Elon Musk calls Trudeau an ’insufferable tool’ for comments on Kamala Harris's defeat

On Tuesday, Trudeau likening Kamala Harris's defeat in the U.S. presidential election to an attack on women's rights and progress

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments likening Kamala Harris’s election loss to an attack on women’s rights and progress earned him criticism from the country’s premiers and from American billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday.

Speaking on Tuesday night at an event hosted by the Equal Voice Foundation — an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in Canadian politics — Trudeau said there are regressive forces fighting against women’s progress.

“It shouldn’t be that way. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. We were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult sometimes, march towards progress,” Trudeau said, adding he is a proud feminist and will always be an ally.

“And yet, just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president. Everywhere, women’s rights and women’s progress are under attack. Overtly, and subtly.”

In a post on X on Wednesday, Musk responded about Trudeau’s remarks, saying, “He’s such an insufferable tool. Won’t be in power for much longer.”