What the puck! Trump, Trudeau troll and taunt each other over ice-hockey game as Canada wins 3-2

US President Donald Trump, Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau. (File picture)

TOI Correspondent from Washington: Partisan cricket followers in India and Pakistan, please stand again for the pathology of American and Canadian followers in ice hockey.
Benign neighbors not too way back, ties between the two brotherly nations has touched a nadir recently, with acrimony going to the brink in the hockey rink.
Fans have booed each others’ nationwide anthems performed earlier than the game, brawls have damaged out between gamers in the area, and even leaders of the two international locations, already sparring over tariffs, have trolled and taunted each other on social media.
On Thursday, Canada received the FourNations trophy defeating the US 3-2 in extra-time in Boston, and avenging a gaggle stage defeat in Toronto that had American followers gloating.
Cue for Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to clap again on social media.
“You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game,” he posted on X, referring to Trump’s invitation — or menace — to make Canada the 51st US state. Trump has additionally referred to the Canadian PM as “Governor Trudeau.”
Trudeau’s riposte adopted three days of taunts from Americans after their group stage win in a game that had three brawls between gamers in the first 9 seconds.
Tension — even higher than of the variety that characterizes India-Pakistan cricket video games — ran excessive forward of Thursday evening’s face-off. A Canadian fan at the Boston game assist up a placard that learn “Welcome to the USA, Canada’s 11th province.”
Trump referred to as the US crew to which them luck, saying, “You really are a skilled group of people….We love you guys. We’ll be watching tonight. Bring it home.”
Even the White House joined in the trolling, with Trump’s spokesperson Karoline Leavitt saying, “We look forward to the US beating our soon-to-be 51st state, Canada.”
They could not. USA led 2-1 going into the remaining minutes, Canada equalized, and them nipped out a 3-2 win in sudden loss of life extra-time, sending American followers right into a spiteful rage already aggravated by Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk altering the lyric of the Canadian nationwide anthem in a rebuke to Trump’s expansionism.
She later mentioned she did it “because I believe in democracy, and a sovereign nation should not have to be defending itself against tyranny and fascism.”
Trump’s MAGA followers had been unrepentant of their trolling. “500% tariffs, and we’re going to take your land by force,” learn one publish.