Trudeau takes a trip into Trump’s upside-down world

The juxtaposition of the mercurial Trump and the politically adept Trudeau gave the PM a relative gravitas he didn’t project with Barack Obama last year.

U.S. President Donald Trump, fourth from right, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, sit down with female executives, including Mr. Trump's daughter Ivanka, beside Mr. Trudeau, on Monday in Washington. Twitter photograph courtesy of the White House

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 15, 2017

MONTREAL—An Oval Office bilateral “pool spray,” during which a delegation from the White House press corps records for posterity the president of the United States sitting beside another world leader while facing a scrum of boom mics and blinding flashbulbs, is always a study in contrasts. Be...

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