Trudeau's fake MacBook photo draws hilarious reaction online
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But using a fake MacBook to try to look cool?
The Liberal Party posted photos showing Trudeau kicking off a training session for party volunteers. Astute Toronto Sun journalist Bryan Passifiume noticed something unusual about Trudeau’s laptop and posted to Twitter about it — the reaction from readers is hilarious.
Why is Canada’s Prime Minister pretending his boring old HP laptopis a trendy MacBook in official @liberal_party photos?— 𝘽𝙧𝙮𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙪𝙢𝙚 (@BryanPassifiume) May 18, 2021The Apple logo sticker isn’t even on straight, and you can see the laptop’s HP logo underneath #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/uhO0Zq0Bo3
Passifiume is right, there is nothing authentic with this laptop from the wonky Apple logo sticker to the non-Apple charge cord. For some reason, Team Trudeau wanted to make it look like he was on a cool MacBook instead of a dodgy old (but reliable) HP PC laptop.
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His laptop self identifies as a MacBook.
— Darcy (@djslettede) May 18, 2021
He’s just an actor doing the best he can.
— unmuzzled (@faithful_lion) May 18, 2021
The Liberal Party is obviously a little sensitive about the online Twitter mockery. Braeden Caley, the senior director of communications for the Liberal Party, took to Twitter to defend his boss.
Hard-hitting sleuthing! 🧐— Braeden Caley 🇨🇦 (@braedencaley) May 18, 2021A team laptop borrowed for a moment in the LPC volunteer hub, for a drop-in to thank volunteers virtually during successful by-elections early last fall.
Some especially keen Apple fans there just brought some ‘real change’ to the look of a team’s 💻 https://t.co/ALxpoHmLuT
One thing is clear, despite making it sound like this was no big deal, the Liberals are clearly worried about their brand on this one.
