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Trump aide apologises to Trudeau

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Published on June 16, 2018 with No Comments

A top aide to US President Donald Trump apologised on Tuesday for asserting that a “special place in hell” awaited Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, following the acrimonious conclusion of a weekend G7 summit.

“Let me correct a mistake I made,” White House economic advisor Peter Navarro was quoted as saying by reporters at a Washington event organised by The Wall Street Journal. “I used language that was inappropriate,” he said.  Navarro had joined administration officials in lashing out at Trudeau following the end to the Group of Seven summit in Quebec at which major economies clashed over tariffs.   However, at a news conference after his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Trump recounted his recent tough exchanges with Trudeau. He said the Canadian leader must not have realised that Trump had televisions on Air Force One, allowing him to monitor Trudeau’s news conference at the end of the G7 summit. “That’s going to cost a lot of money for the people of Canada. He learned,” Trump said wagging his finger. “You can’t do that. You can’t do that.”

The president said he was annoyed by Trudeau’s comments about not letting Canada get pushed around. “He’s giving a news conference about how he will not be pushed around by the US. And I say, push him around? We just shook hands. It was very friendly,” Trump said.

Trump called Trudeau “dishonest” and “weak” in tweets following the G-7 summit.  Trump’s advisers also took up the attack in appearances on  news shows, leveling more withering and unprecedented criticism against Prime Minister Trudeau, branding him a back-stabber unworthy of Trump’s time.

“There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door,” Navarro had said on last Sunday. Navarro seemed to apologise for the remarks on Tuesday

 

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