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Orange man is literally destroying your country the worst history has ever seen. The world is watching and feeling second hand shame for you, you have become a laughing stock and are turning into a country that your allies around the world will soon want nothing to do with. And all the dumb Americans(there's lots of smart ones) are completely brainwashed to north korean levels by orange man. not looking good America

Trudeau must have been taking the piss when he told trump he was a really smart guy!!!

Felon47 and smart does not go in the same sentence

Two languages huh, our knucklehead can barely speak English. We are so screwed, buckle up Americans this is going to be bad, very, very bad. I would disagree on only one thing this gentleman said, DONALD IS NOT A SMART MAN, HE IS AN IDIOT.

Great speech. And I like Melanie Joly struggling to keep it together after the comment about Donald being a smart guy.

No he s not smart he s a gridy bully stopped groeing at5

One mistake in this speech, Trump is not smart, he is a idiot clown

Trump is Not a very smart guy….

Intelligence, wisdom, patriotism…why can’t US have a leader like Trudeau. (But Trump is NOT a smart man. That comment was meant to praise the boy.) Go, Canada!

Donald and smart doesn’t go together on the same sentence.

Canada, the American people stand with you. Personally I wish that Justin Trudeau was our president! Although I have to disagree with you, Trump is not at all a smart man. In fact he is the exact opposite. He is an imbecile! Undoubtedly, he is the worse thing that has ever happened to to the United States! The people of America needs to get rid of Trump!\n\nBut thank you, Justin Trudeau, for standing up for Canada and all of your reactions is just! Continue to defend your country. You are doing an outstanding job!

And Fox News says: Blah blah Trump blah blah blah blah trump is sane….really really smart….blah blah blah. I see a stupid, made up clown, dumb as a box of rocks, supported by the richest in the world who only want more, more, more. Trump is evil, a rapist, a dictator wannabe and again DUMBER THAN A BOX OF ROCKS. Stop sane washing this idiot. Because if you’re not making more than 400k a year. Your gonna lose lose lose

He's too nice. trump is not smart....just greedy, irrational and most importantly a narcisistic child.

Can he be our President??? How can every other countries leadership literally call this new admin a joke, but we have people in our government who are supposed to be “smart” I say that sarcastically, support this madness. We in for some rough seas ahead and I’m a positive person!!

Trump is Far from Smart he's a low IQ jerk

For the record. . . Trump IS NOT SMART. ?

Every leader in the world sounds like a smart and intellectual person except ours we have a dumb limit vocabulary hot mess of a person representing only the racist,dumb crazy and rich group of us wow

People are still trying to grease Donald Trump's ego by referring to him as smart. A teacher who taught Trump is noted to have said that Donald is the dumbest student he taught.

Products need to be made in CANADA! Please start up factories and farming across Canada for all products. Excuse me…smart is not the word I would use

openly insulting the President of the US of A is not smart, no matter how right you are

Sad to see all of this. Really sad. Hopefully, the world will be at peace soon. Trump is smart and very good at making deals, but hopefully his elegance won't lead his intelligence.

The only part of this entire speech I have any problem with is the part where he calls Frump smart. Diplomacy can only be stretched so far....the man is a blooming idiot.

Donald is not appearing smart on any level

We are Canada lovers in Washington state. So ashamed of the idiot in the White House--why can't we have a cool, smart leader like Trudeau? We'll be in BC later this month, then again in July, spending money, having fun! We stand with Canada!!!

Dumb donald is not smart at all, and have never been.

Retaliatory tarrifs are not smart at all.

Trump is not smart!!!

Canada, tell me: What is the difference between an assistant drama teacher and a smart person? A drama teacher will fight a losing battle against an economic giant that doesn't need Canada as much as Canada needs him. For Americans, the high cost of Canadian goods will just make them turn to non-Canadian substitute products; for Canadians, we cannot help but buy US products despite the higher costs because we don't have a lot of alternatives. In the long run, Canada will cave in and become the 51st State. Why don't we skip the hardship part and just go straight to where we become part of an economic giant!

I disagree with him. Donald is clearly not a “very” smart guy. Even a person with average IQ would make so many and so big poor decisions. He is a muppet on the hands who realized how easily he can be manipulated. Most unAmerican president in the history of USA. Worse than Nixon. Danger to USA and American people. As long as he is the president. We can no longer say POTUS is “the leader of the free world “ He prefers murderous dictators. Not the free world.

It's nothing smart about dude... I kno you just trying to get him to see everything is not about money.

?Zeleneski is smart he dragged EU?? & ??Canada to War that's not belong to them. Ain't he good sales man as President Trump said?

Never mind tariffs on energy - wait’ll Doug Ford flips the electricity switch. And Justin doesn’t really think your orange-hued leader is smart - quite the opposite. He’s just kissing trump’s a$$ because that’s what trump responds to …. because he’s really, really stupid. Something that Putin and Xi have always known.

Lmao.. trudeau approval rating soo bad he is resigning.. yet all yall keep saying he is smart?

All narcissists are easy to fool with flattery and putin knows that! Trump has never been smart, only bitter and evil and steppefbon whomever he jad to! Hiw voters are ignorant

Love the irony of “Donald is smart”

That’s being too kind saying Donald is “smart”. No. He is dumb and dumber.

Its unfortunate when you keep hearing smart, thoughtful, well spoken, empathetic world leaders....and not once are one of those world leaders Your leader who just got into office....Trump is a failure in every way possible and hopefully all that McDonalds catches up with him and he will fail at being alive too

very smart and humble u r Mr President Trudeau. U r a Hero.

donald is not smart at all and loves putin!!!

I can't imagine how hard it must have been to keep a straight face while telling Donald he's a very smart guy

And our smart president did all of this making the whole hate us because of his dum ass shit

I saw a clip that Trumps mother said her son is too stupid for politics I didn’t understand why she said that since he is smart at business.\nNow it makes sense

Trump is not a smart man no he is not hes is nothing more then a crook and what a crook he is is that why you you like a liaer a traitor a spy for the KGB impeach Trump now.God Bless us all.

In what way is trump a smart guy?

Go ?? ? I do strongly disagree with you Don is not smart he has a below room temperature IQ.

He told one lie donald is a smart man

Donald is not a smart guy doing a dumb thing, he’s a dumb guy trying to do a smart thing…nothing yet

no justin, don old is not a smart man, he thinks he is going to make a killing with the tariffs so that tells you how smart he is, not

First chump trump is not smart at all. He just knows how dumb and ignorant many Americans are…

Canadian here: I don’t agree with the WSJ that DJT is a very smart man. I think they are just being diplomatic and putting the emphasis on the actions, rather than speaking ad hominem. I think he is crafty, but not well-informed, or logical. Even if he is smart, he is not wise, and there is a huge difference. If you read Proverbs, you’ll see he has the traits of a nabal, a fool. Plus, he is showing signs of cognitive decline. That’s not his fault, but he should be reassessed, and then those who CAN act, need the courage to do the right thing for the sake of the US and the world.