See the Personal Gift Justin Trudeau Gave President Trump During White House Visit
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave President Donald Trump a sentimental gift during their White House meeting on Monday — a vintage photo of Trump with Trudeau’s father, the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
The president, who said the photo was taken at a Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, expressed his appreciation for the gift as he and Trudeau participated in a roundtable discussion about women in the workforce at the White House on Monday.
“I am honored to be here with Prime Minister Trudeau, whose father I knew and respected greatly,” Trump said. “And he gave me a picture of myself and your father, and what a great picture. I will keep that in a very special place at the Waldorf Astoria, together.”
The prime minister’s office revealed that the photo was taken “at the Family of Man award in New York City on Nov. 5, 1981.”
“The Prime Minister (Pierre Trudeau) was given the award for demonstrating an outstanding example of excellence in society,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement. “The Society for the Family of Man is an international and interfaith organization founded in 1963 by New York City’s Council of Churches to honor outstanding examples of excellence in society.”
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Trump and Justin Trudeau met for the first time on Monday during the prime minister’s highly anticipated visit to the White House.
Although Trudeau has been critical of Trump in the past, the prime minister has said he hopes to “have a constructive working relationship with the incoming American administration.”
