Montreal, Canada:
Bernie Sanders may well be most familiar in a US political context, but that hasn’t stopped Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from utilizing a now popular meme of the Vermont senator to warn persons to keep dwelling throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
On Saturday, Trudeau posted a photo of himself providing a press conference from his lawn on Twitter, with the now popular image of a seated, mitten-clad Sanders superimposed in the background.
The viral Sanders photo, snapped by AFP photographer Brendan Smialowski at US President Joe Biden’s inauguration, shows the senator huddled in a chair, arms folded and also sporting an typical-guy winter coat.
Since it was taken, persons about the planet have superimposed Sanders on popular functions of art and family members photographs.
Referencing a current incident in which his son appeared in the window when he spoke to the media, Trudeau wrote: “It was one thing when my son crashed my press conference a month or so ago.”
“But this…” he mentioned, referring to Sanders’ supposed look outdoors his residence. “Now is not the time to travel. Stay home – and by that, I mean your own home.”
Sanders has been photoshopped in current days sitting on the Iron Throne from “Games of Thrones” and alongside Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in Yalta in 1945.
On Friday, Trudeau warned Canadians not to travel, saying additional pandemic restrictions may well be about the corner that would make it tougher to fly dwelling from trips abroad.
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