--- title: Justin Trudeau Wears Socks For International Star Wars Day description: Justin Trudeau showed off his nerdy side on International Star Wars Day by sporting a pair of special socks for the occasion. canonical: https://time.com/4768739/justin-trudeau-star-wars-socks/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-05T17:39:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:34.175Z og:title: Justin Trudeau Shows Off His Nerdy Side With Star Wars Socks og:description: On International Star Wars Day og:url: https://time.com/4768739/justin-trudeau-star-wars-socks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Justin Trudeau Shows Off His Nerdy Side With Star Wars Socks twitter:description: On International Star Wars Day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Went Wild for Justin Trudeau's Nerdy Star Wars Socks > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=2eba8aa8-e61b-4cf4-9858-0ebbe570bce4&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 5, 2017 5:39 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 5, 2017 5:39 PM UTC While it’s a fact well-established that Canadian Prime Minister and [international heartthrob Justin Trudeau](http://time.com/4314849/prince-harry-justin-trudeau-met/) is a [staunch feminist](http://motto.time.com/4505692/justin-trudeau-un-speech-feminism/) and [a young, hip politician](http://time.com/4740109/malala-yousafzai-on-justin-trudeau-tattoos/), he showed off his nerdy side on none other than International Star Wars Day by prominently sporting a [special pair of socks](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/fashion/justin-trudeau-star-wars-socks.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur), one of which featured C-3PO and the other of which featured R2-D2. In case there was any doubt that Trudeau is really [a true _Star Wars_ fan](http://time.com/4767712/man-named-darth-vader/), he posted a picture of the socks to his personal Twitter account along with the caption, “These are the socks you are looking for,” referencing [Obi-Wan Kenobi’s iconic line](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=532j-186xEQ) from the original 1977 movie and the hashtag #MayTheFourthBeWithYou. > [](https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/860180458319073280) Predictably, the Internet went wild for Trudeau’s out of this world socks, expressing everything from admiration to exultation. > [](https://twitter.com/adlerauge%5F/status/860164148952539139) > [](https://twitter.com/tammyhaq/status/860437400408907779) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4768739/justin-trudeau-star-wars-socks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4768739/justin-trudeau-star-wars-socks/"},"headline":"The Internet Went Wild for Justin Trudeau's Nerdy Star Wars Socks","datePublished":"2017-05-05T17:39:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:34.175Z","description":"Justin Trudeau showed off his nerdy side on International Star Wars Day by sporting a pair of special socks for the occasion.","url":"https://time.com/4768739/justin-trudeau-star-wars-socks/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Star Wars","fashion","Justin Trudeau"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4768739/justin-trudeau-star-wars-socks/","name":"The Internet Went Wild for Justin Trudeau's Nerdy Star Wars Socks"}}]}] ```