smart guy

Donald...Your a smart guy, but this is a very dumb thing to do.\nDonald...That makes you a very dumb guy.

So nice to have a smart, informed, articulate leader…versus the narcissistic, rambling, embarrassing, childish orange d!ck we have. And this is from a middle class guy in a southern state. No doubt Führer Trump will try to stay forever,but hopefully this mess will go away in four years

The only lie was calling Trump a very smart guy.

Except he's not a very smart guy.

Only one thing he said was total crap and that was stating trump is a smart guy. He's got the IQ of a marshmallow.

Calling a narcissist like Trump a smart guy really shows who the smart guy is.

Drumpf a smart guy? Any dumb bamboon is smarter than him! Stopping the a** kissing! Trump will just screws you more when he thinks you are weak

Smart guy... He think

Trump is not a very smart guy I hope he was being sarcastic with the word “very”

I love how he talks to Donald as if he was a child even his tone changes, and then tells him he’s a very smart guy ?

But he said Donald’s a “very smart guy” ?

Trump is NOT a smart guy. He's a useful idiot for authoritarian regimes across the globe.

I can't believe the people of the USA really elected him. Come on, you know Trump plays very dirty--I refuse to believe that the majority of voters are this brain dead. If our nation is this stupid then we deserve everything that is coming to us. PS: Trudeau, it's way too nice to tell Trump he's a smart guy--he's evil, not at all intelligent. Can we please stop conflating scheming, bullying and manipulation with intelligence---any dumb ass can scheme, bully and manipulate (the prisons are full with this kind of human being), but you actually have to be intelligent to collaborate, listen and manage.

Smart guy lol.. good one Justin! Trumpy is not smart. He is an idiot, a moron, and a total disaster

Trump was never a smart guy... he just talks like a bully, that's all!!!!!!

Trump isn't a smart guy

I agree with most of this except where Trudeau said that Trump was a smart guy.

Trudeau calling Trump a 'very smart guy' is a sop to cheeto's vanity. Cheeto is NOT smart - he does not understand in any way, how tariffs work

Trudeau is wrong. Trump isn't a smart guy. He's got a criminal's cunning. He knows how to shake down a sucker. But he is dismally stupid and ignorant and a constant liar. He is undoubtedly allying himself with Putin and other criminal dictators. BLOTUS: Biggest Liar Of The United States. Imbecile-In-Chief. And a traitor to the western world.

I’m amazed. Did The Wall Street Journal really call Trump a ‘smart guy’ !

.... Well I'll tell you what Trudeau,.... None of us people wanted these tariffs either... At least not the people who are sane... I don't even think the people who voted for Donald Trump wanted these tariffs against the rest of the world either....I really don't understand the sense behind it because this is not going to make America greater.... It's going to destroy the economy of America and whatever the country it is that he poses these tariffs on... He thinks this is a strategy for getting what he wants... But I'll tell you what, he may be shocked and sadly mistaken when he finds out that it might just backfire ...this is a very conceited attempt to get the type of economic condition that he envisions for his new Dictatorship over America....he has alienated United States from its allies in Europe as well as its allies here at home.... This is probably about as dumb as his treatment of Volodimir Zelensky that just transpired on Friday at the oval office...and that idiot Vance is the one actually that has started that little debacle....I don't know man I thought these guys had more sense than to do this kind of shit.... But see this kind of situation is not going to affect him or his billionaire buddies because they have so much money they can cushion themselves until the cows come home....these assholes don't have nothing to worry about except the American people finding an emergency way of getting his ass out of office unless he changes course on all of this... I don't know if he can be impeached or not... But it might be a smart thing to find out if it IS possible.... AND EVEN IF IT IS WE STILL HAVE HIS SITTING REPLACEMENTS STILL IN OFFICE AS WELL SO I DON'T SEE THIS GOING AWAY WITHIN THE NEXT 4 YEARS UNLESS HE COMES BACK TO HIS SENSES, AND POSSIBLY GOES TO A DOCTOR AND HAVE HIS HEAD CHECKED....\nDTheMadkat123\nFrom a borrowed phone \n....the only thing I really do support that he is doing is securing the border and dealing with immigration issues here.... That's it that's all I was hoping that he would really focus on being in the oval office, and possibly standing by Ukraine, and Israel during these evil days.... Buddying up to Putin is like the single most insane thing that has come from this as well..I just hope and pray that he comes back to his senses and backtracks on all of this shit.... Besides I like Canada House whiskey, and Canada Dry Ginger ale, and other products from Canada.... Stand strong Canadians, I love you all, and I hope we can make it through these tough times ahead...but obviously the road that we're traveling now there really is no guarantees is there ?? Lady can you shut the hell up and go back to what Trudeau is saying ??

Now that’s what a leader should sound like. The only thing I disagree with is when he said Trump is a smart guy.

Great speech,but, Prime Minister Trudeau got one thing wrong. trump is not a smart guy.

Donald is not a smart guy, (you’re being diplomatic, )he’s dumb and dumber for doing this and it will show very soon the consequences of his actions. Trouble is, he doesn’t do anything if he’s wrong he just doubles down, he doesn’t take any responsibility even if he’s the one that causes it. Good on you, Mr. Trudeau, Americans, love Canada and Canadians, but Donald is not who the United States is about. He’s a traitor and of course a felon, Conman, hrapist. He is the one that we shouldn’t let in our country, especially to the presidency of the United States.

Donald isn't a smart guy. That's the only wrong thing he said. LOL

Trudeau is lying! Trump is NOT a very smart guy!?

tRump isn't a smart guy, he is a narcissistic disgusting excuse for a human. He make me sick ?.

Wasn’t this guy hated by everyone like a month ago? Now everyone is saying how amazing and smart he is?

You are a very smart guy?????????? This MAN DONALD IS NEVER BEEN SMART IN HIS LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donald Trump isn't a smart guy. He is a treacherous traitor and needs to be impeached and then removed

I wouldn't say that Trump is a smart guy; it's the fact that he's a grandiose malignant narcissist that got him where he is.

Trump is NOT a smart guy

Donald, a very smart guy??????

Well, you can’t expect smart things from a dumb guy (potus) sorry MAGAots

Donald is not a smart guy. Do not flatter him. He is a russian asset and Putin will lose the war if Donald does not fuck up Amerika and Ukraine fast. You guys try to reason with a russian asset and megalomaniac that wants to have a third term. Wake up and understand. This is a new world where diplomacy with US and Russia does not work. It stalls.

I disagree with calling trump a very smart guy though.

Trump smart Guy?????????