President-elect Donald Trump’s dance moves have not only taken the sports world by storm, even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems to be getting in on the act.
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At least that’s what some social media users think.
Trudeau, who is attending the G20 Summit this week in Brazil, was captured on video doing what looked like his own facsimile of the president-elect’s signature fist-pump shimmy.
Political commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson shared the viral clip on X, which has racked up more than 287,000 views, writing, “Uh … Trudeau is doing the Trump dance now!? Things must be really bad in Canada.”
“When is this clown going to be out of office?” one commenter asked, while another accused Trudeau of turning Canada into a “Third World s—hole.”
“(Trudeau) is now telling Canadians that paying a carbon tax to reduce climate change is more important than feeding your kids,” they wrote, before pleading with Trump to “invade Canada.”
Others accused Trudeau of trying to score points with Trump’s fan base across Canada as they dismissed the Liberal leader as a “phony” and a “fraud.”
“He can’t even do it right,” one critic seethed. “He is incompetent in everything he does.”
Earlier this year, Trudeau went viral when he made a stop at the Taste of Asia food festival in Markham and broke into a cringy dance that some viewers compared to the little kick manoeuvre Julia Louis-Dreyfus acted out on a 1996 episode of Seinfeld.
Michael Sachs shared a clip of Trudeau alongside one of Louis-Dreyfus’ character Elaine on X, writing, “I’m just gonna leave this here.”
“I just knew he couldn’t get through the Canada Day long weekend without embarrassing the whole country,” one person commented with another borrowing Jason Alexander’s line from the show, calling it “a full body dry heave set to music.”
Popular social media account 6ixBuzzTV shared different angles of the dance, racking up hundreds of thousands of views X.
Meanwhile, Trump’s shimmy has become popular on the field with several NFL players imitating America’s next commander-in-chief, including San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Nick Bosa, who did the Trump alongside teammates Leonard Floyd, Sam Okuayinonu and Fred Warner after a sack against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers earlier this month.
“All the guys wanted me to do it. I wasn’t even going to do it, but the boys reminded me. And it was fun,” Bosa told the San Francisco Chronicle when asked about the familiar moves after the game.
UFC heavyweight Jon Jones also copied the move after knocking out Stipe Miocic on Saturday night in front of Trump at Madison Square Garden.
Trump smiled as he watched Jones and reposted his interpretive dance to his Truth Social account after the fight.
After the event, UFC president Dana White called Trump’s return to power “positive for the world.
“No matter what side of the fence you sit on politically, you cannot deny there’s almost like this weight that’s been lifted off the country right now and this sigh of relief,” White said, via MMA Fighting.
On Monday, Christian Pulisic of the U.S. men’s national soccer team celebrated a goal with his own version of the dance.
“Well obviously that’s the Trump dance,” Pulisic told reporters afterward. “It was just a dance that everyone’s doing. He’s the one who created it. I just thought it was funny.”
Trudeau, though, is the one who is finding himself as a laughingstock online.
In addition to social media users ripping him for trying to copy Trump’s wiggle, he was lambasted for a “photo-shoot fail” after missing out on the traditional picture of world leaders at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
According to The Associated Press, Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden strolled up after photographers had already taken the official picture as other world leaders stood around chatting after having smiled and raised linked hands for the photo.