Trump Sent Some Truly Weird Letters To Canadian PM Justin Trudeau

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shake hands during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB ... TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shake hands during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump has sent at least two strange letters to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, one of which was so bizarre that the Canadian ambassador had to make sure it wasn’t a prank.

According to an Axios report Sunday, Trump mailed Trudeau a torn-out cover of Bloomberg Businessweek declaring the Canadian leader the “Anti-Trump” in mid-2017.

“Looking good! Hope it’s not true!” Trump reportedly wrote on the cover in silver Sharpie.

The letter prompted Canadian ambassador David MacNaughton to reach out to the White House and ask if it was some kind of prank, two unnamed sources told Axios.

In an attempt to prove that the U.S. had a trade deficit with Canada, Trump sent Trudeau a document to make his case, in December 2017.

One of Axios’ unnamed sources said that Trump scrawled something like “Not good!!” in Sharpie on the document, which showed America’s deficit in trade goods. The document apparently didn’t mention the country’s surplus in services, which would give the U.S. an overall surplus in trade.

That’s when Trudeau had to remind Trump that his own government proved POTUS wrong.

The Canadian prime minister responded to Trump’s document with a printout of Office of the United States Trade Representative’s site that reported a surplus of $12.5 billion in 2016, a figure Trudeau had circled with a drawn smiley face next to it.

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  1. So the so-called “Leader of the Free World” has enough time on his hands to read 2-year old copies of Businessweek Magazine and snail-mail them to Prime Minister Trudeau?

  2. The Canadian prime minister responded to Trump’s document with a printout of Office of the United States Trade Representative’s site that reported a surplus of $12.5 billion in 2016, a figure Trudeau had circled with a drawn smiley face next to it.

    That’s awesome, Justin Trudeau.

  3. Next time, Trudeau is going to draw the smiley face himself, just to make sure the Dotard gets the message. And maybe a couple of stick figures with US and Canadian flags and a big heart in the middle. Or is that too subtle a message…?

    (Gawd how humiliating this all is.)

  4. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    He assumes every other world leader is just as fucking lazy and worthless as he is. Scheduling playdates with his pen pals.

    JFC.

  5. When I read the headline my first thought was, did Ivanka get hold of some white house stationery?

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