--- title: Justin Trudeau Will Meet Donald Trump at White House description: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is coming to Washington, D.C. to visit President Donald Trump on Monday canonical: https://time.com/4665606/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-white-house-visit/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-09T17:40:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:49:12.376Z article:section: Politics og:title: Justin Trudeau Will Meet President Trump at the White House og:description: The leaders have previously talked on the phone og:url: https://time.com/4665606/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-white-house-visit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f3e9b384f8677a6/6988b9884dd21570a7efdb12/justin-trudeau-donald-trump-meeting-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2250 og:image:height: 1266 og:image:alt: Funeral ceremony held for Quebec mosque shooting victims og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Justin Trudeau Will Meet President Trump at the White House twitter:description: The leaders have previously talked on the phone twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f3e9b384f8677a6/6988b9884dd21570a7efdb12/justin-trudeau-donald-trump-meeting-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Justin Trudeau Will Meet President Trump at the White House > Sponsored content. 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A mash up of Justin Trudeau's best moments._ by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Feb 9, 2017 5:40 PM UTC  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech during a funeral ceremony held for six people, who were killed in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City late Sunday, at Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Canada on Feb. 2, 2017. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech during a funeral ceremony held for six people, who were killed in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City late Sunday, at Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Canada on Feb. 2, 2017. Seyit Aydogan—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Feb 9, 2017 5:40 PM UTC Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is coming to Washington, D.C. to visit President Donald Trump on Monday, the White House said. “They look forward to discussing ‎the unique relationship between Canada and the United States of America and how we can continue to work hard for middle class Canadians and Americans, together,” Kate Purchase, Trudeau’s director of communications, said in a statement, according to the [Toronto _Star_](https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/02/09/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-to-meet-us-president-donald-trump-monday.html). The two leaders have previously spoken on the phone, but this will be their first in-person meeting. Several of Trudeau’s ministers traveled to Washington, D.C. in the past week to meet with the Trump administration and prepare for the talk, according to [CBC News](http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-meet-monday-washington-1.3973964). Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway also [told CNN](http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/02/07/kellyanne-conway-trudeau-trump-visit-next-week%5Fn%5F14636374.html) on Tuesday that Trudeau would come to the White House “next week.” Trump and Trudeau — a self-described feminist who [tweets welcome messages](https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/825438460265762816) to refugees and has championed trade deals — seem to have little in common politically, but their meeting has been highly anticipated. The Canadian prime minister talked to other world leaders about how best to engage with Trump ahead of this first meeting, [the Guardian reported](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/08/justin-trudeau-world-leaders-visit-donald-trump) this week. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4665606/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-white-house-visit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4665606/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-white-house-visit/"},"headline":"Justin Trudeau Will Meet President Trump at the White House","datePublished":"2017-02-09T17:40:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:49:12.376Z","description":"The leaders have previously talked on the phone","url":"https://time.com/4665606/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-white-house-visit/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","Justin Trudeau","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f3e9b384f8677a6/6988b9884dd21570a7efdb12/justin-trudeau-donald-trump-meeting-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f3e9b384f8677a6/6988b9884dd21570a7efdb12/justin-trudeau-donald-trump-meeting-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Funeral ceremony held for Quebec mosque shooting victims","caption":"Funeral ceremony held for Quebec mosque shooting victims","creditText":"Seyit Aydogan—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4665606/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-white-house-visit/","name":"Justin Trudeau Will Meet President Trump at the White House"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Justin Trudeau's Greatest Hits","description":"A mash up of Justin Trudeau's best moments.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/uXLetYBN/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-03-10T21:06:07.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uXLetYBN.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4665606/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-white-house-visit/","duration":"PT1M53S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4665606/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-white-house-visit/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```