Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau said  Thursday that there is no doubt that President Trump’s tweeting habits are a “new wrinkle in international diplomacy.”

In an open forum with the press, the Prime Minister said he focuses on things more important than reading Trump’s tweets.

Trudeau said, “If I get woken up at night for something, it better be something more important than a tweet, I think modern means of communications have led to adjustments in how we function.” He, however, said Trump’s online communication should be treated seriously.

“Anything that the president of the United States says in any forum is worthy of noting, of placing into context,” Trudeau said. I understand the power of a genuine, authentic voice, where people in this society appreciate being able to directly hear and see and learn what someone thinks in a less filtered way”,  he said.

Trudeau said his preferred mode of communication with Canadians was in-person conversations.

“I appreciate the value of connecting with people authentically. I just find that as the prime minister of Canada, I have many opportunities to speak directly to Canadians and engage with them,” Trudeau said. “But it’s not something that I need, to get out of my bubble when you’re running a government.”

President Trump has tweeted about Canada four times, one very aggressive tweet, was about Canada making business difficult for dairy farmers by the border between the neighboring countries. This followed Trump bashing the North American Free Trade Agreement, a major factor being that Canada was taking dairy business from the U.S.

Trump later in another tweet said he “received calls from both the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada asking to renegotiate NAFTA rather than terminate” and that he agreed to do so.

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