It’s the stuff of a $1 romance novel that’s only out there on Kindle.
Last week, a video dropped of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dancing like a idiot in the aisle of a Montreal ironmongery shop with girlfriend Katy Perry while holding a plunger.
Have you ever learn a more surreal or nonsensical string of phrases in your life?
Well, that’s what truly occurred. For we stay in a surreal and nonsensical world.
Justin Trudeau wields a rest room plunger in a ironmongery shop dance-off with Katy Perry. Instagram / @xavtrudeau_
I’ve stayed silent for a 12 months, but their true patriot love has become more than I can bear.
Trudeau’s cringeworthy retail jam session is no less weird, actually, than Tom Cruise wildly leaping on Oprah’s sofa 21 years in the past to proclaim his love for another Katie.
Except Cruise is a Hollywood actor. They’re all loons. Prettyboy Trudeau, despite clearly craving the glamorous trappings of superstar, is a former world chief who still wishes to be taken severely.
Proving it, 4 days after he lower the rug with a rest room instrument for an Instagram video, abruptly severe Trudeau spoke to information retailers about the ongoing commerce negotiations between Canada and the US. He insisted they “will get to the right place.”
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But who’s going to pay attention to the man who’s so very publicly dwelling his teenage dream?
Fifty-four-year-old Trudeau, who led his nation for a decade before resigning last 12 months, and the 41-year-old “I Kissed A Girl” singer have been Canada canoodling since last July.
Trudeau separated from his spouse of 18 years, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, with whom he shares three children, in 2023. And Perry cut up from fiancé Orlando Bloom in June 2025. They have a daughter. One month later, she was all aboot Justin.
Right away, he was seen googly-eyed and singing alongside to “Firework” at Perry’s Montreal live performance.
The pair have been sighted all over the world — including Mykonos, Greece. BACKGRID
That was unusual, but I gave him the profit of the doubt at the time. With just 21.5% approving of Trudeau’s Liberal Party by the finish of his run, I’m positive he was feeling like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to begin again.
Around then, a supply advised People of the duo, “They have a lot in common.”
That’s an allegation so alarming that Trudeau should’ve disclosed it before operating for workplace.
In the months to comply with, there were sightings galore. The pair was noticed kissing on Perry’s yacht off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. And they jetted to Paris for her forty first birthday. They lounged on a boat in Mykonos and got scantily clad in Saint-Tropez. They go on ski journeys and put up cutesy selfies. They’re addicted to being seen.
Trudeau advised “Entertainment Tonight” of his girfriend’s live performance: “I saw the show three times, but I wasn’t really paying attention to anything but Katy.” BACKGRID
One look was not like the others, though: An official wanting meet-up with former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his spouse. The quartet posed for a stiff, ceremonial photograph and Trudeau tweeted, “Katy and I were so glad to have the chance to sit down with you and Yuko.”
Social media customers were livid over Perry’s “inappropriate” apparel.
The pop star also joined him in Davos at the World Economic Forum in January.
Weird. It all has a whiff of Wallis Simpson to it.
This spring, the couple came to New York for the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Perry’s live performance film “Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris,” where, a supply advised Page Six, they couldn’t hold their arms off each other.
On the pink carpet, Trudeau advised “Entertainment Tonight” that while he had indeed attended the gig, he was too smitten to discover much of it.
“I saw the show three times, but I wasn’t really paying attention to anything but Katy,” he said. “So I’m looking forward to seeing the show now for the first time.”
Trudeau and Perry trip in Saint-Tropez, France. Splash News / BACKGRID
Could you think about Bill Clinton saying such a factor? Wait — don’t reply that.
I can’t converse to Canadian precedent (though I’m fairly positive Stephen Harper isn’t courting Sabrina Carpenter), but US presidents have a tendency to hold a dignified low profile in post-West Wing life while still making an affect.
Richard Nixon was an casual overseas coverage advisor to several commanders-in-chief. Jimmy Carter turned a famous humanitarian. George H.W. Bush and Clinton mixed forces to increase cash for victims of pure disasters. Barack Obama is a Hollywood producer.
Actually, maintain on, scratch that last one.
But I hold coming back to tunnel-visioned Trudeau’s pink carpet quote: “I wasn’t really paying attention to anything but Katy.”
Certainly seems that approach.
Trade talks between the US and Canada, which he said would “get to the right place,” dramatically collapsed on Saturday — the same day new 50% tariffs took impact.
But, concern not, Justin and Katy are still going robust!