The Bollywood dance moves. The $50 million tweet to impress an American TV host. Justin’s professed admiration for China’s “basic dictatorship.” His breezy assurances that “the budget will balance itself.” (He inherited a surplus, remember.) Found guilty of breaching Canada’s ethics laws not once, not twice, but four times. Mocked at home and abroad for coining the word peoplekind, to say nothing of responsibilizing. The goofy socks. The constant bragging about how humble he is. The endless, endless selfies.
How did this happen? How did it all go so horribly wrong? To answer this question, I turned to a higher authority:
SIRI, WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU PUT A FORMER SNOWBOARD INSTRUCTOR AND PART-TIME DRAMA TEACHER IN CHARGE OF A G7 ECONOMY?
Siri whirred and clicked and spat out the following actual headlines, all of which ran within a few weeks of each other in 2018 alone.