World Leaders Appear To Mock Donald Trump Behind His Back In Viral NATO Summit Video
World leaders appear to have been caught on camera mocking President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in London on Tuesday night in a video that is going viral.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and a woman who appears to be Princess Anne all feature in the clip tweeted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that’s garnered more than 5 million views.
“Is that why you were late?” Johnson is heard asking Macron. “He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,” Trudeau interjects.
Trudeau can later be heard saying “you just watched his team’s jaws drop to the floor.”
Check out the footage here:
.@JustinTrudeau, @EmmanuelMacron, @BorisJohnson and other VIPs shared a few words at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday. No one mentions @realDonaldTrump by name, but they seem to be discussing his lengthy impromptu press conferences from earlier in the day. (Video: Host Pool) pic.twitter.com/dVgj48rpOP
— Power & Politics (@PnPCBC) December 3, 2019
The footage is admittedly low on context and at times inaudible.
But that did not stop high-profile Twitter users from suggesting the leaders of foreign countries were chuckling and gossiping about Trump behind his back.
Trump had earlier in the day attacked Macron for his “very, very nasty” comments on NATO during a rambling and lengthy press conference.
He also offered Macron “some nice ISIS fighters” in an exchange which ended with the French leader fact-checking Trump in real-time.
Trump also denied knowing scandal-hit British royal Prince Andrew, despite photographs proving the pair have met on multiple occasions.
Maggie Haberman, the White House correspondent for The New York Times, said she couldn’t get over the video “both for the fact that POTUS hates the thought of anyone laughing at him and for the fact that he long used ‘other countries are laughing at us’ as an attack against his predecessors.”
Can’t get over this video, both for the fact that POTUS hates the thought of anyone laughing at him and for the fact that he long used “other countries are laughing at us” as an attack against his predecessors. https://t.co/j2zmF27vBK
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 4, 2019
Conservative attorney George Conway, who frequently takes aim at Trump and his administration despite his wife Kellyanne Conway’s role as counselor to the president, responded with this biting post:
.@realDonaldTrump, you are the laughingstock of the planet. The world thinks you are an incompetent, ignorant, dumb, deranged buffoon—and they are right. And you prove it to them every day. https://t.co/mR0z1xwtaf
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) December 4, 2019
Others simply marveled at the exchange:
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These leaders all know they are on tape all the time. They know what they’re doing. They’re sending a message to the world. Even Boris Johnson, who faces an election in days in a country in which Trump is toxically unpopular, is in on it. https://t.co/gi4UPLgKMX
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) December 4, 2019
Oh My God.
I knew this happened.
But I’ve yet to see it up close.
And personal.
Until now.
Trudeau, Macron, Johnson, Rutte and Princess Anne in Buckingham Palace, openly mock Trump.
Cannot wait for this to be The Crown Season 8. https://t.co/ZuHIxwy8ta— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) December 4, 2019
On the menu this evening at the Buckingham Palace soiree will be Trump Roast. *Chef's Kiss* https://t.co/ag7fub1Eks
— Nancy Lee Grahn (@NancyLeeGrahn) December 4, 2019
This video, coupled with the videos from the press portions of the bilateral meetings w Macron &Trudeau are so embarrassing for the US. @realDonaldTrump can't hold his own with the other leaders -they know it & are now much more emboldened. We look like a Banana Republic @ NATO. https://t.co/u9Tt4wPsp6
— Dave Harden (@Dave_Harden) December 4, 2019
I covered many Int’l summits & I’ve never seen a leader debasing his country as Trump did today-not even Berlusconi displayed such vulgarity/ ignorance.@GOP’s biggest lie is that Trump’s America is respected - It’s actually loathed & a laughing stock.👇🏽pic.twitter.com/yreED3vWKt
— Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) December 4, 2019
This video of Trudeau talking shit about Trump to other world leaders might be my favorite video on the internet https://t.co/luxfuoMEJG
— Alexander Wightman (@a_wightman11) December 4, 2019
The library is open & Donald, you’re getting read.
Also living for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s role here just shredding Trump. #LGBTQofTwitter
pic.twitter.com/AwoXGuD3lP— Colin W (@CWiebrecht) December 4, 2019
Fox News host Laura Ingraham, however, who frequently uses her widely watched primetime show on the conservative network to stump for Trump, put a different spin on the clip:
This is great news for Trump. Foreign leaders have been laughing at Republican presidents since Reagan. Media elites as usual miss America. https://t.co/ELE4n6NNxY
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) December 4, 2019
Trump responded to the video during a press conference with German leader Angela Merkel on Wednesday afternoon, calling Trudeau “two-faced” but “a very nice guy.”
Check out the video here:
President Trump on @JustinTrudeau: "He's two-faced."
Full video here: https://t.co/6R701KZDiU pic.twitter.com/tarJJZbgO1— CSPAN (@cspan) December 4, 2019
This article has been updated with Trump’s response.
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