Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan urged Canada to “get your s–t together” and replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after fans at a UFC fight in Toronto jeered the country’s leader with a vulgar chant.
“F–k Trudeau” chants could be heard at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena during the UFC 297 event on Saturday.
Rogan was streaming his podcast live while watching the event in Toronto when the sold-out crowd showed its displeasure with the liberal Canadian leader.
“They’re yelling ‘F–k Trudeau’,” Rogan told his guests on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on Spotify.
“Canada, get your s–t together! Come back. Come back to what you used to be.”
Rogan’s comments were first reported by Mediaite.
The anti-Trudeau chants came after UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland called out Trudeau’s handling of the COVID crisis.
A Canadian journalist, Alexander Lee, pressed Strickland during a news conference on Wednesday about a remark he made in 2021 according to which he would believe he “failed as a man” if he had a gay son.
Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan praised Canadian UFC fans in Toronto who chanted “F–k Trudeau.” The Joe Rogan Experience
Strickland, a California native, responded to Lee by asking whether he supported Trudeau.
Lee declined to answer the question, prompting Strickland to respond: “Well then you’re a weak f–king man.”
“You’re part of the f–king problem. You elected Justin Trudeau. When he seized the bank accounts, like you’re just f–king pathetic,” Strickland said, referencing Trudeau’s handling of the widespread trucker protest during the COVID pandemic.
“The fact that you have no f–king backbone and as he shut down your f–king country and seized bank accounts, you ask me some stupid s–t like that,” the fighter told Lee.
“Go f–k yourself. Move the f–k on man.”
The chants were in support of UFC fighter Sean Strickland, who came under fire for remarks deemed by some as homophobic. Zuffa LLC via Getty Images
Strickland would go on to lose his belt by split decision to South Africa’s Dricus Du Plessis.
The Post has sought comment from the prime minister’s office.
Trudeau has come under fire for his government’s policies during the pandemic.
For weeks, thousands of protesters in trucks and other vehicles clogged the streets of Ottawa, the capital, and besieged Parliament Hill, railing against vaccine mandates for truckers and other COVID-19 precautions and condemning Trudeau’s Liberal government.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has faced backlash for his policies during the COVID pandemic. AP
In response, the government invoked emergency powers which allowed authorities to declare certain areas as no-go zones.
It also allowed police to freeze truckers’ personal and corporate bank accounts and compel tow truck companies to haul away vehicles.
The trucker protest grew until it closed a handful of Canada-US border posts and shut down key parts of the capital for more than three weeks.
The border blockades eventually ended and the streets around the Canadian Parliament were cleared after authorities launched the largest police operation in Canadian history.
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