Trump calls Trudeau ‘two-faced’

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation posted a 25-second clip late Tuesday that showed Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson having an animated conversation about what appeared to be Trump’s lateness to bilateral meetings earlier in the day.

“He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,” Trudeau said, referring to Trump’s lengthy Q&A at the outset of meetings with him, Macron and the NATO secretary general.

“You just watched his team’s jaws drop to the floor,” Trudeau said.

Macron could be seen gesturing with his hands and responding, but his remarks were inaudible.

The world leaders did not appear to realize they were being recorded.

“I have a very productive and positive relationship with Mr. Trump… We will continue to have an excellent relationship. The relationship between Canada and the United States is deep and goes far beyond the relationship between a prime minister and a president,” Trudeau said Wednesday.

He said his comments were largely related to Trump’s announcement during their own bilateral meeting that the G-7 would be at Camp David.

The video could roil relations between Trudeau and Trump, who is notoriously averse to public criticism.

World leaders openly laughed at him during his 2018 speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York after he boasted that his administration had accomplished “more than almost any administration in the history of our country in its first two years.”

The president later told reporters that the U.N. attendees “weren’t laughing at me, they were laughing with me.” 

–This report was updated at 10:33 a.m.