“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
Sadly, we’re in the midst of an example of what Santayana meant by that statement.
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It's absurd for this man, who owns and operates businesses all over the world, who courts foreign leaders to help build his real estate empire, who has his products manufactured overseas, to lambast "globalization". It's absurd. He only look like an idiot on the international stage and makes America look like one too.
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Trump is living in the 19th century if he believes the future belongs to isolationists and nationalists who only care about their own self interests.
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For the first time I like a Trump speech! This speech has something that will anger everyone, including Trump’s strongest supporters, White Christians and the US Military. I especially like the nationalist theme of the speech, a speech given at an assembly of united nations and the talk about sovereignty from a country (the USA) that historically has never respected the sovereignty of any nation other than its own. Trump’s speech clearly shows his intelligence and leadership skill were learned and honed at an American Ivy League school.
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@Donald Matson u do realize he does not write the speech, only reads it, right? He doesn't mean a word he reads.
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Thank you for the analysis--but the problem I have with this story is that it suggests some level of coherence in the speech. As is typical, he clearly had a hard time even reading. His enunciation is off, he mispronounces words and uses words that are clearly wrong (or perhaps not even words). If anything Trump should be thanking some of the larger media organizations for portraying him as able to string together coherent sentences, which is clearly not the case if you simply watch any videos of his public speeches, whether with teleprompters or otherwise
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The irony of his attack on "globalist's" while standing behind the pulpit of the 'United Nations' is hilarious. Nevertheless, despite Trump's repulsive comments about nationalism and his utter disregard for the importance of global cooperation. He is right about Iran. I think it's time the the intelligent, radical youth of that state overthrew their dictator.
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Man, the speech sounds like he's parodying Alec Baldwin parodying Trump...
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This is like Canute trying to still the waves.
Trump’s speech at the UN was one of the worst ever... He basically telegraphed to America’s enemies, especially Iran - that America is becoming an isolationist nation and that America will no longer act to protect its allies and friends... That is “music” to the ears of America’s Adversaries and Enemies ! ... One should remember that this is the path that America took prior to WW I and WW II - when America thought it could wrap itself in the “cloth of isolationism” - only eventually having to fight a Worse War - “ Over There” ... For those who would try to be complacent, one should remember that “ 9/11” happened “ Over Here”...not “there” ... In an age when high precision “hypersonic missiles” could deliver atomic weapons in under 30 minutes ... In an age when “Terrorists” may eventual deliver radioactive or biological substances in hours.... In an age when our total electric power grid can be shut down in minutes ... In an age when the “Web” can be shut down in seconds .. In an age when the World’s Climate is changing for the worst ... there is no way ( no matter what Trump and his constituents think) that one can “build a WALL” high enough to isolate the US from the rest of the World.
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In Trump thoughts; the future belongs to dictator-ship.
This never is global, only national .
Impeachment is the right move
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Divergent world-views, underscored.
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"And he complained that a network of global elites had turned a blind eye to China’s behavior."
I wonder if Mr. Trump includes Ivanka Trump and Jarred Kushner and his family in this "network of global elites." After all it is Ivanka Trump who, using her connection with Mr. Trump, got approval from China for 16 trademarks (NYT article: "Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE", By Sui-Lee Wee; May 28, 2018). And it was Kushner's family that was selling a package deal to Chinese elites that included buying a pair of luxury apartment towers, built by the Kushner Companies in New Jersey, in exchange for connection to Trump administration and US visas (NYT article: "Kushner Companies Said to Be Under Investigation Over Visa Program", By J. Drucker, A. Goldman; Aug. 3, 2017).
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Trumps' s performance at the United Nations was devoid of meaning but filled with ominous bombastic words. His pathetic attempt to deliver a sober message belies his daily inflammatory and belittling tweets.
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In other words: the future is a dead end street.
Donald Trump's grandfather was a 16 year old barber's apprentice when he came to the United States in the late 19th century, because he knew he could soon be drafted into the German army. His grandfather made a small fortune operating saloons (and likely brothels) in the Pacific Northwest, both in the U.S. and Canada. When he wanted to return to Germany with his loot, he was turned back - because he was a criminal under German law, a draft dodger.
Thus was the American Trump 'aristocracy' and fortune born. As far as I am aware, since that time not one member of the Trump family has served in the military. Nor has one of them ever performed a hard day's labor, shoulder to shoulder with American workers.
We know Donald Trump avoided service with a trumped up 'medical deferment,' then bragged that he was a 'good soldier' because he stayed behind and endured the risks of unprotected sex -- while others died on the battlefield. Then he had the temerity to question the heroism of men like John McCain and attacked the parents of fallen soldiers, because they dared to disagree with him and question his bona fides.
The man is a willfully ignorant bully, a coward and a charlatan. The word 'patriotism' is tainted each time it spews from his mouth. He has not the slightest idea what the word means.
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He is an embarrassment. He struggles to read the words written by others, but revels at his rallies. Our country deserves better.
Let's hope the voters send a clear message to him and his cult.
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....says the man who has businesses in countries all over the world. "I'm not the globalist, you're the globalist!"
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Bring back those great VCR manufacturing jobs!
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Globalization benefits third world countries while hurting others. America First. Western Civilization first.
Virtually every country that has ever gone to war has done so by drumming up love of country.
And when those on the left use terms such as “globalists” and “cosmopolitans”, it’s code that is embraced by racists and anti-Semites.
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@Lawyermom That was supposed to be “those on the right”
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So just build the walls around the USA, Brazil, and Israel ..... and lock the doors from the outside.
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From the mouth of a globalist to a world that laughs at him.
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Well as an independent rep for 20 years, globalism certainly helped the luggage and accessory industry, that I represented.
Vendor after US vendor went out of business. Employees out of work. Now they don't go out to dinner, they do not buy cars, they don't buy houses etc
Whoops, union laborers despite the anti offshore argument still shopping at Walmart, it is cheap they say. And, oh no, we cannot pay more than 4% of our health care. You all should be embarrassed . Join the US rebuild people. Or be quiet
Globalism and individualism go together.
It is the anti-globalist who seeks to restrict what individuals and corporations can do across borders. It is the nationalist that demands obedience and often conformity from those in the same "nation".
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The US is in the top 3 by population, top in GDP and it is to its advantage to pick off other nations one by one, subjecting them to onerous and unfair trade conditions. The only way smaller nations can negotiate on equal powers with such a dominant nation is through rules based global organizations such as the WTO or by combining in alliances such as the EU.
Trump will strengthen global organizations by showing the US is prepared to trample over others to gain an advantage.
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Why was he given a chance to speak in the first place? Everything that comes out of his mouth is either a disaster or an embarrassment.
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If you are Russia, you want the US to be nationalist.
If you are president of the US, since World War II, you want our country to be the leader of the world (i.e. "globalist"). From a purely "nationalist" view point, that is good for the US.
And, that "globalist" vision rebuilt Europe and Japan after World War II, created a global economy under US leadership and made our country not only a global economic power, but in general a positive force on the planet for ideas of freedom (if not always being as "pure" to those principals abroad or at home).
The hypocrisy of this person who is currently president of the US is mind-blowing when he says "America First".
That
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Are we great again now that the UN General Assembly didn't laugh at him this time?
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I thought it was supposed to be a climate action meeting? No matter. From the excerpts I heard, Trump sounded troubled: distracted and medicated.
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Friedrich List was our "Founding Economist", an immigrant from Germany who had worn out his welcome back home. His economic theories criticized the city-state political economies popular in Europe at the time. He was not a Globalist, he was a Nationalist and spelled out his reasoning in his book about National Political Economy. He recognized the importance of technology to produce labor-saving devices, and the importance of (trains) cheap transportation of natural resources to manufacturing sites and the importance of cheap transportation for the distribution of finished products. He was very much in favor of national self-determination and preferred fair trade over free trade. He also was keenly aware of the national security problems that can arise from self-interested out-sourcing of technology and production to other countries.
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This speech will be the beginning of the end. It’s his last reach for legitimacy.
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Remember the last time nationalism dominated international politics?
73 million or more people in the world at the time never got the chance...
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Decent speech delivered calmly. Very presidential and with clear messages.
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Trump is the ultimate Globalist!
This just another sign of how far out of touch with reality Trump really is. We do live in a global world now whether we like it or not, so why not make the best of it and find collaborative world solutions to our problems. This short-sighted nationalism is a thing of the past and he is too.
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Yeah, well Trump tell that to your money-sucking millionaire pals who are busy exploiting poor countries around the planet of their oil, minerals.
Or they're busy hiding stolen loot in off shore islands or banks that only cater to the wealthy around the world to hide their millions from paying taxes.
Yeah Trump, globalism is not for you. Right!
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Yes, let’s swing all the way back to the mentality they gave us World Wars I and II. Over seven decades of relative peace is enough.
Sane people in this country must take back the government. We will if we can get an election without interference and with enough polling places for everyone.
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@TJ
Sane people would be great. Unfortunately, we need a majority.
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To understand this, lets start with the definition on how the term is understood in colloquial American English
"Globalist
A globalist is someone who believes that ultimately all borders and nations should be dissolved, resulting in one single world government. The motivations behind this ideology can be catagorised into political and economic motivations.
Support for globalism is strong among corporations and the super rich for a number of reasons:
1. The destruction or weakening of nation states would allow corporations to gain notably more power.
2. The movement of cheap labour from areas of low demand to areas of high demand would allow for wages to be kept low, along with providing a source of disposable labour.
3. It would allow the free movement of goods without tariffs and individual national laws.
Support for globalism also comes from neo-marxists because:
1. They believe that countries separate successful and unsuccessful people, doing away with borders would allow those who have not to take from those who have.
2. The idea that mass immigration would result in the destruction of ethnic groups which Neo-Marxists do not like. These ethnic groups include Europeans, Jews, and East Asians.
Left wing politicians also support globalism because mass immigration provides them with a reliable voting block (who very rarely if ever vote for right wing parties)."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Globalist
So it cuts both ways - from AOC to Trump
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International global corporations already rule.
@Woof Spot on. Thank you.
Alas, it is not the future but the past that has been the time of nationalists. We are all globalists, and must be, because the world is round, and the natural world doesn’t heed political borders or parties. What affects one eventually affects all- whether it is weather, climate change, or migrating refugees (often affected by the first two factors).His cries of patriotism will have us proudly marching -backwards.
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While the nationalism thread is nauseatingly disturbing, the repudiation of the Bush/Cheney doctrine is a refreshing relief. And though "globalism" is a misapplied term here, the WTO/NAFTA era worship of "free" trade has indeed exerted a religious pull, to the grave detriment of the environment, American workers and towns, and labor protections for workers in the developing world.
This speech actually could have been worse.
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Globalization began the first time someone crossed an ocean hundreds of years ago and it is something that cannot be stopped. One can only hope to influence and constrain it. By nationalizing, we simply constrain our influence. The United States should be leading and not retreating. Our current approach is the result of simple minds.
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First of all, it is a global economy. The fact that just today, Scotland approved another golf course for the Trump organization near the one he already has. They are going to decide on Thursday if they will approve 500 luxury homes. How does he think that he could tweet, if the device he uses wasn't made in Asia?
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trump has no idea what patriotism is. He has never exhibited it. trump is all about TV reality. Say/do whatever you need to raise ratings. trump is president to make us all realize how fragile our democracy is and how careful we must be to choose a leader who will keep it safe. Oh happy day - impeachment day.
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“The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations.”
Such a profound statement of fact coming from the emotionally compromised and intellectually challenged commander bone spur!
The liberal democracy of the last 70 years has kept the world safe from sovereign nationalism and the wars that accompany it. The next war will be a globally destructive nuclear targeted tree skimming drone war. There will be no winners.
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It seems that Trump is discrediting the very existence of peace-enabling institutions like the U.N. This appalling and dangerous narrowness is so contrary to the visions of Allied leaders at the end of WWII.
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This is just wrong. We are not going to solve the many problems facing us, especially climate change, without a whole earth or globalist philosophy.
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Trump is against globalism unless, of course, it benefits him personally.
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Trump could not be more wrong: just wait for the globalist blowback to right-wing nationalists ruining a number of countries right now. One other thing that Trump is absolutely wrong about: the future does NOT belong to him and his ilk. In 50 or 60 years, Trump will be nothing but a discarded footnote to history and a Trivial Pursuit answer to "Who is the worst president ever in American history?"
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Does this speech mean trump will be selling his business interests around the world? Perhaps he should not let international travelers stay in his US hotels so they do not contaminate his nationalist decor.
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I bet it sounded more authentic in the original German
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Nationalists are not going to address climate change.
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Patriots with foot ailments.
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It’s difficult to decide where to begin. Trump’s ignorance and disinterest makes all Americans look foolish. He knows Israel had no nationalism 70 years ago and still wouldn’t but for the global body. He understands that putin’s nuclear accidents and murders don’t stay behind some border wall. He’s just an incompetent dunce.
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Trump should not be welcomed at the United Nations. His advocacy is contrary to the UN Charter. There are provisions in the Charter to suspend or expel members.
If countries like the USA and Israel habitually ignore UN resolutions, violate UN established international laws and conventions, and reject the juridiction of the international courts, then they have no right to be welcomed at the UN.
What an embarrassment !!
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This is not a new Republican idea. After the First World war President Wilson went to France and got the League of Nations formed. When he came back to the U.S. Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge convinced his fellow Republican Senators to not support the League of Nations. The Peace Treaty and the League were not joined by the U.S. This was 1925, or there about. As a consequence, Hitler rose to power, Germany violated the Treaty, and in 1939 we got WW II. Way to go Republican isolationist Patriots. Of course Trump could not possibly know this history. It didn't make it into comic books.
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It’s a “dictator” if socialist, and say Latin.... but a “ally” if Saudi (never-mind the murder and repression of free speech)...
Right. Such blatant hypocrisy and inconsistency.
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A pitch for the glory of dictators and how he yearns to be America's first dictator with a display of his lying corrupt nature for all to see as he tried bullying the president of Ukraine t help him politically. I don't think 2020 G7 will not be at Trump's Doral Resort as many leaders would resent funding a lame duck.
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Pretty sure we had a war against nationalist fanatics 75 years ago and the nationalists lost. Get over it Mr. President.
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Our moronic so-called leader would like to escort us back to the dark ages. He sets up a false choice of globalism versus patriotism and what shines through most strongly is his rampant xenophobia.
Trump is the worst thing that has ever happened to the country. He must resign or he must be forcibly removed. But we must move past this sorry chapter in American history.
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He doesn't know what the world "globalist" means. He certainly doesn't know the meaning of "patriot." In his heart, the world belongs to grifters.
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It’s possible that what little remains of humanity’s future belongs to small-minded bigots. But that doesn’t mean we will accept it.
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Nationalism? Then he should send his first and third wives back to where they came from! Even better he should go back to the country from which his foreign born mother came from.
If he is such a patriot and against globalism....why does he maintain places of business in foreign countries and why did he ask the head of a foreign country for help to win the upcoming election?
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The opposite of "globalist" is not "patriot." It is "flat Earther."
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How dare this racist draft dodger say anything about patriotism.
I am a veteran and am stunned that any other veteran would vote for such a coward when, like me, they lost friends in combat while this pusillanimous excuse for a man stayed home spending his fathers millions
Truly stunning.
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Trump is the ultimate globalist.
That line “the future belongs with patriots” now that was a Helter Skelter moment huh
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"The future does not belong to globalists..." or Donald Trump
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The future belongs to globalists. Trump is a traitor with no authority to talk about patriotism.
To anyone paying a shred of attention the notion that the US military industrial complex does not have globalist intent is a howler of monumental proportions. You'd think the buffoon occupying the WH could come up with a better con.
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What idealistic rubbish....no doubt served up for his base. Becoming concerned about global matters is how we won WW I and WW II. Both of which my grandfathers took part in....
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This is simple. A patriot believes in the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Trump believes in neither. Trump believes he is the law. After all, Bill Barr told him so. Trump is no patriot. He is a fascist who dreams of dictatorial powers.
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Just that one statement about "the future belonging to patriots" is enough to prove Trump's idiocy. The ONLY future mankind has is one that recognizes that the earth is a single country with mankind its citizens.
"...Mr. Trump, who spoke in a flat monotone, stressed the value of national identity and argued that governments must defend their “history, culture and heritage." "The free world must embrace its national foundations,” Mr. Trump said. “It must not attempt to erase them or replace them.”"
How is it that Stephen Miller is so good at placing ideas in speeches that sound as if they came from the Third Reich?
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The future is for patriots, eh? The 9-11 terrorists considered themselves patriots. Trump is delusional.
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Does Trump even know what globalist means?
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Patriots don’t put American lives at risk for the Saudis who bankrolled and staffed 9/11, traitors do.
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Really, why didn't the mobster-in-chief skip the speech, go to the podium, give the rest of the world the middle finger, then step off the stage.
The United States may have the strongest economy, the biggest military but last time I checked, this planet is shared by many nations, many of them insulted by Trump thumbing his nose at rest of us.
For the sake of humanity and all things good, please escort this man out the back door of the White House and let's pretend none of this ever happened.
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Globalism is there to dictate as Climate Change is: unite to survive, barricade and die. Twenty years from now dire straits are beckoning. Wake up mankind and abort all selfish politicians.
He also said he believed in the rights of women, and our nation fights for the rights of women.. So, who really cares what Trump says, he is just a liar.
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That’s nice. This cretin shows up at the world’s leading international institution to assail the existence of international institutions.
Along the way, he employs white supremacist language like “we will not be replaced,” and fails to touch on the world’s greatest crisis, climate change.
Mr. Trump, you do not represent me or my views, and never will.
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Whoever the future belongs to, it won't be a sexual assaulting tax cheat whose only product is trust fund sycophants.
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We went from the well spoken and considered speeches of Barak Obama to that tripe. It's just embarrassing!
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Who's writing his speeches these days, Steve Bannon or Miller?
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The only great nation on earth is a donation (to charity). Trump and his ilk of chest-thumping xenophobes need to be put out to pasture.
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
Albert Einstein
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all you fools who like open borders and focus on foreign aid nations, need to reign yourselves in and focus on lifting up the lifestyles and health of your own citizens; it is called patriotism; but all you fools focus on spending billions for finding a cure for ebola when you should be focusing on finding a cure for cancer illnesses. These other nations have leaders that need to grow up and look after their own people instead of freeloading off our governments. You lot will probably get cancer and there won't be any cure for you because all you do gooders haven't an ounce of patriotism in you to better your own nation. Those nations are the way they are because of the people who live in them and it has nothing to do with colour but a lack of responsibility and lack of character. Mark my words , if USA couldn't provide for them economically if there was a war and USA wanted something back from them, they won't stay around to fight for their new country; they'll be the first boat out looking for some other nation that they can freeload off...
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SOUND THE ALRMS!!!!! The US has just taken another step closer to fascism. It’s the natural progression of Nationalism and nearly always results in widespread bloodshed when they inevitable pushback comes from those who aren’t xenophobes, bigots and racists. I have serious doubts if the US will still be a unified country in the next generation.
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Trump says whatever the Miller/Kushner/Netanyahu team wants him to say.
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Trump likes nationalism because it means white people, like him, are the only people he believes that are allowed any rights.
Nationalism really means autocratic rule, like when the Nazis took control of Germany and deemed everyone who was not white were to be gotten rid of by any means necessary. We see that happening here in the US right now.
Trump likes globalism only when it gives him and millionaires the islands and foreign banks a place to hide their stolen loot.
Trump likes globalism only when it favors him and other despots beliefs that poor countries are there for exploitation of their oil and other natural resources.
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Globalists are bad people? This is the age of patriots? This from the man who has tried to get his hotels into every part of the world, and then proceeds to interfere in those countries who refuse him or don't tow the Donald Trump line. Just ask the Phillipines, Scotland, Panama, and many others.
Those who believe what Trump says, as he changes & backflips his spiel almost daily, are really just plain stupid. So look in the mirror & ask yourself if you are a Trump believer, or you have a brain.
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Trump is such a hypocrite. Bashing “globalists” when he is clearly one. Maga hats made in China, clothing made in sweatshops in Asia, Trump real estate interests in Scotland, Ireland, India, etc... and oh, he so wants a real estate deal in Russia! And the “nationalist in chief” needs help from foreign governments and billionaires to even win the presidency. The only thing we know for certain is that Trump is a liar, cheat and an unindicted co-conspirator.
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If it walks like a fascist, looks like a fascist, and 'quacks' like a fascist it's a fascist. Save democracy. Vote in 2020.
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Dictator speech. Using propaganda lingo. Good lord this guy is so transparent. A twittering buffoon.
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Eerily sounds like Nazis singing "the future belongs to me." Trump should find a small spot, have MBS build him a little castle and assure him Trump is the only one who matters. Sadly. Trump has the power to cook the world and ensure that nothing anywhere will matter.
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How ironic that the traitor in chief fancies himself a patriot!
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As it turns out we live on a relatively small planet the livability of which is threatened in a variety of ways. In the long run we can either embrace a spirit of cooperation or risk inevitable conflict, epidemics, famine and even eventual uninhabitability. Trump in his infinite wisdom has chosen the latter course.
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I hope the rest of the world knows that the majority of Americans are as appalled by Trump's comments as they are.
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Trump obviously does not believe in a rules-based society. So what on earth is he doing giving a lecture at the United Nations.
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Every time trump addresses the UN, he makes the US smaller. He shrivels the high place in the world that the US established during the 20th century. He bashes our allies, he threatens our strategic partnerships, he diminishes our standing in the world.
Without another day in office, trump will be the worst president in history, and I only hope he is removed, by impeachment or defeat, before he does more harm to American democracy.
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If we are to make the world a better place—especially with regard to climate change—then we need to adopt the long term view with a globalist perspective. I firmly believe it is inevitable... and necessary.
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The President of the United States just condoned white nationalism in front of the world.
"But Mr. Trump, who spoke in an unusually flat monotone as he read from a teleprompter, stressed the value of national identity and argued that governments must defend their “history, culture and heritage.”
Congrats to Putin and others. Your job here is done.
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Let's stick out heads in the sand and ignore the world around us - NOT! For crying out loud, the United States is the leading country in this world. Let's act like it.
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@Doug We have ceased leading when it comes to the future of the planet. Lowered fuel standards, drilling in the arctic, cozy with the Saudis,"beautiful coal" Trump seems determined to have America burn more hydrocarbons.This is simply depraved.
I am old enough to remember my relatives talking about WWII and the abstemiousness Americans bore for the war effort. I heard about gas rationing cards, and the admonition, "is this trip really necessary." Decades ago, Jimmy Carter declared that environmentalism should galvanize us as the "moral equivalent of war" a philosophical term. Alas, our economy, and society, continue to be defined by consumption. This idiot president fiddles while the planet literally burns.
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One thing's for certain: Cadet Bone Spurs, for whom avoiding STDs at Studio 54 was his "personal Vietnam" is no patriot. But with business dealings (or failed/attempted projects) in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, South Korea, St. Martin, St. Vincent, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Uruguay -- he definitely fits the definition of a globalist.
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This guy is on a fishing expedition with two hooks. His first hook is baited with defending borders. The economy is global, and the US was one of the first to sell the manufacturing birth-right to the lowest bidder. it is called the global supply chain. That is what businesses do and there is no way around that.
The other hook is baited with peace.By nature, this president does things by the back door. He does not show his cards with violence.But he has constantly and bombastically insulted the most precious allies of the US. leaving them little choice but to reenter the world of the imperial games of the past. The president is a US supremicist, and that is why he can preach isolationism, the better to pit other nations against each other.
Being an amoral individualist, and not a dignified president, the fish he wants to hook is the Nobel Peace Prize. The Swedish Academy is too civilized to even even look at a nomination.
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“If you want freedom, take pride in your country. If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty. And if you want peace, love your nation,” Mr. Trump said...
None of that or what followed makes a lick of sense.
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That he feels a need to say it shows that the time of the nationalists is passing.
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Wrong, the future belongs to those who care for the planet more than for their nationality.
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Says the guy who was and probably is still trying to build Trump Tower Moscow.
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The reason why we are piggy in the middle with Saudi Arabia and Iran is because of globalist policy.
This just points out the utter incompetence of a basic foreign policy.
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“The free world must embrace its national foundations. It must not attempt to erase them or replace them.” Yes, he really said that -- a veritable tribute and salute to the white nationalists who chanted "you will not replace us" in Charlotte
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As the song goes, “Tomorrow belongs to me”.
While this is despicable, like almost everything else Trump says, world leaders have figured out a long time ago that Trump’s word is meaningless.
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Like no other Presidential race in my lifetime, and maybe in our history, we are going to need a President work during foreign policy chops, or at least instincts, to clean up after this Bozo, and right the ship.
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Trump is as ignorant of history, including why and how the United Nations Organization was founded, as he is of everything else in his narcissistic focus on his own aggrandizement. Posing as a champion of nationalism and barely disguised racial and cultural chauvinism is old - Hitler and Mussolini were exemplars (their racial and chauvinistic lunacy was open), as also the militarists of Japan in the 1930s and '40s. That path led to an estimated 60 million deaths in World War II. The U.N. was founded not as a gallery for nationalist leaders like Trump to preen and pontificate on the future of his brand of populist rabble rousing, but to address the weakness in global institutions which had contributed to the war.
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It sounds like Steve Bannon phoned this speech in.
Trump owns property in Ireland, Scotland, Turkey, the Phillipines, and in various parts not the world. Is it only his religion that prevents him from being labeled a globalist?
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@JeffreyHF
Nah; this stinks of Steven Miller.
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It is crazy to believe that Republicans would accept foreign nations actively participating in our elections, or for Democrats in turn to ask for help from a foreign nation to defeat Trump. If you are anti-global, then you must be anti-global interference in our elections. Impeach Trump!
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How 19th century of him.
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If globalism is so wrong, Mr. Trump, why do you own businesses in foreign countries? If globalism is wrong, Mr. Trump, why do you borrow money from foreign banks? If globalism is so wrong, Mr.
Trump, why are you doing business in or with any country but America? As usual, Mr. Trump, you say one thing but you're actions prove you to be nothing short of a liar.
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When nearly every human activity from commerce and finance to pollution takes place on a planetary scale, to implicitly accuse anyone with a global perspective of being unpatriotic is both vile and stupid. Certainly, in matters of the environment, including climate change, the only patriotic thing to do is to urge for a globally coordinated approach: it is in the self-interest of every nation to rescue the biosphere within which all nations reside.
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trump's idea of patriots are rich people, epecially very rich people. everyone else, except his "solidiers" are a problem to be swept aside.
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So, Trump moans in a tweet how Democrats, in announcing a formal impeachment inquiry, ignored the significance of activities at the United Nations. As if the UN matters to him. He used that venue to trash global cooperation and stir white supremacists’ fear of having their national identities stolen. He viciously mocked a climate activist who knows in her 16-year old core this is one planet. His base loves it. Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching for his re-election campaign. The nightmare continues.
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Emperor Trump is a super-globalist himself --- but only if he can be the 'Emperor of the World'
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Wait? Aren't Donald and Ivanka's products made overseas?
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Small mind, small ideas, small future.
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Patriots don't collude with enemy governments and fake medical conditions to avoid serving their nation, Donny, so....
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Sad day in history for the US, once a global leader now a global disgrace.
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Mr. Trump, you have not cherished your country -- you have betrayed it and disgraced it. You have not cherished our heritage -- you have vandalized it, mocked it, prostituted it for personal greed. If you are a patriot why do you fold before Putin and seek the help of Ukraine in order to be re-elected?
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@Sunspot Exactly. And coming from Concord--the heart and soul of America--home to its greatest writers and thinkers in the formative years of the 19th century.
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Wouldn't globalists include the man who owns hotels all around the world and hires cheap, undocumented labor from foreign countries to work at his golf courses?
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I presume this means that President Trump is out of the running for a Nobel Peace Award?
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@bigbert80 But maybe, an ignoble piece award would be appropriate, we think.
Trump believes in globalism for billionaires like himself only, not for proletarian riff raff, he's a hypocrite and wannabe tyrant, a fascist anti-democrat.
His speech was for his troglodyte enablers in Washington, Wall Street and those dictators in his favored tyrannies overseas. It was also for our homegrown perpetrators of perpetual warfare and arms sales that stoke global and domestic conflict for their own profit, selling mayhem via Eisenhower's 60 years old and warned about bipartisan military industrial complex, the same one that swept Tulsi Gabbard out of Democratic primary contention.
Trump was speaking to his enablers and his misguided base, cynical people who believe in tyranny or willfully ignorant people who can't or are afraid to think for themselves and who fear free and fair democracies comprised of a brown, black and Asian majority; it was all about the theft of rights and freedoms from the impecunious masses at home and abroad. His speech was an American disgrace.
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It is only a shame that they didn't laugh out loud, again, at this disjointed, self-contradictory piece of drivel--both the man and the speech.
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The future does not belong to Donald Trump.
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"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king." - Bob Dylan
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Is the UN obsolete?
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Gobalism means exporting all your illegals and undesirables who are a liability on your nation, into a western world developed nation, whilst lowering the poor in that nations lifestyles to cater for the lifestyles of the economic immigrants and refugees who can't get free welfare and universal hospital care and pensions in their own nations. Globalism is being abused worldwide to dump all the undesirable liabilities of the world into our nations and creating stress on your own citizens. The modern day western developed world has enough stresses and problems of it's own without importing people who add to that problem.
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Sounds like he didn't know where he was speaking!
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Gee, shades of early 1930's speeches in Europe.
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Today trump (and by extension, his weaselly aide/speechwriter Miller) can be forgiven the irony when they say “those days are over”, as they can’t seem to see what is really about to end.
Their cynical, hate-filled government is about to get the boot.
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The day may come when this Administration would make an attempt to seize the land of the UN Headquarters for "development".
Waiting for that tweet.
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Trump’s flagrant celebration of extreme nationalism ignores the history of the Twentieth Century in which extreme national rivalries led to the catastrophes of two World Wars. In an ever shrinking world there is now an ever greater need for global cooperation in dealing with existential threats of climate change and environmental degradation. Trump’s nationalism will divert the world’s attention from urgently dealing with these crises and accelerate national rivalries increasing the possibilities of conflict and war.
It violates the spirit that led to the creation of the United Nations and the extraordinary vision of President Roosevelt of the role of a global institution
in promoting peace and prosperity for all humanity. In contrast to Trump, President Roosevelt eloquently
advocated globalism and the universality of mankind.
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to
the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.
These words are more true and pertinent now than ever and need to be followed and heeded.
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@IN "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
- Albert Einstein
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; Nationalism is when the hate of people other than your own comes first." George Orwell and Charles De Gaulle.
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Let me see if I understand this: Donald J. Trump, whose entire business model is predicated on slapping his name on as many buildings as possible around the world, is not a globalist? Tell me again what it means to be a “globalist?”
Donald J. Trump, whose signature Trump Tower in Manhattan was built by foreign laborers using Chinese steel, and whose MAGA merchandise is manufactured in China, and whose tariff wars are hurting American manufacturers and consumers is somehow a populist? Tell me again what it means to be a “populist?”
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@Scott Fordin Here’s the scary thing: Trump is a prophet to his followers. He has promised them a return to the promised land, the land of their birthright. They will follow him despite all contradictions, because he promises a land of milk and honey that no one else offers. And to get there, all they have to do is believe in him. He’ll take care of the rest. That makes Trump a very special kind of populist. Very special indeed.
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PATRIOTS? I just commented on John Yoo's "don't damage the presidency" screed. No need to read that since he justified torture and so damaged the presidency forever.
Likewise, no need to read Trump's justification for white supremacy.
The only good news today is that Nancy Pelosi finally decided that Trump needs to be impeached. Now the question is how many articles they can bring, and how many crimes that rip off ordinary Americans they can expose through their hearings. It's already clear that the Republican Senate led by .... will whitewash everything.
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Not so fast DJT, the archetype of a direct beneficiary of globalization. If not for the network of world banks how would DJT repatriate the (slim) profits of your resorts? If not for global communications how would DJT family manage business activities on every continent but Africa?
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“America’s goal is not to go with these endless wars, wars that never end..."
Odds are Trump wrote this speech himself.
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How is it not globalism to use another country's leader to attack your political opponent at home?
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The future does not belong to old white guys who think they own the planet.
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Trump talks a lot of patriotism, "America First" and so on, while he at the same time try to befriend countries like Russia, North Korea, Poland, Brazil, Australia, and the Philippines. Countries that are either a dictatorship or lead by a strong far-right-wing government. He tried hard with China also, but that failed.
So what is he really after? The way he constantly attacks Europe and the free press suggest that his primary target is democracy, but what's next on his and the Republicans agenda? Or will they be satisfied when democracy lays in ashes?
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As with absolutely every other subject, Trump is completely wrong on this. The future belongs to globalists.
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Globalism helped us to live in peace as never before. We know well the consequences of nationalism.
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The major world issues require concerted global action. They transcend the boundaries of nation states. The list includes climate change, migration, technology, science, trade, arms control,peace, terrorism, health, and more. For Trump to praise nationalism--white or otherwise--at the iinternational institution created to save succeeding generations from the sourge of war is worthy of condemnation. Trump's UNGA speech will soon be eclipsed by other events, such as impeachment, but it should still be condemned in all of its historical ignorance.
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There goes Climate Change efforts. Of the potential models going forward, the one he is leading us down is of competing interests, not working together.
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Right now, the future belongs to multinational tech giants, but don't tell Trump, he is reliving the 80's.
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In that case, Trump, expect Iran and China to continue watching out for their own interests, and for the US to have problems enlisting partners in dealing with them, unless their interests really align with ours - and NOT out of loyalty or alliances.
In fact, I was wondering why the UN is still based in the US, given the hostile attitude of so many of its citizens towards it. There is a perfectly suitable UN headquarters in Switzerland, a historically ‘neutral’ nation.
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@ml : Yes why is the UN still based in New York USA ? New York city and the USA could encourage the UN to move out of NYC ,USA by taken away the UN's parking spaces on NYC's streets. The people of NYC need them. Once they they are returned to NYC people the UN officials will be happy to move to Switzerland or London or Moscow !
"... the speech reaffirmed Mr. Trump’s belief in the ideas of nationalism and sovereignty"
Okay, hold it right there. Who says those are Trump's beliefs and not those of someone like Stephen Miller? Do we really know what Trump believes, considering he'll say just about anything to look good, especially to his base?
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Agreed. Stephen Miller is probably the mastermind behind most of Trump’s “policies”.
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@Andre Hoogeveen That doesn't really matter. I don't think Trump wrote that speech, but he gave it. And once he spoke the words, he owns it.
Steven Miller is a psychotic who hates "the other". His own relatives have been quoted in this newspaper as calling him a hypocrite.
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@Andre Hoogeveen : May be so that " Steve Miller is the mastermind behind most of Trump's policies" However if I were Steve Miller my main plan is to be sure I have a place to go when Trump does not agree with me and I find it out on Twitter or TV networks or the internet that I am out of work. History does repeat itself. Steve should that. It happened to his boss!
The free world, and perhaps some of the not-so-free world had low expectations for any sign of resumption of a US leadership role in world events. And dutifully Trump delivered none, but worse, he emphasized a US policy of further reclusiveness by denigrating international institutions and raising the banner of nationalism and its inward looking focus and the selfish benefits it entails. He basically implied that the Europeans and Saudis should largely fend for themselves, and having the audacity to ignore that the Iran problem is his own doing. Trump is blind to the fact, or willfully dismissive, that the international order is in disarray, with problems ranging from trade, migrations, loss of democratic institutions, health issues, hunger and, aggravating these issues, climate change, which he still thinks as being a hoax. Solutions require international cooperation, leadership and vision, none of which Trump is capable of offering. He missed a great, and hopefully final opportunity, to elevate his practically nonexistent reputation, perhaps because he thinks he is already the most accomplished US president.
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History says the future belongs to globalism, it is inevitable for example climate change can only be tackled through this approach.
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@Kevin Niall : Thanks Kevin. Wow when the UN rules the world we will all be safe happy with all the goods and benefits provided by the UN( health care good and equal pay world peace etc) Also the end to global climate change.
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Globalism has some positive points
but basically it just makes it possible for the Elites
to move their monies anywhere they want and then
their businesses to wherever the labor is the cheapest.
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@John Brown They've been doing that for centuries, long before the concept of globalism arose.
@John Brown
Nationalism has some good points, I’m told...
But basically nationalism allows the citizens of that nation to bury their head deeper in the sand, fosters a “you’re either with
us or against us” attitude, creates a cynical and fearful citizenry that eagerly gets involved in more and more conflicts with those who are not “us.”
Meanwhile, the rich and powerful move their money around the world playing shell games, supporting dictators and despots, exploiting labor forces and natural resources around the globe, and encouraging more and more nationalism (i.e., fear and anger towards everyone “who ain’t us”) at home so they can sell more and more weapons.
This is trump’s “vision” for the United States.
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Trump told world leaders that “The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots.” Someone should have told Trump’s speech writers that Trump is, and always will be, a globalist. On second thought, maybe Trump’s supporters need to be educated in the disconnect between what makes Trump go and the MAGA, so called, patriots.
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The rejection of the post WW II order that gave us relative peace for 70 years in favor of the very ideas that gave rise to the two world wars and 100,000,000 dead shows an ignorance of history that is beyond imagination. That alone speaks to the need for Trump’s defeat however accomplished: conviction or election defeat.
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@Lawrence Silverman
That order collapsed along with the USSR.
In addition, it’s was the brutal push of the rich for globalization that resulted in diminished standards of leaving for he working class in the US and therefore its rejection and the embrace of nationalism.
Trump is not the reason, just the result. Look into the intellectual elites who promoted globalization for the reason.
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Wonder if the hundreds of thousands of farmers and export-oriented factory workers who blindly support him have any idea what his attack on globalism will mean for them? Sadly, the angry tribalism of those he fondly describes as "the poorly educated*"overshadows even their economic self-interest.
*I love the poorly educated."
-Donald Trump, Feb 26, 2016
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@Rick Cowan Trump is a product of poor education.
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Why are globalism and patriotism opposed? They are certainly not opposites.
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Just curious. Why the scare quotes around "socialist" Venezuela? Are you implying that Venezuela is not socialist? If not, what is it? Is it communist, capitalist, something else? I know it is basically a brutish dictatorship but name me one socialist/communist country that isn't (and don't bring up all the Nordic countries, they are very much capitalist but with a strong safety net).
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@somebody, the quotes may imply that Venezuela's socialism isn't the salient feature of its predicament. Trump throws around the word "socialism" to create a false dichotomy: "if you're not with me, you're 'socialist' and look where that got Venezuela?!" Does anyone think corporatist Dems are in any danger if leading America towards socialism? The answer is yes, but only those Republicans who've so thoroughly lost their way that they see a connection between today's populist radical GOP and its once conservative pre-Goldwater shadow.
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@Somebody Venezuela identifies as a federal presidential republic. I'm no expert on their government, but even if the elected officials act like socialists in nearly every way, the quotes seem appropriate to me. Reporters might describe the socialist activities in the country at length (and they have), but straight-up labeling the country something it technically isn't would not be appropriate in a news story with integrity. Subtle distinctions like this are important - in the "real" news world, that is - and this aging American is very afraid that in a few short decades thoughtful and nuanced writing has been scorned and trampled by a public that increasingly seems to crave glittering generalities and strong opinions. Fodder for the lazy-minded, if you will. And no, I do not work for the Times and I am not a journalist myself.
Given that the House has now opened formal impeachment proceedings the future may not belong to Trump, either.
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The future does not belong to globalists from the man who is willing to send US troops to defend "the global oil supply" attacked in SA.
How divorced from reality can one be? The global branding of Trump Inc. The global supply chain disrupted by trade tariffs.
Trump can deny the global nature of our governments and societies just like he does climate change (also global) but that won't make his nationalism any more viable or sustainable.
The US is just too much. Global power, money and influence.
Climate change will be a major contributor of serious economic decline in areas around the globe. Trump doesn't want to deal with that and neither do the 1%. The nationalist movements are throwing up the walls in advance of such disruption and migration of peoples.
A selfish and stunted vision for the future.
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@Elizabeth in the face of global warming, nationalism will be both the explosive and the spark that detonates it.
The USA should be nurturing it's own poor citizens and not all the international freeloaders who want foreign aid and add to the USA's problems, stresses, and infrastructure problems.
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@CK
I agree that this nation should be judged by how well the poorest are treated. Not how well the richest live. No-one is truly free till all are free.
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Ugh, do you look at the actual numbers? The amount of money we have historically spent on foreign aid is a minute portion of our budget. Which freeloaders do you prefer instead? The petroleum companies? The military arms manufacturers? Or, the poor rural states who depend on blue state taxes?
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@CK. Sorry....too busy with tax cuts for the wealthiest and cuts to any social safety net for those in need.
Meanwhile, Trump reaches out globally for countries to sabotage our electoral process, and, thus, our democracy.
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If National sovereignty is of utmost importance, then why was Trump trying to buy Greenland? Where is the respect due to the nation of Crimea, which Russia annexed?
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Actually, the future doesn't belong to the "patriots," it belongs to the globalists.
If American patriots want to serve America, they will have to join in common cause with the rest of the planet or be left behind. The existential problems the global population faces are too daunting for any country to deny. We're all in it together.
Sometimes I think we need an alien invasion from outer space. Apparently that's what it'll take to unite Earthlings.
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Every person in that room should have gotten up and walked out. Sitting there gives him power. Take it back - walk out.
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OK, so if Trump doesn't want us to be globalists, why does he want to spend ... well, $760 billion now, but a trillion would really arouse his personal desires... on military?
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Trump's thinking is from 1885. All our problems are global problems that need global solutions.
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"The future belongs to patriots" sounds like something good old Germany would have said in the 30's and 40's.
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It is incredibly concerning that the President of a nation founded on immigration and international cooperation has so loudly denounced globalism. The President has continually demonstrated he has no regard for others or issues that don't directly benefit him but to announce this on such a global stage is a national embarrassment.
Also, the irony of making such a statement to the United Nations, an organization serving to increase globalization, is no doubt lost on Trump.
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Even if he took the four minutes to listen to what Greta Thunberg had to say, he lacks the acuity to comprehend it. The statement that the U.S. rejects globalism in favor of his brute nationalism, in this context, is as much as saying that nations will, and should, in the end fight to the death over increasingly scarce resources (instead of collaborating globally to conserve them, distribute them equably, and use them sustainably). The U.S., in his simplistic, bloody-minded imagining, may win that fight in the near term. But ultimately we all -- now and subsequent generations -- will lose the "war" because we will lose the planet as we know it, our only home.
Maybe this vile and ignorant worldview, elevated as it is now to a position of such power, really does help wake us up and turn the tide -- yes -- globally. The climate strikes on Friday and all the widely broadcast speeches of angry, grieving, clear-eyed young people does give me hope.
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It's funny, it seems like many of us don't even care what Trump said in his UN speech because a) We are caught up in his scandals and b) We don't believe a word he says. Remember last year when he basically said his was the greatest US gov't of all time and everyone in the UN hall laughed?
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I was watching this for a little while, and at first Trump was saying innocuous things , but then started saying that the US believes this and the US believes that, when it is Trump who believes them, not the people and not the law. Take for instance, abortion. it is allowed by law, but Trump stated that America is against it. I finally changed the channel when he started speaking to the assembled world leaders as if to a child. Pitiful and shameful. A terrible representative fo our country. No respect.
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I guess this means we should all stay home now and not share our tourist capital around the world? Because a little cross-cultural exchange might occur that broadens our world forever?
This dinosaur can't disappear fast enough - no offence, dinosaur!
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Any kind of analysis of anything Trump says is useless. His words are always meaningless, regardless of context. Unfortunately, like a clock, he may be correct as much as twice a day.
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The authors of this piece are severely misleading themselves and their readers if they truly believe that « defending culture and heritage » is a challenge to the founding principles of the UN. However despicable Trump might be, you need to know where you are coming from in order to foster understanding between nations. It’s naive to think that globish elites who meet in the same sushi bars in Dubai or London will not meet a backlash from hundreds of millions of people who are deeply anchored in their own culture
Trump's globalists vs. patriots is a weak-minded dichotomy. A false choice. I understand why he thinks its red meat and why, given his "mascara-level" understanding of history, he thinks it can work. But his own messes & mis-steps prove otherwise.
Americans who feel compelled to cheer on this "us or them" should ask: Are we in a better position to deal with Iran when we unilaterally left the accord and our European partners? Does Iran see a stronger or weaker America? U.S. sanctions alone are weak tea.
How about Korea? Are Kim's bi-lateral "love letters" a convincing substitute for multi-lateral engagement (and sanctions if need be)? How's Trumps 1 v. 1 trade war working with China? Let's ask our farmers. Has Trump's face-off and unilateral campaign of violence against children, refugees, migrants done anything but earn the U.S. international scorn and condemnation?
Trump and Co. have often expressed *their* scorn over increasingly urgent climate issues. Instead of joining the global climate push (and by the way, the global climate economy that is being born), the U.S. is not leading, but on the outside looking in. Climate cynics are looking increasingly foolish. Half the country is under water. Only Trump is puzzled.
America is, should be, will always be an independent nation. AND, AND it has to be a citizen of a larger global community as well. It is not an either/or. It IS a both/and.
We deserve, and require a president who understands that.
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That’s rich!
As he dreams of Trump Hotels all over
the Globe and cozies up to foreign leaders
friends and foes trying to make deals, we at
home should show Patriotism to our Country.
Meaning obeisance to our supreme leader-
closing our eyes to his corruption ...as he
trashes our Constitution and stirs up hate.
This rhetoric is grounds for impeachment.
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The planet belongs to the organisms that will not destroy it, the creatures that are left when this world has seen the last of the materially unsatisfiable humans. This speech by Trump complete lack of awareness of our real challenges.
The insult to a few other nations and leaders belies his own ignorance of the American destruction of Vietnam, and the destruction of Iraq, and the fact that China has created war with no one. That China is trying to re-direct a feudal people into a model where their talent and virtue serve humanity instead of being consumer fodder for it.
Trump is a pure embarrassment to the honesty and reasoning capacity of people everywhere.
ps. He cannot write, and that cartoon speech came from someone familiar with the language.
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Mr. trump's allusion to the "great replacement" was as clear as the nose on your face. With his affinity for white nationalists and the fact that Stephen Miller was his speech writer, how could any other conclusion be drawn.
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This immediately struck me as well. There is zero chance this word was not included as a wink to our Stable Genius’s white supremacist supporters.
Robot Man in coma delivers programmed speech with eyes closed, words taped to inside of eyelids. His fans are thrilled, imagining they are at an election rally. The rest of the world is either appalled or asleep.
But...it is wise to hear those words and consider the agenda. The radical activists are here to save the planet!
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This is the President that "Moscow" Mitch McConnell cannot say a bad word about. This is the President who wants to send your sons and daughters off to fight his unjust war in Iran and protect his rich friends. What secrets are horrible on his tax returns that he cannot make them public, but he has the temerity to say such things at the U.N.?
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Trump lives in the 20th century. His mantra is long out dated.
While peoples around the world are becoming more and more focused on the plight of the planet, Trump can not see beyond the US border.
The nationally selfish could mean the destruction of us all. Trump and the other myopic nationalists mist be sent packing.
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Trump puts down "globalism" while selling his country out in order to open up new hotels and office buildings around the globe.
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The world according to Trump belongs to anarchists who can use chaos to siphon power away from whomever and wherever. He has achieved the big con. The really really big show, as Ed Sullivan would say, will be his third term when he is installed by the military. Beware, the rank and file has fallen for this con. He has no principles. One only need hear it in his monotone oratory voice.
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His failures are remarkable.
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This sounds like 1914 all over again.
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@CABOT Trump is more like Kaiser Wilhelm II than any other historical figure I can think of. Thinks he's brilliant, listens to nobody, and is convinced that every other nation is conspiring to prevent his from achieving its destiny.
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The human race is global. Our future is as a shared community.
Trump and his tribalism has no future in the world we all are committed to living in, and leaving to our progeny.
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You should put the word dictatorship in quotation marks, when it comes to Venezuela. Instead, you simply wrote "socialist", meaning you agree with Trump's evil mischaracterization of Venezuela's government as a "dictatorship". And Trump has increased the sanctions and threats against Cuba, even though Cuba has done nothing to deserve that. Cuba is no threat to anyone and wants good relations with the US and the whole world. Bolton is no longer there, but his words continue to be echoed by Trump. The NYT should not be an accomplice to this.
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He's right on a couple things: immigration and protection of sovereignty. These are in direct opposition to the globalist plans to make everyone into a "consumer". People have a right to their naton and self-government. This is fundamental.
On socialism, he's wrong and he knows it. You can hear it in his tone.
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Trump vs. Carl Sagan: Right now it's not looking so good for humanity's chances -- climate change inaction, ecological threats, unresolved enmities, nuclear arms, obsessions with one country "winning" vs. others losing, "America First" idiocy, Brexit, etc. I remember Carl Sagan saying the odds of a technologically advanced civilization surviving its own self-destruction were maybe 5% at best of the planets where this occurs. Will we make it? Time is speeding up now. I think we'll know one way or the other by about the year 2100. [Readers: Take a fresh look at Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" summary, written in 1994. I regret that he is not with us today, as his voice is sorely needed.]
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If the future does not belong to globalists, does it belong to nativist nationalists who long for the good old days of King George? Native Americans certainly don't. As far as they're concerned, Trump's and the rest of our immigrant forebears should have stayed in Europe and Africa instead of invading their land.
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“The future does not belong to globalists” says the man who peddles merchandise made in China and India, who borrows from European and Russian sources, who enlists foreign nationals to interfere in the American election, and who likely has offshore accounts.
This is rich.
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@Norman This. "The future does not belong to globalists" says the man who welcomes foreigners -- including foreign adversaries -- into America's electoral processes, fights against transparency that would tell us if foreign interests are funding American political action committees, massively cuts taxes for foreign corporations doing business here, runs his resorts on undocumented labor, and welcomes foreign investment from the shadiest sources -- as long as it's investment in Trump, Inc.
With so many Trump lies, it's hard to choose the biggest, but "America First" is surely a contender.
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Shocking. What is he saying...that he is fighting an international conspiracy? Are the globalists coming after USA? Is their goal to subvert our morals, ethics, standards? Who are these globalists - international bankers?
We don’t need globalists to destroy America - we are destroying ourselves.
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Sure thing! By whose definition? Trump country voters are patriots? And the rest of us are WHAT?
“The future belongs to patriots”. (Especially the ones without heel spurs)
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Can't wait to see this group of misfits swept out of office into the dustbin of history - which will judge them harshly.
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Last time he was at the UN the other world leaders laughed at him, this time they will hopefully just ignore him and focus instead on those with something useful to contribute.
This is appalling. It is the globalists who have successfully prevented global World War 3 and created unprecedented prosperity around the world. Trump is beating the nationalist drums of the next global war. He must be stopped before he murders millions around the world by fanning the flames of war.
Hopefully his brazen outreach to the President of Ukraine to tamper in the 2020 election will bring him down before WW3 happens. And I greatly fear what he might do globally as a lame duck between his loss in November 2020 and his leaving office in January 2021. Another reason to impeach now.
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I don't think I have ever heard Trump use the word cooperation.
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The United States didn't earn its place in the world and in history by going into a "patrriot" cave. America engaged the world and profited from it beyond compare. If Albert Einstein tried to cross the border today and was brown or black, Trump would ban him.
Nationalism made Europe the most militarized continent before the USA came along.
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Isn’t the USA a union of independent states? If the future of this world belongs to sovereign and independent nations, wouldn’t it logically follow that the future of this country belongs to sovereign and independent states?
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You've rubbed up against the actual mindset of many who comprise the current GOP. They still have the mindset that the US resembles its pre-Civil War incarnation: mostly autonomous states functioning much like little nations. Even if the Civil War didn't change that (at least outside the South), the modern world should. A strong central government is necessary in today's world. The only chance nation has to flourish and be relevant today is to have unified policy and law. I'd expect those who fear globalization would be the most likely to understand that.
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@J Stewart
If it weren't the United States of America, your logic might bear examination. You should be very careful what you wish for. The Blue States of America would be a very successful nation, indeed, and not landlocked.
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@J Stewart: The US is a contrivance to make slavery optional, state by state. The concept defies equal national protection of law.
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Hold on a moment - globalism is one of those things that the US championed and pushed onto the rest of the world.
Does this mean all the companies that US entities bought and then shut down because it was 'more cost effective' to build elsewhere will be restored to the benefit of the countries they were removed from?
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@Michael
He's trying to drum up support with his scared, uneducated, superstitious base. He loves globalism. As a billionaire capitalist his success depends on it.
The future belongs to planetarians and internationalists--not global corporations and their money-grubbing owners, but the increasing number of ordinary people who see the planet as the complex system it is, which needs to be protected. People who want to live, work, travel, and move anywhere in the world their lives and interests take them without artificial, discriminatory obstacles. The future, though it may not happen within our lifetimes, or our children's lifetimes (but maybe grandchildren's) is one of 100% clean energy sources, global governance, and porous or non-existent borders. It won't be the 1% who make it happen; it will be those of us who have international families, speak several languages, can relate to and empathize with, and consider ourselves equal to people from all over the world. There are more and more of us with each generation, and there is no turning back.
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@ua
We best be 100% clean energy ASAP. We may already be too late.
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Russia was not behind the attack on Saudi-Arabia. But nobody else has any power over Iran, has so much to gain from a hike in the oil price and profits more from international tensions that could bring them into focus.
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Looks like the future does not belong to you, Donald.
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Small-minded man has no idea what he’s advocating. He thinks global concerns are for sissies, I suspect.
Must be getting his advice from Miller and his ilk.
Empty-headed fool.
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...and Carthage must be destroyed....
...oh...wait. wrong century. hard to tell sometimes lately....
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It appears Trump forgot who his audience were and where he was when he gave this 'speech' The United Nations is probably the bastion of Globalism a place where there is little appetite for Nationalism as the United Nations was born soon after the scourge and defeat of Hitlers Nationalistic Fascism .
Of course Trump used this opportunity to dog whistle to his most insidious audience 'American White Nationalism', when making reference to the phrase 'great replacement' .He spoke directly and in a deliberate way to them.
I can never forget how they marched in Charlottesville chanting, 'Jews will not 'Replace Us'. It was like a scene from Nazi Germany
I only wish that those attending the UN conference had gotten up and walked out as soon as he started nattering on about Sovereignty and 'the Great Replacement'.
I am appalled that he got any applause even if it was lukewarm.
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@Britl: The speech was 100% aimed Trump's base.
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@Britl
Yes, excellent observations. The irony was guy wrenching. You're 100% right, no one should have applauded.
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September 24, 2019
Evangelic posture by the Chosen One a Big Daddy of mediocrity and his fear of a world humanism, transparency. Every tribe is okay and let’s rediscover the world of Machiavelli’s princedom of the dark ages struggle towards the Middle Ages and that is the new greatness America –we are lost……. By Trumpism and chaos……
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I can envision that blond Hitler's Youth from Cabaret singing "Tomorrow belongs to me" Like the old man in the film decent Americans and the decent people of the world shake their head in disgust.
One of the dog whistles of the American white nationalist and Neo Nazi's is Globalist, it replaces "JEW" in their hateful triads.
I suspect Trump is fully aware of and embraced this wording.
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@GUANNA
If Stephen Miller wrote the speech he is truly disgusting. Let's replace him first!
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"Globalists"? That's a dog-whistle word that generally means "Jews," yes?
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@Lorem Ipsum Yes, in the same way that "cosmopolitan" is often used to stand for "Jewish" in neo-fascist code-speak.
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@Lorem Ipsum: "Cosmopolitan" and "liberal" are also epithets with less religious connotation.
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@Lorem Ipsum
Synonymous with "rootless cosmopolitan" and "international bankers"
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So in a monotone voice Trump continues to deliver monotone ideas. Defend your sovereign borders rather than working together to make all nations prosperous thus ensuring no need to "defend" your sovereign borders ! By the way, if this is Trump's foreign policy how does it square with Secretary of State Pompeo stating Iran has engaged in "an act of war" with another non-Iranian nation's attack on Saudi oilfields? Guilt by association ?
If so, does that mean that Trump is guilty because he "suggested" Ukraine open a Biden investigation ? What about Putin's physical invasion of Crimea ? That is not a attack on Ukraine's sovereignty ?
Frankly what a tangled web the WH and its minions have woven as they continue to deceive and self-enrich.
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Globalism is the only way the people on this planet will survive. We have evolved from hunter gathers, to tribes, to farmers, to city states, to nation states, to countries, to regionalism and will continue on to Globalism.
What happens around the world has consequences for everyone.....wars, illegal drug industry, aid and/or lack of aid for catastrophe's, terrorist acts, nuclear developments and yes, Greta Thurnburg's movement on climate change.
Trump's ideas are backwards, corrupt and morally wrong. We are all 1, and as President Lincoln so eloquently stated "a house divided will not stand". The Globe is truly one big house.
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@Margareth.
Impressive summary. 1000 upvotes from me.
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@Margaret
I concur with Daniel R!
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What was it he said? Do I remember it right? "If you want freedom, lock your doors, and if you want peace, indulge your fear and greed. . . The future does not belong to thinkers. The future belongs to those who scorn ideas and turn their backs on those in need."
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@Paul Dobbs
Nauseating, and insane, yes?
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There are two kinds of people in the world, those that divide people into groups and see differences and those that do not. Mr Trump likes sides because he can only explain the world as winners and losers, loyal and disloyal, takers and the taken. In the end, much like Dr. Seuss in Sneetches, we will discover we share more in common than we don’t.
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@Marston Gould
The two kinds of people you refer to. Those within the White House and those outside the White House.
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@Marston Gould
I agree with your analysis of Trump but I don't share your optimism for the rest of us.
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@Marston Gould The biology teach us that life is NOT a zero sum game....There is not only black & white, winners & losers, poor& rich but a complex structure of mutual benefit and complex exchanges between the species intertwined to ensure their survival! Trump cannot understand anything more complex than TIC-TAC-TOE
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The future belongs to those who hew close to home, who seek no greater worlds, who care only for themselves, who care nothing about the greater globe?
These are the words of an under-educated, backward-looking, small-minded person fearful of the future.
Re-election? Impeachment? None really matter. History will make Mr. Trump and his retrograde views irrelevant.
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The United Nations was created to counteract the disastrous effects of countries pursuing extreme nationalist agendas. To encourage cooperation among nations.
75 years later, the President of the United States of America, a founding member and permanent host of the organization, uses that forum to advocate for the opposite of what the UN represents.
And this only a day after preferring to host a forum on religious persecution, instead of fully participating in the more pressing forum on climate change.
If these are your actions, you cannot say you're a Patriot and love your country and will protect its people.
You sir, don't have a clue what it means to have love for your country or its citizens.
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@Miguel sanchez: The League of Nations was inspired by the United States having organized a federal government of governments for themselves.
The ungovernable cannot conceive of governments of governments.
Does Donnie think anyone in the audience at the UN takes him seriously? They were just happy he stuck to the script that trump had no hand in writing, and didn’t go off on a incoherent rant.
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"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
Today at the Atlantic Festival, Nancy Pelosi quoted an excerpt from JFK's inaugural address emphasizing how we (the U.S.) and our allies in the world need to work together for the freedom of man.
We all need to be globalists. But Donald Trump is illiterate, ill-informed, and ignorant of history. He makes us the laughing stock of the world and I wish world leaders would actually laugh in his face. He has no policies and he needs to be removed from office. And if Congress finally gets a spine, it will happen.
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So much is sad and retrograde about our Tweeter-in-Chief’s nationalist speechifying to a roomful of people who in large part despise him in a city which also loathes his values.
“The phrase “great replacement” has been adopted by many in the white nationalist movement, although it is unclear whether Mr. Trump intended such an allusion.” Oh you can bet that Stephen Miller and the speech writers knew exactly what words they were using to signal what was in their hearts so that Trump could read it off the Teleprompter in his dead monologue.
It is long overdue that we and the world say goodbye to the embodiment of backwards thinking.
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Please don't worry Mr. Trump. I am sure all these wide-eyed nations sitting in front of you all have their very own best interests in mind! Otherwise why is there even a need for the UN? It is like going to a baby shower and tell everyone there that your baby is REALLY only yours not theirs. Yes! I am sure they already know that!
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I’d like to point out that the Iranians are being “nationalists”, just like Trump recommends.
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This was a speech written by, delivered by, and intended for, white nationalists around the globe.
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I hope the world understands this man does not talk for a majority of the US population or more accurately only speaks for himself.
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"Globalist" is one of those terms that should raise a few eyebrows. Maybe he doesn't mean it in this exact context, but Trump and his ilk (Bannon, Miller, etc) have absolutely used "Globalist" as an antisemitic wink for years. It's the 2019 term for the "rootless cosmopolitan." It it simply a means to conjure rhetorical enemies out of whole cloth.
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@Nick Globalist - those who use economic power to undercut the wages of fellow citizens by either moving capital overseas or importing labor (legally or otherwise), and further seeking to cement this power via extra-national authority. Nothing antisemitic about it.
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@Csmith
Many terms have a definition AND a connotation. The definition might be as you stated it, but the connotation is about the people who make up the "globalists" in question.
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@Nick Only what YOU read into it, Nick.
Lame.
We were dragged into World War I and World War II because of nationalism run amok. The need to solve world problems before we have to go to war to deal with them was the lesson learned by 1945.
Trump has lived in a bubble his whole life, and still cannot see what is there to see because of ignorance.
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"The future does not belong to globalists" he continued "Now, lets talk about how we're all going to gang up on Iran"
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I'd be willing to bet money that even though he's fired John Bolton, this speech (or at least the foundations of it) came from Bolton's pen.
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@gmg22 I put my money on Miller, the ferret.
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How much did the Delegates get paid to baby sit our President? Did any of the give President Trump a time-out?
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How do American “nationalists” feel about the US providing a mercenary army, airforce and navy for MBS and Saudi Arabia?
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@George Ennis
They feel just fine as long as they're the ones making money from selling the fighter jets and other trappings.
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Trump seems not to realize that his mercantilist instincts and policies were fully discredited in the 1800's. He doesn't seem to have noticed that there have been no additional World Wars since the UN came to NYC, perhaps collaboration is a good thing after all.
Past time to move on from this boorish luddite and his useless acolytes.
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One of the dumbest orations I ever heard from (or read )by a US president. He seemed bored by it all
The young lady who chastised the attending nations on their lack of any interest in climate change gave a great speech. I hope that she got at least one leader in the assembly to at least think about climate change.
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@paul s Recognition that could help her advance her cause - She was nominated earlier today for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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This man is a hopeless know-nothing.
I guess he skipped the history class that covered the lead ups to WWI and WWII, which were precipitated by nationalist movements identical to the so-called "patriotism" he now praises.
The sooner we and the world are rid of him, the better.
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@Cordelia I disagree. He and his billionaire backers know exactly what they're doing. Spoiling for war. Because it makes them even richer. And they know this is how it happens. Their greed is unstoppable.
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I'll go you one better: I say there's something medically wrong with him. And whatever it is, it's accelerating. Why isn't The Times in contact with Dr. Ronny Jackson?
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Another Stephen Miller speech deliver by his puppet.
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"Speak loudly and carry a small stick"
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Globalist is a right wing white nationalist dog whistle for "Jew". Very popular among Trump pound boy and white nationalist fan base One has to wonder if Trump's speech writer used this as an echo and homage to the chants at Charlottesville where white supremacist chanted "Jews will not own us". I do not think this was accidental and I think Trump fully understood the undertones.
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The chant was "Jews will not replace us." That's a dog whistle, too.
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This was not a Trump speech. Rather a very lethargic on the (S Miller) script speech.
...his mind probably wandering through good old Kiev.
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How ironic that Trump attacks globalism in a speech to the United Nations. The UN was formed on the painful lessons of WWII, seeking a forum for debate and cooperation that would address nationalist differences to prevent conflict. The Trump doctrine of abject nationalism will only lead to more conflict and division, not peace. For example, his delusional assertion that diplomacy will motivate North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, or tariffs will convince China to modify its trade practices have produced nothing, absolutely nothing. International alliances (nee globalism) are the only path to peace.
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Well that doesn’t bode well for the globe does it?
We will be needing a space force.
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Farmers that want to sell soybeans to the Chinese are globalists. They want a global market.
Trump doesn't understand the business of farming.
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@Phil ~
What? A farmer can't go bankrupt 3 times and still be worth billions?
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The global divide is to a substantial extent, the differing world views and governance between the U.S. and China. The U.S. complains about China cheating on trade but fails to recognize an integrated, planned economy relative to supply chain, political and industrial management when structured and organized can produce quality for less expense. Best estimates tell us wages in China are somewhere around 40% of ours, while health, retirement, education, transportation, child care etc., are either free or heavily subsidized by the government and are not part of manufacturing cost. This has more to do with different national priorities in how public/private costs are allocated rather than cheating--a childish response. As for intellectual property, there is nothing that can't be copied by reverse engineering. With evolved and widespread advanced technologies, little is secret for long. Furthermore, when we establish our factories there, we make reverse engineering just that much easier. As for governance, individual freedom vs. what is in the best public interest seldom function in parallel lines (ask El Paso, Sandy Hook). Hong Kong young idealists want the "freedom" to elect a Donald Trump rather than a choice of candidates centrally selected (Central government is their HR Department). I trust we all have the opportunity to see the Hong Kong"Town Hall" announced by Carrie Lam to compare the demeanor and intellect between our freely elected Trump and Lam.
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@tennvol30736
Well said!
There are a plethora of great quotes that help expose those who hide behind " Patriotism ". Sydney Harris said " Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies. It also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies , while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. it wants to be, and proclaims itself to be " the greatest ," but greatness is not required of a country, only goodness is. " Donald Trump may be a Nationalist but he is certainly not a Patriot. Let's see him and his family and business associates back up his words today and pull out of his (probably his Banks' ) properties and business dealings overseas....yeah, like that's likely to happen.
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There is something ironic about assailing "globalists" at the UN of all places.
In any event, as usual 45 is dead wrong. If the human race is to take on the many challenges that we face now, and will increasingly face as the threat of climate change increases, nationalism will only lead to one thing, the demise of those nations who embrace it and those who live within their borders.
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@OpininginCO
Nonsense. The one thing you can count on is that humans will find a reason to kill each other, at least until we encounter extraterrestrials to kill. It is the very essence of life.
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Now at last in black and white, we have a clear statement from Trump as to what he stands for.
Instead of negative statements and negative positions and threats about his tough stance, he has clearly articulated his views and opinions about 'past leaders' who were 'misled' by globalisation, and that current leaders need to be 'nationalists'.
Of course, his statements may affirm the worst fears of those who oppose him and may not necessarily make his 'followers' happy with him.
Sounds a bit like 'Brexit' but Trump sounds as if he feels he has the upper hand in his 'Amexit' focus.
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Mark your calendars. Today could be the day we started moving backwards. Toward tribalism. Toward feudalism. Toward the very foundation that created World Wars and others that have been fought for centuries.
We need to end the Trump presidency in 2020 (or sooner).
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"The future does not belong to globalists" says a man with resorts all over the world, loans from foreign banks, business interests in Saudi Arabia, factories in China making his ties and fingers in any pie in any country that will have him. How can Republicans, businessmen or farmers countenance this philosophy when their companies and products need foreign commitments to stay in business? The future is here and the globalists have already won, if America wishes to stay relevant we should, at least, try to get along with the neighbors.
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Agreed...except all of these deals are about ways for him to enrich himself and his family, not his community or nation. He is a vortex of greed that has no national or international boundaries.
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@Rick Gage
Exactly correct. Using "globalists" as boogeymen is rich coming from a member of the .0001% who move money and conduct their affairs without regard to national boundaries.
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@Rick Gage Add to that a mother and wives from foreign countries.
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A Trump re-election would signal isolationism. That would begin a long decline towards poverty and irrelevancy.
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Trump seems to agree as he tweeted that that girl, Greta, who spoke at the UN, seems like a very happy girl looking forward to a bright future.
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@CK
I'll bet when the cameras were not running , the said" Greta needs to be spanked , sent to her room and grounded for saying such FAKE NEWS ."
And punished again for getting more attention the me.
The emphasis on the national over the global is yet one more piece of evidence that the “greatness” imagined by the MAGA crowd is a return to 19th century nationalism—the height of imperialism, colonialism, empire, and industrial robber barons run amok.
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@David S., Agree with your comment. He truly has no clue. Where does he think his family came from, and for that matter his wife?
He just picks a word or words of the day where he has to use in a sentence. Coherence and sense not required.
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@MHV
Thanks, but I think that the people who write or have written for him--the Stephen Millers, the Steve Bannons, etc--know exactly what they mean and have filled 45's head with delusions of grandeur via talking points that press the right buttons. Kill liberalism and the welfare state. Get rid of institutions like the UN. Replace them all with autocracy.
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After hearing Trump declare, "The future does not belong to globalists" and that nations must defend their "history, culture and heritage," I can almost picture Stephen Miller clad in a brown shirt and singing, "Tomorrow belongs to me."
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Globalism left the barn 30+ years ago. Can't see US companies abandoning their global focus on a cheaper labor force (whether we like it or not) and a customer base. We're all in this together (as in globally). Thinking backwards to the 1950s doesn't help anyone in the US.
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If he wants to assail globalism and tells every nation to protect their own, how does he intend to do business anywhere in the world?
I wish they had gotten up and walked out on him. That would have shown him what globalization is.
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@ME Autarchy or globalization is a balancing act. The task is to determine what is the best mix and that changes. Ask those who have lost their jobs, their consequences on families, communities, towns, cities. Then, we must ask what happens to the social fabric, the psyche. If we examine poor communities here and around the globe, we are apt to find those living there that poverty and crime is widespread. Then ask same to those wanting to immigrate to the U.S or Europe, you receive similar answers. Now ask what are the common denominators and root causes.
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@ME - HIs audience was too polite to walk out. Also note that they did not laugh at him as they deservedly did in 2018. But that was only because this time he was a bit more low key in proclaiming how wonderful he was.
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@ME
It's enough to know, even if Trump does not, that most in that audience regard him as a fraud and buffoon who likely doesn't even understand the words he is mouthing.
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