Elon Musk called Justin Trudeau an ‘insufferable tool’ after the Canadian prime minister called the re-election of Donald Trump a setback for women’s rights.
The relationship between the liberal Trudeau and conservative Trump has been a source of fascination in recent weeks, with the pair having an apparently friendly Mar-a-Lago meeting followed by Trump’s continued joking that Canada should become the 51st state.
However, the relationship between Trudeau and the new DOGE co-chair Musk has been more straightforward and tense, with Musk previously comparing Trudeau to Hitler.
Trudeau again sparked Musk’s ire on Wednesday when an anti-Trump speech of his went viral.
‘We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult sometimes, march towards progress. And yet, just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president,’ Trudeau said in Ottawa on Tuesday.
The speech was brought to Musk’s attention on his social media platform X, where he gave a brutal preview of Trudeau’s future.
‘He’s such an insufferable tool. Won’t be in power for much longer,’ Musk said.
It’s not the first time Musk has attempted to viciously troll Trudeau on social media.
In 2022, he compared the prime minister to Hitler in a meme criticizing his crackdown on Freedom Convoy protests.
Musk, the world’s richest man and a cryptocurrency advocate, posted the meme in response to reports that Mounties were seeking to freeze crypto wallets tied to the protests.
The image depicts the Nazi dictator Hitler with the text: ‘Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau… I had a budget.’ The reference to a ‘budget’ is unclear and suggests the meme is recycled from some prior controversy over Canada‘s government spending.
Musk was responding to a report from CoinDesk indicating that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have ordered Canadian exchanges to cease facilitating any transactions from 34 crypto wallets tied to the protests.
While he is known for edgy humor and blunt assessments, Musk’s comparison of Trudeau with the Nazi leader, who was responsible for the genocide of millions of Jews and starting World War Two, went too far for many Twitter users.
The American Jewish Committee responded to Musk’s tweet with a call for an immediate apology.
Recently, it’s been president-elect Trump who has been doing the trolling toward his counterpart to the north.
The president-elect referred to the Canadian leader as ‘Governor Justin Trudeau’ in a post to Truth Social Tuesday.
He further trolled him by calling his country the ‘Great State of Canada.’
Earlier this month, reports emerged detailing Trump’s meeting with Trudeau in West Palm Beach, Florida on November 29.
Trudeau told Trump during their meeting that imposing such a large import tax on Canada would completely 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 their economy.
To this, the president-elect suggested that Canada become the 51st U.S. state.
The prime minister and others at the table laughed nervously at the suggestion, according to sources who were in the meeting.
Trudeau also told Trump he wouldn’t want Canada to be part of the U.S. because it would be a ‘very liberal’ state. Trump then suggested that maybe it be two separate states, one more conservative and the other liberal, to balance it out.
A Canadian cabinet minister, Dominic LeBlanc, clarified that Trump’s comment and the ensuing back-and-forth was a ‘joke’ and was taken as such.
But now, the former and future U.S. president has repeatedly trolled Trudeau and referenced making Canada a state.
‘It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,’ Trump posted to Truth Social just after 12 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
‘I look forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for all!’ he added.
Earlier this month, Just a few days after the meeting, Trump also publicly embraced his joke by posting a picture of himself standing next to a Canadian flag overlooking a mountain range.
He captioned the image: ‘Oh Canada!’
Trump and Trudeau met in Florida last month.
It came after Trump posted to social media that he wants to impose a 25 percent tariff on Canada and Mexico if the North American neighbors do not take action to quell illegal crossings into the U.S. through shared borders.
Crossings from Canada represent a much smaller number of illegal foot traffic than that coming from Mexico, but Trump wants to punish both countries and pressure them to do more to help with the migrant crisis.
In the same post last month, Trump also threatened an additional 10 percent import tariff on China after Beijing did not impose a death penalty on drug dealers as was promised.
Part of Trump’s hardline policy proposals related to the border crisis is stopping the flow of deadly Chinese-produced fentanyl, which usually comes into the U.S. by drug traffickers bringing it over the southern border.
