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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Will Canada Dump Trudeau?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Time Magazine released photos of a 29-year-old Justin Trudeau in blackface. In the days following, the Canadian Prime Minister admitted to two more instances of using blackface. The Canadian election is a month away. How will Trudeau’s latest scandal effect it? Guest: Jesse Brown, host of Canadaland podcast. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt and Mara Silvers Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:04.8

Political rivals of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, they've had this nickname for him for a while now.

0:11.1

The Mr. Dressup Prime Minister.

0:13.9

Here he is in Indigenous ceremonial dress. Here he is in Jewish attire.

0:19.2

Jesse Brown hosts the Canada Land Podcast. He says conservative members of parliament

0:24.2

that even pass around Trudeau photos. He might be dressed like Superman or trick-or-treating as Han Solo,

0:31.2

or just trying to fit in with a foreign dignitary. Putting all these images together

0:36.3

would get a chuckle across the political spectrum. So when images surfaced last week of Trudeau in

0:42.5

blackface and brownface, it was shocking. But after apologizing, Trudeau almost seemed to play it off.

0:51.1

Like, hey, you know me. I'm the guy who gets dressed up.

0:55.0

Yeah, I think this specific thing you said was something like, I can be more enthusiastic about

1:00.2

costumes than is sometimes appropriate, which is true. He is overly enthusiastic about costumes.

1:09.9

How many photos have come out at this point? There are three photos in one video at this point.

1:14.2

Two of the photos are from one event. So there's three different instances of him in brown face or

1:18.8

blackface. There's one video clip where Trudeau is wearing an Afro wig. In other photos, he's dressed

1:27.5

up like Aladdin and an Arabian night's themed party for a school where he's teaching.

1:33.2

He'd gone so far as to paint not just his face, but his hands too.

1:37.7

And nobody else did it. You know, if you see the other pictures, there are like a couple of guys

1:42.4

who were one guy who were a turban and somebody else who were a robe, but nobody else was wearing

1:47.3

makeup. I mean, he really took this. He was a teacher. He was a teacher at a school-related event.

1:55.4

And he took it really far. It's hard to see them the same way. And I think that a lot of people

2:02.8

are looking at his default image as a statesman, as our young and well-dressed and well-coffed

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