Prime Minister Trudeau has walked straight into scandal — and the world has taken notice.

After Time magazine broke the story of Trudeau wearing brownface on Wednesday night, it made headlines everywhere. The New York Post, Le Monde in France, The Daily Mail in the U.K. — nearly every international outlet splashed the scandal across its pages.

Most international media opted to publish mere summaries of the scandal, though, rather than analytical reactions to it.

Here are the first impressions of the scandal from across the world:

Nothing to see here (for now)

The New York Times mentioned Trudeau halfway down their Thursday morning ‘Briefing,’ where he landed between a feature on a Syrian refugee in Amsterdam and a story on the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cuts.

“The Canadian prime minister apologized after Time magazine published a 2001 photograph of the him in brownface makeup at a party for a private school where he was a teacher,” wrote the Times.

The Daily Mail published a similar account, speculating that “the emergence of the photo... could undermine his chances for re-election with less than five weeks to go before Canada’s election.”

The Washington Post echoed this idea, and tied in SNC-Lavalin in their report. “Trudeau has been admired by liberals around the world for his progressive policies in the Trump era... but the 47-year-old son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was already vulnerable following one of the biggest scandals in Canadian political history,” the Post wrote.

The scandal travelled as far as Canberra, Australia as well, with the Times saying “Trudeau has seen his once sky-high popularity hurt by a series of missteps.”

No opinion pieces have filtered out as of yet, but considering how far the scandal has travelled that will likely change.

The ‘golden boy’ falls from grace

Others jumped right in.

The story made its way into the Middle East news cycle, appearing prominently in Qatar-based Al Jazeera.

In their article, Al Jazeera referred to Trudeau as the formerly “youthful golden boy of Canadian politics,” and nodded to the SNC-Lavalin affair as well.

The latter scandal, writes Al Jazeera, “could cost Trudeau support among women, indigenous communities and young people — constituents who helped propel him to victory in 2015.”

Al Jazeera also mentioned the prime minister’s “colourful past” as a snowboard instructor, bouncer, and bartender.

Russia Today goes right for Trudeau

Russia Today (RT) swerved away from the pack and got straight to the point, mocking the prime minister repeatedly.

They labelled Trudeau a hypocrite, and one of “the world’s premier virtue-signallers.”

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RT also highlighted what they viewed as Trudeau’s “grovelling” before the world, and described the prime minister’s late-night media scrum — where he apologized 19 times — as “self-flagellating.”

The scandal broke as Europe was going to bed, and only percolated into the U.S. this morning, so there’ll definitely be more incoming takes from abroad.

Whether they’ll spare the prime minister — once crowned ‘The North Star’ by Rolling Stone magazine and fawned over across the globe — remains to be seen.

Ted Fraser is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star’s radio room in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter at @ted_fraser.

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