Trump insists Fidel Castro could be Justin Trudeau’s father

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In his upcoming book, Save America, former U.S. president Donald Trump insists that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could be the son of Communist Leader Fidel Castro.

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“Justin Trudeau and I got along very well, but there were natural differences in that he is very Liberal, and I, to put it mildly, am not,” Trump writes in an excerpt obtained by the Daily Mail.

“It will be very interesting to see how (their relationship progresses) in the future, but first, I have to get there (back to the White House),” Trump continues, adding, “His mother was beautiful and wild. In the 1970s, she would go ‘clubbing’ with the Rolling Stones, but she was also somehow associated with Fidel Castro. She said he was ‘the sexiest man I’ve ever met,’ and a lot of people say that Justin is his son.”

Trump concedes that Trudeau is aware of the longstanding rumour, but writes: “He swears that he isn’t, but how the hell would he know! Castro had good hair, the ‘father’ didn’t, Justin has good hair, and has become a Communist just like Castro.”

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Earlier this month in an interview with video game streamer Adin Ross, Trump floated the theory that Trudeau was the son of the late Cuban revolutionary leader.

“He’s turned very liberal, actually they say he’s the son of Fidel Castro, and could be,” Trump told Ross in a video that has been viewed more than 2.5 million times. “Anything’s possible in this world, you know?”

Trump said that he and Trudeau got along “very well,” but hinted that he is well aware that the Liberal Leader is headed for political annihilation amid his sagging popularity amongst Canadians.

“He seems to be going very progressive and the people of Canada are not liking it,” the Republican presidential candidate added in his interview with Ross. “If they had a good conservative person – which maybe they do, maybe they don’t, I don’t know – but somebody that’s a strong conservative would win in Canada. Canada is very unhappy about the way they’ve been treated as people, but I got along with him well.” 

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Back in 2022, Joe Rogan suggested Trudeau should take a 23andMe DNA test to confirm that he’s not the child of Castro.

During a segment on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Rogan told comedian Sam Tripoli that the similarities between Trudeau and Castro were “wild.”

The rumour was first circulated when Castro’s son, Fidelito, committed suicide in 2018. Several sites, the Associated Press noted, reported that Fidelito left a goodbye note that referenced Trudeau as his half-brother.

A theory that Castro was Trudeau’s dad was also shared after the communist leader’s death in 2016.

The Canadian government denied the reports and AP’s fact-check revealed that it was more than four years after Justin’s birth that his mother Margaret made her much-publicized first trip to Cuba and met Fidel in 1976.

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But during a segment of his podcast two summers ago, Rogan revisited the rumour in his chat with Tripoli “just for funsies.”

“Let’s Google, look at the two of them together,” Rogan began. “There’s multiple photos. That’s wild. That’s f***ing wild,” he continued as he looked through the images. “Oh my God, look at the top one … that is wild.”

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Rogan then jokingly suggested Trudeau take a DNA test to confirm the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau was really his dad.

“Hey bro, you need a 23andMe right away, sir. It’s wild how close he looks … If I was the father, I’d be f***ing suspicious as s***.”

Trudeau had a rocky relationship with Trump during his tenure as president. Back in 2019, following a NATO meeting in London, Trump hit out at Trudeau after the prime minister was caught on a hot mic with then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron making fun of the president’s tardiness at a Buckingham Palace reception.

“He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,” Trudeau said. “I watched his team’s jaws drop on the floor.”

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Afterwards, Trump called Trudeau “two-faced.”

“Honestly with Trudeau he’s a nice guy, but the truth is I called him out on the fact he’s not paying 2% (in defence spending) and I guess he’s not happy about it,” Trump said.

A year prior, following a G7 summit in Quebec, Trump called Trudeau “very dishonest & weak” after the Canadian leader threatened to escalate a trade war between the two countries.

Elsewhere, Trump referred to Trudeau as a “far-left lunatic” following Ottawa’s harsh response to the “Freedom Convoy” protests that crippled the nation’s capital back in 2022.

“The Freedom Convoy is peacefully protesting the harsh policies of far-left lunatic Justin Trudeau who has destroyed Canada with insane COVID mandates,” said Trump in a statement.

Trump added that his social media site Truth Social would welcome Freedom Convoy supporters.

“Facebook is cancelling the accounts of Freedom Convoy USA, and GoFundMe is denying access to funds that belong to the Freedom Convoy. This is unacceptable and extremely dangerous in any country that values free expression,” he said.

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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