Invictus Games: More military heroes, less publicity hound world leaders needed

Before you know it, it will be ‘Karaoke Night in Canada’ rather than the trademark ‘Hockey Night’. That’s what happens when President Barack Obama, whose key campaign members brought Justin Trudeau into power, now teaches him how to milk international publicity ropes. British publicity through the likes of Prince Harry legitimizes Obama and now does the same thing for shallow, looks-obsessed Justin Trudeau.

“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has become the latest world leader to drop the mic in the build-up to the Invictus Games. (Daily Mail, May 2, 2016)

“The politician showed off his athletic prowess yet again by doing push-ups as he issued a challenge to the Obamas, Prince Harry and the Queen ahead of the tournament involving ex-service members.

Let’s see more of the ex-service members, whose hero status is real, rather than publicity hound world leaders who would stand on their heads so long as the cameras are on them. The Daily Mail goes overboard in describing Trudeau’s female fan base: “The 44-year-old, who has built a worldwide female fan base since coming into office, was joined by Canadian former military in a back-and-forth that has created laughs across the globe. (Daily Mail)

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Make that an orchestrated, canned kind of global laughter with former Canadian military shoved in the back and Trudeau rammed up front.

“In a video posted on Twitter on Monday, Trudeau, who in the past has showed off his boxing skills on social media, starts by saying: 'Oh, hey. I just thought I'd show our friends in the U.S. and U.K. how Canada brings it.' (Daily Mail) “Then, with one hand planted firmly on the ground, Trudeau says 'Boom'. “He then drops an imaginative microphone, as two ex-service members next to him drop actual mics they’re holding. “The video was uploaded the same day Trudeau met Prince Harry to announce that the Invictus Games will be in Toronto in 2017.  “They both looked visibly moved as they listened to emotional stories from soldiers who are set to take part.

Since there were no ex service types in the picture, was this part of the act? “Trudeau's video was a response to a hilarious video posted last week which shows Harry talking to his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, about the games.” (Daily Mail)

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Just like his father, the late former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Justin is a show-off. His father is famous for a photograph showing him pirouetting behind the Queen’s back during a photo session of several leaders at Buckingham Palace on May 7, 1977; slid down the banisters at the Chateau Laurier Hotel during the 1968 Liberal leadership convention. Trudeau, the younger, can boast his push-up prowess but is absolutely without prowess of any kind in the economics department, believing that “budgets balance themselves”--and do their very own push-ups. Doesn’t Prince Harry know that both Trudeau and Obama are anti-troop at heart? Obama has all but gutted the U.S. military during his term, which has seen hundreds of veterans die waiting for medical attention that never comes. Trudeau’s first boastful move as Canada’s Prime Minister was to withdraw military support from Iraq. Yet, thanks to British royalty, they are now used in “hilarious” and “playful” videos to promote the Invictus Games underway commencing in Florida on May 8 and coming to Toronto in 2017. Notice how the video was Daily Mail described as “hilarious”, the clip as “playful” before viewers could even see or hear it? Few find it hilarious that Trudeau’s administration has been pushing physician-assisted suicide in Canada or that he ran an air-tight election campaign that banned any pro-lifers from joining his Liberal Party. In the footage, the Obamas supposedly ridicule the young Prince's confidence and state: 'Hey, Prince Harry, remember when you told us to bring it at the Invictus Games? Be careful what you wish for.' “The Queen, with a smile on her face, then quips: 'Oh really?' (Daily Mail) The Obamas are more prescient than they know in quipping “Be careful what you wish for.” This year's Games will be held in Orlando from May 8 to May 12. Coverage of the events will be on ESPN.