No, Canada: Fabricated Justin Trudeau post shows Trump plunging off a cliff | Fact check
The claim: Image shows Justin Trudeau post mocking Trump
A Dec. 4 Threads post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of what appears to be an X post from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The post includes an image of President-elect Donald Trump falling off a cliff as a crowd waves Canadian flags behind him and a caption that reads, "Oh Canada!"
The Threads post received more than 500 likes in two days. The image was also reposted thousands of times on X and circulated widely on Instagram and on Threads. A version shared to Facebook by the liberal group Occupy Democrats was labeled as satire.
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The image of the X post is a fabrication. There is no record of the post on Trudeau's verified account.
No record of post on Trudeau’s account
The supposed screenshot resembles legitimate posts shared by Trudeau. Its profile image matches the one on his account, and it contains a gray badge to indicate it purportedly belongs to a government official.
But it is not a real post, and there is no record it was ever shared by Trudeau’s account. There are no credible news reports about the prime minister sharing such a post.
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The purported counts of responses, reposts and likes are identical in many versions of the image circulating on social media, an indication the image is a fabrication that traces to a single source. An authentic post would have been captured and shared at various times by Trudeau’s 6.5 million followers with varying numbers of reposts and likes.
Trump has threatened a 25% tariff on all products coming into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, prompting Trudeau to make a visit to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump. The Canadian prime minister expressed concern that the tariffs would wreck his country’s economy. Trump responded by suggesting Canada become the 51st state. Trump later shared a Truth Social post containing a clearly fabricated image of himself standing on a cliff with the Canadian flag. Its caption of “Oh Canada!” matches the one in the fabricated Trudeau post.
Paste BN previously debunked false claims that Trudeau announced a three-year freeze on immigration to Canada and that an image shows a social media post from Elon Musk saying Trump “will do anything I tell him to do.”
An Instagram user who shared the image acknowledged in a message to Paste BN that it is a parody. Paste BN reached out to Trudeau’s office and to several social media users who shared the image but did not immediately receive responses. The X users who shared it could not be reached.
Our fact-check sources
- Justin Trudeau, accessed Dec. 5, X account
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