--- title: G7 2017: Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron Inspire Memes description: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron strolling through flower gardens became a bromance meme obsession canonical: https://time.com/4795597/justin-trudeau-emmanuel-macron-photos/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-26T14:12:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:58.725Z og:title: The Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron Bromance Memes Have Arrived og:description: These two can't walk around flowers without becoming a viral sensation og:url: https://time.com/4795597/justin-trudeau-emmanuel-macron-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebf3e331cfb0b8d3/6988cf17fb4eac97de89231d/image.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4660 og:image:height: 2621 og:image:alt: G7-SUMMIT-ITALY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron Bromance Memes Have Arrived twitter:description: These two can't walk around flowers without becoming a viral sensation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebf3e331cfb0b8d3/6988cf17fb4eac97de89231d/image.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Agrees That Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron Make a Lovely Pair > Sponsored content. 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The leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the US and Italy will be joined by representatives of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as teams from Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Tunisia during the summit from May 26 to 27, 2017\. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN (Photo credit should read STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) and French President Emmanuel Macron talk during a bilateral meeting as they attend the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the G7, the group of most industrialized economies, plus the European Union, on May 26, 2017 in Taormina, Sicily. The leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the US and Italy will be joined by representatives of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as teams from Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Tunisia during the summit from May 26 to 27, 2017\. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN (Photo credit should read STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images) STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN—AFP/Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 26, 2017 2:12 PM UTC Whether or not people are on the same political page as Canada’s Prime Minister [Justin Trudeau](http://time.com/4687015/young-justin-trudeau/) and [President of France Emmanuel Macron](http://time.com/4769931/emmanuel-macron-wins-french-election/), a number of social media users see eye to eye on one thing: they look great together. Photographs of the leaders walking through the picturesque scenery of Taormina, Sicily, at the [G7 summit](http://time.com/4794755/donald-trump-emmanuel-macron-handshake-nato-summit/) Thursday quickly made the rounds on Twitter, where engaged citizens of the internet have dedicated themselves to captions about how picture perfect they are. This was no walk in the park, though. They were among the geopolitical players there to discuss terrorism, Syria, North Korea, and the economy. The meeting comes after the [terror attack](http://time.com/4793834/manchester-britain-extremism-terror-radicalized/) at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on Monday evening, which catapulted security to the top of the summit’s agenda. “The Franco-Canadian friendship has a new face,” [Macron said](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/g7-summit-emmanuel-macron-justin-trudeau-franco-canadian-friendship-new-face-france-canada-president-a7757096.html) after meeting with Trudeau. “We have to meet the challenges of our generation,” he later tweeted, along with a widely shared video, adding that they are both committed to “respond to issues related to terrorism, climate and economic cooperation.” But those matters didn’t stop the internet from going all “it’s a bromance” on their discussion. The two youthful leaders strolling along an environment often associated with romance combined to create the ideal meme fodder. > [](https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/868036003075903488) > [](https://twitter.com/beige%5Fe/status/868082289279815680) > [](https://twitter.com/FinnTD/status/868039177623007232) > [](https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/868035758527053825) > [](https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/868041152506859520) > [](https://twitter.com/rensyclarke/status/868051230211411971) > [](https://twitter.com/tara%5Fmulholland/status/868037589659525120) These were the pictures some had been waiting for. Earlier in May, the day Macron was voted in as France’s next president, a significant number of global affairs fans promptly began comparing the former investment banker to his Canadian counterpart, hoping they would become best buds. > [](https://twitter.com/KeithLDixon/status/861331038500507648) > [](https://twitter.com/tazeen/status/861320089194332161) > [](https://twitter.com/coreykindberg/status/861295938186485760) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4795597/justin-trudeau-emmanuel-macron-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4795597/justin-trudeau-emmanuel-macron-photos/"},"headline":"The Internet Agrees That Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron Make a Lovely Pair","datePublished":"2017-05-26T14:12:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:58.725Z","description":"Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron strolling through flower gardens became a bromance meme obsession","url":"https://time.com/4795597/justin-trudeau-emmanuel-macron-photos/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Emmanuel Macron","Justin Trudeau","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebf3e331cfb0b8d3/6988cf17fb4eac97de89231d/image.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebf3e331cfb0b8d3/6988cf17fb4eac97de89231d/image.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"G7-SUMMIT-ITALY","caption":"G7-SUMMIT-ITALY","creditText":"STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN—AFP/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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4795597/justin-trudeau-emmanuel-macron-photos/","name":"The Internet Agrees That Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron Make a Lovely Pair"}}]}] ```