While I thoroughly agree that silence is a useful tactic in a lot of different situations, it seems unreasonable to me that a full 22 seconds of dead air, complete with a number of barely audible ahs and ums, as well as a number smacking lips / moistly speaking is the pre-rehearsed plan from his advisors.
I also agree that there is no way his advisors had not previously prepared him for questions like that. But that goes back to the incompetency that I was mentioning -- I would not at all be surprised that he was freaking out inside because he had forgotten what his advisors had briefed and rehearsed him on, and he was desperately trying to recall what had been said, how bits and pieces from what he did remember could be strung back together, etc.
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Originally Posted by 68style
I don't think he spaced out at all, it seemed completely pre-meditated to me.
Silence is a tactic often used by leaders to make powerful points. He could have just launched straight into his diatribe about difficulties in Canada and USA blah blah blah but to stand there and say nothing about Trump says an awful lot.
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It's absolutely impossible to imagine that his advisors wouldn't have prepped him for such a question. Totally not possible.
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As I said in the video post, I think the video will just reinforce whatever presumptions we already have about JT after watching the video. I have always thought JT is thoroughly incompetent, so his extended silence reinforces that. For others who like him, the long silence will just reinforce how meticulously cautious and aware he is on the delicate nature of the Canada-US relations.