At the rate, Trump's going the US won't have any friends left come Christmas. Well apart from that fine man Putin.
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Trump and GOP (many in the GOP who are complicit who know Trump is working for Putin) are going to cheat in the midterm elections AGAIN.
Dems need to mobilize and unify behind one another. We can't say negative things about establishment democrats in order to get elected like the gal who got elected in NY or some dems to speak negatively about Pelosi, etc. just because they are older or part of the "establishment". Take a cue from the party in power: UNIFY. No matter what one part of the democratic party does or says just UNIFY. Pelosi is our democratic minority leader right now so no matter how progressive you may be you (we dems) should speak proud and loud about all our party. Stand behind anyone who is willing to be a successful democratic in order not to fracture our own chances of getting elected. That is what the russians and the GOP want us to do so they can hold on to power in the senate, house and POTUS.
Dems have to stop "bringing a knife to a gun fight" - understand that is meant in a way to say we must fight the GOP KNOWING they will cheat.
UNIFY - progressives, establishment, etc. we must all be together. Stand up for one another and even when one makes a mistake and stop being snowflakes!!
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The headline declares it all. Now the question we need to keep asking ourselves, is "Who stands to gain, here?" It couldn't possibly be Putin, could it?
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It never ceases to amaze me that DT is such a coward and doesn't get called on it. He speaks harshly about world leaders, especially female leaders, behind their backs but when meeting them face to face is all sweetness and light saying, "We get along great" and "The relationship couldn't be better". He acted insulted by Justin Trudeau's remarks when if he had been paying attention Trudeau had said the same things several times before the G-7 meeting. He lies about the energy levels that Germany gets from Russia and goes on and on and on about how unfair it is, but is sweet when he and Angela Merkel are on camera together. Same thing with Teresa May. Trash talk to the Sun but everything is fine to her face.
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Trump is not only make America great again he will also make Europe great again. Just wait and see. I voted for him and I will vote for him again if he decides to run in 2020.
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This uncouth idiot and moron we unfortunately have in the White House has no manners at all. To immerse himself in the politics of the nation that will host him and criticize its head of government is beyond belief. It's a total disgrace. This whole week of his undermining of NATO, Angela Merkel, and Theresa May, and the values of democracy, free press, and free trade for which they stand, after all the toil and sweat it took to build the post-World War II structure, brought shame and dishonor to the US. I can't wait for this ego to be out of the White House. Robert Mueller, please speed up your investigation, so you draft a report accusing this jerk of impeachable offenses.
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Theresa May is not fooled by Trump. Look at this white thing on her upper left arm. It contains an antidote against NOVICHOK, the favorite poison of Russian agents in Britain and speaking of such agents well... enough said.
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Theresa May is done. The EU needs less regulation and more performance based incentives. The American President’s goal is that the U.K. turn back Islam. Brexit is a step on the way to a Europe free of administrative shackles.
O. Lord God Almighty. The cynical and feeble minded rooting for the plain dumb ugly.
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How would Americans supporting Trump feel if some FOREIGN head of state, invited to visit the US, accepted an interview on Fox News and totally bashed the president behind his back as well as claiming that the foreign national's way was the ONLY way to do things?
Then, make an abrupt about-face, all sweetness and light, when appearing in public with the head of state.
Another 2 years of this abominable international behavior??
Wake up, America, and vote for responsible adults in November!!
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Keep on kicking the Brits in the nuts, Donald. Be a safer world if, next time America needs an ally for a war (say against Iran) they’ve seen the light and decide that the “special relationship ain’t worth the candles.
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The BBC Washington correspondent just reported that Trump is claiming that he predicted the outcome of the Brexit referendum as he was at his golf course in Scotland the day before the vote. But he was there the day after when the result was known. So no prediction made. The BBC called him out in this and even checked flight details. But still he and some staff members are claiming this is Fake News, just like The Sun interview. Do they really think we are that stupid?
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Trump is doing what Putin wants.
Putin wants NATO and the EU destroyed.
Trump is a traitor to America.
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I take issue with the first line of the first paragraph. There was no "diplomacy on full display" in Brussels or London. Confrontation, disruption and blustering, yes indeed. Trump is no diplomat. I'm sure Trump despises true diplomats, career diplomats, because they are educated and knowledgeable about crucial international topics. and sensitive to issues of protocol. Trump continues to behave like the toddler the London balloon portrays.
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The problem - his mind is uninformed, and the criticisms lacking in those basic manners that maketh man - even going so far as to attack and undermine your host hours before you meet for a formal occasion that puts her embarrassment in the limelight and seriously undermines her politically. The least one expects of such a powerful and great country is that its president keeps his criticisms to private meetings and that cordiality allows difficulties to be overcome without unnecessary acrimony. His attitude to the EU, that has been a unifying force for good rising out of the ashes of evil, is lamentable - as is the self-contradicting nonsense about NATO. Somebody should perhaps point out to him that if a New Yorker wants to buy a Mercedes, this is because he has chosen to do so because he or she considers it to be of superior quality, and while we are about it - also tell him that the US contributes to 22% of NATO's civil and military budget, (the same as France and Germany combined, let alone the UK) and that the European countries spend $250 billion on its defence, four times more than Russia. What we need here is to wake up to the fact that another 8 years of this man at your helm will destroy all that is decent that your country has sought to build in collaboration with Europe over 70 years, and that we must reluctantly seek to wean ourselves off the natural assumption that we can automatically depend on the US, whether militarily or otherwise.
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Why is there no easy way for a President to be fired if they are 1) a pathological liar, 2) delusional, 3) dangerous?
Something's wrong with our system of checks and balances if there's no check on a laissez-faire Congress enabling our unhinged President.
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He didn't embarrass Ms. May; he embarrassed himself and his country.
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Perhaps I'm beating a dead horse, but I was pained by the syntax of Trump's responses in the Sun interview. On the page (or screen), detached from his peremptory speaking voice, his words take on a completely different tone--less like a tough guy and more like a nervous job interviewee. How did this guy get the position?
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In many ways, Trump reminds me of Boris Yeltsin, the late and not-so-great Russian prime minister who was also an egotistical, boorish, and incompetent clown. I hope the result of Trump’s foolish actions will not be an improved, American version of Putin.
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We could have sent Kim Kardashian and Alex Jones in place of Mr. and Mrs. Trump and been less embarrassed.
Alex could provide just as much bluster and ranting while Kim could have provided just as much "OMG! What shoes will she wear to meet the Queen".
Perhaps Johnson will travel to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring, in hopes Trump will endorse him to be the next PM.
Don Trump needs to stay at Mar a Largo where he can play Mr. Big Shot. He has a paid staff that cleans up after him, which is probably a 24/7 task.
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It seems the Britons are not yet fully aware of Mr. Trump's casual relationship with integrity and truth. He will say things to one audience then turn and deny them to another. To Mr. Trump, words, promises and commitments are merely tools to be used in aid of his ultimate goals which are attention, adoration and fealty. A rude awakening has only just started.
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Trump is totally off the wall and the GOP are “in collusion” with this horror of a human being. If he knows what he is doing he insane and if he doesn’t he is incompetent. Either way, he and his Republican mob must be isolated from the Western world until thinking Americans can drive them from office. Welcome to the world of narcissism.
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Can't wait until trump get to Russia and tells Putin how to run his country. Hey, it's worked well so far!
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That’s it. Little Donny may no longer play outside without adult supervision. And no cheeseburgers for a week.
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Calling Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May needs your backbone!
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Today, trump is the Ugly American, conducting foreign policy in public. There is no personal monitor, let alone any one person to whom he will listen-- that is except for Putin. Hasn't it been reported that trump calls Putin to ask what should he (trump) do about Syria, or say Afghanistan?
If the folks who own or control the "baby balloon" would bring it to D.C., then there would really be some kinda wonderful demonstrations against trump and his minions.
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Trump’s focus on “one-upmanship” makes him come up with the most ridiculous policy ideas. His trade feuds are solely because he sees the United States as a kid (himself) out in the big, bad world alone where all other nations are other kids on the global block, and he is afraid that they have more toys than he has.
That is the only way he views anything. Do you have more than I have? If so, how do I make sure that I get more than you have? That is his guiding approach to everything, whether real estate, global trade or foreign relations.
He is the sort of man who buys a carton of eggs every two weeks for a year from a local egg vendor, and, at the end of the year, tells the egg vendor that he should purchase a night or two at a Trump hotel because the vendor owes Trump for the favor of purchasing his eggs! If the vendor declines to buy the hotel nights, then Trump would retaliate by not buying any more eggs.
It is ridiculous. No sensible person conducts business with an expectation that every vendor and customer should do an even exchange of business.
Trump is clearly accustomed to gangster tactics where intimidation, threats, and sabotage are how he lines his own pockets.
His base is going to be sorely disappointed when Trump’s policies raise the cost of goods and decrease the number of US jobs.
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DJT said this was fake news, but The Sun is part of Murdoch's empire
So how can The Sun be fake and Fox not?
The man really depends on our attention span being shorter than his
Oy, at least 2+ more years of this - at my age
My head hurts everyday and I can't bear to take my blood pressure
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You are right.
Many of us, however, are saddened by the large number of our fellow citizens who voted for him. We are angered by those in Congress who support him. It is a part of who we are, no doubt. It goes back to the Civil War. The map of who voted against Obama and for Trump closely parallels the geography of the Confederacy.
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Rupert Murdoch owns the Sun newspaper. Rupert Murdoch owns fox so-called news. Rupert Murdoch in an inherited/stolen wealth democracy-destroyer - just like
The Con Don and their Robber Baron brethren. Their cult followers are brain-washed.
Thanks to the Good People of the U.K. who are flying the life-like blimp of The Con Don and showing resistance in many other ways to help support those of us in OUR United States who are stopping the Robber Barons.
Fortunately there are enough average Americans and average people around the world who will NOT let the International Mafia Top 1% Global Financial Elite Robber Baron/radical religion Good Old Boys' cabal destroy OUR lives and OUR planet. WE will not let them start WW3. Not now. Not ever.
WE THE PEOPLE will restore sanity in OUR world. Right NOW.
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Well, he picked the right newspaper for his remarks. When I lived in England, longer ago than I care to remember, the gutter press was the News of the World, rather like the National Enquirer. The Sun is in that category. I doubt he would have talked to the London Times.
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The wrecker should not be allowed to leave the Whitehouse. The highlight of his trip will be his meeting with Putin; I.e. after us tax payers pay him for a couple days of golf at his resorts.
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I wish the Europeans would just refuse to have Trump enter any of their individual countries. He deserves to be treated like the irrational toddler he is, throwing a tantrum and spouting off with whatever distasteful thought happens to be rolling around in his head at any given moment. The only way to deal with such a toddler is to ignore him and keep him out of the room where adults are discussing important matters until he learns how to behave.
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If the Brits weren't so proper I'd suggest that they give donald a shove out the door and tell him never to come back.
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“I actually told Theresa May how to do it, but she didn’t listen to me.”
Hahahahahahaha (cough, sputter, choke).
I am afraid to remain in this country, but am too ashamed to show my American face overseas. God help us.
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It would be best if the Queen will politely cancel their meeting.
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We need the marches and crowds of people as they are having in the UK (against Trump) in Washington, DC! We should have marched onto DC to protest the treasonous stealing of the SCOTUS seating of Merrick Garland by Mitch McConnell. Our politicians (mainly the Dems) certainly will not do the hard work. We should have marched in protest of the disastrous tax giveaway to the wealthy. Marched in protest of the elimination of net neutrality, of the destruction of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The list is endless now...and maybe because the list is endless we are just too overwhelmed by the wholesale and rapid dismantling of our democratic institutions and regulations. So we resort to....shopping and the beach? Reagan wins. "Rugged individualism" (and consumerism) has replaced community and civic pride.
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And to add......"virtual" marches (i.e., via the internet) are no replacement for the real thing. And finally we all need to march our tushies into the voting booth this November....no excuses!
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Where's the outrage from the U.S. House of Representatives? What's the difference between Trump expressing his personal opinion and Strzok doing the same thing? I used to tell my soldiers, think anything you want, just don't say it.
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“My soldiers”? Really? Now that statement is problematic. The President of the United States is not an FBI agent writing an ill conceived email to a lover. The American people, albeit a minority, have unleashed a ranting, self-aggrandizing (how many times has he declared himself a genius) narcissist on the world. He views every negotiation as a war, every challenge as a provocation and cannot conceive of any circumstance where both sides come away with something. Trump must have a winner and, on the world stage, he might just end up the loser. What such a mercurial man with a “bigger button” might do in that instance is not comforting.
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How's the weather out there?
We all have a little motor in our heads that as our thoughts form helps us figure out whether we should actually say these thoughts. And the strength of our motors varies from person to person. In the last 24 hours Papa John lost his job as chairman of his own pizza chain when his motor failed to keep him from saying the n-word out loud.
But it least Papa John's motor works, sort-of. President Trump’s motor is flat-out busted—when a seemingly cool thought pops into his head he MUST say it (or text it, etc.), no matter how stupid, hurtful, undiplomatic, or provably untrue it is. And this gets him and our country into trouble on a daily basis. But unlike Papa John, there is no easy way for him to be fired, at least not for this. So for at least the next two and a half years we have to endure this humiliation on a daily basis. And having so recently had the totally diplomatic President Obama in this job just makes it worse.
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Verbal Dysdecorum is the name of it, boardering on sociopathy...
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Lock him up. Our so-called president is mentally incompetent to serve.
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Hope the trip to his Scottish golf course is on his own dime.
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He'll make money on it because his resort will be charging the US government for lodging and meals for his security and others who may accompany him. After all paying for a nice weekend in the country is the least we can do for him to repay him for the great job he has done for us in Europe this week.
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Trump won... the World nothing.
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The trouble with Trump is that he is confirmation of every negative American stereo type to the foreign world: rude, crude, ignorant, arrogant, loud, not too bright, and overly indulged like a child of privilege.
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Not to be outdone by the Trump blimp, someone created another brilliant display, this time a crop circle.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/f-trump-crop-circle-uk-2018-7?r=US&IR=T
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Honestly, I wonder if he set fires as a child. He certainly seems to enjoy burning things down now.
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I do so hope her Majesty the Queen iterates to the the visiting court jester, that with a friend like him who needs an enemy?
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As usual, our president appears to be doing Putin's bidding.
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Trump is not only a clear and present danger to the US. He has taken his psycho show on the road, attempting to inflict as much damage as he can to the European Union. Trump picked apart Germany, and now is out to undermine the UK. What gets me is why is Europe asleep at the wheel? Why are they so beholden to US?
I am ashamed every day to be an American since Election Day 2016. We have unleashed on our nation and the world a know-nothing semi-literate madman. We have done more to return our country to the place Germany was in during the 1930's . Trump is nothing but a criminal who has yet to be charged with those crimes. It's only a matter of time. Until the authorities come a-calling, we the people must implore our reps to do obstruct everyone of Trump's actions, from his nominee to the High Court to the "deals" he may make with North Korea or his co-conspirator Vlad The Impaler. Trump must be neutered and held hostage until he is carted away to the Gray Bar hotel. Shame on the millions who voted Trump. You stupider than you have the ability to imagine.
DD
Manhattan
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Perhaps a culture that enshrines brattishness, rewards selfish behaviors and indemnifies dishonest business practices deserves this evil excrescence. Someday medical students will examine various aspects of this entity's organism. And cringe.
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More and more as I read the current news. I am reminded of a Punch and Judy show, Bam! Trump punches,. then the assailed hits back, then Trump retracts a bit, until the next punch. It begins to read like the personal gossip sheets available for the gullible at the supermarket check out counter.
We've got the National Enquirer for the masses. A cartoon at best. Yet the media steps right into it each time. And readers abound. When will will learn to understand 'what lies beneath? Time to focus on what he does than all these cheap theatrics. What's really at play in this national and international show?
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When will the left let go of it's dream of civility conquering all? Civility is a two way street. It always has been. The only reason Gandhi's civility triumphed is that it forced the British Empire, who prided itself on civility, to see the brutal, in-civility of its colonialism. We now live in a world where right leaning factions could give a fig for civility; winning is everything, no matter what stain it leaves.
Trump is a bully, plain and simple. Bullies are not civil or reasonable. Bullies love it when others don't fight back. Bullies rule the roost until someone has the guts to smack them one in the snoot. All the hand wringing about civility on the left will accomplish nothing. Waiting for the next election is a gamble. The leaders of the world need to start acting openly against Trump and other authoritarians, in no uncertain terms.
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Vladimir Putin, in their private meeting:
"Really, Donald, you've been doing great, everything we asked for, keeping your side of the bargain for billion we gave you to bail you out. But please tone it down a little. We wanted you to damage the US and the EU, not destroy them. It's funny to watch but we're getting worried. We all have to live in this world when you're done."
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I kind of hope that trump does something to insult the Queen or maybe moves too quickly and aggressively toward her. My fantasy has the Queen's guard throwing him to the floor and dragging him to the dungeon. What a fitting image!
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We know that Trump will brand the Sun interview
as "fake news" and dodge the criticism once again.
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As an American, I offer my sincere apologies to those in Great Britain and Europe for the crass, antagonistic, unscientific, antisocial, uncaring behavior of our narcissistic president, and the abdication by our congress of any defense of our rules of law, protection of the environment, control of rampant profiteering, protection of school children from gun violence, and/or leadership in civility. I'm really embarrassed that we seem to have degenerated into a gang of thieves. . My advice: keep this con artist playing golf full time, and he will do less damage. You would be wise to ignore anything he says.
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Calm down - it was ‘fake news’, President Trump has said so...and he never lies.
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For some reason, America continues to let this guy, Trump, speak for the country.
It is more than amazing to me...It's like we eat poison because somebody gave it to us because it would be impolite to spit it out.
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All our president seems capable of doing is unraveling the USA's long-time relationships with our allies. He is a bully, and loves to show it off by disparaging those who should be our allies. His lack of tact deserves push back, both here and abroad.
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Not quite as bad as the Republican Congress inviting Netanyahu to speak before a joint session so he could publicly insult President Obama but pretty close.
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It is patently obvious that Trump is doing Putin’s bidding & is in his pocket! Trying to destroy the EU, NATO, the WTO & the USA’s relationships with all of our allies, then traveling to the Kremlin to kiss Putin’s behind!
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Go Brits !! Good for you for demonstrating. I would like to apologize for our balloon baby President for insulting your PM, the Mayor of London, and in advance for any further insults and bullying he will spew forth while there. I love Great Britain, and it distresses me to see him alienate you and destroy our historically great friendship. Please understand that you have many many friends here and that a great number of Americans are horrified by our President and wonder how we ever got here !! Best wishes from an American friend.
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Why would anyone be shocked by anything Trump says or does?
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If the venue was a third grade classroom, and if Trump was the kid causing all the disruption, he would be sent to the principal's office and be given indefinite detention. In 117 days the American people will have that opportunity...
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Let us see .... Trump's insane behavior and lies in NATO meetings & England; with his administration's treatment of children of asylum seekers; and congressional republicans' enthusiastic partisan attacks in hearing yesterday ... have been pinnacle of this nightmare.
The US has officially, and undoubtedly left any claim of describing themselves as "developed nation".
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Can't wait to give Trump's government a shove this November.
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He has attacked Merkel, May, Macron and Trudeau. Who have I forgotten? He attacked the North Korean leader as Rocketman until he changed his mind and decided he liked him. He likes Boris Johnson, who looks like a cousin. I'd laugh if it wasn't so dangerous. I do hope they will duplicate the Trump baby balloon here and follow him around to his rallies with it, plus outside of the White House. When I saw the Congressional hearings yesterday though and read about the trip to Russia by Republicans, I realized this incompetence runs deeper than imaginable and that Putin has just exposed it.
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I long for the day when our long national embarrassing orange nightmare is over. I miss the days of feeling proud of our president, confident that Obama knew what he was doing.
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The only thing Donald Trump cares about other than himself is his bank account.
All else is just background noise.
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How does one explain this? I mean seriously. Is he so addle-brained that he doesn't remember what he said from one day to the next? Or so completely untethered from any sense of morality that he can just blithely lie in public, on tape, in the newspaper with not a care? It's quite a phenomenon, whatever it is.
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The treachery of Don toward Theresa should be a standing warning to all who deal with the con man. He'll always be willing to thug you out and betray you. No deal with Donald is backed by his word,. Sorry UK, if you choose a soft BREXIT which is obviously your only option if you are pulling out, Don will make you pay for it.
There are, despite so many reassurances, Brits, far fewer chances now that BREXIT will do what you were promised. In fact, far more likely not to.
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Bam Margera called, they're bring back the crew and there's an opening.
As a proud citizen of Canada and hence also part of the British Commonwealth I have to commiserate with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second for her to have tea with your country's president. On the other hand I am not in the least bit worried about how she will handle the president since throughout her reign she has had to meet and greet numerous despicable leaders of the world. Elizabeth has something your president will never have - integrity.
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The daily overdose of the antics of Trump has reached critical mass with me. There is truth in that Trump has the power to reign havoc on the world so he must be watched closely. The Right loves Trump with all of his flaws and The Left detest Trump for his flaws. One has to know by now Trump loves being the center of attention and when he is not he throws a hissy fit. Trump has cowered the once Two Fisted Republican Party and he has shown how Feckless The Left is. Trumps entire world resides between his ears and nothing else matters. Like congressional leaders the leaders of the world have cowered to Trump in their belief he is an aberration.While Trump daily keeps our eyes on the shiny object his minions stack our courts,reck our environment and enrich themselves.By not confronting the bully it only makes him stronger and more reckless. Watching the Trump/May press conference today was like hearing someone drag chalk across a blackboard. After 18 months of Trump can any rational person still hope Trump will grow into the job? Trump's meeting with Putin Monday will be puppet and puppeteer and everything will be done to hide the strings. Trump is a prime example of why voting matters. There is no consolation in knowing Trump didn't get the popular vote because to the victor goes the spoils
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No doubt Trump will come away from this with more ideas for his own forthcoming post election day military parade.
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President Trump and his loyal Trumpublicans do not conserve. They destroy. Shouldn’t Trump and his enablers be properly referenced as "The Wrecking Crew"?
Trump increasingly directs his wrecking ball at international targets:
Wreck the G-7.
Wreck NATO.
Wreck Prime Minister May’s government.
We must not forget, however, the extent to which Trump and his wrecking crew have damaged America internally.
Wreck progressive taxation.
Wreck financial and environmental regulations.
Wreck what remains of the labor union movement.
Wreck Obamacare.
Wreck equality of opportunity for women, minorities, gays and the poor.
Wreck Planned Parenthood.
Wreck the Paris Accords and all efforts to combat global warming.
Wreck civil rights and voting rights.
Wreck Social Security.
Wreck Medicare and Medicaid.
Wreck fair housing opportunities.
Wreck the last vestiges of the New Deal.
Wreck the middle class.
Wreck the American Dream.
Under Trumpublican misrule, the American prospect affords:
For the super-rich: a kleptocratic pathway to ever greater wealth and power.
For the vast majority of U.S. citizens: a superhighway to serfdom.
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In a painful way for, I dare say, most Americans, what is witnessed daily through Trump & Co is the hopelessness of arrogant incivilty. It is feeling this authentically and deeply, I believe, that will ultimately be salvation for us as an independent and confident nation, conditioned to live in harmony with other nations for the sake of what is universally good. The good is surely appreciated and longed for through the sickening experience of the opposite. In this respect, Trump is paradoxically seen as an unwitting instrument that calls us “home” ... not, by the way, an instrument that anyone should ever enjoy. It would be missing the point, however, for this nation to absolve itself for what is seen now on world display through Trump & Co. Smug American “exceptionalism” that is part of us in our celebrated national pride, after all, didn’t start with Trump. Reforming the concept of what a civil nation is and then living it, is the moral task before us.
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Elephant in a China Shop comes to mind. With increasing frequency.
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Good for Trump. It's long overdue. While he's at it, send the Queen and the "Royals" packing as well: a quaint but very expensive anachronistic monopoly. As for "Brexit," the Times would serve its readers well if it explained precisely the economics, rather than the optical politics. In economic terms, it is very powerful as it points to the corruption that is the EU, and the EMU, which Switzerland, Norway and Sweden abstained from, and about which Germany is kicking itself. Moreover, the EU was a special interest lobbying program designed to enrich a group of insiders (what else is new); destabilize the region (immigration) and de-leverage especially, Germany. It is the hobbyhorse of the WJC/EJC, among others. As for Trump, he tells it like it is, unlike his predecessor, who told it like he was...
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Can't wait until he gets to Helsinki and heaps effusive praise on Putin. You have to be a total Trump sycophant to not realise he is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vladimir Putin and Russia. In less than two years he has accomplished more of the Kremlins goals than I think they even thought possible in their wildest estimates when putting their support Trump plan in place a few years ago or maybe longer.
Meanwhile the Mueller investigation continues in stony silence. The panic of the Trump sycophants is obvious by their attacks on the investigators rather than the facts. As I point out to my Trump loving coworkers how can you call it a witch hunt when you or I have no idea what they have uncovered. Seems to me they as well as myself know by Trumps actions some really messy stuff is going to come out that they will not be able to dismiss it as "mere locker room talk"
I fear we are currently slow walking to a real constitutional crisis that will test the United States as it has been tested only once before in history. Sadly even though that is 150 years into history we still continue to suffer the effects, as Charlottesville laid bare.
I wish I had an exit strategy but I'm stuck here so I encourage everyone to fight back by voting all Republicans good or bad out of office so they pay an extremely high price for their silence on Trump.
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President Trump's behavior in the UK is like accepting an invitation to somebody's house, dropping a horse doot on an elaborately-set dinner table, and then calling it an English muffin slathered in sweet honey. Some people describe this as "telling it like it is."
Trump's endorsement of fellow self-serving but proudly unaccountable egotist Boris Johnson for the Prime Ministership currently served by Theresa May is a naked interference in the internal politics of an allied sovereign nation. It hardly matters how he sugar-coats his gratuitous subversion after he sows it.
The gesture is on a par with Israeli PM Netanyahu's address to the US Congress without prior consultation with former President Obama, or the now infamous 1967 "Vive le Québec Libre" exhortation of France's President Charles de Gaulle in Montréal while Canada was celebrating its centennial as a nation.
De Gaulle was asked to leave Canada as a result of his thinly masked intervention in a sensitive Canadian domestic political matter. Theresa May would be more than justified in doing likewise.
If and when Theresa May or the Queen should visit the United States during the Trump presidency, I think it would be right and proper for either of them to suggest how great a president she thinks Victoria Ocasio-Cortez would be. At least they'd be closer to the truth.
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Trump may have just saved May's ministry. Unlike some Americans, the British are probably intelligent enough to do the opposite of whatever Trump thinks is a good idea. Soft Brexit seems like the way to go then.
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It will be a glorious day when the leaders of the rest of the world get their chance to chime in on Trump's collusion and treasonous activity. He shall reap what he has sowed.
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Some of the readers have said there is nothing wrong with how Mr. Trump has displayed himself. On a visit to another country, a staunch ally, and lecturing the leader of that country. Yes, he is speaking his mind. Could he not do that in a separate private session. All to do with diplomacy.
Imagine, the leader of another country coming here and telling our president that there are a lots of things not right here? How would Mr. Trump react? With a scheduled meeting with Russia's president, what is Mr. Trump planning to tell Mr. Putin. Questions to ask. Will it be just praise, and praise. There are a number of issues which the American people are interested in.
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Next up from Trump: legitimizing the Russian reconquest of Crimea.
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Here in the US, a substantial fraction of the people believe that God runs the whole universe through agents like Donald Trump.
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For any kind of representative government to work one needs at least two key items:
1) An educated, involved, and active people.
2) Government representatives who understand that public servant means serving the public, not that the public serves them. And are they are not there to personally enrich themselves.
When one side fails to uphold their end, the system falters.
When both sides fail, the system collapses.
During the last US Presidential election out of 230 million eligible voters almost half didn't vote. In my state, you can literally vote by spending 20 minutes in queue and then a booth in a shopping mall, library, or any of several dozen places, even weeks before the election. 20 minutes...to steer the fate of the country (and of course our own personal futures) for years. And 100 million didn't have the time. Or rather they voted for Trump and the GOP by not voting.
Essentially in our country of 325 million souls...we let 60 million or 18% determine that. Anyone who complains they didn't want this path but didn't vote...this exactly the government you wanted. (with apologies to the disenfranchised, it's a fact that the party in power has been manipulating the system). 20 minutes every 4 years. Or every 2 if you're like me and never missed an election.
Versus how much time each day we spend in social media complaining?
Want to fix this? Call your representatives...and vote.
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Ironically, Britain has a parliamentary government and can call for a vote of "no confidence" if a leader fails to carry out their duties or makes decisions detrimental to the country.
We who desperately need such a mechanism right now, don't have it.
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We know from Wikileaks that past administrations said one thing publicly and another thing behind everyone's backs. Diplomacy was one lie told after another. Trump comes along and speaks his mind. The polite circles of diplomacy go nuts...no one talks like this. YES THEY DO...IT"S BEEN THE DIPLOMATS for generations. Perhaps some honesty injected will do good. The editorial pages of this newspaper cheer when liberal leaders challenge Trump. But when Trump speaks his mind he is ruining everything...and yet...US standing in the world has never been higher. Yes, it may be true that some of the liberal leaders in the world don't like Trump...they probably HATE him...but NATO is going to pay 2%...or find another protector. I think they got that message. The left may feel Trump doesn't represent them when he speaks...well BREAKING NEWS...Obama made me want to vomit every time he spoke...he NEVER spoke for me. The left needs to grow up.
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Tom, You are misinformed--and spreading that misinformation in your comment. You are comparing rotten apples to oranges. America might have good standing around the world--and by that I mean most American citizens and the American government have, despite Trump, managed to maintain a good reputation. Trump, on the other hand, who, it is clear, represents only himself, is almost universally reviled. Americans overseas right now are shocked and embarrassed by Trump's behavior and apologizing for it on a routine basis. The only people outside of America who endorse Trump are those who do so for one reason: the fact that he is so incompetent that he is destabilizing democratic values and alliances. They don't even like him as a person, only that he encourages despots and authoritarians. President Obama, on the other hand was almost universally admired. Note the glaring difference between the massive crowds who came out in Europe to embrace and celebrate Obama when he went there to speak and meet with their leaders. Contrast that with the huge crowds that come out to protest against our know-nothing-in-chief. There's a reason for that difference: Obama was a well respected leader of the United States; Trump--for painfully ongoing and obvious reasons--is not.
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Anger, rage and hostility. Trump builds on this. How sad you carry it to the point of dumping it in public venues.
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However cringeworthy the prospect, "Donnie Bone Spurs" will soon be meeting with the Queen of Engalnd.
Since she is not generally hearlded as much of milquetoast, I wonder what those bug on the wall tickets are selling for over there.
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Don't forget that Trump will meet privately with Putin to get his new marching orders.
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What a fool is the American president!! I am ashamed to be represented by such a vulgar, undiplomatic man who is above all hungry for praise, flattery, adulation. With him flattery will get you anywhere. It can even buy your allegiance to Russia's aims or North Korea's place in the sun rather than a pariah state shunned by all. It should be Comrade Trump rather than president Trump.
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Apparently, Mr Ruddy is unaware that 98% of what Donald Trump says is either uninformed or else an outright lie. The rest of the time, he is reciting from a damage control script because he wants to be reelected.
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The Queen should cancel tea with Trump.
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Trump thrives on chaos and disorder. He loves the headlines and seeing which world leaders he can humiliate. Interesting how the has shown such disrespect to the women of leaders of Britain and Germany, tried to cower small countries like Ecuador, while deferring to and praising dictators like Putin and Kim, or delusional clowns like Boris Johnson. Do we really need someone who undercuts allies like Canada and UK? Trump is an absolute embarrassment and his supporters and minions will get thoroughly shafted along with those of us who actually believe in true democracy.I have no empathy for anyone who supports this vulgar huckster.
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Intelligent, civil people are running out of intelligent and civil words to describe the boorishness, audacity, nerve, obnoxiousness, etc. of Mr. Trump's continued display of his overall stupidity.
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Trump is a boor and a banality. The Republican Party has enabled him in his outlandish behavior. We can begin to change this horrific administration by voting out of office as many of his enablers as possible in November.
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It takes a man with chutzpah or a total imbecile who messed up his native country's foreign policy and trade relations with others to lecture another country on how to manage its trade relations. Trump is the truly the essence of the proverbial Ugly American.
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He knows what he is doing. He done a similar thing to Merkel. He is activly trying to topple powerful goverments to help the fascist alternatives take hold.
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What? You are saying that fascist governments ARE NOT taking over left and right as we speak? Someone else Commented, saying and “..it is only for a day”; Yeah right, Tump can’t wait to get together with his buddy, a vindictive former KGB/GRU spoin (spy) and ‘misunderstood’ oligarch, in the land of a former attempted conquest (probably got his eyes on that deep water port in Helsinki; it would be a little trickier to conquer, because Scandinavians really don’t like the big bear)
The surprise (for me, at any rate) is that -- at this late date -- there is anyone who is still expressing surprise at the stupidity and boorishness with which Mr. Trump conducts himself both in public and in private. Truly, he is constitutionally incapable of controlling his least impulse.
A small child will often take apart an alarm clock to see how it works. The smart ones work diligently away at doing so. In the end, they are left with a clock that doesn't work, but they have learned something in the process. The stupid child just keeps hitting the alarm clock with a rock until he is left with a pile of broken glass, coils and gears. He has learned nothing.
Donald Trump is that stupid child. And the thing he is smashing is an ordered, reasonable and interconnected world it has taken the best minds of our societies seventy years of careful work to build. When are the adults going to come and take his rock away from him?
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At their meeting, I hope the queen tells him what he can do with his crumpet.
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When you go to meet with Putin, please stay there. No need to return, and we know you’ll be happy together.
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This man hates women. Period. Look at who he reserves his most disgusting behavior for—May and Merkel. I guess PM May should count her blessings. He’s only there for a day.
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Bring the Trump Baby blimp over to this side of the Atlantic! Now! I want to see that thing fly in every U.S. city.
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Watching this day after day I am reminded of the old blues line "I'm laughing just to keep from crying." I'm also planning to doorbell and phone bank to help "drain the swamp" of Trump enablers. (See the excellent "How to Participate in Politics" published in the Times recently.)
Whatever your reaction to the daily Trump horror show -- fear, anger, loathing -- doing nothing to curb it through the ballot box is an abdication of citizen responsibility. Marches and demonstrations are all fine, but if we don't elect effective representatives -- local as well as national -- it won't mean much beyond momentary catharsis.
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Donald Trump is an interloping charlatan.
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"She didn't listen to me." I have no further comment.
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Our congressmen must know that this is wrong! Do they really think that they are safe? Trump made a mess of his own business and now he is making a mess of the world.
Why are some people thinking that bad manners, countless lies, and uninformed ignorant speech is somehow brilliant policy?
It is a very easy job to destroy...It often takes decades to build things of worth.
Congressmen you have the power to end this insanity...Please, use it before something really disastrous happens.
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Now we Brits -- the special-relationship, best-allies-forever Brits -- have a slight taste of being on the receiving end of US-sponsored regime change. Ugh! It's vile!
Well, that's it -- now I just have to go along to the protest. (And I was so looking forward to watching the tennis today.)
Say, remember when some optimistic people used to say that Wild Candidate Trump would become Serious President Trump? When, even with Trump yelling at them, people simply could not believe that a president could be this bad?
"With May’s Government Teetering, Trump Gives It a Shove"
♦ Perfect headline! My compliments to the headline-writer.
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Eventually, bridges must be built by competent and well-trained engineers who rely on facts and rigor to ensure safe and sound outcomes. There is no room for myths or fakery.
Government relying on pompous claims by incompetent and unprepared leaders who ignore facts and reject scrutiny will underperform and fail. We all suffer.
Let's prevent America's bridges from collapsing, and vote accordingly in 2020.
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How can you!
Just like his Russian handlers want him to.
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“Shove”. What a guy, always wanting to help.
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Let's hope Trump doesn't embarrass himself further today when he meets the Queen for tea by telling her that Prince Charles should be bypassed as next King!
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“I would have done it much differently,” Mr. Trump was quoted as saying. “I actually told Theresa May how to do it, but she didn’t listen to me.” Instead she went “the opposite way,” he said, and the results have been “very unfortunate.”
OMG!!!!
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Trump's foreign policy is:
1) Rudely barge in like a bull in a china shop.
2) Offer a large tube of Super Glue to fix thngs.
3) Claim that everything is just peachy after the repair.
4) Go visit a friend for some personal time.
5) Take responsibility for the good stuff and not the bad.
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Queen meets Trump for Tea. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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So ... it really just takes one monkey to make a circus.
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Trump backs Johnson: the kiss of death.
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Trump knows Boris is a Russian name, hence his enthusiasm for Johnson.
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"Attention Adults.
There appears to be a ill-tempered, lost child wandering the aisles, pulling down merchandise and making a nuisance of himself and threatening other Patrons. Will the parents please come and collect him before he causes further damage? He is wearing what appears to be a soiled nappy and is demanding sugar and muttering something about walls.
Thank you."
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Trump is a such a deceptive little schemer, Our untrustworthy manipulator in chief. Next disaster coming up...the Trump/Putin private love fest.
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I hope the Queen asks him one question - where are the babies?
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Donald just lies to the bone.
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The Brits should send the balloon to the USA for Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
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The only problem is, it’s not big enough.
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"The world can never again trust the u.s. when that trust can be undercut by a single election."
Unfortunately, this is the bottom line. Whatever else might happen as a result of Trump, the rest of the world will no longer regard any future commitments made by the US with anything except massive scepticism. Your treaties, quite frankly, are no longer worth the paper they are printed on.
At this point, I suspect that those who are genuinely surprised when the US actually does honour their commitments vastly outnumber those who are surprised when you do not. American betrayal and backstabbing no longer surprises anyone; it's those few instances where your country is still acting in good faith that shock us these days.
What Trump is teaching the rest of the world is that everyone who deals with the US should expect to be betrayed (because if anyone has any dealings with your country at all, they WILL be!), and that virtually the entire US government -- not to mention almost half your electorate -- prefers it that way.
Has anybody told him that the Queen will not be presenting him with a Knighthood?
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At some point after his tenure as President is up, they will hang a portrait of this rude, bellicose infant in the White House. Our British cousins have generously provided a first, albeit three-dimensional, draft.
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With friends like this, who needs enemies? I hope when he meets the queen, she boxes his ears good and hard!
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God Save the Queen...from Donald Trump.
And while the Almighty is at it...all the rest of us, too.
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So, based on the top whoppers donald laid during his exit interview in the UK today (ie, taking credit for and distorting the outcome of the NATO meeting; Theresa May not taking his advice about Brexit; his preference that the Brits start using "England" more often because he "misses it"; that Boris Johnson has what it takes to be a great PM, that his poll numbers are greater than Abe Lincoln's[!!!!], that he has doubled - tripled? - the US GDP since taking office....), we have pure, unadulterated evidence that trump is either 1) a pathological liar, 2) completely insane, and/or 3) the stupidest person on the planet. Any one of those make him completely unfit for the highest office in our land, and, as he crashes his way across the globe, the world.
Finally, off the main topic of the article but in keeping with trump's overall behavior on this trip: why is our Congress, Senate, State Department, Dept. of Defense, CIA - any or all of them, anyone!! - letting him meet alone with Putin??? Is there any power in the US that can throw a net over him before our country is completely destroyed??
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Hey Britain! Just think if y'all had to live with him for four years as your president! Now you know what we've been talking about these past couple years. And, hey, a big shout out to NATO, you should try being an American under this knave!
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The other day some NYT commenters suggested that Her Majesty will come down with the flu and be unable to attend.
Here's my scenario: Have William, Harry, Kate and Meghan in her place. 45 insults the Duchesses. William and Harry demand satisfaction. Since dueling is illegal, 45 is summarily expelled from the land, and for good measure, the Prince of Wales stomps his smart phone to smithereens.
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Hoping PM and QE2 find proper British ways of getting Trump to shove off.
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I truly do not think Trump has a clue how to behave in public. His only skill is bullying.
He is way out of his depth and so empty headed and self absorbed that he has no idea that the rest of the world views him as a dangerous buffoon. The United States will spend many years trying to recover from the antics of this ignoramus
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Every day, and in every way, your President brings shame upon your great country.
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Talk about stabbing your host in the back! But I guess we should be grateful Murdoch's anti-EU tabloid didn't publish one of it's typical headlines like "Donald Trump Ate My Hamster".
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Trump. Just really loves those smart women.
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An interwiew to the Sun is like May giving one to The National Enquirer. Just show the level of populism Trump is playing, is this the sign of his very high IQ ? Trump should shut up and play golf .
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I pity poor Queen Elizabeth who may have to endure meeting with this cretin. She's reigned for 65 years, she had to endure the blitz as a young girl and at 92 she faces her greatest challenge yet - to be civil with this clown and maybe sit through a dinner with him. She should call in sick and let Prince Phillip handle Trump. I hear he has a sharp tongue of his own.
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Trump continues his lies...
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Trump is Putin's not so secret weapon. What Putin cannot accomplish militarily or by any other means, he does so diplomatically with the likes of Trump. It is not going so well, Puttie. Got any other ideas? You see Trump is always talking out of both sides of his mouth and neither is attached to a brain.
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Simple concept: When you elect a clown expect a circus. DJT's on his European Tour and his cadre of clown followers are the only people laughing!
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The queen should be ashamed that she is going to associate with that horrible, awful, no-good, very bad thing. More normalizing. Well, no surprise, the royal family is full of horrible racists so I'm sure they'll all get along swimmingly. Maxine Waters speaks for me. Never let them have a moment of peace. Giant baby balloons of all 'em!
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"She didn't listen to me". And why would she Donald? You are a liar and a bully and ignorant of so much. Donald really put his fear of women on display. He verbally attacks only Merkel and May in personal terms questioning their authority.
Unfortunately, May needs the future trade deals with the US more than she needs to put Trump in his place. This is why he gets away with his not only inappropriate but antagonistic comments.
Can't wait to hear from his lying lips how wonderful his relationship with May is.
Trump does not care about any of this British hoopla. He's got Putin waiting for him! Our worst fears my yet come true.
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The Donald Trump Traveling Circus!
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Donald Trump is an embarrassment to our nation, reinforcing the despicable stereotype of the Ugly American to the world.
Apologies to our friends and allies on behalf of those of us in this country who are equally mortified.
There is only one answer - VOTE!
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“in a remarkable breach of protocol, Trump publicly undercut Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain in an interview published within hours of arriving in England.” Trump is a rabid dog representing us in a most supercilious manner. Rude, pretentious and pure trouble. A bully that needs taming.
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There is an old saying that goes:
"You can keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, or you can open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Delusional Donald just proved that the saying is 100% correct. AGAIN.
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I wonder how rude Trump will be to Queen Elizabeth. We'll never know as she is too classy to share the torture of having to be in the same room with him. I pity the Queen and anyone in the UK who has to have any contact whatsoever with our "POTUS". Should be retitled "LOTUS" for Liar of the United States.
The protesters should raise their voices as loudly as possible. Of course Trump will act like he does not hear them, but his thin skin will know they are there.
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How long is the Republican Party going to allow Trump, their mad dog mascot, to humiliate the United States before the world? Are these GOP cowards afraid to upset the Trump base of white nationalists and religious fundamentalists who are now the primary source of their voting power? Have these traitorous Republicans no shame whatsoever? They must all be taught a lesson at the polls in every election going forward!
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Look at the bright side: President Trump's endorsement of Boris Johnson for Prime Minister is probably a kiss of death. It's not a popular view, but Sadiq Khan's allowing a Trump balloon with a diaper is just sinking to Trump's level. Wrestle with a pig, you'll both get muddy, but the pig will enjoy it.
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The Queen should give Trump a good slap,and tell him to leave the country.
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I think Nancy Pelosi is right in finally asking the key question: What does Russia have on the liar-in-chief, politically, financially, and personally, given his "performance" in G7, NATO, and now in the UK?
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Apparently insulting POTUS is terrorism now, but I suppose mass shaming FEELS like terrorism if you're an impulsive man-child with daddy issues who ticks off all three boxes in the dark triad and has an ego more fragile than a dessicated Saltine. SAD!
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"what people voted for" someone should remind politicians who say this that people also voted against in Brexit case very closely. what happens to their vote? we choose to simplify things by ignoring 48.1% how is their vote represented in a hard brexit?
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Mr. Trump says he wants a separate trade agreement with Brittain. But his persona , vacillating as is between George Babbitt and Luca Brasi (neither an attractive character), has so alienated the British public that Mrs. May will likely find it impossible to find ANY trade agreement her people will accept.
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Well, Donald Trump being president is not what the people voted on so he knows whereof he speaks.
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When the United States sends our current president to Britain, we're not sending our best.
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President Trump has made a terrible mistake in his communications in Britain. Potentially destabilizing the government of a key foundational ally is simply beyond foolish. What makes matters worse, is that it completely distracts from looking at a real issue. All he needed to say is " I will be curious how an optimal trade agreement between our countries can be reached in an environment tied to EU regulations. I have expressed this question to PM May, and look forward to our countries working together on this issue." That is all. He tends to identify issues but completely overrides them with his "style" instead of allowing the issue to become primary as opposed to his personality.
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The best thing that Trump has done is to recommend Boris Johnson for future leadership, sure to condemn him to eternal political death. Well done, good show, carry on!
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Well, that sounds a whole lot like the behavior of many British officials during the 2016 campaign and since the election. Sauce for the goose...
May is right-on. Being able to control Britain's border, while at the same time have a free-trade deal for 'goods' (not all services) with the EU is the best of both worlds. What does Donald Trump know about the European economy? Nothing.OK, And who would you trust to honor a free-trade deal; Trump or the EU? The EU sticks to its commitments, Donald Trump is the reneger in chief.
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Cheers to London for making Mr Trump feel unwelcome! In the USA he’s managed to cloister himself in staged rallies with rabid adoring fans and surrounded himself with sycophants like Mike Pence, Elaine Chao and Scott Pruitt. He needs a good dose of reality on how much the average citizen hates him for the damages he’s inflicted on democracy and the rule of law. The Emperor has no clothes.
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Given the obvious animosity to Trump in the UK, maybe his remarks will backfire and encourage support of May
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I cannot help but think, in addition to pure ignorance and narcissism, there is misogyny behind the criticism of May and support for Johnson. A man like Trump is intimidated and uncomfortable with powerful women, so to cope with his discomfort he diminishes the woman and boosts the man.
The November elections cannot come too soon.
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Well I take it that we've moved on from Teddy Roosevelt policy of ' walk softly and carry a big stick' to Trump's of ' boast loudly and carry a little peck of wood.'
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The arrogance alone is beyond belief. I have yet to hear him come up with any answers for the problems WE face, let alone thinking he has solution for another nation or their leader.
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Elsewhere in the NYT a journalist from Britain is saying that Boris J. is the guy that is messing up Britain. And Trump says Boris would be a great Prime Minister.
At least Trump is consistent. "Birds of a feather flock together".
And I see the Chinese are backing down. They are quivering in their boots over this trade war with Mister The-Art-of-the-Deal.
The guy with the billion dollar tax loss in... whenever that was.
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Beware of the . . .
Con Man. =
A man who cheats or tricks someone by gaining their trust and persuading them to believe something that is not true. =
A confidence trickster. =
Donald Trump
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Trump Progeny: British Mom and German Dad.
That explains the rebellious behavior and specific antipathy toward them. Simple psychodynamics.
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Frequent targets of President Trump's ire: Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, Theresa May. Hmm, I can't for the life of me figure out what these three have in common. It couldn't be that DJT can't grab them by their . . . Nah, that couldn't be it, could it?
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Interesting the Trump would pick a Murdoch publication to spew after getting his direction from Brexiteers and Putin. The Brits should never have invited him. He doesn't know how to behave. Now Eric Trump is in Scotland bad mouthing Nicola Sturgeon. The Kardashian reality show continued.
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What a complete and total embarrassment! Trump is losing it. His insecurities are ballooning! The sooner he has a complete breakdown, the better.
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The full GORY on display of extroverts without much reverence for truth
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To expect anything other than self-contradictory nonsense from the mouth of this former gameshow host is to look for the sun to rise in the West tomorrow. What Ms. May is learning, as have so many others before her, is that no matter how sweetly you talk nor how nicely you act, a mad dog will, in the end, bite you.
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He was elected to be a diplomat. That is part of the job. If he cannot handle it, he should leave office. He is a back stabber and a bully and you can dress that up as "refreshing" and someone who speaks his mind if you want to delude yourself. But I call what he did stupidity when the one he insults is the leader of a nation who is a dear friend. Friends do not do that to friends. It should not be tolerated.
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Protests ?
He should be banned.
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Please accept a touch of blatant sycophancy. Thank you, NY Times, for excellent journalism in this incredible Trump Era. Were it not for you, the kinds of news sources mentioned in this article - The Sun and Newsmax - would be our only sources of critical information... mendacious, distorted and wholly guilty of the kind of bias they accuse you of. Such sources argue that they exist to offset the "fake news" of the Times as though that's their principal raison d'etre. Even that is a bald-faced, unapologetic lie. Thank you being here.
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Thank you, London protestors, for bringing a dry, wry, and especially effective touch to your resistance to the Trump visit. Speaking personally, the Baby Blimp; a London newspaper's headline, "The Ego Has Landed" and an on-going presence at the American Embassy have put a spring in my step after months of letter- and email-writing; marches, and phone calls on this side of the pond. It makes me proud not only of my personal British ancestry, but also of the British political DNA that remains at the root of the country's judicial system.
This political and judicial systems here are being tested as never before due to Trump's efforts to undercut and denigrate it. Please remember, Brits, many of us are working hard to undo and prevent more damage and eventually return this country to same, democratic leadership. So your plucky "carnival of resistance" is gratifying recognition that others across the globe see Trump as ever worthy of resistance as we see him to be.
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Trump has adversely interfered in England’s governance just as much as Russia’s Putin used strategic disinformation to tip the electoral outcome in the U.S. Their actions and leaderships have undermined Western leadership, NATO, the EU, G-7 initiatives and civil discourse among the U.S. and its allies.
Putin will tell Trump what he expects him to do, or not do, during their secret discussions in Helsinki.
Just what happened to Trump during that beauty pageant in Moscow?
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Speaking one's mind usually is a good thing, especially as few politicians on either side of the Atlantic actually do so. You can see most politicians (left or right), when asked a question considering how not to answer s question while not offending anyone, So having a politician speaking their mind is refreshing, but if that politician has something in the mind to begin with. Trump doesn't seem to grasp what and how he says things, In some respect his comments on Mrs. May's so called Chequers proposal and the impact on potential deals with the US, India, China etc is correct. However, beyond the point he created a lot of unnecessary collateral damage that was unnecessary. When Obama made unwise interfering comments on the Brexit vote, he angered a lot of people but limited the damage. Speaking of damage, like a string of European politicians Trump has praised before, in praising Boris, Trump has effectively ended Boris' political career.
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“Well, I think the deal that she is striking is not what the people voted on,” Mr. Trump said.
Well, I think Mr. Trump's "Presidency" is not what the people voted for. The majority vote by Americans went to the other candidate.
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re: “We are cracking down right now on the European Union". I am just speechless about the magnitude of that guy's self-importance and diplomatic destructiveness.
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The common denominator with the British and German governments is not immigration or economic structure; rather, trump thinks women are not competent to be "leaders". Maureen Dowd was correct.
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The President is off the rails. When will we come to a consensus on this?
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It is clearer to me that Russia "meddled" in the Brexit vote.
Before Trump's meeting with Putin, I was hoping the press would bring out the facts that Russia has made similar "soundings" on us: digitally tampering with the U.S. electrical grid (as they did in Ukraine) and nuclear power plants; nosing around deep-sea Trans-Atlantic cables; accessing voter registration lists; and possibly mapping U.S. communications networks. These are just a few of Russia's suspicious activities that have been noted in the NYT and MSNBC news over the last few months. Add those to Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Yet the Republicans are mute and compliant. Every day Trump creates another circus.
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This article mentions "a global disruption tour unlike anything undertaken by any other recent American president". I've noticed that your writers often include "recent" to downplay the extraordinary logorrhea of our president when comparing his policies and actions to any or all previous American presidents, much less all "stable, bright" world leaders. While I realize it would take more work to accurately state, does anyone know of any US president who had been more disruptive, along so many dimensions, in relations with so many nations?!?
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The large baby balloon is so apt. Trump is the living embodiment of that Allstate Insurance Mayhem guy. He just causes trouble and damage everywhere he goes and then pretends nothing happens. Isn't that what toddlers do?
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Can we ground him? As we do with a child who misbehaves?
None of these visits with our allies have ended well and he deeply embarrasses us every time. And God knows what he will say when he meets with Putin alone.
These visits do us no good.
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President Reagan tore down the " evil empire" by putting economic and technology pressure on the USSR working together with our allies.
President Trump is working to put the USSR back together again by working to destroy NATO, the EU , ignoring the blatant cyber attack on our democracy and breaking up the world economic progress.
His motivation for this strange and dangerous strategy is anyone's guess but it is clearly against the best interests of our Country.
What I do not understand or accept is that Republicans who rightly cheered Reagan on now display a deafening silence on Trumps clear attempt to undo his work.
By the way the British are " bloody minded" and will resent Trumps blatant attempt to promote Boris Johnson. This will ensure Johnson will never be PM and may even open the door for Corbyn , someone Trump cannot abide.
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Please, World, remember that most American voters did not vote for Trump. Still, too many American voters sat on their hands and allowed this tragedy and travesty to happen. With luck, most of them will join most of us taking back at least one chamber of congress and try to build some kind of barricade against the Trump Rampage. So please, World, give the American majority a chance to show that indeed we are the majority and we can right this renagade ship of state.
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I suspect when the other party cleans up it's own act and allows candidates supported by real people, not just the mega donor class and pay to play crowd, we'll see electoral landslides in that direction. Until then it doesn't much matter and that is why people have fled the Democrat party and become independent. Both parties are corrupt beyond our comprehension, the system is already in collapse and cadaver decay, and the Ruskies are simply picking away at the rotting meat.
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Why is anyone surprised that he did this? He went to the NATO summit and threw Angela Merkel to the wolves and now he’s done the same to May.
This is how this President views women. It doesn’t matter that these two women are allies, or they they’re the heads of powerful countries. He sees them as useless.
Boris as Prime Minster, really?
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I think that Her Majesty should show her disapproval of Trump's intervention in internal British affairs and cancel the royal audience.
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There is not a day that goes by when he does not embarrass this nation. Vote blue in November.
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I wish we had an opposition party worth voting for. It has no ideas, no agenda, no power, and takes great pleasure in continuing to serve itself at the expense of constituents and party members unless you're in the mega donor class. It's old, lazy, and demonstrably corrupt.
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Then I guess your choice is not to vote, or only vote for someone who meets all your high standards, regardless of how unlikely they are to win. Either way, you will do your part to continue this orange nightmare, like so many of you did in the last presidential election. Sometimes you really do have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
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Trump just intervened in another country's politics...a learned behavior from his mentor Putin with the same desire to destabilize the USA and our allies. It looks more like treason than leadership...
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Consider that this one horrible man not only controls the news headlines every day but manages to disrupt virtually the entire world with his lies and attacks on friends.
In the morning he is friendly.
In the afternoon he viciously attacks.
I have given-up on his toady minions in the GOP who might try to restrain him. Gutless wonders.
The rest of the world must carry-on knowing that the USA is no longer rational in its policies.
What is to be done?
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Nonsense, Mike. Trump got elected because (old) white people are afraid of change and the GOP want tax cuts for billionaires. Wrecking our diplomatic relationships was not a big selling point. People "jump all over" Trump not for "doing something differently," but for being a delusional liar. Get that part straight first, and you'll find yourself less confused by many people's reactions to this disgrace of a president.
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It's simply wrong to pin this on "old people", Nate. Look at the photos of Trump rallies, the alt right marches and fights, and the so-called Women for Trump group. All made up of at least as many - if not more - young than old. Blaming a generation only separates and divides us all, weakens our response, and delays a solution.
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Someday Trump will no longer be the President. I can hardly wait for that day. #MAGA
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Destructive, destructive and destructive. Everything this man has done to date is destructive. What else can I say? Ruining relations with our friends and allies. Imposing tariffs on our allies. Threatening NATO. Fomenting racism here in our country.
In my 65+ years of life, I have never seen anything like this from a president of our country. We have been SO diminished as a world leading nation!! When will this nightmare end? VOTE, people this November, VOTE!!!
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Can we all agree it’s time to stop electing baby boomers?
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There's just no doubt about it. In the mid terms and again in 2020, the Democrats slogan must be "LET'S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"
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I am not an eloquent person like many on this forum. All I have to say is that I never in my wildest dreams (or nightmares as they are now) would have thought that I would be so completely embarrassed for my country as I am with this fool supposedly representing us. He's like a walking face palm.
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Message for Theresa May: Once DJT discovers that he can insult you and you do nothing about it, you are toast. Declare him persona non grata, kick him out of the UK, bar his subsequent entry (including Scotland), and get on with governing (your people will love you); otherwise, resign because your life is about to become miserable.
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For anyone wishing to express an apology to the Prime Minister and the people of the U.K. here is the email address of 10 Downing Street:
https://email.number10.gov.uk/
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Last year President Trump said that he could be one of the “most presidential” presidents to hold office.
Trump told a crowd at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, that “with the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s ever held this office.”
Mr. Trump has just shown the world how much he has grown into the job of President of the United States.
So Presidential. So very Presidential. Indeed.
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May does not need any help to topple her government. Her own reluctance and delaying tactics in carrying out the Brexit will of her own people is sufficient evidence of her dereliction of duty. She should resign and leave governing to someone who will recognize the responsibilities of the leader of a democratic country.
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Meanwhile, back in the DC arena, a Republican Congressman from South Carolina roasts an FBI official in these terms: "He thinks calling someone [candidate Trump] destabilizing isn't bias." What's bias to this partisan politician is either truth or prophecy to most nonpartisan observers.
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It is a mistake for democratic leaders to think that by appealing to Trump's narcissism they can win him over. Their hospitality goes only so far in this regard, because Trump is initially happy but needs more catering to his ego to keep him happy and responds harshly to the eventual policy discussions. There are many examples, such as Macron's closing the Tour Eiffel and launching a parade, Trudeau's inviting Trump to a play which Trump snubbed, or Teresa May inviting him to London to meet the Queen shortly after Trump took office. Courteous, red-carpet treatment of Trump doesn't divert him very long from his own agenda, which is a combination of self-aggrandizement and the implementation of a playbook not dissimilar from Putin's own. Although we have witnessed Trump's hostility towards traditional European allies in living color, so we can do our own fact-checking of his press conference, all we will see from the Helsinki is a photo op and a Trump press conference where the truth will be impossible to ascertain. Trump's lack of a notetaker and aides at the Putin meeting means that there will never be an official record and no one will be present to nudge Trump to avoid fishhooks, stay on script, or correct Trump's subsequent public statements.
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It is amusing to watch everyone get the vapors over Trump simply speaking the truth. The Chequers plan is unworkable and will likely lead to even more concessions to the EU. The UK will be left as a vassal state to the EU; constrained by their rules and regulations, in order to maintain trade, but without a vote on them.
Next Trump will be going to Helsinki for his ultra-private meeting with Putin. He will declare an excellent dialog with Putin, agreements on major issues, tell us about his great negotiation skills, and insist we have a growing positive relationship with Russia. Nobody will know what really happened.
Who knows, Putin may even arrange for a live feed of pro-Trump rallies taking place in Russia — to contrast that, unlike the Brits, the Russians are actually Trump’s friends.
More and more, Trump’s actions are like a bad script for a tv series where you can watch the first 5 minutes and then write the rest of the script yourself.
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What is this ultra private meeting with Putin? I don't trust Trump and I would say the majority of Americans don't.
Talk about two sides of his mouth. If he thinks he is going to be Putin's ally why do non-US NATO members need to increase spending. They should be standing pat or decreasing. He bounces around like a pin-ball throwing things at the wall.
The video of a German news reporter laughing at Germany being Russia's captive is funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZXPAHpGC8.
Trump's visit here in the UK has just been covered on the lunchtime BBC TV news and took up much of the 30 minutes with coverage of major protest marches and his backstabbing of PM May. He seems to be the main story in the national press too, and is not being portrayed in a flattering light. Interestingly, Melania has been getting very positive coverage.
I know that many NYT readers are aghast at "their" president's antics and would just like to reassure them that we Brits will continue to welcome Americans to our shores. We have always found Americans to be polite and delightful company. We are just sorry that you are being embarrassed by this man.
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It's funny how Brexit and the Trump presidency have a few things in common: they were both bad ideas thought up by people who didn't know what they were talking about, and they were both promoted by people who never thought they would pass but were merely using the know-nothings to gain future power. Cynicism and ignorance are a dangerous tag team.
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There have been great presidents under whom there was a sense that America was safe even in desperate economic conditions and war: Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt; and not especially great ones: Eisenhower, who nonetheless guided the country with reason and gentle authority. Even with John Kennedy's womanizing, Kennedy still led with a sense of morality and dignity, rising above himself and his human failings, and inspiring the country to do the same. As Trump continues to undermine NATO and the European Union—for what reason, exactly?—he cements himself at the bottom of the list of American presidents. Trump will be remembered as an antagonist and a polarizer; a destroyer. And those who enable him will follow him to history's bottom.
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These days a criticism from Trump should be welcomed because it means the subject of the criticism must be doing something right.
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Where are the responsible Republican leaders in Congress who can stop this damaging presidential behaviour,. Bad for Europe and for the United States? Please step forward.
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responsible republican = oxymoron
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Version 2 - I know it's late, but shouldn't we close the barn door now (thank heavens) that the horse's rear has escaped? We would not want it to slip back in, would we?
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Even Trump can't be more of a disgrace than the Republicans at the Strzok "Hearing" showed yesterday. Mind-boggling how far the Republican Party has fallen in character and intelligence. God save the Queen and the United States of America.
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Merkel and May are both women leaders of US-allied nations; Trump has subjected both to personal attack.
Coincidence? Maybe he just hates strong women.
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Not "maybe". He hates strong women because they have his number.
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NATO's a treaty; yet, its members don't consider Trump's "attack" on Britain an attack on them all but an opportunity for their own peoples. It's circular greed eating its own offal. Just as May was perfectly willing to let Trump insult others and say vile things without any response whatsoever; now that her shoulders blades are Trump's preferred knife rack, no one is even attempting to stay the man's hand, just blithering sideways; especially May, in an endless loop of "Brexit" falling out of her mouth like sausage out of a meat grinder.
Europe is an aging henhouse; Trump is a funky predator.
Hens flap, but in the end, they get plucked and fried.
"What will you have, Mr. President?"
"MaCron on a platter with lots of butter, some angle hair to go with, and some May flowers for the table. Thank you.
[interim]
"It's beautiful! His head is really beautiful! The platter is gorgeous! Thank you!"
It's sad, but Europe is like the wife who won't leave her abusive husband; and the effect of all the "words" surrounding the situation (frail, circular, reliant on others) is the same; for, right now, Europe is really into making excuses for staying and getting abused. Throw us out! Leave! Fight back! Do SOMETHING besides whine and eat cheese!
Band together, stay together, rise together; or, continue doing what you are doing.
The United States of yesterday is dead!
Trump lives in a "narrated reality" which he creates after the events have taken place without any regard to truth. Unfortunately, his followers are happy to live in that bubble. He did not get anything new from the NATO allies but narrated a very successful negotiation and everyone would be spending over 2%. He made offensive remarks about the prime minister of the country he is visiting, then narrates a very good relationship with her.
This behavior is not "telling the truth bluntly" it is "talking from both sides of his mouth" like a wrecking ball of international relations. Let us see what kind of blunders he will manage to pull when he meets with the Queen.
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His claims as to the success of his efforts to get the NATO members to contribute more to the organization will turn out to be a much of a success as his claims that North Korea will be returning the remains of 200 MIA from the never ended war there. The cult members will miss the part where the North Koreans never showed up to negotiate that deal and they will scold and criticize anybody who questions the so called diplomatic skills of their master
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Either Trump is ignorant and frankly stupid OR he is absolutely some kind of Russian plant.
And it seems to me he is not stupid.
Every move he makes, every disruptive comment he throws out furthers the aims of V.V. Putin.
The situation in the UK is incredibly delicate - with the futures of millions of UK citizens and businesses hanging in the balance - and Trump has essentially thrown a hand grenade into the situation.
The only winners are are those that would see the West, with all of it's institutions, totally destroyed.
When will our Congress wake up and remove this huge threat to our governments and our institutions?
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If you watched any of the the Hearing yesterday it is obvious that Republicans are no longer Republicans and that their representatives in Congress in the year 2018 are ignorant rubes incapable of doing anything constructive or solving any problems facing America, let alone the world.
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What a surprise. Trump bullies while being dead wrong on substance. Noting Putin's hand in the misinformation that led to the disastrous Brexit vote, May must call for a new referendum. Trump's words and deeds--on many fronts--only make sense when you realize that he is under Putin's thumb. Mr. Mueller shouldn't be required to save the US, but there it is. Let's hope May can clean up Boris's mess, even as we in the US look to the monumental task of sponging away the stain that is trumpism.
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This is disgraceful. It's a disgraceful reflection on our country, and completely disrespectful of our historic allies. At the least, the Senate should issue a formal apology to the leaders of all the countries the president has addressed. Is he simply looking for praise from Putin in his next meeting? As a full response from our citizens, he should be called home immediately and set to work on solving the tragedy of the immigrant families. We need to get every single one of them out of their personal "flooded cave."
Just think. In a few days he'll be dancing with the czars.
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Every time our "stable genius" goes abroad, he manages to look more and more like an unstable dotard. To no one's surprise, his performance in Britain was even more disgusting than his performance in Brussels, where he alienated the last of our European allies to win the approval of his Kremlin handler. Maybe the Trump Baby Blimp which greeted him in London will convince our chief Space Cadet that's where he really belongs, circling the planet in splendid isolation beyond the asteroid belt, in charge of a mythical Space Force that violates all international agreements not to militarize space but keeps him safely away from the Earth he is trying to destroy.
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Well said!
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This is from the self-described Mr Brexit rubbing our noses in the mess he propagated and nurtured we had Cambridge Analytica harm our elections while revelling in the mess he helped create
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Please do not forget: The Sun is the lowest and meanest tabloid in the U.K. Trump did not give an interview to any respectable paper.
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Apologies to our many friends throughout the world. We appreciate your kindness and your understanding. This epoch is yet another reason we should all detest Putin. He did it.
Donald obviously does not think about what lies ten minutes ahead on the road of life. He is offspring of the quintessential ugly American and bull in a china shop, careening like a clumsy evil oaf through the world. His raging incompetence is matched by his blistering malevolence.
Of course, if the tables were turned, Donald would be lashing out, blaming, moaning etc. Some day and I hope it is soon, today would be ideal, he'll get his just desserts. And when the chickens will come home to roost, he'll be unwelcome anywhere in the world, save for Trump Tower. I hope we survive to see that.
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Could be worse.
Try to imagine how poisonous Trump would be if Prince Harry had invited his personal friends the Obamas to his wedding.
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I love it. The Brits just invented the first Buffoon Balloon.
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Hey Brits! We rebelled against your king a few centuries ago. Now it's your turn to rebel against ours.
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Version 1 - Would you please alert us when the alleged president does the first positive thing that actually benefits the USA during his term? I cannot sit around waiting anny longer. I gotta get busy digging a bomb shelter. "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" Dershowits will have friends again at summer camp!
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Dear NY Times:
Confrontation and disruption are not diplomatic.
Stop trying to make Trump seem like he is just exercising a type of diplomacy,
He is not. He is an obnoxious, ill-prepared lout, trying to bully people into accepting his antiquated view of the world.
.
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Many people understand the character of Trump. What is not clear is his relationship to those who tell him what to do.
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We can only hope that our allies realize that Trump is a temporary aberration and that we will (hopefully) replace him with a more suitable leader in two years. That being said, it time for Congress to start reining him in before he causes irreparable damage to our alliances.
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Mr Trump's misbehaviour in the UK could hasten not only the ned of Mrs May's administration but also of Brexit. Mr Trump's misbehaviour in Brussels will for sure hasten the EU set up a joint defence. Let's see what Mr Trump's behaviour in Helsinki will bring.
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A friend in Northern Ireland just e-mailed me that "even though Trump is acting like a spoilt brat" he should be treated with respect because of the office he holds.
I argued strongly against such a civilized attitude and suggested that the country should be up in arms after The Sun interview and that Trump should be "shown the door".
Maybe he'll go back to Moscow with his good friend Vlad? One can hope.
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Three cheers for the dirigible. Mr Trump has managed to unite the U.K. behind Mrs May’s soft Brexit, support for the Mayor of London and total mistrust of
Boris. Job done!
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The idea of Trump giving advice -- no doubt unsolicited -- to the Prime Minister of Great Britain on matters of governance seems a bit like...well...Trump giving advice to just about anyone on matters of ethics, veracity, fidelity, decorum, (insert absent Trump quality of character here.)
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With Trump, it's all sound and fury, signifying nothing (except perhaps exciting his base voters). Actions speak louder than words.
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May I say, most sincerely and without a hint of irony or hyperbole, to the British people and to PM Theresa May: there are MANY Americans who respect and admire both the country AND the leaders of The United Kingdom. If it's any consolation at all, no one is suffering more than the American people for the obscene folly of our last presidential election and this suffering is merited. Those that voted for the man in office should....I can't think of the appropriate contrition. Those that despise everything about him and his supporters and his politics send you our best wishes and beg tolerance and understanding for this BLACK period in American and World History. Let's hope we get through it and start thinking of ways to undo the horrific damage that is being thrust upon all decent people by the vile and immoral politics currently being promulgated by the American government. Yes, what is done CAN be undone and that is our only sustaining thought at the moment.
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On Broadway, Hamilton's King George sings "you'll be back, time will tell" to the colonial revolutionaries in America. Pretty sure there's no one left in Britain regretting US independence from the UK.
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Trump, an individual who is totally unable to effectively govern on behalf of any and all American's should not throw stones at leaders of other nations until his house sets and example for the world to follow.
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Live From Fox New: TRUMP SINGLE-HANDEDLY FIXES BREXIT! Londoners were so appreciative that they gathered in record-breaking numbers and held a parade. Our favorite was the balloon signifying a re-birth with diapers in a New Year's Day motif while bringing high-tech to the process as demonstrated with a cell-phone. The crowd went wild with unstoppable voices raised and eyes turned-up to heaven whenever they saw glimpses of Trump. Everywhere the eye could see, signs with Trump's name on them were out. Here at Fox News, we understand the reaction completely. We see it and we report it to you. Thank you.
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"But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you."
A lesson in humility is what this president needs.
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Can´t understand how such a great country like USA has a president like this.
How normal politicians can support him.
How other leaders, like Macron, Merkel, May, etc. talk to him.
Trump doesnt have capacity to be president of USA.
God save USA
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My ancestors, both maternal and paternal, came to New England in the 1600s. They came from England, enduring incredible hardships in their journey and re-settlement. Through the centuries, we have maintained our British heritage, while being fully American. My ancestors fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, the World Wars, Korea, Vietnam. To say we love both GB and the US is understatement. We are now humiliated and ashamed because the "leader" of our country has attacked our cousins across the pond. The kinship that has endured time and wars, is now threatened by a creature without a drop of diplomacy, kindness, or intelligence. I hang my head in sadness and shame.
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He (his ego, they are the same thing) thrives on attention and publicity. The best to ignore him — wouldn’t make anything worse or better, but a lot of people would have lower blood pressure.
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Once again, the stable genius has done what he does best. He has shoveled it out of the stable with gusto and spread it all over the world. Smell the flowers?
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The world has a long history of suffering mentally unstable and deficient leaders. But it's time to remove the focus from this one and instead attempt to understand the psyches of the people who voted for and still support him. Until that is achieved, history may repeat itself.
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England and Germany, we sincerely apologize for Mr. Trump and what he has said this week about your countries. We will recitfy this terrible mistake in 4 months.
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The sooner this president gets to Russia, the better to restore some equilibrium to Europe and our Allies. Whether he does not give a button about being the cause of turmoil and chaos among civilized nations across the borders is another feather in his mop, while London Bridge is not planning to fall down.
He may be welcome by onlookers as a curious spectacle in London, but ultimately he is despised, and a sorry figure of fun for the majority of the City's population, and the mayor has no time to waste, listening to his trumpet.
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This rube is
Not being received at 10 Downing St
Or Parliament
Or Buckingham palace
Does he or the rest of us realize how well he is being snubbed ?
Good
Great start
Now continue
And tax his EU and UK properties to bankruptcy.
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I hope the Queen finds she has an unavoidable prior engagement, or a 'family situation' - code world wide for I'm not meeting you tomorrow!
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To belittle Mrs May, and suggest that Boris Johnson would make a better Prime Minister, only hours before a lavish and warm reception from Mrs May and the UK government was the height of bad manners and ignorance. The sooner Trump departs from the UK into the arms of Mr Putin, the man who assisted him to the presidency, the better. NATO leaders will be breathing a sigh of relief and having a chuckle because, despite all of Trump's bellicose talk and dog-whistling to his base, he has achieved absolutely nothing on NATO. The existing spending commitments remain totally unchanged.
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As an American, I apologize to you and your country on his behalf. (God knows, Trump will never do it!) He does not represent most of us. The majority did not vote for him. We are being held hostage by a minority party and an autocratic leader. Every day, we are gobsmacked by the chaos and insanity he sows with impunity. Of course, Trump is just a symptom of the far-right cancer that is metastasizing throughout the Western world with Salvini, the Brexiters, the AdF, et al. I hope we can vote him and his traitorous party out and normalize foreign relations again. But I fear that he has done damage that will take years to repair.
Your president's behavior in Europe and towards European nations and leading is insulting, in many ways. We are no medieval vasal states. The US no longer behave as a friend but as our dearest enemy. The end of our alliance as 'The West' is near. It's sad. But it's true. Yankee go home!
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How I wish Pres. Trump had not said those things, especially about replacing the Prime Minister, while a guest here. Couldn't he at least have waited until he was back over the pond? He was very rude.
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For the sake of the people of the U.K. let us hope that Trump's praise of Boris Johnson was the kiss of death for that Trump look-alike.
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Isn't this why we elected Trump, not just to destroy government in America, but throughout the free world? Putin will have such a big smile on his face when Trump arrives.
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Why would the Brits care what Trump says? After all, he insults and embarrasses us Americans far more than the Brits.
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Please stop letting the G.O.P. off the hook for Trump's actions.
Headline should read: " As May’s Government Teeters Over Brexit, Republicans Gives It a Shove"
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The inept Trump needs to stop meddling in the politics of our allies. Putin and Trump are like a subversive tag team on the world stage. At this point all European are invited to attack GOP politicians in our elections. We can consider any Democratic donations as part of a NATO defense contribution.
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WHO will be our new leader? We need to find this person!
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I wish Mrs. May had disinvited 45 for gross indecency. Given 45’s unpopularity with Brits, they would have applauded her slamming the door on him. That may have been the “shove” she needs to regain her grip on power.
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As a Brit who didn't vote for Brexit I am truly horrified by Trump's comments. I would love it if Her Majesty politely declined to have tea with him this afternoon.
Her has no manners and is an embarrassment to himself.
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Her Majesty should show "Our" displeasure!
So sorry May didn't strangle him with a portion of Melanie's chiffon cape. So much destruction in one week among our closest allies. Perhaps they are being too cordial with him...it may be time to take off the gloves in unison. No more flattery, pomp and circumstance, and obsequiousness for starters. Treat him as you would any spoiled child who is simply out of control.
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"Coming after his combative performance in Brussels with leaders of the 28 other NATO nations, the day amounted to a global disruption tour unlike anything undertaken by any other recent American president."
Let me fix that for you ...
Coming after his combative performance in Brussels with leaders of the 28 other NATO nations, the day amounted to a global disruption tour unlike anything undertaken by any other American president -- ever.
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Can we borrow that balloon?
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Trump has benefitted "bigly" from Putin's interference in the internal affairs of the United States. I'm sure he is just graciously passing it along to Theresa May.
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A bully continues to bully until enough people stand up to him. Not enough people are doing so. May can do it in a very British way - nothing like a Brit put down. Then again Trump is not a master of subtlety so he doesn't have the sense to appreciate the put down done with aplomb but without pejoratives.
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We in America who did not vote for this con man can only hope he is removed from office before he destroys everything. HIs ignorant base cheers him on and the feckless Republicans in Congress are silent. I do believe a great majority of Americans (perhaps many of them who did not vote) are embarrassed and horrified by this spectacle.
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For "the feckless Republicans in Congress" I would substitute "the complicit Republicans in Congress".
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A warning to the people of the U.K. : Notice how closely Boris Johnson resembles Donald Trump, both physically and in behaviour. If you don't want to end up with a Donald Trump as leader of your government don't ever allow Boris Johnson anywhere near 10 Downing St.
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Boris is more of a dangerous bore. He reads.
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Thank you, Sarah.
You conveyed what I was thinking, point on
Nothing like criticizing your hosts before you show up for dinner with them.
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Would that the queen would find herself suddenly indisposed
and unable to receive Trump. Or what if she asked to
have tea alone with Melania?
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I am British and no fan of Theresa May. I love America and was brought up to be grateful for Amercia’s great sacrifice in helping secure our own freedom.
In my 61 years I have never seen anything like Trump’s interview with The Sun newspaper published before his business meeting with Theresa May. He totally undermined a British Prime Minister and then a few hours later starts saying what a great relationship he has with her etc. This is disrespectful to the office of the British Prime Minister and to the British people. He can disagree with her in their press conference after their meeting, but beforehand and with the other things he has said about immigration, the Mayor of London and Boris Johnson, this is going low. We don’t want him here playing to his base.
Some British people are saying it’s disrespectful to the office of the President of the United States to go out today and protest.
Well, I’m struggling not to write an expletive. I’m going to Central London now.
American friends please vote in November!
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We spend so much time complaining and using negative energy. If the time spent complaining in NYT comments for 1week were put to positive things we would all be better off.
I would respectfully suggest that we who regularly "complain" here at the NYT are exercising our First Amendment right to peacefully assemble and complain.
We also supporting a free press.
I can think of no better way to spend a few minutes each day.
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Look at everything Trump does as though he is an asset of Putin's Russia. Scary, eh? Believable, absolutely.
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The protesters have gotten under DJT’s skin, despite his desperate attempts to avoid them. First he complains that he doesn’t feel “welcome”; then he pathetically claims that “they like me a lot in the U.K.”. No wonder he sought an outlet to vent his spleen. He probably blames Teresa May for the unpleasant environment, and decided to try to humiliate her by praising Boris Johnson and casually threatening to refuse a trade deal. However, Mrs. May apparently “didn’t listen to him” when DJT “told her how to do” the Brexit deal; so good for Mrs. May. DJT continues to prove what a puerile fool - and Putin tool - he is.
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The Donald was born a bully. Cultivating his talents brought him to the presidency. He admires other bullies and that is why Democracy is on a slippery slop.
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Trump once again touts his ignorance for all the world to see.
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Hey America! Please get this guy out of our continent RIGHT NOW. He's seriously misbehaving, and he's your president, correct?
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Mr. T isn’t aware of the potential damage he’s doing, he doesn’t care, or a combination of both. I think it’s the latter. I think he’s guided by the myth of “telling it like it is,” a false belief that putting your internal thoughts on loudspeaker is somehow brave and strong. The trouble is that one’s internal dialogue is usually misguided. We know Trump doesn’t place much value on expert advice; he’s convinced of the power of his own gut instincts and always thinks he’s the most brilliant person around, no matter the circumstances. So unfortunately it won’t make any difference when levelheaded people with better judgment caution him to tread more lightly. He’s a bull in a China shop and I don’t think anything can be done save an election.
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And just think. In a few days he'll be dancing with the czars.
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Let's just say it:
Never before in the history of our nation have we been led by a Traitor who openly attacks an ally and attempts to interfere directly in their government during a sensitive moment like an election.
Trump is a Traitor and a barbarian and does not merit civility in our responses to his outrageous displays and behavior. He should be arrested, tried and convicted of high treason.
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The joint Trump/May press conference is due to begin within the hour. Let's see how the current President can be even more destructive. Then...on to tea with the Queen.
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"Inserted himself..."
He can't help himself--he has to "insert himself" in everything. Regardless of the fecundity of the result. It may even be counter productive.
Still he'll "celebrate himself"--as prepotent--even if (a) he has to pay for it; and (b) it ends in an abortion or law suit.
Not what Whitman had in mind.
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Can't see that any sane person could believe that trump would do anything different than he just did. This duck is walking and looking more like a traitor every day.
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This was no mistake. He’s a neutron bomb, bent on toppling the world order. The Russians pushed Brexit with similar tactics to the way they ruined US elections in 2016. In my view, his blatant play to push her off the cliff is evidence that Mrs May should remain PM. The more he destroys, the more power he acquires. And still no one rises against him with concrete action. Respectfully I ask WTAF.
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As much as I hate to say this, the election of Donald Trump makes you Americans look.....loathsome, like clowns. Twice now in less than 20 years you have chosen a person who does nothing but wreak havoc around the planet. Please understand if we treat you with disrespect, it can not be resisted any longer.
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Have you noticed that he only attacks women, women who are in trouble at home?
I wonder what this ignorant, boastful bully advised TM to do about the Irish border when he “told her what to do” about Brexit. Given that he doesn’t seem to know that the Ireland “where he has property” is not a member of the UK.........
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Trump has stated he will always put America first. He also believes a strong EU is bad for America. If he believes a hard Brexit would be good for the United States, why should he care how it might hurt the British economy or the British people. Why anyone in Britain would listen to his opinions is beyond me. Anyone who does cannot be a British patriot who puts Britain first, by Trump’s own admission. Trump’s a huckster and anyone who follows his advice is a sucker. May figured that out, let’s see if Boris can.
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This man is disgusting. His utter disrespect for our own country and structures of our government are beyond arrogant. The venal, shallow, ugly nature of his intentions and attitudes toward our neighbors and allies is appalling.
Why any one in any other country would want to do so much as even shake his hand I cannot imagine. Insults and humiliation are his favorite games, and like that big orange balloon baby, that is how he sees the world -- as a game in which he thinks he is the big winner and that is all that matters.
The destruction of which this president is capable seems to know no bounds. And millions of his followers think that is just great. We have a hard, hard reckoning coming in the US.
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"Some men just want to watch the world burn" - Michael Caine as Alfred in The Dark Knight.
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He has GOT to be the agent of Putin. Time for executive action.
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It is no surprise it is The Sun that has published this Trump broadside against May. As usual, it is Rupert Murdoch's press that is pulling the strings; the wily, old fox has Trump dancing to his tune. Trump is a bully and coward, targeting Merkel and May. Macron is a weasel, so there is no one in Europe to stand up to this charlatan. The world needs more like the Canadian, Justin Trudeau. When will America wake up to the fact that it is fast losing the last ounce of respect the world has for it?
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I wonder every day what have we done to deserve this. Karma!!!!
So proud of the British Citizens protesting this aberration of a human being. He deserves every word written on those posters and Baby ballon!
Wish that would be enough to make him disappear into one of his golf course’s holes
Unfortunately his narcissism and bigotry are too enlarged to deflate.
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Trump wants USA to be just like himself, an evil bully, that is why he only wants to make deals with smaller/weaker countries, Britain..., and not with a big/strong EU!
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As usual, Trump shucks a hand grenade into the room and sifts through the debris for personal gain.
His infantile modus operandi has failed every time: health care, North Korea, immigration reform, trade, defense, etc.
Everyone is just holding their breath until his stink leaves the world stage.
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Trump is a simpleton. No other word for it. But T May is clueless, utterly clueless. I cringed when she scuttled off to offer a full state visit immediately after Mr T’s election and this is what it’s led too.
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Trump truly is the Manchurian Candidate. He is doing everything possible to fracture NATO alliance which has stood firm for 68 years. At the same time he denied and now shrugs at the Soviet Unions involvement in our elections, and fractured out relationship with out strongest allies. Putin is getting everything he wants and then some.
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Trump may be right (but, given his past failings his opinion is questionable), however, it is not in his purview to meddle in another government's dealings that our country has nothing to do with.
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Trump’s purpose in life appears devoid of actually helping America or her allies. One can talk all they want about him being the crazy-like-fox stable genius, but there extraordinarily little that he has done that improves the world or America.
The question is, who does Trump truly serve? What promises (or demands) were made to Trump to carry on in such a divisive way?
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He's on remote, instant replay. The obscenely crass, brash behavior he exhibited on his reality show and all his business life has been carried to his new reality role.
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I am moving back to Canada after 47 years in the USA. dual citizen.
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Wish I could. I've had thoughts of escaping to Vancouver myself.
Lucky you. Given the present political atmosphere, does Canada's invitation to Americans still hold?
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I've been thinking as of late of moving back to Berlin. The decision is getting easier every day.
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It's disturbing to see our president dismiss another female leader in May only to rush to support the flagging Johnson.
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You have a way with words.
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Gives new meaning to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Only in this latest era of the Big Lies could a nation host a visiting leader whose first act is to insult and undermine the host. This could be the poster child for everything nauseating and dangerous about Trump but experience tells us worse things are coming.
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We all know trump has not studied up, or read, about any other countries governments. Heck, he barely knows America's government, the constitution, or even the words to our National Anthem!! I found it interesting that a news reporter in the UK mentioned how Putin seems to be using trump in his desire to establish a New Autocratic World Order. Started thinking about that, and everything trump does seems to play right in to that. Just saying....
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Don't read too much into Trump's bad manners and blather.
Ever since he was a child, he has specialized in kicking down. Britain is in a state of uncertainty and change, and Trump regards that as an opportunity to make himself look bigger.
BOOT!
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Best to stick with Europe, Brits. The US under this president is an unreliable partner in trade and everything else.
With a friend like Donald Trump, you'll have no need of enemies.
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"As May’s Government Teeters Over Brexit, Trump Gives It a Shove" : Only a true friend like Trump can manage to do this, and then via a Murdoch/Fox-owned local rag.
And before he noisily babbles away any more foul air, perhaps Trump should check what Brits refer to with the word trump.
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Just wait. "How did I do, Vladi?""
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He is doing Putin’s business. Putin must have something really, really juicy on trump for him to set out to destroy other countries’ governments. What country would want to even be considered an ally of this man? Please, those countries who wish to maintain any semblance of democracy or a functioning government, drop your friendships with the US now. How could they even feed him after finding out about the interview? I would have just showed him & she-trump the door. This is a man who won’t give interviews to anyone but Fox. Is the Sun owned by Fox? The Anti-Christ is at work & it won’t take him as long as the Book says to destroy the world. This is why evangelical christians support him. They think they are going to heaven faster. Actually they are going somewhere faster but it won’t be heaven. Please, Queen Elizabeth, feign sick today & not drink tea with this man. He doesn’t play nicely at tea parties (he doesn’t drink hot tea by the way).
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I do hope #45 is picking up the tab on his trip to his golf course in Scotland.
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President Trump is a "Know-Nothing" and has a predilection for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. He is intemperate and boorish in his behavior. That he would throw fire on the flames of an already troubling situation in England, our friend and ally, is beyond belief, and unbecoming of a representative of our government. He is the insult comic President, although his humor is cruel and mean. His ideas are stagnant. He is the swamp.
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Trump is an embarrassment and clear and present danger to these United States and the world in general. The majority of Americans don't want him, and we'll start the process of making him and the sorry excuse of a "Grand Old Party" that's left in this country irrelevant and obsolete this fall.
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A woman in power?
That's what ticks trump off.
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'The interview was published as Mr. Trump and Mrs. May were wrapping up what appeared to be a chummy dinner at Blenheim Palace — earlier, they had walked inside holding hands — and a day ahead of the president’s scheduled meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. There was no immediate response from the British government.'
Holding hands — what is it with all this hand holding? Trump's supposed to be a germaphobe. It was bad enough having to watch Reagan and Thatcher dancing – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers they were not, even though Reagan was an ex-Hollywood B-lister and Thatcher had a ginger thatch.
But Trump and May getting sweaty together in July? Perish the thought. What next – Trump and Putin passionately grappling and clinching in the Kremlin Dojo?
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It's so glaringly obvious that all Trump wants is for no country to have any business deals with anyone else but him: Germans (and the rest of the EU) should only buy American gas, the UK should have no business partners other than the US... For him it's all only about money money money. How crudely, vulgarly ugly American can you get?
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I don't use these terms much anymore because you rarely see it, but Trump is a real two-faced back-stabber. The whole trip so far is saying one thing in the presence of people and completely different things when he is away from view. He claims how much he loves Theresa May, but says she is doing an awful job on Brexit and would like to see someone else as PM - such a nasty man!
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“I told her how to do it and she ignored me” so her plan is a failure... kind of like how you told trump U students, like you told Atlantic City? No thanks Mr President, No thanks
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Instead of apologizing for the President, an ongoing endeavor that requires considerable time, we should revisit how this huckster achieved the highest office in the land. In the 2016 election Americans sat out, allowing for the instant gratification of a none-of-the-above vote. As a result, there will be two new Supreme Court judges, out of control spending, a obscene amount of special interest access and a rollback of environmental and civil rights laws. And it hasn't even been two years yet. "Walk your talk" in the midterms and in 2020. Or just be happy being posted in The New York Times.
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Obama openly and actively supported (albeit with his stuttering “nuance”) the Labour leader for PM in U.K. elections during his time.
He did the same with elections in Israel.
Yeah. Look it up.
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Nuance, indeed. There is no comparison between support and tearing apart.
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Of course Trump likes Boris Johnson - they graduated from the same clown school.
The wave of reality TV - induced stupidity and ignorance is about to overtake the world. The modern civilization is going to be reduced to the level of "desperate housewives of jersey shore".
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The interview was published as Mr. Trump and Mrs. May were wrapping up what appeared to be a chummy dinner at Blenheim Palace — earlier, they had walked inside holding hands — and a day ahead of the president’s scheduled meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. There was no immediate response from the British government.
Holding hands — what is it with all this hand holding? Trump's supposed to be a germaphobe.
It was bad enough having to watch Reagan and Thatcher dancing – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers they were not, even though Reagan was an ex-Hollywood B-lister and Thatcher had a ginger thatch.
But Trump and May getting sweaty together in July? Perish the thought.
What next – Trump and Putin passionately grappling and clinching in the Kremlin Dojo?
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There is a great deal of complexity involved in the Brexit negotations - we in the UK are living with this day to day - not least over the question of the Irish border. This requires considerable subtlety and diplomacy in an attempt to navigate a route through.
Ah! Who better than the current POTUS to offer advice?
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Hopefully the British are paying attention and will learn from Mr. Trump's visit. He has tested their current PM and she has come up short. He has recommended Mr. Johnson for PM which clearly should rule him out. Mr. Trump will be there another day. There is much more work to be done.
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Whether you like President Trump or not, he is not the first President to offer an opinion on Brexit, that dubious honour belongs to President Obama, who pitched in during the Brexit campaign. Given the precedent set by Obama, it’s more honest of Trump to point out May’s slavish devotion to EU rules makes a separate negotiation pointless, rather than to say nothing and have her give the British public the impression a US / UK trade deal was a done deal.
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It’s fir the British to decide
Not America
Him or anyone else.
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The Putin playbook....isolate EU countries from the Big Military USA, break up NATO, invade a NATO country left with no unified defense that NATO represented...Trump is Putin's lapdog and Congress sits idly back watching the destruction of what has been one of the most productive, prosperous and secure relationships for this country.
Where are the Republicans with common sense and integrity?
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Trump is not only unqualified for the job but also simply unqualifiable. The same can be said about all his supporters both home and worldwide. Putin and Kim excluded. Those are great guys, no?
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Trump's fans keep saying that the press "is not fair," or "give him a chance." Well every day he gets a new chance. But how is the press to react when he says something not true, outrageous, or insulting?
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Nobody is “ fair” except fox ...
The national kool aid must taste good
Another day in the life of Putin’s asset. Disrupt the western world order and all those alliances that stand in the way of Putin’s rebuilding the world order with Russia at the helm and authoritarianism ascendant.
America’s newest exports are chaos and destruction. Trump is a political missile, literally attempting to blow the European Union up.
To Trump and Putin’s democracy is a fading star. To those patriots left: vote, resist and hope hackers won’t hijack our free elections. Shame on those who put politics ahead of country and shame on those who’d sacrifice free democracy and world stability for power.
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I think Trump is simply sincere: he treats his equals equally (Putin, Xi, Kim) and his clients (inferiors) unequally (NATO countries, Moon, Abe etc.).
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Ack, I am visiting England and Scotland in September. I feel the first thing I need to do is apologize for this president and make sure they understand he is NOT my president.
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Oh please:
Unfortunately, no matter what we feel or say, he IS our president. Shame on those who didn't vote.
Most people will understand that. After all, how many deplorables have a passport?
(Im a 60 year old expat who has lived in Sweden for 25 years. I’ve seen and heard a lot of anti-americanism and stupid American jokes, especially in the GW years. But now disgust has turned to laughter.)
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Okay, that's it; I'm requesting that Mr. Putin call a special news conference, during which he will announce that he has canceled his meeting with the Trump creature, apologize to Americans for saddling them with Trump, and going forward he will never ever involve himself in American chicanery again.
Who says I can't do that ??
Don't be ridiculous; look at what the President of the United States is doing, with impunity.
Oh, to heck with it. Putin is likely too embarrassed to be seen in Trump's company, so he may cancel anyway.
Should be one interesting day here in Paradise.
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I have a hard time disagreeing with Trump on this one. I think being blunt about how May has not executed on this is exactly what's required.
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Did we? I can't remember being offered any sort of choice on what 'consistency' of Brexit we might want. The lies of those who claim that a 'soft Brexit' would be against the will of the people are just a callous power grab by those who want to dictate everything.
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Apart from the fact that the only thing she was required to do was leave the EU, which she is doing. Everything else is open for debate. I don't like May, the way she arrogantly thought everyone would vote for her just because they feared the alternative, her old-fashioned social ideals and the chaos she has led, but on Brexit it isn't really her fault that all her colleagues are too self-serving to do anything other than try and further their own careers.
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Did we? I can't remember us ever being asked anything of the sort, so the hard-liners using democracy as an excuse for pushing their extreme measures is nothing short of despotism.
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Trump bullies Merkel and May, but I am certain he won’t say anything to V.Putin about Ukraine, Crimea, election meddling, or the continued incidents in Russia of opposition candidates and courageous journalists suddenly showing up dead on the street. To say nothing of the deadly nerve gas.
Bullies clearly are afraid of other bullies, especially bullies who can ride horses bare chested on the steppes.
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And have something to hold over them whatever that is
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Our president - loathed here at home by many millions of Americans -- bragged "they like me a lot in the UK". Yeah, right! 2 positives = big negative. Brits loathe him as much as we do on this side of the pond. Beyond frightening, Trump's interview splashed on the Brit Murdoch rag, The Sun, wherein he claims Boris Johnson as a "very very good friend", and decries Theresa May's efforts to continue Britain's ages-old ties to the EU despite BREXIT. And Trump heaped scorn on Sadiq Khan, the Brit-born Muslim of Pakistani descent, the esteemed Mayor of London. We await the results of Mr. Trump's meet at Chequers with Theresa May now, and the results of the big fat orange barrage balloon of Trump as an angry baby in diapers flying over London. And the results to come after his relaxing weekend of golf at his private club in Aberdeen (and he Scottish people don't like him a lot, either). Remains of the day on Monday and Tuesday will be the fall-out from his Helsinki Summit with Vladimir Putin. We are all wondering if Donald Trump will give Vladimir Putin his longed-for footprint to the Mediterranean Sea in Southern Syria. Alas, America's 45th president is full of poppycock. "We'll see what happens!" (h/t Trump).
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Indeed. And just think. In a few days he'll be dancing with the czars.
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It's time for the Free World to stand up to the Dictator in Chief. The G7 should throw out the USA. Become the G6 and then ask China to make a new G7. (maybe even Russia for a G8.)
With courage and some pain the world could stop doing business with the USA and build their own arsenal of nuclear weapons. Develop their own military machine.
Amazing a US President undermines a leader of an Allied Power. It's obvious Donald intend to join forces with Russia and North Korea.
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Imagine if a leader of one of our closest allies came to the U.S. and sat for an interview with, say, The NY Times. And in that interview he or she stated that Trump was doing things “all wrong” and hadn’t listened to this leader’s advice, and we, as a country, would pay the price, and that Clinton, or some other Democrat, or even an extremist like Bannon, was “great” and would do a better job than Trump. It’s unimaginable that any other leader would do this. Trump’s behavior goes beyond a breach of protocol. It is dangerous, unbelievably insulting to one of our closest allies, and shows how out of control and tyrannical he is. And of course the Republicans continue to hide their collective heads in the sand.
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A good conspiracy theorist would think that the actions of Trump helping to fray the ties that bind the EU as doing the bidding of Putin and those who seek a reset world order as a little too obvious...too simple for this clever world.
It doesn't require collusion when they want the same thing, both taking the opportunities given to them to denigrate the liberal elites, reset the clocks.
East coast, west coast and the European project...
Insecurity powers their mission to save us from the future, until they wake up and find the Chinese dumbfounded that everyone paid them so much for the matches...now that conspiracy is worthy.
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Now ready to guide a sovereign foreign nation as well as his own, an inflated Donald Trump expresses his royal displeasure with May's deviation from his "advice." It turns out the US is too cramped to contain his ego. America yanked its own independence from Great Britain centuries ago because we believed in self-rule. Now America wants to rule Britannia? Decisions about Brexit, and how it is carried out, are an entirely domestic matter, wholly internal to GB, that a miffed baby Trump cites in threatening to withhold an entire trade agreement with our greatest ally. He also suggests Brits toss their prime minister for a twin no-nothing blowhard. And even as he rampages across the face of Europe, and reddens our national countenance, his congressional toadies showed how well they can stick to his warped playbook. GOP House members whipped a loyal countryman and law enforcement authority with the fevered fictions of Trumpism. Turns out Trumpism is a contagion that has sickened an entire American political party and threatens critical relations with our European allies.
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But it continues - the name Donald Trump is on everyone's lips, in every article in every newspaper in every country in the world every day. Does he want anything but this? Has he any notion of what acceptable behaviour is under any circumstances? He is as happy to be recognized as an appalling person as he would be to be lauded by all. There are no boundaries and he is now unstoppable. Such power. "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world....."
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Trump was offended because Theresa May "wouldn't listen to me" regarding Brexit. Good for PM May. Now we need everyone else in this country to do the same.
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Just wondering if Bernie’s babies still think there’s no difference between Trump and Clinton?
Thanks for this.
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Just wondering if President Saunders would be well regarded, dispite a Republican Congress? The people
spoke before Clinton was insted by her insiders. We wanted Mr T contested by a candidate that could stand up to a Bully!
Aside from the (slowly) growing realization among the media that Trump's actions are those of an unstable incompetent, isn't the terror of it all what he is doing to world order?
This guy really does seem like he's some sort of agent of a rival government who is doing all he can to subvert the democratic gains of the west since WWII.
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Trump is absolutely right.
Brits voted for Brexit. Not for some wish-washy “soft Brexit” where the U.K. would be subservient to the EU.
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45 can't even run this country competently, and he presumes to tell another country how to run their business? I sincerely hope the other world leaders are polite to his face, and then laughing their heads off behind his back and making their own deals, cutting the US out of everything entirely. 45 wants protectionism and isolationism; well, I hope the other countries give it to him. He is the epitome of an "ugly American."
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Maybe it's time to demand that trump be drug tested... in addition to seeing his financial records.
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And psychiatrically evaluated
Or just plain stood up to.
Just say NO
ENOUGH
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You know who is sitting on the couch, with a beer and a big smile, shoes kicked off and feet in socks on the coffee table, watching this "family" fight between Trump and our supposed allies? Russia.
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So why is the Queen meeting with Trump? Will she catch a cold and cancel as she should? Or will she be polite.
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For Trump to behave this way, you'd think Vladimir had the goods on him.
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This latest, utterly embarrassing and utterly insulting disgrace by the current American President should remind the British of all political viewpoints to Keep Calm And Carry On.
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I suspect POTUS has now virtually ensured Boris Johnson will never be elected to PM in the UK. Talk about damning with faint praise!
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At this point, we know for certain that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Mr. Trump. Once again, Trump undermines Western alliances. Next week, he will meet with Vladimir Putin. He will almost certainly declare that meeting to be excellent, and remind everyone of the benefits of developing a good relationship with Russia.
The only obvious beneficiary of this behavior is Russia.
Sadly, once again, Republicans in Congress will respond with a shrug, and refuse to investigate obvious evidence of “collusion” and outright treason.
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The stable genius once again may give a bit of life to the person he just insulted. Give it a day or two and let's see if Mrs. May's stability as PM won't enjoy a certain unexpected renaissance...
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Trump is unrelenting in sullying the American presidency. Incoherent, boorish and hardly anything resembling a " stable genius", he continues to alienate longstanding allies and is openly hostile to women heads of state (Merkel, May), while attempting to cozy up to dictators and tyrants (Putin, Kim, Erdogan).
That he continues on his uncouth path, with his family reaping the million-dollar benefits of his occupancy of the WH and entrée to every business arena imaginable on the planet, is a testament to the deterioration of the American fabric and political system. Over time, he will have a lasting effect on American relations with past friends and partners. Out of the dire need for self-protection, Europe will turn its back on Trump's America, and foster proper and civil relations with other countries and continents, and prosper without America's taint wafting through the air at future summits.
Macron tried to ingratiate himself with touchy-feely Trump, Trudeau tried the gentleman's approach. Alas, Trump revels in the spotlight, and his oversized need for more and more attention will simply serve to drive developed countries away, into that other reality -- the authentic one -- where human rights, democratic values, respect of the press, compassion and all those good things prevail.
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Of course he did. Never forget the tale of the Scorpion and the Frog.
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Trump said he told Theresa May, that she didn't listen to him, and that he told her to go a different route on Brexit.
When asked what that different route was, Trump changed the subject because he was caught in yet another of his own lies. Trump never told Theresa May, those things. He just made that up on the spur of the moment, for the Sun article.
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If Trump attacks a European politician, that is just going to help them. And his praise of Boris Johnson is going to hurt Johnson. As a Brexit supporter, I'd rather not have Trump trying to help because it's counter-productive due to his extreme unpopularity in Europe. He is constantly reminding poorly informed voters how NOT to be a good nationalist populist.
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Good for POTUS. It is called leadership.
Not content to divide our own country, Trump goes on a world tour to sow dissent among our allies? With “friends” like Trump, who needs enemies?
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Just as Trump's every tweet and move are calculated to rile up his 40% base, May should have similarly ordered Trump out of Britain first thing this morning. That would have very much pleased 90% of the UK, and no doubt would have helped garner more support for her as prime minister.
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Actually May's government isn't teetering but this is yet another example of the distinction Trump brings to the US presidency.
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Trump's understanding of Brexit and democracy is flawed in the same manner of the hard-line Brexiteers (like Johnson) who argue that the referendum is a clear mandate to sever all links with the EU completely and return to a nineteenth-century policy of splendid isolation.
It's unsurprising that he he supports this vision of Brexit as the fewer economic ties the UK has to Europe, the stronger his own hand when negotiating trade, and the more stacked any UK-US deal will be in the US' favour. For what it's worth Johnson is mainly in it for himself too, spreading discord in an attempt to bring down the government so that he can take over and not really caring about the reality of it all.
The argument Johnson, the right-wing tabloids and Trump all fall back on is that any scenario where Britain leaves the EU but retains a 'special relationship' with the bloc would be a slap in the face for democracy and a betrayal of the British people. The 2016 referendum asked a very straightforward question. Remain in the EU or Leave, it asked nothing about why. During the referendum they used the likes of Norway and Switzerland which do have special arrangements with the EU as examples of success outside the EU to bolster their argument; if anyone suggests now that the UK should have something similar they are accused of treason.
Though it was a very narrow victory for leave. Their interpretation of democracy is that they 'won' and as such can now mould the UK to fit their own purposes.
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After the Brexit vote, many who voted to leave showed regret. They apparently thought that Brexit was about immigration without knowing anything about the financial implications. And that was exactly what charlatans like Boris Johnson was counting on so they stoked anti-immigrant sentiments. You
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Does Trump have no parallel in world history? Well, the Roman emperor Caligula probably comes closest in mind-set. He also made his horse a consul, and Trump made Pence a vice-president, so maybe he is not that unique after all.
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Trump acts like emperor of the U.S. when in the U.S. When he travels overseas, he behaves as emperor of the world. His claim to be a "stable genius" is laughable. The sad part is that we are stuck with this bad joke as our president. On top of that, yesterday the House of Representatives behaved as a gathering of the clown club. And these are our elected leaders? (So much for the value of democracy!) I hope this is all a bad dream and I'll wake up soon.
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Can we please impeach him now? If not now, WHEN? He's a destroyer, not a creator. So easy to destroy, just take a sledgehammer and start swinging. I've done it as I've rehabbed several houses. But I've never put up a wall in my life because I do not have the skills to be a carpenter.
Why are the Republicans allowing this to happen to our country? Why would they spend nine hours yesterday being ridiculous in front of the cameras? Because they are slaves to this minority in the country, Trump's all-worshipped 'base'.
To do that Sun interview, then go to have dinner with our 'special friends' in Britain and then say, "We have a very good relationship" after tearing her down in front of the world is just unbelievable.
When, Republicans? November can't come soon enough. I'm not sure we'll last that long. The Destroyer walks the Earth and when he can't walk he takes a golf cart and charges the US taxpayer.
America! My heart grieves.
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Is there not some way that Trump's passport can be taken away, his Twitter access disabled and our relationship with our allies rebuilt?
Each time Trump goes abroad, his aggressive bad manners and arrogant vulgarity hurt the US and everything it traditionally stood for.
Can we do nothing to stop this?
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Imagine the Tweet Storm if the same had happened to Trump during a state visit? And Could Sanders defense be any more insulting? Trump likes PM May and thinks she is a good person? It’s what male bosses have said time immemorial about subordinate females whose intellect they dismiss as beneath them. Add the little dollop of racism aimed at the mayor of London and the ethnic purity of England. Maybe Putin will keep him? Please Don’t Bother To Come Home.
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it's all fun and games for Trump until the USA finds itself paying the cost of his brilliant negotiating tactics. We may find ourselves isolated & with a severe dip in our economy. Only then "possibly" will the Reps. step up to the plate?
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Was PM May wearing a "bloody back" outfit?
But the truth is that the Brits and the Yanks are in the same boat, both are taken hostage by the mobs in their own countries.
Boris and Trump may have a special relationship with each other - and Nigel - but they don't have one to their own countryfolk.
London's mayor may very well be closer to many Americans. And the royal family looks pretty good!
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I am angry and sad this morning!! Just as think - one more time -- that it cannot get any worse -- it does. However, I am trying to console myself with the possibility that NATO and the UK are clever enough to not get mad at the U.S. They should just "get even." As U.S. citizen, I am on the side of our former allies.
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I did not vote for Trump. I had been (past tense) a Democrat since becoming an American citizen in 1990. That I do not like some of his rhetoric and Tweets is an understatement. BUT I like and support many parts of his policies. We have become accustomed to the toxic language of political correctness and moral equivalency and so when a President says the truth and has the guts to do it in public, there are those who would prefer the spineless appeaser of Obama (I voted for him twice, and look at the world...). The EU, with it irresponsible immigration policies is committing suicide. One way for England to attempt reversing its self destruction is by leaving the EU. Given the size of the US economy and market, a deal with the US can provide enormous benefits to England. Trump is right about the EU and NATO, as well as other international issues. When the annals of history are written, the damage the so called progressive left has inflicted on western civilization will undoubtedly be a focus. Thanks Go-d HRC is not our President. Another four years of Obama and who knows how much more damage would have been inflicted on the world.
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Any post that starts w "I voted for Obama" or "I am a democrat or a progressive" but then goes on to say that Trump is doing a good job and Obama did a bad job is being disingenuous at best or probably just lying. Those posts are fictitious or trolls or both!
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Tramp is trying to complete Johnson's sellout of Britain to Putin, just as he-- Tramp-- sold the United States to Uncle Vlad. Bonus points for Donnie going in to his meeting with the Big Boss.
Do you also enjoy whistling through a graveyard?
Of course she had to invite him to a visit, as did Macron previously, and is it anything more than an anticlimax that the foul-mouthed person that is the president of this country conducts himself in this manner and says such things about his host? Let's not even allow a moment's digestion between courses, thank you very much. There's one simple question that DECENT Americans should be asking themselves in my opinion, ladies and gentlemen. First and foremost: WHAT would your reaction be if this person were reelected and/or the GOP retained control of Congress? Those that doubt such a possibility must not forget that HE GOT IN ONCE so NOTHING is impossible anymore. So? What would you do/how would you react? I'm open to suggestions.
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Once again, Trump is evidencing that he is bereft of any humanity, decency, and ability to appropriately negotiate diplomacy in the international sphere.
He is doing exactly the same thing he has demonstrated, in doing his own private business. Everything he does is for and about his own self-benefit, and no one else.
That he is doing it for the US, is only a ruse, and nothing more, as evidenced by the trade wars he has started, which is destroying his constituency in our heartland.
However, he is only adept at becoming an authoritarian buffoon, destroying not only our democracy in the US, but all of our allies as well.
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Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States, advised Ms. May on the Brexit issue. She did not heed his advice, now her government is in jeopardy. Unlike past presidents, President Trump's advice comes from his experience as one of history's most successful businessmen. He is the first president to apply business savvy to governmental decision making. It would be wise for others to heed his advice. Again, that is one the reasons why the Patriots elected him president! I support the President. I support Trump. Thank you.
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Ask those who went to Trump "University" about his business savvy.
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Southern Boy,
It's an arrogant violation of protocol for Trump to "advise" Ms. May on an issue for which she did not seek his counsel.
Also, are you aware that, in Trump's case, "business savvy" is an oxymoron?
DP
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The UK lacks strong, decisive leadership. It needs a Winston Churchill or a Margaret Thatcher. What is has right now is just not working.
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Good. Another customer, unworthy of our attention falls by the wayside.
See? These trade wars ARE easy to win.
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Are any republicans watching? Is there no end to daily barrage of insults, denigration and buffoonery? The once mighty and proud nation of the US has turned into a parody with a bigot at the helm. Where oh where are those dignified, patriotic, republicans when you need them?
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At least Trump is consistent in his tirades against social liberalism and economic globalism while heaping praise at brutal authoritarianism and economic nationalism. It plays to his base’s make America white and right again. It’s the only tune he knows and sings it at every opportunity. The extent to which his tune continues to resonate with Americans is the extent to which we are irreparably changing ourselves and the world for the worse.
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It seems to me that Trump is becoming increasingly irrelevant at the international level. His behavior is actually beneficial to entities like the European Union, and to a soft Brexit.
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Trump simply cannot control himself. Remember 18 months ago when some pundits said that, once in office, Trump would behave differently. Others opined as to who was most likely to “control” him.
Neither of those things has or will ever happen.
If Trump were CEO of a publicly held corporation, its board and shareholders would vote to fire him.
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Once Mr. Trump gets done isolating us from the rest of the world, How do we Make America Great Again? What “made America great” was our natural resources, stolen from the natives, and exploited through slave labor. What do we do now that the rest of the world can’t do for themselves?
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What Donald "America-first" Trump wants to do is see goof-ball Boris Johnson become prime minister of a weakened Brittain then negotiate a trade deal with him to substiute America for Europe as Britain's main trading partner. The problem with that is Britain's service sector - finance, accounting, law, consulting - which is very strong, will lose its European connections and will find no replacement for the lost business in America, which is also strong in those areas.
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I hope a majority of voters in the US do the right thing come Nov./18. Also maybe about time more GOP members of both Houses of Congress now started seriously considering alternatives to the Trump Presidency.
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The Brits are making mistake after mistake after mistake. The first was Brexit, the next was Theresa May. The problem with May is that she has no vision for the country, only a sense of entitlement that she should be the leader of the British government, sort of a Margaret Thatcher complex. She reminds me of a short-lived Prime Minister we had in Canada for about 4 months in 1993, Kim Campbell, who replaced Brian Mulroney as prime minister then promptly leade her Progressiove Conservative party to the biggest federal election defeat in the history of the country, droppimg her party from a controlling 156 seats in Parliament to 2 seats. Theresa will be gone soon, and that will be good for Britain.
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Dont hold your breath on that.
Mr Trump. I'm afraid that tea with the Queen this afternoon has been cancelled. Her Majesty has suddenly and conveniently been struck down with bone spurs.
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London just has a giant baby blimp Trump. while we, unfortunately, have the real thing. All they have to do is let the gas out of theirs. Our remedy may be a bit more laborious.
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The USA has a President who handles international negotiations as he would buy or sell a hotel. And his thought processes are at the same mundane insignificant level. How much damage will he do before he is finally through?
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Why the surprise? Trump is predictable in this kind of behavior. But, who is he undermining May to? I suppose any endorsement of Trump at this point would be counterproductive for any politician in any sane country. Most recently he had made a fool of himself in the NATO meeting. That video with him rambling saying the same thing over and over again was insane, painful to watch but extremely funny in all of its absurdity (it looked like theatre of the absurd or a comedy). Who care what he says? It is painful watching some of these statesmen and leaders playing along and feeling cowed by the antics of this man/child. Pathetic.
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As I recall, Obama threatened the UK with possible punitive US reaction if Brexit were approved.
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Google is your friend, allowing you to discover whether or not your recollections are correct. I did you the favor of looking it up. Yours aren't. There were no threats from Obama. He simply stated that any post Brexit trade negotiations with the US would have lower priority than the ongoing negotiations with the EU. Question asked and answered straightforwardly and honestly by "low drama Obama". I don't recall seeing any protests marches or giant baby Obama balloons afterward. And I probably don't even have to look that up.
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Obame said “They are voicing an opinion about what the United States is going to do, I figured you might want to hear from the president of the United States what I think the United States is going to do.
“And on that matter, for example, I think it’s fair to say that maybe some point down the line there might be a UK-US trade agreement, but it’s not going to happen any time soon because our focus is in negotiating with a big bloc, the European Union, to get a trade agreement done”.
He added: “The UK is going to be in the back of the queue.”
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Donald Trump is everything that Putin could hope for. Destroy the alliance, disrupt our allies, insult our friends. This is beginning to border on treason.
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About London: “I think your mayor has done a terrible job, but when they make you feel unwelcome, why would I stay there?” Mr. Trump said.
Guess what Trump: you're not welcome in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Portland, Philadelphia... Should I go on?
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Welcome to the world of narcissism in charge. It is all about Me,Me and Me and Break Everything up so I look Powerful. Then Walk Away with everything in shambles.
How long will it take to for his base to wise up to this simplistic repeating pattern? I sincerely hope it’s soon.
There have been men in power before like this. Remember Ozymandias of Egypt? Read Shelley’s poem about the wrecked pedestal and the engraved words-
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works,ye Mighty,and despair!”
Nothing beside remains.Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Shelley had it right, even down to the “frown, wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command.”
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Words escape me. They are replaced by depression mixed with rage that our world order is being sacrificed to a cadre of voters who avoided education and climbing the economic ladder, who cling to a distorted memory of a time when the only truly free people were white males over 21. Trump rails against political correctness, hewing to rules and norms, but they are the only things keeping him in office. Vote in November, it may be your last chance.
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When this nightmare is over, the election of Trump will be recognized for what it is: the greatest triumph of espionage in history.
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My gosh, there is no limit to the damage this guy Trump can do. Yet, his base cheers him on.
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Trump did a devastating, country harming interview with a British newspaper and it was released today while he was having dinner with Theresa May. In Brussels, the first words out of his mouth at a breakfast for NATO members was more country harming rhetoric directed this time at Germany's Angela Merkel. He purposefully leveled attacks on two of the most powerful women in the world. And he's meeting the Queen at any moment. As a favor to the world, she might ask Donald Trump about his general insanity and obvious misogyny and then slap his face.
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Fortunately the Queen and the Brits have Meghan Markle to remind them that not all Americans are like Trump...
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I am not sure that a recommendation from DJT would have topped Boris’ wish list. Boris has made a career with his own brand of faux idiocy. Now, with friends like this, the UK electorate will wonder just how faux it really was.
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The blatant insanity of the president and the selective-ignorance of the GOP are clear to everyone. Apparently humanity is insanity.
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The Trump Doctrine = Make me bigger by making everyone else smaller.
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Nothing would make me happier than to see PM May tell Trump off.
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Is there any ally of ours that Trump hasn't criticized? He criticizes May. He criticizes Trudeau. He slams Germany. Yet he loves Putin. Everything now falls into place.
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There are no words to adequately express how ashamed I am of Trump.
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TREXIT: For crying out loud somebody get him out of there before he does even more damage, if that's possible!
From now on let him see the world through fox and friends in the comfort of his TV room at the White House. That would at least save us these public embarrassments.
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Suggested English response:
1. Kick all U.S. military personnel,USAF aircraft and US Army, US Navy equipment and/or support out of the UK until Trump leaves the Presidency or apologises smd pledges in writing to stay out of UK politics.
2. Adopt a two for one tariff policy with the U.S. until Trump promises to stay out of UK politics.
3. Recall the UK Ambassador from Washington DC.
4. Reinstitute Visa requirements and fees on Americans to enter the UK as long as Trump is in office.
5. Create a special entry processing fee for Americans, to be officially be named the TRUMP Tax and effective until Trump is no longer the US President.
6. Fly the Trump in a Diaper Balloon above Big Ben until Trump grows up or vacates the US Presidency.
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Between Congressional Republicans standing by quietly while Trump acts like a one man wrecking crew abroad, doing exactly what Russian interests would dictate, and yesterday’s outrageous spectacle of congressional Republicans trying to do everything they can to undermine the FBI and its investigation into very real evidence of Russian involvement in our election, does no one else feel like the entire Republican Party is complicit in what will someday be found to be treason?
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The republicans in congress are the only ones who can put a stop to this disaster of a presidency, yet they choose not to.
It is now up to the voters to make their voices heard this November.
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It would serve us right if other countries just stopped buying American products or doing business with American companies until American voters take responsibility for this embarrassment.
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The White House can't "walk back" Trump's comments. He has managed this week to insult the leaders of two important allies ( both women), theaten to dismantle important and longstanding relationships and generally wreak havoc wherever he goes. His "base" may be cheering, but the rest of us are cringing at this awful man who now represents our country.
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At least you've noticed.
Why does "being strong" equate to being militaristic? Why should we, or members of NATO, spend 4% of GDP on defense? I suppose there is a bogeyman threatening us -- Russia? Certainly not, says our respected president Must be the Muslims, Mexicans and Canadians then, right? Or maybe it's all those spinning European windmills -- let's all tilt at them.
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Maybe the Europeans should kick the US out of NATO. I am sure there are other powers ready to fill the vacuum left by the US. Trump is making the US much more irrelevant on the world stage. Other countries are starting to make alliances and deals without the US. Let's see how Trump supporters like this a little down the road.
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May be it is time several European leaders start questioning publicly and on a daily basis Donald Trump's capacity to act as President of the USA. May be even questioning his legitimacy? How would that play with Trump and his dogmatic followers? What if the world starts playing americans against americans, stoking the discontent within the USA? Would that be acceptable?
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It seems to be missed in general that Western Europe does not need the US for its defense. However, it makes perfect sense and seems fair to invest a bit more in our military capabilities to further support global military operations that are generally initiated by the US (in essence offense instead of defense). This logic however becomes problematic when the US President is unpredictable and gives strong signals that our interests may no longer be aligned. The strong Western alliances will survive the remaining years of his presidency but I am not sure if it would survive a re-election. I put my trust in the American people.
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Trump's idea of a trade deal is one that gives some advantage to the US. What kind of bilateral deal would he make with the UK post-Brexit?
I'm sure he did tell May just how to do it, but his ideas were ill-informed. The irony is that he probably helped build support for her.
The campaign for Brexit was based on lies and distortion. It was another case of people thinking something couldn't happen and not participating in the vote. Young people should take note.
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Just before the referendum on Brexit in 2016, Mr.Obama
visited UK in support to 'remain' and warned, leaving the EU would make UK to stand last in the queue and now Mr.Trump
wants the Brexit to be executed on ' Trump's term". Mrs.May has to act cleverly by using this golden opportunity to bring
Mr.Trump as the advisor on the Brexit deal with EU in the next Brexit session. If we are ready to accept the popular
"When USA sneezes UK will get cold", "UK and USA are two English speaking nations divided by Atlantic Ocean", UK and USA have special relationship",opinions of the world,now we could say that Mr Trump's ancestral lineage in Scotland and
Germany made him possessive of UK on Brexit with EU and Germany in its energy deal with Russia. But by looking at his
victory over the woman presidential candidate, Mrs.Clinton,
Mr.Trump's display of dominance on Mrs.Merkel of Germany and Mrs. May of UK is indirectly made Mr.Trump the leader of EU beyond NATO and eased the job of Mrs.May but the idea of 'American Union' in place of EU is slowly shaping for its incubation.Mr.Trump appears enigmatic by puzzling his critics but steadfastly earning credit for his second term. Handing over the Brexit to Mr.Trump would reach 'zero Brexit' and EU would continue with UK under the guidance of USA.
Just stop covering this buffoon. Period. Everyone everywhere knows what he is, and what he's going to do, so spare us the anger and embarrassment. I realize that this request will go nowhere, as due to the equal buffoonery on the part of nearly half the American electorate he currently occupies the presidency. But anyone wishing to watch the Big Show can tune in to it 24/7 on Fox. Leave the rest of us in peace. Enough is enough. You're giving him and his despicable base precisely what they want, and what he craves.
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Is there no way to stop this horrid character and his public insults? Somebody from his entourage should tell him the basics about behaviour!
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Trump is Putin's not so secret weapon. What Putin cannot accomplish militarily or by any other means, he does so diplomatically with the likes of Trump. It is not going so well, Puttie. Got any other ideas?
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Great to know that the he leaves town when he feels unwelcome. 'I think your mayor has done a terrible job, but when they make you feel unwelcome, why would I stay there?” Mr. Trump said, alluding to his decision to spend little time in London on this trip.' Keep up the protests in America and send the baby home.
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"I told the Queen how to make the monarchy more relevant but she didn't listen to me and did the opposite -- too bad for her"
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This is the first year that I just set up a recurring monthly donation to the DNC. Also I find it relaxing and cathartic after reading about the latest disgraceful thing Trump does or says by jumping on my local republican rep's website and telling him exactly what I think of Trump and those that support him. I also get a little tingle after making a donation to his mid-term democratic opponent when I email him letting him know. It's the small things in life that keep us going.
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What really bothers Trump is that his golf courses are not doing well. He, as usual, blames others, in this case the UK government, citizens, etc. Whenever I hear the GOP tell us that "businessmen make for efficient and good governance", I think of Trump and reject this. I hope the voters reject the GOP enablers of Trump on Nov 6. Reject all of them!
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I was reading the White Paper on Brexit last night and I actually laughed aloud at this bit,
"The new United States Administration, the world’s biggest economy, has said that they are interested in an early trade agreement with the UK."
partly because it carefully manages to not mention Trump by name but mostly for the idea of Trump's uninformed casual psuedo-promise solemnly repeated in an official document as if it were an undertaking that meant anything. Of course he's going to go hot and cold on a prospective trade agreement to reward and punish other leaders- that's how he uses anything he thinks of as leverage, whether it's important for the US or not.
To expect him to seriously negotiate a trade agreement just because it's obviously in the US's interests to have one is futile and that should have been obvious to May before she invited him. Enough people told her.
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One might ask why this nation's president consistently insults female politicians. One might also ask why his wife walked many steps behind him in a internationally broadcast ceremonial walk towards a meeting afterwhich he practcally declared the Prime Minister of the UK incompetent.
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No wonder The Sun got the interview with Trump, because it’s owned by Rupert Murdoch. The tabloid is a fierce eurosceptic and urged its readers to vote for Brexit.
That Trump heaped praise on Boris Johnson, saying he would make a “great” prime minister sounded like a death knell for Theresa May. Now he makes himself even more unpopular in Britain.
But Trump has once again scored points with Putin – to sow discord within the EU and create uncertainty in Britain. He was wrong about Theresa May doing “not what the people voted on.” Less than 52% may have voted to leave the EU, but most Britons want to remain in the single market. Meanwhile many have regretted casting their Leave votes.
It’s up to the Britons to forge their own destiny. The EU is closer and by far their biggest export market. Even if Theresa May or Boris Johnson would opt for a hard Brexit, dancing to Trump’s tune, there’s no guarantee that he woud give them a good trade deal. Much is uncertain about the state of the US economy, especially if he continues to wage a trade war against the rest of the world. Although the UK will be able to strike its own trade deals after March 29, 2019 - they won't be able to come into force until January 1, 2021. Besides, it takes years to conclude a deal.
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I finally discover what "Hard Brexit" means to its supporters in the UK.
We give up on foolish things like elections and let Donald Trump choose our prime minister for us. (The person who most loudly and frequently says nice things about Donald.)
We give up on allowing votes in our parliament and let a minority extreme wing of our right wing party run the government.
And we go like lambs to the slaughter bleating that this is "taking back our sovereignty".
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" . .made to feel unwelcome. ." So he did notice. I had assumed that the protective carapace surrounding him blocked all perception. He blindly assumes his right to interfere impertinently in our affairs, not as president but as the super business man. We all played that game when we were toddlers.
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In light of Trump’s misogynistic comments regarding her PM the Queen should cancel tea and expell him from her kingdom.
The British government should show their displeasure with his interference by recalling their ambassador from Washington.
It’s about time that the rest of the world join, God forbid, Russia and China and push back.
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The thing you're forgetting is that the UK can no longer afford to be choosy. Brexit has destroyed the country's future, so it's any port in a storm for us poor Brits. Trump will soon be history; we're lumbered with Brexit for good.
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It is important to note that many in the UK tried to officially bar Trump's entry TWICE. That has never happened to any leader of an ally nation, much less the the US. Even Britain's enemy, George Washington, was never considered for refusal of entry, during or after the War of Independence. Indeed, it is widely believed that Prince Harry didn't invite the heads of state to his wedding so that he wouldn't have to invite Trump. Harry did want to invite his friend, President Obama, but that would have resulted in awkwardly seating the Trumps and Obamas together. So instead of any political faux pas, he avoided all heads of state.
American diplomats love to label our enemies, "pariah states." And that's what we've become among our allies. From Trump's contentious phone calls with Australia and Mexico (where he begged the Mexican president to pay for his wall), to his ignorant berating of the G7 and NATO states, to unilaterally pulling out the the Paris Accords and Iran agreement, to moving our embassy to Jerusalem (remember that embarrassing UN vote?), etc, etc -- the US, once considered the nation others aspire to emulate, has become despised and mocked.
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It's not just our European leaders and Canada. Australia isn't too thrilled with Trump either. Remember that phone call where Trump allegedly hung up on the Australian prime minister after a contentious conversation? And needless to say, Mexico isn't too thrilled with us either. That phone call where Trump basically begged the Mexican president to play along with paying for the wall speaks volumes. As for our Asian allies, they're mostly silent because they need Trump to counteract N. Korean and Chinese aggression. But S. Korea was clearly unhappy with Trump's early saber rattling when they were attempting rapprochement with the North. And now, they're unsettled by Trump's cancelation of joint military exercises without consulting them. As for Japan, the Prime Minister exasperated face in that G7 photo says it all. And needless to say, a trade war with Japan is inevitable.
Trump is an absolute disaster and embarrassment.
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I guess it is too late to educate Mr Trump. I wonder what side channels european leaders (and Canada) use in the communication with the USA today. The man is completely irrational and it it impossible to make any meaningful agreements with him, you can’t communicate with him. You may not like it but if I was a US citizen I would see him as a serious threat to national security.
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Is he just losing it or does he know he's going down and is determined to wreak as much havoc, and undermine as many relationships as possible, on the way out?
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Yes and yes
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Trump may be a boor and a bully in these international meetings involving the G7, NATO, and Britain but make no mistake he is shaking up the Western democratic world to please Putin. He has been eager to do Putin's dirty work for a long time now (exactly how long is anyone's guess).
I also can't believe that there has been very little resistance politically and in the news media that he is soon to meet with Putin privately without any other US officials to witness the event. Can American politicians and the public really trust Mr. Trump enough to tell the truth afterwards? Can they really trust him enough to protect their interests when he has tried to tarnish (if not destroy) important historical alliances with other Western democracies? I think not.
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Not only is Putin scripting him, he's choreographing his every Pirouette and Piqué. Trump continues to visit insult on the world. His conduct is no longer even vaguely tolerable.
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It is clear that Trump is dangerous. Britain should seriously reconsider Brexit, remain with their European allies and unite against this “malevolent fool.” I am so ashamed of our impotent Congress. How could they have allowed such a rapid unraveling of our values and norms.
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Every time he leaves US soul, I cringe. It’s bad enough we elected this narcissist, now he goes out in the world on our behalf.
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He is probably right she is trying to cut a deal far different than what the public voted on because everyone in the press as well as the government know what is best for the country. The people got it wrong voting for Brexit just like our people were wrong on Vietnam.
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Wouldn’t it be a public service if America had it’s own ‘Brutus’ to help it rid itself of this ‘Caesar’?
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Fingers crossed, Robert Mueller may ultimately have the same effect.
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Mr. Trump continues to disgrace the great office he holds and the good people he represents. American voters will do the world a service if they vote in November for a legislative branch that curtails his impact or removes him from office.
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Agreed. And whatever one thinks of Prime Minister May, Trump’s comments are unacceptable. I hope the PM thinks twice about hitching her wagon to Trump’s mule.
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She should of taken my advice and stayed away from trump. If you look to him for help you are really in trouble as he is only out to make himself look good and will throw anyone under the bus.
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I assure you, this will not happen if Trump meets the new president of Mexico, Lopez Obrador. He will show Trump to the door at the first insult or laugh at him in his face--which is what Trump needs. Not playing along, or fidgeting or playing nice or getting angry, or putting on a poker face while he rants. Simply laugh when he spurts out any of his absurdities or provocations. Just tell him, you can't be serious, Mr. President. And laugh at him in his face. That's all it takes. Who can take this guy seriously? That also means, do not expect anything from him. He is unreliable. Everyone knows that. So there is little to lose anyway.
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"The White House went into damage control mode..." When are they not? It seems like a constant state.
This is just another instance of Trump man-'splaining to Britain and Germany's leaders how they are wrong (and should listen to daddy) and displaying how misogynistic, distorted and uninformed his reality is.
When this nightmare is over America owes the entire world a huge apology.
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Well, I am at least delighted that we managed to make Trump feel unwelcome in London. Hopefully he'll get the message as he travels round the rest of the country too.
As for the rest of his tirade, incredibly our politics really is in such a mess that a lot of Conservative MPs will leap with delight on a ignorant and arrogant outsider's self-serving criticism of their own leader. I have very little time for May but she does at least seem to realise that precipitately dropping our agricultural animal welfare and quality standards to indulge the US while as a consequence blocking our access to far now important EU markets is in the interest of no-one but a lot of big US businesses and their investors.
If 'no deal is better than a bad deal' with the EU it's surely even more true for a deal with the US.
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I have lived for many years in the UK and am very proud to see Britons taking to the streets to show Trump exactly what they think of him.
Also, I am not a big defender of the monarchy but after insulting Prime Minister May, the head of her majesty's government, and showing nothing but disdain for British values I agree that Trump meeting the Queen would cause great embarrassment and insult to her. The Queen should cancel the meeting to avoid becoming part of the Trump circus.
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“‘I would have done it much differently,’ Mr. Trump was quoted as saying. “I actually told Theresa May how to do it, but she didn’t listen to me.” Instead she went “the opposite way,” he said, and the results have been ‘very unfortunate.’”
The sheer, unmitigated gall of this fraud is astonishing.
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In February 2003 I marched with millions of my fellow Earthlings in protest of plans to invade Iraq. I still hold strong opinions on GW Bush cs but at no time did I feel something was irrevocably lost, even through all the myopic flag waving, declarations of "with us or against us", freedom fries and global polarization at the time.
Now it feels different. Is the US even an ally? The future of international aid, global politics, trade, the climate and the environment, the advocacy of human rights - it's now mostly a European (Union) thing. Trumps predictable, untrue and tiresome protestations on perceived unfair deals and slights to America will increasingly lead to the US simply being ignored while the world moves on.
It's simple: the world can't function with a mythomaniac trying to derail it. He can do a lot of damage in the mean time however: the last couple of days prove it.
Now nobody is in charge forever (but who knows, Trump might do away with pesky two-term rules) but to me something is broken in a way even Bush's illegal war couldn't manage.
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Perhaps Her Majesty might just take sick overnight and cancel the audience! I for one would not blame her.
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I know you won't take this personally, but your President really is a piece of work.
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The majority of us American voters agree.
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Pretty soon europe will lock the doors on him. None too soon.
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Trump has gotten out of all of his failed business deals by declaring bankruptcy and stiffing all the other participants. He doesn't seem to understand that doesn't work in the realm of international treaty obligations. May can't just unilaterally walk away from all of the obligations that the participants signed up for in the European union. This guy is truly incompetent.
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Teresa May's government is in shambles.
Trump knows everyone in the UK hates him.
He starts talking smack about Mrs. May.
It causes people to rise up in her defense.
Her government is not quite in so many shambles.
And this is how politics are played. It's not about speaking the truth, it's about saying the thing that will get people to act the way you want them to act.
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I am waiting to hear Her Majesty the Queen's statement on Trump, as I suspect he reminds her of a certain German elected conservative leader feted by her uncle and despised by her parents.
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So Trump wants to take down Britain AND the EU.
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No, it’s even simpler: Trump wants to own Britain - with resolve strengthened after a personalised viewing of Crown-jewel real estate. Ditto EU with other goals but same tactics.
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When de Gaule said "vive Québec libre" during a visit to Canada, Pierre Trudeau sent him back to France the next morning. May should end Trump's visit now and send him home.
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Still waiting for that Presidential pivot...and all the winning that I was told I would become so tired of.
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"The President's Brain is Missing: Years ago there was a TV comedy program. it didn't last very long
because some Americans didn't get the satire and
others thought it insulted the President.
Its time for another run. Something for FOX maybe!
I would recommend it to the two Texans who can't believe that the U.S. sold $792 million of dairy products to Canada in 2017 and Canada only sold $149 million of dairy to the U.S. The Texans still believe Mr Trump's tall tale about the 270% Canadian tariff on all U.S. dairy products.
More Dairy
My Mexican granddaughter loves two year old Tillamook Oregon cheddar.Yesterday she asked if I would buy some of the delicious cheese in the black package. I had to explain there wasn't any for sale at Costco Merida because of the 25% retaliatory tariff on cheese.
Try explaining Mr Trump's tariff wars to a ten year old.
Alas a comedian commented on NPR recently,
"Mr Trump is so over the top there isn't much left to make fun of."
Ancient Canadian writing from the centre of the Chicxulub Crater Yucatan
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Far away from the diplomatic niceties and protocols whichever country or the international fora Trump happens to visit, he appears less of a visiting state guest talking sense or the issues of common concern and looks more like a street bully insulting, accusing, or chastising the host leaders without any reason and provocation. The way he tried to meddle in the domestic polics of Britain, undercutting and beratting the British Prime Minister Theresa May on the explosive Brexit issue, and started preaching sermons was not only his way of fishing in the troubled waters of Britain but wholly uncalled for and unsolicited,which might unduly strain the US-Britain ties.
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Maybe the Queen will pull "a Putin" and bring her dogs to the meeting with Mr. Trump. The sight of her dogs barking at him would be priceless.
Once again, Congress is mute on Mr. Trump's ignorance & bad behavior. We need to change as many seats as possible - both Republicans & Democrats.
Instead of golfing in Scotland, Mr. Trump should go to Landstuhl to meet with the doctors & wounded soldiers. They can tell him how critical that base has been to the US military.
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This whole debacle has been carefully choreographed by none other than the man who has partially manipulated, partly unduly influenced British politics for decades, the owner of The Sun; Mr. Rupert Murdoch. He must now relish at his power to wreak havoc on the currently chaotic British political landscape.
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A national embarrassment and an international humiliation.
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When Obama made remarks in support of Brexit in 2016, Republicans were livid (https://www.spectator.com.au/2016/04/obamas-brexit-overreach-is-typical-....
Of course, when Trump makes remarks (which are insulting in every way), the timid Republicans are very quiet.
MAGA indeed.
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If we survive this fifth column attack by the GOP, and at this point that is not at all a certainty, it will take decades for the United States, reeling about like a Sunday morning drunk, unable to remember all the things we did last night, to regain any respect from the world community.
Thanks all your trumpsters and fellow travelers.
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Trump is out to break down world order so that criminals and thugs can expand power and attain easier rule by oligarchy. Trumps dream. Trump already is full of grandiose illusions of himself and Russian oligarchs who freely strive to insulate him. Reality is, it's all a criminal enterprise looking to expand on the world stage. Money is the only thing that counts and who controls wealth central.
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There are those who argue there is method to Trump's madness, but its clear he is becoming more and more unhinged
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So glad this President hasn't/isn't coming to Australia.
I guess that's why Australia is called "The Lucky Country"
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Another diplomatic failure, which cannot not be covered up by lies. The second stage may be characterized as humiliating for a sitting US president. Mayor Khan doesn't reportedly pay anything for over 100,000 protesters who faithfully repeated what the US had done against Trump's evil and pathetic separation of migrant children from their relatives. The fourth stage in Helsinki may be more shameful. Putin forced Trump to spend three days in the UK and Scotland before kotowing and/or handshaking, because the so-called "summit" is secondary to the World Cup in Moscow.
We may never know what Trump will behave at thjs "one-on-one" encounter, because he's a born-liar. The Singapore "One-on-One" with Quixotic Kim Jong-un was a typical diplomatic failure.
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I guess he must of sorted all the issues in the US, now he's putting the rest of the world right, what a guy!
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I was going to leave it at that but after Mr Trumps tirade in The Sun newspaper a few more words. He has done what I thought was impossible but this morning I have a great deal of sympathy for both the Queen and Mrs May. I may be old fashioned but I always imagined when you visited someone as their guest you showed them courtesy. Particularly when they have gone to enormous trouble at at great cost to the public purse. In my nine visits to the USA visiting most parts of the country I have always been struck by the politeness, courtesy and warmth I was offered by ordinary Americans. I honestly struggle to understand how his behaviour is tolerated. Its not about his political views he is entitled as President to do what he thinks is best for America its just about showing some basic human decency. It seems clear that Mr Trump has no time for democratic leaders particularly if they are women he prefers Autocrats like Putin, Erdoğan, Orbán and even Kim Jong-un. I apologise if I offend any of my American contacts but how would you feel if a visiting politician to the States attacked your President and mayor of Washington in such insulting terms
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Keith Lewis, I'm not offended by your comments but surely understand why the people of the U.K. are offended by Donald Trump. He offends me every single day. From America, I offer apologies to you and your fellow citizens.
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Actually, many Americans felt just as you describe when Netanyahu arrived spouting lies (with charts). The clear unconstitutional nature of the invitation was not highlighted. As with the prohibition on presidential remuneration, without a statute to break and enforce it's impossible to stop (thank you Federalist Society).
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@logan: you probably inherited quite a bit
of your ancestors' fighting spirit. so NOW is
the time to not just wake up but to GET UP
and do everything we possibly can to prevent
the dismantling of what's left of democracy
[not the one which condones FAKE FACTS],
as we hold certain TRUTHS to be self-evident.
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Chaos is all that Trump's after.
Be clear about this -- it's poison for us and for the world.
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The great destroyer has struck again. It`s almost laughable. Nothing more to say.
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After the 2008 Crunch the Queen famously said to some academics at the London School of Economics, "It's awful - Why did nobody notice it?" I'm sure she will, in her own impeccably polite way, let him know exactly what she thinks over tea this afternoon.
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Why does everyone bow and scrape to this man? It just feeds his ego and underwrites what he imagines himself to be – the American emperor. Last year’s spectacle of the President’s cabinet telling him what a privilege and blessing it is to work for him seems to have given him the expectation that this would be the status quo.
It strikes me that appeasement is what got the world into trouble almost a century ago – the world should have learned that lesson. The NASDAP advocated extreme nationalism as well as virulent anti-Semitism. What I see happening with this President – extreme US nationalism, openly ethnocentric and racist ideologies – are warning signs that he is heading in that direction. In light of Russia’s proven meddling last year, his rapprochement with Putin should be a red flag.
He is a black hole and we are rapidly approaching the event horizon.
We have to draw a line in the sand, and in the words of Gandalf “You shall not pass”!
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How is it that every time I watch President Trump speak, his words bear not the slightest resemblance to what is reported and discussed here? Such is the liberal delusion.
His words in the sun are printed here as he said them. What delusion? Just because he then says the opposite (which is also reported here)?
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The U.S. president is doing damage to the special relationship. Insulting the Prime Minister as incompetent whilst recommending her successor as she hosts him at a state function. The U.K. and the rest of the free world will not stand for fascism, racism or dictatorial interference in their elections, not even from the U.S and the elected leader of the free world. If the U.S. cannot find its moral compass and get back on track, the massive global response to the trade war Trump started will only be the beginning. We have been waiting for you to remove him from office since he arrived, impeachment etc., but no, instead we see a dictator caging babies and separating families in internment camps. This is not something we can fix, he's your President, you elected him. The only way out it would seem is to elect someone else. Please be quick about it.
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"The special relationship is better than ever. The British government has treated us very, very unfairly, but I have confidence in Theresa, who I like very much. We'll have to see how it turns out. I don't know. We probably won't be able to have a trade agreement, but, as you know, I favor British freedom from the terrible EU, which has treated us so badly. My friend Boris Johnson, he's a great friend, a great man, another Churchill, who knows? Would make a great prime minister, not that I advocate, you know, any changes, but we need to have the EU, I mean what's the point of the EU if we are treated like an enemy? I want to see free trade but fair trade. But relations with England, the UK, you know, have never been better, and with NATO, we want to stay in NATO, at least we do, for now, if, then what? I. Myself we would like to stay but if they don't want us, I mean, if they want NATO they need to pay up, of course, this is not an alliance, it's a protection racket and we're the saps..... [to be continued]"
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As much as I despise her politics, May is doing the right thing here.
Yes, we had a referendum. There were no questions about how “hard” or “soft” it should be, nothing about a “Norway deal”, nothing about the customs union and nothing about the Irish border. Leave campaigners all said different things - Johnson himself said we’d maintain full trade with the EU, Hanna talked of keeping the single market etc. And people substituted a clear, conclusive plan with emotions and rose-tinted visions. Many voted purely on immigration, others because they looked around their neglected, austerity-crippled, shutdown towns and thought “the status quo is not good enough, something, anything needs to change”.
Theresa May plotted a course for Hard Brexit. She instigated an election. The public sent her a message, she lost her majority.
Some talk about a US trade deal, but the public has issues with US agricultural standards and are concerned by the predatory US healthcare market. “Leaving” the EU - breaking entirely - would cripple the economy. It is our main market and main partner. We have joint programs on everything from pharmaceuticals to atomic energy. We would lose a lot of business and ordinary people would bear the brunt. The govt is very weak and Hard Brexiters and the Brexitpress are vowing to cripple their own govt to get their way.
Into all this delicacy and chaos - with the lives and wellbeing of ordinary people at stake, Trump has just driven a bulldozer.
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"Beauty and the beast".
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The Times is misrepresenting Trump’s words here. He clearly did not say they would not do a deal with Britain, he said they would not if Britain stayed in the EU because the deal would be with the EU!
Wow...each passing moment it becomes more and more clear to any one with a ounce of intelligence and basic critical thinking skills that a incredibly narcissistic sociopath leads the US. Sadly he had duped those within his base in that think he is doing something for them...the reality is that he is not capable of thinking of anyone outside of his own ego. No parent in their right mind would ever raise a child with this mans attributes. The question is not if the world will survive this man for four years...it is will US survive its cherished values engraved on Lincoln memorial beyond eight years of this autocrat?
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See! Trump does believe in foreign interference. Perhaps he likes Johnson because he thinks, with a name like Boris, he must be Russian. We know he has to be nice to Russians they've got something on him! Maybe he doesn't like Governments with a woman at the helm.
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A plea to the British people: Can you do your American friends a favor and keep Trump in England for a couple of years. If you do, we will owe you forever...
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No. If it was up to me, he’d have been dragged screaming from his bed by the SAS and thrown in the first plane out of the country the minute that interview dropped. Sorry, I know our friendship is important and I respect you all greatly, and it would have been good to accommodate your request - but it’s too big an ask.
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Yeah, give him an apartment in the Tower.
People need to calm down and understand any damage done by Trump will be quickly undone once he is out of office and sanity is restored. Trump is an anomaly which no other person can mimic. Only Trump can get away with being Trump-like as we see all across the electorate. History will note the Trump era as a horrible assault on democracy in which the world survived and came out stronger then ever. Thank God!
I feel we Americans owe the Brits a huge apology. We let out an ill mannered child who just soiled himself in public. He needs to return home to get his diapers changed and get grounded until he learns some manners.
But this is just my frustration. As others, my sorrow is that Trump is selling out America to Putin's kleptocracy. And this is OK with the Republicans in exchange for their corporate friendly tax bill and Trump's approval for their next election.
What a shame. I remember a country that was so admired overseas for its goodness. I know; I was a child in occupied Shanghai. We arrived in the US with official visas, but we were really just war refugees like those from Central America today.
As a child, growing up in America, I wondered what made America such a great place; I decided it was the wisdom and goodness of its leaders. But that was in the post war decades. Somewhere between then and now the caliber of our leaders hit the gutter. Will the next generation of Americans have to be refugees from a country gone rotten? Maybe, if Trump and Putin win.
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May's "deal" is irrelevant because EU will never ever agree to this deal! Free movement of EU citizens is a fundamental part of the free EU market, and this can never ever be negotiated away from any deal with Britain if they want access to the free EU market!
Brexit was all based on lies! They blamed workers from Poland even though the real problem is the labor laws in UK that allow greedy UK companies to pay extremely low salaries! UK is not a member in Schengen, so UK already have total control over their borders against immigration from non EU countries!
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Somebody will show him the back door soon.
I'm sorry about whatever caused Trump's ancestors to leave these shores. He is a comedian. Couldn't believe his new insults.
The British establishment does not take kindly to that kind of thing, but they're generally extremely polite. Looking forward to the next instalment. Putin is enjoying himself greatly, maybe Trump should consult clown Boris about him first. Boris has a very chaotic act, but is more intellligent.
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Can we lock our borders and keep him out when he tries to return? OR better yet, can we pay Putin to keep him and give him a job as his court jester? Trump would make a very good magician too -- in today's press conference, he boasted that yesterday he was very, very unhappy with NATO for not contributing enough but after scolding them , by today they had all fallen in line and agreed to pay and that made him very happy. Never mind that it's all a lie, a figment of his imagination... but his base will lap it up and that's all he cares about.
When will this cowardly Congress do something to keep him from inflicting more damage to our country and our standing in the world? Our allies have been gracious and patient in indulging him, the way one ignores a toddler's tantrums and misbehavior, but sooner or later they will have to put their foot down given the pressure from their own constituencies who can't stand Trump.
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Well of course Trump would like to see Boris Johnson as the British PM. Johnson is widely regarded as a self-serving buffoon in the UK, which makes him the British equivalent of Trump.
Wouldn't they have a fine old time patting each other on the back and saying what a good job they had done.
As for the Mayor of London being responsible for the level of terrorism in the city, Trump needs to take a crash course in the relationship between the government which overseas the security services such as MI5, MI6 and QCHQ, and the Mayor's office, which has partial control over the Metropolitan Police.
Oh, did the president just give his opinion on something he knows nothing about? I am gobsmacked.
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When is enough going to be enough? I feel powerless as a canadian to do anything about this nightmare.
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I suggest increasing your capacity to accept US expatriots.
The problem here is that the likely outcome will be another General Election and a true socialist Jeremy Corbyn winning.
Most amusingly this will undermine his UK Brexit supporters, poetic justice!
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Trump’s recommendation of Boris will ensure that he never becomes Prime Minister.
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The Queen ought to make a public statement condemning Trump’s rude interference. And ask him to leave.
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I find it quite galling to have a person of Trump's shallow intellect comment on how other nations' conduct their business.
He doesn't realize how ridiculous he appears in most Europeans' eyes.
I am thankfully, a dual citizen.
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Yep, I'm a dual citizen also (American-French)... if Trump does irreparable damage to the United States, at least I'll have an escape hatch.
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Let's hope other world leaders take a lesson from this. You shouldn't let a poisonous snake in the door, and then expect him to behave contrary to his nature.
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He seems to devote his most damaging attacks to women, both strong and vulnerable, and children.
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Trump's Rules of Diplomatic "Engagement":
1. Make "friends" first. Then proceed with the back-stabbing.
2. In the process, exploit every possible weakness.
3. Never regard friends or foes as equal, no matter who.
4. Talk trash! Tell lies, besmirch honor, desecrate dignities, and utterly disregard all order and precedent.
5. Never hesitate to downgrade all things that might be of value to others. Be unrelenting, and never let feelings interfere.
6. Always leave a trail scorched earth behind. Burn all bridges behind, and never stop to look back.
7. And when it all comes crashing down, proudly proclaim, "Truly! 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'"
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8. After verbally lashing into leaders, criticising them and hectoring them, tell the media; “We have a great relationship. Ten out of ten. They like me.”
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Trump must really like the idea of putting Jeremy Corbyn in charge. He's already gotten leftists elected in Mexico, South Korea, Malaysia and New Zealand while killing insurgent far-right movements in France and the Netherlands and scoring massive gains for Labour in the UK, boosting Justin Trudeau's popularity and nearly getting Turkey's dictator kicked out of office in an election rigged in his favor. Why does Trump love liberals so much? Why does he spend his time attacking conservatives like May, Merkel and Macron instead of promoting the political views of his own party? Makes you wonder if there's something fishy going on...
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the british guardian
puts djt's visit in perspective. looking back to 1918,
and woodrow wilson's visit to britain after WW I:
'Where Wilson spoke during his visit of his wish
to make right and justice the “controlling force of the world”,
Mr Trump arrives in 2018 as the vengeful tribune of might
and injustice.'
who, nowadays, can we SAFELY turn to and
rally behind to fulfill woodrow wilson's wish?
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@maxie: for as much as it hurts me to write this,
but why do you associate certain [undesirable]
political activities with putin only?
if i am not completely mistaken,
"murdering people, invading countries, interfering
in elections, stealing his own election" occurred
in and by the US of A more than once, didn't they?
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I have finally heard European leaders "correct" Trump's lying claims of success. I keep hoping that they will call him out politely on his lies and inaccuracies and confront his incredible rudeness by turning and walking out especially at press events. The TV cameras would follow them walking out and that alone would crush Trump and his need to be the childish centre of attention. His audience must be removed.
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As a Brit part of me is very happy to be out of the country to not witness this grotesque visit though part of me would like to be out on the streets protesting.
Accomplishments of his trip by blowing up May’s Brexit plans he has made the whole endeavour of Brexit look ridiculous (its success contingent on the whims of a toddler in offering a trade deal). With supporting Boris he has shown an affinity for those with as much diplomatic tact as him (keeping British citizens in jail through misspeaking and offending foreign governments with offensive remarks). Finally insulting the Mayor of London, is likely to boost Sadiq Khan’s popularity as most Londoners revile Trump and he has made him look even more principled and eloquent.
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The political situation in Britain made worse by Trump giving his open support for Boris Johnson a duplicate Trump. The present British prime minster running around trying to appease her base; whoever they are. Now she has offered her final proposal to the EU a very mixed bag. Trump may think he is the cats whiskers but in Europe the realization slowly dawning the US is in isolationist mode ready to wreck all treaties and goodwill. Its downhill from here.
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One can only hope that Her Majesty is suddenly "indisposed," and unfortunately has to cancel tea with Mr Trump.
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It shocks me that our Queen would agree to meet with this man. Or, for that matter, that any democratic world leader would actually seek a visit with him now, accompanied--as it inevitably will be--by mayhem and the undermining of their own government. Thought the UK had managed to dodge the Trump visit...'Sad'.
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The Queen is a professional and has met many leaders over the years, from saints to criminals. It’s all part of the protocol of diplomacy. She’ll smile, maybe a handshake, a few minutes of pleasantries, a photo - then Trump is whisked away.
Then she’ll wash the hand that was befouled, pour a large gin and read the results from the horse racing and wonder who she’ll be asked to meet next time.
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Theresa May condemned Trump's family separation policy. Trump's criticism of May and elevation of Boris is simply revenge. That's all.
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Just remember Donny, when it all starts goings sideways for you (and make no mistake, it will), why you then have no friends remaining at all.
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I repeat here my comment in response to yesterday's article about Trump's participation in the NATO meeting: Trump's attacks on Chancellor Merkel and Prime Minister May issue from naked misogyny. Donald Trump simply does not believe that women should be the leaders of nations.
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President Trump brings his Queens real estate style to the international diplomacy stage, We will soon have brand new, beautiful relationships with our former allies, and can look forward to very fair treatment. Aligning himself with his best buds Boris Johnson and Nigel Farrago is an excellent choice as these are formidable statesmen with lots of ideas. I'm sure Putin will give our president a dog biscuit or two and a pat on his head for his performance at NATO and in Britain.
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Donald Trump denigrates the position of President of The United States of America. To make statements regarding the internal politics of our sovereign state is not only undiplomatic but wholly unacceptable. People in glass houses should not throw stones. Sort your own domestic and foreign policies out before criticising and mocking ours. A frosty reception at Windsor awaits you, of that you can be assured.
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