While Montreal burned Friday night, Trudeau was not calling in extra police, or the military, or whatever force that might have been warranted to quell the rioting in the quickest and most efficient manner possible. In fact, he wasn’t even on the job at all. Instead, Trudeau was caught on video attending a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto at the same time that the riots were going on in Montreal. The videos show Trudeau waving his arms and swaying to the music with joyous abandon, and even singing along, as he stands in a crowd of girls who generally appear to be about thirty years younger than he is.
Trudeau hadn’t gone to boogie among his fellow Swifties after quelling the riots in Montreal. He hadn’t done anything about the riots in Montreal at all. Nero was a better ruler, as he is on record making efforts to alleviate the suffering of his people. And if the claims of Tacitus and Suetonius were true, Nero’s sin was singing classical epic poetry about the destruction of earlier cities during the fire. At least Nero’s desire to indulge his artistic bent during a time of tragedy remained on-point. Trudeau, by contrast, was bizarrely indulging his love for bubblegum pop music manufactured and marketed for girls half his age while pro-jihad thugs ran wild in the city that was once the jewel of his nation.
Canada could use a Nero. At least he made efforts to show he cared when his people suffered. That’s not a priority for Justin Trudeau, however, and why should it be? Since when have leftist authoritarians ever cared if their people suffer? Making their people suffer is Job One for them.