Trudeau is really, really good looking! Shirtless photos of Canadian prime minister dominate social media
The photograph, one of many circulated online, was taken at a weigh-in for a 2012 charity boxing match.
The muscled, shirtless man stands facing the camera, fists up in a boxer's pose, with a large tattoo of the Earth surrounded by a raven visible on his left shoulder. The photograph has caused social media to swoon over Canada's newly minted prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
The day after Trudeau's stunning victory over Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the apparent universal agreement that he was not just good looking, but model handsome.
The photograph, one of many circulated online of a shirtless Trudeau, was taken at a weigh-in for a 2012 charity boxing match.
The election of Trudeau, 43, the son of one Canada's most famous prime ministers, Pierre Trudeau, was seen as returning a touch of glamour, youth and charisma to Ottawa.
His father came to power in 1968 on a wave of popular support dubbed "Trudeaumania" and held office for 15 years.
"There is definitely that sense again of Trudeaumania of the '60s and '70s. The elder Trudeau was a rock star. He went around the country and women were swooning," said Cecil Foster, professor of transnational studies at the University at Buffalo.
News website Mashable declared the "internet is sweating maple syrup over Canada's Justin Trudeau" in an article that included a link to a charity strip tease by a young Trudeau. "Shirtless" was the third option automatically generated by a Twitter search beginning with the words "Justin Trudeau".
