World leaders appear to have been caught on camera mocking US President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in London on Tuesday night in a video that is going viral.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and who appears to be Princess Anne all feature in the clip tweeted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation thats garnered more than 5 million views.
Is that why you were late? Johnson is heard asking Macron. He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top, Trudeau interjects.
Trudeau can later be heard saying you just watched his teams jaws drop to the floor.
Check out the footage here:
.@JustinTrudeau, @EmmanuelMacron, @BorisJohnson and other VIPs shared a few words at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday. No one mentions @realDonaldTrump by name, but they seem to be discussing his lengthy impromptu press conferences from earlier in the day. (Video: Host Pool) pic.twitter.com/dVgj48rpOP
Power & Politics (@PnPCBC) December 3, 2019
The footage is admittedly low on context and at times inaudible.
But that did not stop high-profile Twitter users from suggesting the leaders of foreign countries were chuckling and gossiping about Trump behind his back.
Trump had earlier in the day attacked Macron for his very, very nasty comments on NATO during a rambling and lengthy press conference.
He also offered Macron some nice ISIS fighters in an exchange which ended with the French leader fact-checking Trump in real-time.
Trump also denied knowing scandal-hit British royal Prince Andrew, despite photographs proving the pair have met on multiple occasions.
Maggie Haberman, the White House correspondent for The New York Times, said she couldnt get over the video both for the fact that POTUS hates the thought of anyone laughing at him and for the fact that he long used other countries are laughing at us as an attack against his predecessors.
Cant get over this video, both for the fact that POTUS hates the thought of anyone laughing at him and for the fact that he long used other countries are laughing at us as an attack against his predecessors. https://t.co/j2zmF27vBK
Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 4, 2019
Conservative attorney George Conway, who frequently takes aim at Trump and his administration despite his wife Kellyanne Conways role as counselor to the president, responded with this biting post:
.@realDonaldTrump, you are the laughingstock of the planet. The world thinks you are an incompetent, ignorant, dumb, deranged buffoonand they are right. And you prove it to them every day. https://t.co/mR0z1xwtaf
George Conway (@gtconway3d) December 4, 2019
Others simply marveled at the exchange:
These leaders all know they are on tape all the time. They know what theyre doing. Theyre sending a message to the world. Even Boris Johnson, who faces an election in days in a country in which Trump is toxically unpopular, is in on it. https://t.co/gi4UPLgKMX
Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) December 4, 2019
On the menu this evening at the Buckingham Palace soiree will be Trump Roast. *Chef's Kiss* https://t.co/ag7fub1Eks
Nancy Lee Grahn (@NancyLeeGrahn) December 4, 2019
This video, coupled with the videos from the press portions of the bilateral meetings w Macron &Trudeau are so embarrassing for the US. @realDonaldTrump can't hold his own with the other leaders -they know it & are now much more emboldened. We look like a Banana Republic @ NATO. https://t.co/u9Tt4wPsp6
Dave Harden (@Dave_Harden) December 4, 2019
I covered many Intl summits & Ive never seen a leader debasing his country as Trump did today-not even Berlusconi displayed such vulgarity/ ignorance.@GOPs biggest lie is that Trumps America is respected - Its actually loathed & a laughing stock.pic.twitter.com/yreED3vWKt
Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) December 4, 2019
This video of Trudeau talking shit about Trump to other world leaders might be my favorite video on the internet https://t.co/luxfuoMEJG
Alexander Wightman (@a_wightman11) December 4, 2019
The library is open & Donald, youre getting read.
Colin W (@CWiebrecht) December 4, 2019
Also living for Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus role here just shredding Trump. #LGBTQofTwitter
pic.twitter.com/AwoXGuD3lP
Fox News host Laura Ingraham, however, who frequently uses her widely watched primetime show on the conservative network to stump for Trump, put a different spin on the clip:
Also on HuffPostThis is great news for Trump. Foreign leaders have been laughing at Republican presidents since Reagan. Media elites as usual miss America. https://t.co/ELE4n6NNxY
Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) December 4, 2019
