‘Why Can’t He Be Our President?’: Rolling Stone compares Justin Trudeau to Trump

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Rolling Stone’s cover story is all about Canada’s Justin Trudeau, and it asks the simple question: “Why can’t he be our president?”

On Wednesday, the magazine tweeted an image of Trudeau’s cover photo with that question as well as a link that will take you to the feature story written by Stephen Rodrick, wherein Rodrick extols all of Trudeau’s good points.

The story, “Justin Trudeau: The North Star,” doesn’t even have to mention Trump by name for a lot of the not-so-subtle digs.

— Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau meet up for dinner in Montreal — 

“When Trudeau moves on to his feminist bona fides (women and minorities make up more than half of his Cabinet), he pauses for a moment, but does not lose his train of thought. His words are coherent and will not need to be run through Google Translate when he is done (except if you want to translate his French into English),” Rodrick writes.

Even his physical description is a dig: “It’s strange to witness: He speaks in a modulated, indoor voice. His dark hair is a color found in nature. At home, there is a glamorous wife and three photogenic children, still not old enough to warm his seat at next week’s G-20 summit or be involved in an espionage scandal.”

There are more direct swipes as well as Rodrick compares the policies of the two leaders, from health care and abortion to drug laws to environmental policies.

As for Trudeau himself, the Canadian leader was careful to say that he wasn’t antagonistic toward Trump but that they did disagree:

“Obviously, I disagree [with Trump] on a whole bunch, but Canadians expect me to accomplish two things at the same time, which is emphasize where we disagree and stand up firmly for Canadian interests,” says Trudeau, loosening his jacketless tie. “But we also have a constructive working relationship, and me going out of my way to insult the guy or overreact or jump at everything he says [that] we might disagree with is not having a constructive relationship.”

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