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RSS FeedsWhat the international media is saying about Justin Trudeau: `Golden boy´ no more
(The Star Environment)

 
 

19 september 2019 21:34:16

 
What the international media is saying about Justin Trudeau: `Golden boy´ no more
(The Star Environment)
 


Prime Minister Trudeau has walked straight into scandal — and the world has taken notice.After Time magazine broke the story of Trudeau wearing brownface on Wednesday night, it made headlines everywhere. The New York Post, Le Monde in France, The Daily Mail in the U.K. — nearly every international outlet splashed the scandal across its pages. Most international media opted to publish mere summaries of the scandal, though, rather than analytical reactions to it. Here are the first impressions of the scandal from across the world:Nothing to see here (for now)The New York Times mentioned Trudeau halfway down their Thursday morning ‘Briefing,’ where he landed between a feature on a Syrian refugee in Amsterdam and a story on the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cuts. “The Canadian prime minister apologized after Time magazine published a 2001 photograph of the him in brownface makeup at a party for a private school where he was a teacher,” wrote the Times. The Daily Mail published a similar account, speculating that “the emergence of the photo... could undermine his chances for re-election with less than five weeks to go before Canada’s election.”The Washington Post echoed this idea, and tied in SNC-Lavalin in their report. “Trudeau has been admired by liberals around the world for his progressive policies in the Trump era... but the 47-year-old son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was already vulnerable following one of the biggest scandals in Canadian political history,” the Post wrote. The scandal travelled as far as Canberra, Australia as well, with the Times saying “Trudeau has seen his once sky-high popularity hurt by a series of missteps.”No opinion pieces have filtered out as of yet, but considering how far the scandal has travelled that will likely change. The ‘golden boy’ falls from graceOthers jumped right in. The story made its way into the Middle Ea ...


 
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