Ask Pardes 10: Trump-Trudeau
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): PardesSeleh.com
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/12/02
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How does the dichotomy between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau look to you?
Pardes Seleh: I don’t know a lot about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The interesting this about President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is that they agree on a lot of things. The only difference is the personalities are different. Donald Trump is more flamboyant and says all of these offensive things.
Trudeau is more palatable to a lot of crowds. He seems more concerned with his image, though he may agree with Donald Trump on a lot of things. One thing was immigration. Trudeau for open borders and criticized Trump for the open borders, but eventually when you’re having issues with refugees.
He put out the tweet about enforcing laws and not having people in illegally. Ultimately, he agrees with Trump, but Trump is demonized. The way he says it. I am totally generalizing on this one example.
That is the general sense I get from the way they are the things they agree with. On the flip side, Donald Trump supports gay marriage the way Justin Trudeau supports gay marriage, but somehow Donald Trump is this homophobe because of his tone, his personality.
Not because he fundamentally disagrees with Justin Trudeau on the topic of marriage.
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