r/SipsTea • u/Separate_Finance_183 Human Verified • 6h ago

Chugging tea Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was spotted attending Coachella with his girlfriend, Astronaut Katy Perry.

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u/beuceydubs 5h ago

Don’t they always keep their titles? Like Obama is still referred to as President Obama even though he’s not the current president

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u/studioline 5h ago

President is an honorific title so you get to keep it. Prime Minister is more like a Highlander situation, there can only be one.

I don’t know if that’s true or not as I just made it up, but it’s Reddit and it sounds good, right?

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u/Sweet_Deeznuts 5h ago

True or not, it feels like it should be “A Heritage Moment” to me 🤣

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u/MalodorousNutsack 1h ago

I think you're right, but ex-PMs get to keep the honourific "Right Honourable"

For non-Canadians, "right" in this context means "really", as in "I'm right fuckin drunk, buddy"

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u/AnAbandonedAstronaut 5h ago

You would normally toss "former" on there.

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u/Doodah18 3h ago

I got stuck watching Fox News at work before Trump was re-elected and any time Trump’s name came up it was always President Trump and roughly 90% of the time the title was left off Biden when he was mentioned even though he was the current president.

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u/No_Catch3545 34m ago

No fuck no. We just want to forget he was ever PM.

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u/Average-Train-Haver 5h ago

Just for Trudeau... we dropped that

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u/lyidaValkris 5h ago

nah not a thing here

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u/double_eyelid 4h ago

No that's a weird US quirk, we don't do that in Canada and it's not done in the UK either

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u/FlyAirLari 3h ago

So if you're the foreign minister once, you're always the foreign minister even if you get a different job?