Well, it's a day that ends in "y" so that means that Le BAE, otherwise known as the Canadian Prime Minister and the object of The Little Mermaid's affection, is popping up somewhere chill and outdoorsy, casually photobombing and being generally charming.
This time on a boat!
Honestly, Trudeau Photobombs are like Fast & Furious movies at this point you don't know why they keep happening but you are obsessed with them and you demand more.
Of course he's just aimlessly kayaking next to someone's parent! Of course he stops and looks picture perfect while carrying on a genial conversation! Of course that blue t-shirt brings out his eyes that not even a grainy cellphone video can dim.
Trudeau is like your high school prom date who you mum keeps running into at the Apple Store in your hometown. Every time it happens she texts you "He's looking great and doing so well! Just thought you'd want to know."
You never respond but you absolutely do want to know.
The Quebequois Prom King was out here in these lakes paddling in support of World Environment Day, which is a holiday we no longer celebrate in the United States. It's been replaced by a tire fire and a 21-aerosol can salute.
I would be here for this under any circumstances because "Justin Trudeau Doing Things In Nature" is one of my love languages. But I'm especially here for it because it's a casual subtweet of our own disastrous leadership. Yas, Le Bae, read us to filth in two languages! Kayak me outside, how about that?
While Trudeau is absolute visual perfection, I have to say the MVP of this video is Carrie Robinson's mother, who is filming this scene with Patty Jenkins-like perfection and still does the ultimate mom move of turning the camera to herself and pointing at Trudeau like "Can you believe it?! Remember how you went to prom with him? The years have been very kind, don't you think?"
Obsessed. Obsessed with this. I would totally do the same thing if when I meet Trudeau. You're going to get vertigo from this video sweeping wildly from him looking perfect to me screaming and pointing.
It should happen any day now; I've moved to the Canadian wilderness to better fasciliate an accidental romcom meeting. Now I'm just waiting.
I am a lake now. Kayak me outside.
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R. Eric Thomas is a columnist for ELLE.com, where he skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity shade, and schadenfreude. He is also the author of Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America, a memoir-in-essays.
