Former President Donald Trump reiterated the rumor during a podcast that Fidel Castro is the real father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The Republican presidential candidate made the comments during a conversation with popular streamer Adin Ross, in which the political situation in Canada was discussed.
“He’s become very liberal. They even say he’s the son of Fidel Castro, and that could be,” Trump said. “Anything is possible in this world, you know.”
The claim that Trudeau is the son of Margaret Trudeau and the late communist dictator is so persistent that the Canadian government was forced to deny it in 2018. Many observers have said that photographs of Justin Trudeau and Castro as young men bear a striking resemblance.
The story was widely shared after Trudeau praised Castro as a “larger-than-life legendary revolutionary” following his death in 2016.
Donald Trump has repeated the false rumor that Fidel Castro is the real father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Canadian leader is depicted as a young man with his mother Margaret
The story was widely shared after Trudeau praised Castro, depicted as a young man, as a “larger than life legendary revolutionary” following his death in 2016
Trudeau praised the former Cuban president in a tribute that focused on his family’s close ties to Castro, but made no mention of his history of brutal repression.
Trudeau’s father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, met Castro in 1976, during a controversial trip that took place at the height of the Cold War.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the first NATO leader to visit Cuba since 1959, hoped to open a dialogue with Castro as tensions between the island and the US mounted.
The Canadian prime minister arrived with his wife Margaret and youngest son Michel. Castro reportedly melted at the sight of their newborn baby.
“I met that little baby when he came here, he was not even four months old, and he captured everyone’s heart,” Castro told the CBC in 2000.
That set the tone for the rest of the visit, because to everyone’s surprise, Pierre and Castro immediately became friends.
Pierre stayed for three days and at one point even shouted: ‘Viva Castro!’
The two leaders remained close after Pierre retired from politics and their friendship “continued into the 1990s”, Professor Robin Wright told Macleans.
“He’s become very liberal, they even say he’s the son of Fidel Castro, and that could be,” Trump said. “Anything is possible in this world, you know.”
The Canadian prime minister arrived with his wife Margaret and youngest son Michel in tow and Castro immediately melted at the sight of their newborn
Pierre stayed for three days and at one point even shouted: ‘Viva Castro!’
When Trudeau Sr. died in 2000, Castro dropped everything to attend his funeral in Montreal.
Castro was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral and met Justin, then 29, and his younger brother Alexandre.
Trudeau followed in his father’s footsteps and visited Cuba just a week before Castro’s death.
Trudeau’s mother Margaret, a writer and actress, was 22 when she married the 51-year-old prime minister, drawing widespread media attention.
Trump’s comments come weeks after Mick Jagger, 80, was booed by the crowd at BC Place stadium on July 5 when he praised the Canadian prime minister on stage.
“We love your Mr. Trudeau,” Jagger said to a chorus of boos. “I mean, his family has always been such big fans of our band.”
Jagger fueled further rumors about the Canadian politician’s mother after former President Donald Trump accused Margaret of sleeping with every member of the Rolling Stones
But he appeared to be poking fun at his mother, Margaret Trudeau, and the time she spent partying with the Rolling Stones in the 1970s.
“We love you, Mr. Trudeau,” Jagger said to a chorus of boos. “I mean, his family has always been such big fans of our band.”
More rumors about the Canadian politician’s mother emerged after former President Trump accused Margaret of sleeping with every member of the Rolling Stones, according to a book by former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
But the Rolling Stones frontman denied the rumors at the time, saying, “It’s really embarrassing. It’s just not true, you know?
“She just came for a two-night concert, she just wanted to have a good time, I don’t know.”