Trump leaves NATO early after video of world leaders ridiculing him goes viral

  • 12/04/2019 8:17 am ET • Sunny Hundal

Trump had a bad time in London this week. So bad, in fact, he decided to skip town early.

What ruffled his feathers?

Well, The Canadian broadcaster CBC tweeted a clip from the NATO reception in London on Tuesday, with world leaders apparently joking about Trump. The clip quickly went viral.

And it wasn’t pretty.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson: “Is that why you were late?”

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau nods. “He [Trump] was late because he takes a 40 min press conference off the top.”

“oh yah yah yah, he announced… [inaudible]

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks inaudibly.

Trudeau again, later: “You just watched his team’s jaw drop to the floor.”

According to Vice, the footage was initially spotted on a Russian state news site before it was cleaned up and tweeted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The video has already been shared over 5 million times.

Plus, there was the fact that Princess Anne shrugged off properly greeting him, even though it earned her a bit of chastisement from the Queen. Her casual shrug has Princess Anne trending on Twitter.

It is worth recalling what Boris Johnson said about Trump in 2015:

“I would invite him to come and see the whole of London and take him round the city – except I wouldn’t want to expose any Londoners to any unnecessary risk of meeting Donald Trump.”

“The only reason I wouldn’t visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.”

After the NATO clip was released, columnist Ian Bremmer noted:

This happens at every NATO summit with Trump. Every G7. Every G20. The US President is mocked by US allies behind his back.

WATCH the clip:

Even George Conway, Kellyanne Conway’s husband, took a little dig at the President when he retweeted the video:

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