Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau Bromance

About

Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau Bromance refers to jokes made about the relationship between French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who were photographed at the 2017 G7 Summit. Social media users joked about the photographs in a manner similar to how people joked about the relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Origin

A week ahead of the Summit, the Toronto Sun^[1] reported that Twitter users were already clamoring for a Macron-Trudeau bromance to joke about.

Photographs from the summit confirmed the relationship already in many peoples' minds. On May 26th, Twitter user @vulgarian^[2] tweeted "ATTENTION EVERYONE. The first Macron/Trudeau picture has landed. I repeat: the first Macron/Trudeau picture has landed" with a picture of the two at the Summit, gaining over 2,500 retweets (shown below).

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The photographs were a hot topic on Twitter for the rest of the summit. Twitter user @sherlockify tweeted that the photos looked like they were taken at a wedding reception, gaining over 3,200 retweets (shown below, left). @erikaheidenwald tweeted that the pair looked like movie stars playing Macron and Trudeau in a movie about the pair, gaining over 1,200 retweets (shown below, right).

That day, Bustle,^[3] CBS,^[4] and Time^[5] all covered the internet's celebration of the photos.

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