--- 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: 2026-10-08T09:04:25.234Z 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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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=fcc85424-feac-476b-9753-8fb1fed943d4&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Justin Trudeau's Greatest Hits [Watch (HLS stream): Justin Trudeau's Greatest Hits](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uXLetYBN.m3u8) (1:53)  _Published 2016-03-10. A mash up of Justin Trudeau's best moments._ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 26, 2017 2:12 PM UTC 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) ## Transcript It's not every day you get to unveil the names of Canada's first giant panda cubs. So thank you for including me in this once in a lifetime event. One, two, three. [ MUSIC ] [ APPLAUSE ] Justin. Trudeau! One. Two. Three. Four. Five. There you are. Justin Trudeau. As recently as yesterday evening, your party was defending [ INAUDIBLE ] actions, saying essentially that he played by the rules. This morning. Hey, guys, guys! Hey, we have respect for journalist in this country, they ask tough questions and their supposed to. Okay? Sorry, go ahead Omar. Well, I would say, you we're much taller than me the last time me met. [ LAUGH ] This is extraordinary to think of, isn't it? You comment, you said it was a lot like Canada. I understand one of the priorities for you was to have a cabinet that was gender balanced. Why was that so important to you? Because it's 2015. [ APPLAUSE ] I'm pleased to announce today, right here, that a Canadian woman will be featured on the very first of the next series of bills. Expected in 2018. And by the way, we shouldn't be afraid of the word feminist. 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