Did this happen or not ? I remember reading about it at DU, but can't find a trace of it now. [View all]

Back during his first campaign (2016 or so) someone pranked Trmp by calling up, pretending to be "Prime Minister Poutine of Canada", and offering his endorsement in the election, which Trmp happily accepted.

There was a certain amount of discussion about this, as it was a fake phone call, and Trmp got fooled; Canadian PMs do not endorse US pols; no US candidate should have accepted such an endorsement had it been offered; and of course, poutine is a high-calorie snack, not a political leader.

Now, I swear I read all this on DU, but I can find no trace of a clue that it ever happened, not with DuckDuckGo, and not with Google. First search attempts led only to current news involving mostly Canada's current PM, or sometimes Trudeau. Adding -carney to the search terms helped, but eventually all I could find was a couple of articles about Trmp getting pranked by two radio hosts claiming to be Clint Eastwood and some Canadian MMA fighter -- something which I don't even vaguely remember happening.

Does anyone else remember this the way I do ? This was one of the first times I ever heard the word "poutine" and had it defined for me. There are just too many links in my memory for me to believe I got it all wrong, but the whole incident seems to have been scrubbed from the Web, which feels a little creepy.