`Special place in hell´: Trump aides hurl insults at Trudeau in unprecedented U.S. attack on Canadian leader
(The Star Food)

WASHINGTON—Top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump hurled public and personal insults at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday in a baffling and unprecedented attack that one of them suggested was intended as a show of strength to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.The insults were by far the harshest words Trump’s administration has levelled at any allied leader. They demonstrated a level of public vitriol not seen in Canada-U.S. relations in more than 50 years.Trump began the onslaught with a Saturday tweet in which he called Trudeau “dishonest and weak.� In Sunday interviews on CNN and Fox News, Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow and senior trade adviser Peter Navarro used still more disparaging adjectives — “amateurish,� “rogue,� “sophomoric� — and vaguely accused Trudeau of a “double-cross� and “betrayal.�Navarro delivered the most incendiary comment: “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door.�Trudeau declined to respond directly, saying on Twitter that what truly “matters� is the accomplishments of the G7. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said: “Canada does not believe that ad hominem attacks are a particularly appropriate or useful way to conduct our relations with other countries.� The Trump fury was especially bizarre because it did not seem to be prompted by anything Trudeau had actually done. Kudlow and Navarro claimed that the problem was Trudeau’s post-G7 press conference — in which the prime minister criticized Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs in the same restrained manner he had been employing all week.Kudlow eventually offered a kind of explanation: Trudeau’s criticism had made Trump look weak, he said, and Trump does n ...