An aide to US President, Donald Trump, apologized on Tuesday for saying there was a “special place in hell” for Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, in the wake of a bitter G7 summit.
Peter Navarro was one of two aides to use the term. The other, Larry Kudlow, had since suffered a heart attack and is recovering.
“I used language that was inappropriate,” Navarro said at a conference hosted by The Wall Street Journal. “I own that, that was my mistake, those were my words”.
Navarro said he was trying to “send a very strong signal of strength” ahead of Trump’s meeting with North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un in Singapore.
In his original remarks on Sunday, Navarro had indicated his phrasing was coming directly from the White House and came on the heels of Kudlow making similar statements.
Trump himself has said Trudeau was “very weak” and “meek” and has continued to threaten Canada.
“That’s going to cost a lot of money for the people of Canada, he learned.
“You can’t do that. You can’t do that,” Trump said in Singapore on Tuesday at the North Korea meeting.
Trudeau had said new US tariffs on his nation’s steel and aluminium exports were an “insult” to Canadians, noting the long-standing friendship and military alliances between the two counties.
He also said Canada would not be pushed around.
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