Trump vs. the Pope: This time it’s biblical

Trump vs. the Pope: This time it’s biblical

Because News

B2April 17, 202633 min
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Justin Trudeau took Katy Perry to Coachella, and now he never has to talk to Trump again. Well played, JT. Trump poses as Jesus Christ, then picks a fight with the Pope. Imagine being on a cruise that reroutes from Bermuda to New Brunswick. Mark Carney rebrands the “Liberals” and enters his majority era. Avi Lewis and the NDP want to ban something super creepy. And the latest trend making the rounds on TikTok: Nonnamaxxing. Gavin Crawford hosts the news quiz with comedians Tom Hearn, Kris Siddiqi, and Leslie Seiler.

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This is a CBC podcast. Because news. With Gavin Crawford. Oh, hello, everybody.

Welcome to Because News Canada's funniest news quiz. I'm Gavin Crawford, and 15% of their points this week week will be based on attendance. Let's meet this week's panel.

He's leaving the church until they get a pontiff that's tough on crime. That's right. It's the very devout, Christodiki.

Praise you, Gavin. Thank you. Praise you. Praise.

In the middle chair, she's just here to clarify for no reason that she does not know Jeffrey Epstein. And hasn't spent an inordinate amount of time with Jeffrey Epstein. The first lady of our panel, it's Leslie Siler.

Oh! Oh! And finally, Trump has nothing on this guy. He's been blocking Straits since he high kicked out of the wound.

Let's give it up for Tom Hurn! Oh! Gavin, you know I'm tired of hearing about those Straits. I want to hear about those games.

All right, panel. Are you ready to make some games out of the news? Yes. Coming in hot, let's do this. There we go.

Yeah. Panel, we seem to be living an upside-down time. The Blue Jays have stopped winning house prices in Toronto are dropping. And stories are coming across my feed every day that have me asking, what are my eyes even seeing?

It happened again this week with photos of a certain Prime Minister on Instagram. For the point, can someone please tell me what were my eyes even seeing in recent photos of Justin Trudeau? Oh no, did he revive an old Halloween costume? Oh no, J.C.

No. It was my boy, J.T. hanging out with his new bow, K.P. And they were all living it up at Coachel's, babe. You are correct for the points.

The now Toronto headline reads, Getty teenagers. Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry go viral at Coachella after dancing to Justin Bieber.

Oh, so Canadian. Justin Trudeau and his pop star girlfriend, spent last Saturday at Coachella. One photo showed the couple holding hands

and walking away from the camera. One comment to wrote, Giza Rett Coachella is definitely not a main attraction. Wow.

Wow. He's not that old. He's 55. Nevermind. He's got his mother.

He's not old. He's not old. That's not old. 55 is not old.

It's not old. It's 55 to all for backwards baseball. I don't think so. He also looks so young when you look at those photos.

He does look like a teenager. Let them and live. We have bigger problems. Stop it.

Well, a second photo shows the couple sitting on a curb. Trudeau is eating noodles from a takeout container. But he's also balancing something on his knee that got a lot of people upset. I saw this picture, sorry Tom.

I saw the picture. He was balancing Pierre Paulia with a ban. Troy, look who has dummy on his knee. I wish it was that.

No, I know what made, well, at least made me mad. Is he was drinking out of a plastic cup, something he banned us from doing in 2016? You are correct for the points. He had a red solo cup.

Oh, that is me. And there's a lot of irony going on because you're like, Johnny environmental, and now he's dating the girl that just went to space for fun.

Yeah, yeah. And you're like, how much greenhouse gas did that emit? Yeah. She's putting out, do you ever feel like a plastic bag?

And he's like, do you ever ban a plastic bag? Exactly. Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Right? I love all of the reusable bags that I have. I think it's a second bedroom just for all the extra. and that means good stuff for the environment.

Those definitely aren't going to end up in the landfill. According to the Washington Post, the couple looked, quote, the kind of relaxed that is only possible to achieve

if you've either ingested a couple of good gummies or you're finally free from blank, free from what? Talking to Donald Trump. You're correct for the point.

Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. No. I really thought that was a joke.

It says you're finally free from the job that required you to regularly deal with the shenanigans of the US government. Wow. I mean Washington Post, wait a call, war crimes, shenanigans.

Yeah, really. Oh, we're at silly trouble. And I'm really shenanigans again. The Washington Post ran this headline.

Justin Trudeau at Cachella is a roarshack test, meaning it says more about you than it does about him. If you looked at the pictures of Justin Trudeau at Coachella, what did your reaction say about you?

I think two kind of stems from the Canadian perspective of we've just never had a young hot prime minister before. And I think that this is just going to open doors

for more cool things to happen. Imagine just going back in having like Jean Cricin at Coachella with Dogeca. That would be crazy.

Or Kim Campbell at Ocega with Bad Bunny. Like, get it, Kim? Like, I think let's let these Canadian politicians when they've left office live their life

and to your point hold the people who are actually in office to it. Yeah, yeah. Doesn't need to be un-states been like, you know?

I would like to see John Cretchen just been like, I'm gonna go down and skateboard in the muddy. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Follow me. I want to come. Yeah.

Yeah. Of course, Justin Chiro was not the only weird piece content in our feeds this week. In another what are my eyes even seeing moment? Donald Trump shared an AI image generated many headlines. It showed him cause playing as a

historical figure. For the point, who was he cosplaying as? There's no funny or joke than the actual answer of cause playing is Jesus Christ. The NBC News headline reads Trump facing backlash for posting AI-generated image depicting him as Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.

That's the one he was depicting. Yeah. We've gotten this far. We've gotten this far.

We're world leaders.

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