We recently had an old family dog who for no known reason just started barking, annoying at first, but understandable when we remembered his age and infirmities. What we all, including world leaders, need to do now is just get used to the "old dog" in the White House.
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What's new? I sit at home wishing that some how, some way, Trump is neutralized. The United States is the laughing stock of the world. Sad.
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Just another inappropriate statement, lie or gaffe form aman who made idiocy an artform
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How funny.
Trump's now telling the world what's in the minds of the Brittish when this clown doesn't even have a clue as to what's in his own twisted mind from one day to the next.
Please Special Prosecutor Mueller, step it up if possible ... You are probably our last hope!
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“He has an ability to hold up a shiny object and his base follows it unerringly, and he’s really good at it,” Mr. Newhouse said."
Which tells you all you need to know about his base.
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Once again Mr. Trump is not only inappropriate but uses a tragedy suffered by others to push his own xenophobic agenda. Though there is now a suspect in custody, that was not the case when Mr. Trump sent his tweets.
Even before he was nominated, I was asked by people in Israel why the United States would even consider such a man for president. I can only imagine what they are saying now.
Mr. Trump proves one thing again and again: no one can overestimate his capacity for useless inappropriate tweets and other statements that show him to be totally incapable of being presidential.
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As Trump continues with his Tweets, he is isolating himself, and continues to damage our standing on the world stage.
Mr. Trump has yet to express condolences to Mexico, in the recent earthquake tragedy in that country. Mexico, is the closest trading partner and security ally to the South of us.
With Trump's tough 'fire and fury' rhetoric on North Korea, shows no sign of a solution, or even an attempt towards it. In the meantime NK continues to fire off missiles. This is very worrisome to the whole world.
We are seeing signs of our old Post WW11 allies making their own decisions on trade and security.
It has not taken much time, within a span of less than a year, we are seeing so much change happening. All of this is impacting our image, and the perception of who we are as a nation.
If the British leader is troubled by Mr. Trump's recent tweet, it tells us something.
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Trump's constant, unchecked, "know-it-all" pandering to his base continues to diminish our country at home and abroad. He doesn't care one iota about those who suffered, yet again, from a terrorist attack in the UK. Despicable.
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The only fact regarding Trump is that he will not have an official state visit to the UK during his presidency. Queen Elizabeth, in her June Queen's Speech didn't mention Trump visiting the UK which covers the next two years and given Trump's propensity to pile on insult after insult, means at this rate, one certainly won't be forthcoming. We should be so lucky. God Save the Queen!
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Shall we count the times Mr. Trump's tweets and statements have been followed by another person saying "what he meant" or "what he wanted to communicate"? It appears Trump needs an interpreter when he speaks in English.
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And all the while Trump's apologists, including McMaster, lose whatever shred of credibility they had going into their job. I trust history will judge them appropriately, both for taking the job and for hastening the demise of whatever goodwill we had managed to accrue in the world. I long ago ceased believing anything said by a member of this thoroughly corrupt administration.
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I find it utterly astonishing that a society that so prides itself on its profound intellect and complex level of thinking can be undone by something as trivial and simple sounding as a Tweet. Now I understand where the expression birdbrain comes from and revealing it really is. Now that I think about it, fledglings without their feathers so look kind of familiar.
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Trump the focal point of the culture. And you see/hear read about him every day. Inescapable. Could it possibly be that our political discourse revolves around his needs, demonstrated through out his life. of being the center of attention and publicity seeking? Sure looks like it. That is not serving the needs of the nation. Repulsive when you think about it.
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Sadly, whatever he puts out there does not limit itself to a tiny minority. Ignoring him would be like ignoring a small cancer and allowing it to grow. Sadly this cancer is already huge and multiplying exponentially. It is up to Congress, the courts and the special investigator to take care of what desperately needs taking care of. Now. Yesterday would have been better.
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Where do your headline writers get the gall to write about "anger"?
PM May was not "angry" at Trump.
Your headline writers are deliberately trying to inflame the situation.
They are "angry," not PM May.
May has, in fact, found a friend in Trump, as her visit to the White demonstrated unequivocally a few months ago.
And he has found a friend in her.
It is the Gray old Lady that is continually "angry" at Trump.
Why?
Because the Gray Old Lady gave Trump billions in free media coverage during the campaign last year.
And now the Gray Old Lady feels deep shame and humiliation.
Now the Gray Old Lady has gone bonkers.
What an embarrassing descent into infantile rage by the Gray Old Lady.
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Several other newspapers and websites corroborate this story.
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Hasn't he harmed us enough already?
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The dirty little secret is as usual Trump is right. This is naked radical Muslim terror plain and simple. The paper can't handle the truth.
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Trump is dangerous. Trust among allies is crucial. Trump's actions are the antithesis of trust-building. I fear the day when the UK finds it in their interest to sever the amazingly intimate ties our two nations have enjoyed, not only in the field of intelligence sharing, but other aspects of national security. It is impossible that UK officials are not now considering the relationship. Trump must be stopped before he pushes them, and other longstanding allies, away in pursuit of his "special relationship" with Putin and other autocrats.
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Is this a POTUS or an unruly 8-year-old child tweeting? "Me! Mine! My way! Now!"
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Republicans of conscience: stand up and stand for America and get rid of this dangerous clown. Now!
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Telling someone to be more proactive and more vigilant is not a bad thing.
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The real problem is the stupidity of religion, especially those that preach death and destruction. The 'freedom of religion' idea has blinded the world for far too long. Recognize the dangers and round up those that propose 'death to the infidel'.
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May has been hostile to the US, and to Trump specifically, ever since she was elevated to office. Ditto with Kahn. Did May deny that Trump's statement was true? Nope. Ever heard of the NSA? We may well have told Scotland Yard about this threat beforehand. Certainly there are a long list of known threats that keep somehow slipping through the fingers of Scotland Yard.
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To all Republicans who support this man, who is your President, your mouth and our National Embarrassment. More than that, he is truly dangerous to the Democracy of this Nation.
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Just as long as he helps you fix your roof. Idealism is worthless for keeping the rain off of your head.
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@Carol,
No he is not a danger to democracy. The danger to democracy is Antifa and those who oppose him. I support the President. I support Trump! Thank you.
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@Iver Thompson,
I agree.
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Our President is beyond embarrassing. He represents all of us. He makes us all look like fools. Absolutely tired of him. God help us..
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Mr. trump does not have the intelligence compassion or Maturity to be a President, specifically when he verbally attacks our Allies! The guy has no idea what comes out of his mouth as he fails to think before talking which ultimately negatively impacts Our Country.
My apologies but how much more of him can the US and We the People actually take before he does Us Some true harm.
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Obviously, Mr. Trump is disappointed that he's been unable to cause a war. Maybe he's given up on North Korea and now wants to take on Europe. I think it's time to close his mouth before we have no friends left. Please!l He's caused, or is causing, enough damage,
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Trump is just one of thousands of lunatics who rant on Twitter. Everything he writes is not news. Let him Tweet to the tiny minority who follow him and still value what he says. He's a non-entity to many millions of others.
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What an imbecilic buffoon...thanks, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania!
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Thank gerrymandering Republicans. Thank voter-suppressing Republicans. Thank reality-denying Republicans.
Republicans continue to support our imbecilic buffoon of a president. They are the one;s who will reelect him in 2020.
The rest of us need to call it like it is and don't become collaborators.
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This is simply too much to be a coincidence: "It was not clear where Mr. Trump got that information, though 23 minutes earlier, “Fox & Friends,” a program he regularly watches, broadcast a report in which a security analyst said he feared that the London police had already known the identity of the attackers."
Apparently trump gets his "security briefings" from "Fox & Friends". Could this guy be any more clueless?
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I can't wait for the Trump Show at the UN this coming week. Please, God, make sure Stephen Miller does NOT write Trump's speech! The dark and ominous threats of Miller's writings do not win over allies and make others want to work with you. Of course, Trump is oblivious to this fact.
Come on, how can someone so consistently push away one of our best allies, Britain?
Trump has reduced our foreign policy to Generals and Bluster. And Trump's incoherent bluster makes us look like fools. How will the world's leaders and Diplomats react when Trump swaggers into the UN with nothing in his brain and tons of Generals following him? With his previous threats to take oil and or minerals from countries we have a military presence in, they will surely be looking at America with new suspect eyes.
Rex's new State Department plan looks like the cost reduction checklist of a desperate company. It's not about the 'savings' Rex. I guess we are giving up on Diplomatic efforts across the board. Irrational and Ignorant Trump "leading" his Generals makes the world nervous.
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To no ones surprise DJT has once again demonstrated that he is beyond thoughtfulness and empathy. While his followers may find this acceptable, to the wider population he has shown a total lack of discipline and/or an ability to be sensitive to the concerns and feelings of a nation of people who have suffered these attacks, let alone being able to offer any kind of comfort or support.
It would be laughable if not so pathetic to hear his press secretary accuse others of making disparaging accusations against DJT, when in fact they are simple expressing the shock and resentment that caring people experience at his obnoxious, abusive comments, name calling and insults. One is judged by their words and actions and rightfully suffer the distain of others when they continue to offend and make false accusations. Judge not least ye be judged.
He is unfit to lead this country, and/or represent it. A true embarrassment and insult to this nation and what it stands for.
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Trump is jeopardizing the future of humanity through pure stupidity. But his stupidity pales in comparison with our own -- as We The People.
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The biggest danger we face is from within. Charlottesville? Oklahoma?
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."”
--Isaac Asimov
Perfect analogy for our draft dodging, self-serving, deadbeat of a president.
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How is it that National Security Adviser McMaster can contradict the Times interpretation of the phrasing of the tweet, pointing out a much more reasonable interpretation, and yet that fact drops down to the middle of the story, and is couched in dubious terms by by asserting that the White House 'tried' to downplay' the event?
Donald Trump on Twitter may be a problem, and that indeed may be a story, but the problem of getting facts straight and recording them concisely is wider in scope than the vastly gullible Times' readership seems to be aware.
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He's got the best intelligence in the world available to him but still gets his information from Fox and Friends, the stupidest panel on TV.
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What a travesty Donald Trump is. Not only as an unfit and disastrous president but simply as a human being. What kind of nation puts this person at their head...and keeps him there? Thus the comment reads: what a travesty the United States has become. Our leadership humiliates us daily.
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This guy has a world-class ability to step in it, no matter the time, place or circumstance.
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This man has absolutely no filter, self-control or forethought. He is a clear and present danger to our national security. Congress must remove him from office.
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It;s almost as if he was imposed on us by a hostile foreign adversary...
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The damage Trump has performed in less than a year is truly amazing. This is just another example of alienating one of our closest allies, who is most likely our best friend in our war against terrorism. Trump is our first President to heap praise of the leadership of Putin, an adversary of the United States attempting to rehabilitate the image of Stalin, and at the same time attack our allies in England, Germany, and France. What World War 2, cold war, and post cold war has forged under the leadership of the United States, using Democracy as an example, Trump has been busy undoing. America won World War 2 and the Cold War, but Russia, with an unwitting (and witless) agent in Donald Trump is winning the post Cold War period.
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During George W. Bush's 8 years in office, I spent more than a year in Europe, and I heard plenty of criticism of US government policy. This summer, we returned to France and Belgium, but the tone had changed dramatically. Right or left, no one liked Trump, and all were incredulous that 60 million people could have voted for this ignorant and uncivil boor. For the first time, I was ashamed of my country.
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"Reality show" that this so-called president is, all he does is audio reruns of anything Fox says.
The world is as appalled as we are.
He's done more in 8 months than Obama in eight years fighting terrorism? Apparently Trump has never heard of Osama bin Laden or the US Navy Seals. Sad.
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A real leader would have called PM May and expressed his sadness and condolences for this. A real leader would have offered help. Instead, our "leader" tweets insults. For the first time in my long life, I'm finding it very hard to be American.
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The president uses Twitter; I need no more evidence that he is clueless.
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Why can't we do something with this 'loser' president?
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Because of the do-nothing Republican congresspeople and the increasingly packed courts. Until those change, nothing will.
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Nick Timothy referring to trump as being an "intelligence partnter"????
trump....intelligence......NOT!!!
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The Klu Klux Klan is a domestic terror organization that has killed far more Americans than international terrorists. When they marched through Charlottesville with torches Trump called them fine people.
The Klu Klux Klan considers itself a Christian organization doing God's work.
If we follow Trump's logic that anyone in the same religion as a terrorist should be banned from the United States, then shouldn't we be banning Christians?
Fortunately I don't follow Trump's logic. I judge people based on their actions not their identities.
We attacked the Middle East long before terrorists killed Americans. We started it. If you want them to leave us alone we should leave them alone. The war on terror is just creating more terrorists.
On the other hand the KKK consider themselves confederate. They made war on the US first. They marched north. They started it. They seceded from the union and never came back.
Until we start take domestic terrorists at least as seriously as foreign terrorists, we will continue to let these traitors shred or democracy from the inside.
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Trumps behavior has become normalized and we have become numb. The British leaders anger at his tweets should be a wake up call. His behavior, his tone and the underlying direction for the US is counter to our core values. We are being worn down, and divided. This splintering and depression cannot be maintained. We must reverse corse or break down further.
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Donald Trump must forget that he's the President of the United States, a position where leadership is required, when impulsively blurts remarks through Twitter. He doesn't take the time to consider the consequences of his actions (in this case a Tweet). He makes the world feel less safe and I fail to see how that is a goal worthy of the POTUS.
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Uh...he's a rich, white American male Blair. He's never had to consider consequences. The only thing that concerns Donald Trump, like most narcissists, is being exposed as a fraud.
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Clearly, our allies should be very circumspect about giving information to #45 about anything.
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Trump, yet again embarrasses his country and infuriates our friends with his uninformed, impulsive, adolescent response to something he knows nothing about. So what else is new???
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Anything to distract from his refusal to cooperate with a court order directing him to divulge who is bribing him at Mar A Lago. Anything to distract from stories the roll in daily proving that Trump lies about Russian Collusion.
Impeach Trump YESTERDAY!! There is more than enough proof already for obstruction of justice, collusion, extortion, and worse.
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Trump is certainly correct that terrorists are losers of the lowest order.
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Theresa May speaks with standard British understatement. "'Not helpful" in British means, in American, "Shut up, for God's sake!"
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The only solution is to take his blackberry away from him. Of course, real solution so to impeach him, but...
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at the least, he should have these tweets vetted by the Kremlin. Russia probably is in better term with May than the POTUS.
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Let's start a movement and all tweet that Trump is a white supremacist. Why should Jemele Hill be forced to apologize for speaking her mind when Trump lies everyday and never say sorry for anything? Now see if Sanders will threaten to fire all of us.
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It's mind-boggling that this pattern plays out repeatedly:
Someone on Fox News makes something up.
The President of the United States tweets it, thereby screwing up our world relationships.
A bad movie couldn't make this up.
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no General could fix this mess.
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I seems that everyone in Europe and the United States know who the bad guys are except the leadership, the media, entertainment and public education. They should not be angry...the should be ashamed !?
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No, it seems that only Fox & Friends knows who they are.
2
And the loose cannon "booms" again!
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Trump is alienating our allies and inflaming our enemies. With each passing day he makes America less safe.
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make America less Great again, and again, and again. If only he could get a good night's sleep...
4
British police just arrested an 18year old suspect in the latest terrorist bombing. They undoubtedly made the arrest based on information they received from Donald Trump. See how helpful were Donald's Tweets!
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The fact that he knows nothing, has no hard data is not even a speed bump of caution is dangerous. At some time soon when calling on world leaders they may not accept his calls.
"Who?
Oh dear God, him again. Tell him I'm busy!
What?
Yes, I'm busy brushing my teeth!"
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"How about Never? Never works for me"
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Seriously, UK gets hit with 3rd(?) terror attack this year and the top story is about what people thought about Trump's tweet on the topic?
How about a story on how they got into this mess and what's being done to avoid New York, Washington DC or other US cities from the same fate?
I for one don't care as much about Trump's coarse demeanor as I do about our personal safety.
Who is the more egregious problem, the guy who just tried to mass murder a trainload of people or the guy who wasn't entirely decorous in his reaction?
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I wouldn't care if he weren't the president of the United States. His clown
car antics are way beyond "not entirely decorous." His behavior over and over again has been a danger to the country.
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May I suggest you visit the NYT archive and work out how many attacks have occurred in the UK this year before deciding what related articles are newsworthy?
As a Londoner, under the threat of a further imminent attack, I am far more concerned by Trump's 'coarse demeanour' / 'indecorous reactions' and what that means for modern civilisation than any bomb.
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The man is a hindrance.
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Britain shouldn't waste its thoughts on getting mad at anything our idiot president has to utter or tweet.
Even Barney Fife made more sense.
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The evidence is, Trump saw a random speculation made on Fox News, and tweeted it out as if it was a fact. It's just what Trump does.
6
He is simply a dangerous buffoon who has selected staff based upon their anti-anything that Obama tried to do despite almost total lack of cooperation from the Republicans.
His followers will applaud to any of his horrific antics and relish his negative talk about just anyone and anything.
H.he also has no loyalties to anyone but demands such from all.
What i do not understand is why his people are frightened by him and .those who have left or been thrown out are quiet and have little to offer about working in the environs of trump world.
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Is this really what America wants? A self serving president who cannot think before he speaks?
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No, it is not what we want. However, it is what we have.
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Worst president ever! He manages to insult a great ally because he doesn't think about the impact of his words. Please, someone take away his cellphone before he tweets again.
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ibivi
What would be better is that his children admit the man is unglued.
Some of us had to do it when our parents showed signs of Altzimers.
We stepped up to the plate and admitted it as painful as it was.
Our parents weren't the POTUS. IT IS VERY SCARY!
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We know the guy is a jerk, but we know we have to live with it. The rest of the world has the luxury of ignoring him.
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@Steve. The rest of the world has 'the luxury" of ignoring Trump like we all have "the luxury" of ignoring Kim Jong-un; to do so, would insure the destruction of the planet in our lifetime.
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You're wrong. The rest of the world does not have the luxury of ignoring Trump. In fact, the rest of the world tends to pay an even higher price for our inept leaders than we do. The continuing turmoil caused by the unnecessary wars of the George W. Bush Administration has been far costlier to others than to ourselves. We at least get to vote for the "leader of the free world". The rest of the world just has to deal with the consequences of our bad decisions.
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One thing useful about Trumps tweets is a lot can be inferred by what he does not tweet, particularly about things we have always wondered but felt the government was being evasive or secretive about. For example, I am now pretty sure there are no UFOs or alien bodies or crashed spacecraft at Roswell. If there were, he already would tweeted it, blabbed about it in front natural disaster victims, or told the Russians.. "They are like nothing you have ever seen before" he would say, or would announce a ban on them, remark "sad" of their crashed spacecraft.
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"Foreign Policy By Fox News". My God, America, why, really,
do you not impeach? Huh?
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Two Questions:
When can we be delivered from this absurd person?
Will Prayer Breakfast Pence be worse? (That sappy "I just love God so much"
look has got to be hiding something that God does not approve of one bit).
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Driving the big trucks isn't enough for Donny Two Scoops. Now he wants to play policeman!
15
The man doesn't have a thoughtful or leadership bone in his body. He's a reflection of the worst of America - those who voted for him.
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Are we almost at the point where we don't even bother to read the story about Trump's new implosions? Who Trump upsets is really by now a long list. But hey, next week he might send a billion dollars to the Brits to make nice. Obviously Trump's visit to the UK will once again be delayed.
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Trump thinks that his tweets should be taken as amendments to the Constitution rather than the gaffes that they are. Sad.
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He not only speaks (tweets) before thinking, there is little evidence that he actually thinks analytically at all. Even if the perpetrator(s) were known to police (and anyone with a traffic ticket is known to police) there is often little police can do about it unless a crime is imminent or has been committed. That's because we do not yet live in a police state. Well, maybe that's his wish actually; a white supremacist lead, authoritarian state with greatly increased police powers and an end to habeas corpus in law.
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If Trump got clued in on early intelligence that Scotland Yard knew about the bomber, and went and blabbed it to the public, then its too obvious he can't be trusted with secrets. It seems to me the intelligence community would want to make sure to keep him OUT of the loop from now on.
If he knew, isn't it illegal to disclose intelligence secrets?
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The core Republican Base loves what Trump says, because it's exactly like what they have heard for 30 years from right wing radio hate jocks, and from Fox News. In this case he even echoes Fox News within minutes of hearing it.
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I'm desperately counting the days until the end of the Trump nightmare.
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Hopefully, it will be 'Mueller time' before too long.
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"At 6:42 a.m., Mr. Trump tweeted that “sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard” carried out the attack (...)."
There are two forms of terrorism, one that is rational, and one that isn't.
The rational form is a deliberate strategy used by people without any military and who feel oppressed by a state with a very powerful military. The idea is to destabilize the government through random attacks on innocent civilians, as guaranteeing their safety is the government's most important job. Once destabilized, there's a chance that people will want a new government that no longer oppresses the group to which those terrorists belong, or at least that the state will be too weakened to still have the power to oppress them.
The second form is irrational, and an attack on innocent civilians who happen to belong to a group that the terrorist hates. The purpose here is to make the entire group so afraid that they ALL disappear/"auto-deport" (which is actually totally impossible).
3 out of 4 US terror attacks are of the second form, and are perpetrated by White Supremacists, whereas 1 out of 4 is committed by Muslim extremists.
Even in the first form, those willing to blow THEMSELVES up may have mental health problems, but it's almost always the case in the second form.
So here much better mental healthcare is the answer, as candidate Trump himself told us.
Unfortunately, once president he started to support HC bills that CUT mental HC.
All talk, no action...
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Mr. Trump has his National Security Advisor and press secretary tell the media "what the president was communicating." The truth is Mr. Trump believes there is a terrorist hiding in the bushes outside the White House.
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Haven't seen that since Sean Spicer was on staff.
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I'm no statesman, and even I know that the message is "The USA stands with its allies and hunts down terrorists." End of story...unless you ALWAYS have to be the story.
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We cannot bring up climate change and its part in the recent devastation left by 2 Cat V hurricanes, because that is being insensitive to the victims and politicizes their pain. But Trump can use a bombing to spout his hatred and fear to his "base" and they cheer and applaud. Trump is the pied piper of stupidity and foolishness, and his followers are indeed "deplorable."
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Oh the poor dears. Therea May and other British "leaders" who are secure with bodyguards and other protections must tolerate insenstive tweets. But if ordinary UK citizens are blown up in the underground that's a secondary concern and the price to be paid for the political correctness of not offending Muslim terrorists.
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Sane people in the U.S. don't listen to him, so why does anybody else?
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Just look at this photograph in The Times, America. That is your president. Yes, that's right, him. Although three million more voted for Hillary the only bona fide sane candidate between the two, millions of deplorably ignoramuses voted for "that guy". And because the United States is not a true democracy, because you see our Founders did not trust US, they installed an Electoral College as a stop-gap measure to prevent such a demagogue as Trump from becoming president. The Electoral College failed US, the Republican Party failed US, and those who voted for him failed US.
Every Republican who supported this demagogue as its party nominee, and all those who cavalierly cast their precious vote for "that guy" are responsible for this constitutional calamity. This may have been the norm back in the the 18th century, and the US was a "nothing burger" nation. In 2016, as the most powerful nation in history it is the responsibility of all Americans to get their collective heads out of their be-hinds and get a grip, and think about the consequences of this catastrophe waiting to happen. We who voted for Hillary hang our heads in shame. How could you Trumpets be so foolish? So stupid? So deplorable? Sorry, no excuses allowed.
DD
Manhattan
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The NYT, in yet another desperate attempt to criticize Trump, leads one to think that British leaders are angry about all of his tweets, including ones made months ago that clearly are unrelated to this week's terrorist attack, which will most likely be proven to be by yet another Islamic terrorist.
The officials may not agree with any of what he has tweeted since becoming president, but the only thing they would have been angered about is the tweet that said that the suspect had been in sight by security. Over the last several years, it should have become apparent to everyone that British investigators work quite differently in the US. They say little to nothing to the press until they have something to say, and leaks on investigations are unheard of. This enables those involved to communicate with other organizations working on the attack with complete openness, as what gets said within the circle of trust stays within the circle of trust. If May or one of her staff let Trump know that they had identified this person previously as a suspicious person, then he broke that trust by tweeting it. They would have every right to be very irritated with him about that tweet.
But tweets about how this demonstrates that his proposal to ban immigrants from several countries? They view that as just so much pap for the US audience.
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The Times should be criticizing Trump at every turn. He is out of his league, his not fit, he is mentally ill, he is a racist, misogynist, xenophobic no-nothing. Times, don't every stop reporting, criticizing, doing whatever necessary to point out the foibles and idiocy of this so-called president.
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The only thing that may shut down Trump's unhelpful commentary are massive loss of Republican seats after midterm elections.
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Don't bet on it.
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The President of the United Stares of America is NOT the most powerful position in the world. The incapacity of our president has revealed that it is a position that can be filled by a ninny.
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See folks, unlike the Great movie "The Karate Kid", in real life, sometimes the Cobra Kai DoJo Wins,...
And the selfish immaturity follows:):)
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This is kind if funny, really. Did anyone not believe the police in London had the attackers in their sights? In fact, the Times just ran another story today that they had already made an arrest in the case, So the president says what everybody already knows, and the NYT runs a story to denounce the president and to talk some more about Charlottesville and Jamele Hill's racist rant on twitter to make sure they get the words "white supremacy" in the story.
They go to great lengths to denounce the president of the United States without a single word on condemnation of ISIS and the Islamic terrorists in the UK who carried out this dreadful attack on innocent subway passengers.
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He impulsively jumps to conclusions when he thinks its ISIS terrorism but when its obviously a white supremacist terrorist attack, he waits several days to make sure he has all the facts (and then still can't seem to decide who is at fault). He must be stopped!
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Dangerous president animated by Bannon's dark puppet show. Fascism 101 is their script. We must continue to use our institutions and media to hold him/them accountable, and to deconstruct and educate about their maniacal attempts to reshape our democracy into a government whose interests cater to white supremacist ideology and personally profitable deals with hostile foreign governments.
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"Extremely unhelpful"? So degrees of unhelpful exist?
2
I personally believe Trump is mentally ill.
I do not need an MD to tell me that someone is sick. He or she can make the diagnosis but I know when someone is unstable and unhinged.
There is a psychosis at work , a pathology far deeper and darker which has been hidden from the country. But why? To what end?
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Top headline, large font: Trump Sent Another Stupid Tweet.
Down the page, small font: Tillerson is Destroying the State Department.
Which of these articles is of greater importance to America and its future? Which article should be shoved into people's faces so they can learn the facts about what's being done in their name?
Long after Trump has tweeted his last presidential tweet, the damage Rex Tillerson is doing will still be felt.
Please, NYT. Get it in perspective.
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Possibly Trump's mission is to provide distraction as the Republicans undermine the framework of government, and free society. This was Reagan's major accomplishment (given his mental status, he couldn't do much else).
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I read the articles describing Trump as unfit for the office even dangerous but it's all to no avail as he continues his destructive policies and tweets. He appears unstoppable in a country with so many smart people. I give up hope of surviving this destructive man because he is allowed to ignore court orders, defy the law, taunt the dangerous North Korea, dismantle environmental protection, allow the CIA and the military to become increasingly unanswerable. Nothing changes, he continues in spite of all the writing detailing his every mistake as well as his grievous errors.
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Exactly what Mark Lebow said. If our president, or maybe someone in the administration with some expertise, has advice for an ally, there are productive ways of communicating. I'm sorry to disabuse anyone who thinks that Trump is "with it" or whatever by using Twitter and such, and barking out soundbites at press conferences, but government by tweet or media potshot isn't government. I doubt that, even if such technology existed, Winston Churchill, for example, would've gone on Twitter or TV on December 8, 1941, and admonished the U.S. for being asleep to threat of air invasion by the Japanese. Who knows what Churchill said to Roosevelt in private, but that's something else.
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True, Ms. Hill did apologize, but not to him. She apologized to her employer for putting them in a tight spot. Well done, Ms. Hill.
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We're terribly sorry he's our President, but if the last election has taught us anything, it should be totally acceptable for you to meddle in our election to ensure he is not elected next time.
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Incredibly irresponsible. But what really bothers me is that I still have not awakened to the reality that we have an incompetent in the most powerful office on Earth. Ah, but what is to be done?
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Reality, dignity, and truth are not companions of our current President. Our apologies, as well as condolences, to our British allies.
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Never underestimate the British sense of propriety. Can you imagine Trump's response if the situations were reversed? I don't think "extremely unhelpful" would be the first words out of his mouth when describing the foreign leader's conduct. You can only imagine what the British public is thinking. An "airy-fairy bell end" is probably the most polite description I can muster.
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Imagine… if noting else; President Trump’s exploration and immediate venture into the dusky-swamp aka Washington, D.C. exposed the vile nature, vast population and the extent denizens of the swamp are willing to go to protect the quagmire of their murky existence and turf.
Imagine… thinking Donald’s initial forays into the swampland has exposed a subspecies of mankind residing in the murky depths of the swamp. A kind of cannibalistic like creature lacking any moral compass; that will say or do anything including eating their own to protect their murky turf.
Imagine… we were just thinking in terms of venomous snakes and gators; when all along the real denizens of the swamp were and are cannibalistic creatures aka politically correct servants who will say and or do anything including eating their own to protect their murky existence and turf.
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President Trump is always right in assessing ground reality, while others wait long enough to find it? If he was wrong to jump to a conclusion, why did UK declare it a terrorist act and raise the level of terror to further high?
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All Trump had to say was" sick and demented were in the sights of the British police" to get this story? Anybody who takes offense by this is just someone who takes offense by anything Trump does. If Obama said the same thing there would be no reaction from the left or the right for that matter. The term "in the sights" can be interpreted many different ways. This is such petty politics.
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So how exactly does mentioning that Scotland Yard was familiar with the terrorists hurt the investigation? A totally meaningless comment that once again the media turns into some massive foreign relations nightmare. The Hate Trump media will do anything to destroy Mr. Trump, the good thing is, not very many people believe it anymore.
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Theresa May was first in the foreign leader line to bow down to and beg President Donald Trump by inviting him to a British state visit to be welcomed, wined and dined by the British head of state Queen Elizabeth II. The two "royals" can compare and contrast their mutual ethnic German Scottish inheritance. Theresa May deserves being treated this way by Trump.
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Big mouth with no thought behind it.
Says whatever comes into his head without thinking.
Not a good attitude if you're President and
in charge of the most powerful nation in the world.
Just because Trump "tells it like it is" and "speaks his mind"
doesn't necessarily mean what Trump says is true,
smart or a good thing. It could be a lie, dumb or dangerous.
Just because Trump is President doesn't make what he says smart or wise.
I guess that's why Trump has to have three generals babysitting him.
But Trump doesn't take advice or criticism real well so I am concerned.
And all of America should be concerned too.
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Well, as we all know, he likes to take his time and get the facts straight before he reaches any judgment. His intensive research on this latest bombing no doubt revealed that many sides were to blame.
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Whatever else is inconsistent about Donald Trump, we can always depend on him to be an embarrassment. Never forget, this is the man who said he appreciated the economic crash of 2008 because it had enabled him to buy up many properties at less than market value.
By his own admission, Trump takes advantage of others' misfortunes. As a national leader, or even a national spokesman, he is a shame and a disgrace.
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The man is demented. Many patients with his diagnosis speak loudly inappropriately and contradictorily . It goes with the illness. He is following in his father's footsteps. The disease is after all hereditary. He should be removed from office and put somewhere where he can't continue to harm our country, say by starting a war.
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The appeasement policy isn't going to help in the near/distant future with regards to Islamist.
Offcourse,the President is 'Politically incorrect'when he raises the issue of Islamic terror.
The question is what is the President to do or say in such grave situations.
Is the President required to put his head in sand and pretend all's well and desist from speaking the reality.
It's time,you realise the danger.Its closer than you think.
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If Russian finds a way to hack Fox News, which forms most of Trump's world view, we'll be firing missiles at Canada.
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this guy trump should be more concerned with domestic terrorism that came alive in St.Louis. Does he even know about this issue? Who is in charge of providing his medication!
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Remember to say thanks to every Republican and conservative you meet for the national disgrace and embarrassment that is the Trump presidency.
He and his vulgarity, ignorance, shallowness, dishonesty, selfishness and immorality, is the personification of their party and their character.
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Disrupting relations between the U.S. and its historic allies, in this instance Briton, is what the traitor is doing to assist Vladimir as part of the quid pro quo for all that Russian money. Not only disruption, but also outing sources of secret information that benefit the bombers. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
PROSECUTE RUSSIAGATE!
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Trump continues to be a sociopath and a particularly nasty one at that. The stench of Mr. 46% will never fully leave our country in the opinion of the rest of the world. Zinke's daughter has it just right.
3
Trump's brain seems to work on the GIGO principle: garbage in, garbage out.
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If PEW conducted a global poll for most hated man on the planet, I bet I know who'd "win" it.
Hint: He aint North Korean, either.
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Apparently Trump only waits for all the facts to be available when Neo-Nazis are marching in Charlottesville. Otherwise he plods around in a fact free fog.
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I don´t know how are more of a psycho, Trump or the misguided souls who voted for him. The man is a total nightmare. Every time he opens his big mouth we have a new potential disaster in the offing. Lets sent him to the loony bin where he belongs.
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The people of Britain are our friends, not Donald Trump, and we are behind them whenever they need us, but certainly not and never Donald Trump.
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To use two of the favorite adjectives from his limited vocabulary, his presidency is "sad", "amazingly" so. What more can be said! He doesn't belong in the presidency but somehow he has remained there for eight months, his most notable contributions being his insane tweets.
"Sad! Amazingly sad!"
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America has voted. In the category
"Most Admired Leader, Currently in Office", Donald Trump received one vote.
"Most Admired Leader, Past 500 Years", Donald Trump? One vote.
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Our Prime Minister of Racism and Fear once again capitalizes on a tragedy by waving the bloody flag of Muslim bigotry. Aren't or shouldn't we be angry and embarrassed by such callous behavior worthy of only some third-rate far alt-right white supremacist? It's time to call such behavior out for what it is -- deplorable!
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I honestly think he's too stupid to know the danger of publicly declaring that the suspected attackers "were in the sights of Scotland Yard”.
Confidence & ignorance - an always dangerous combination.
History is littered with the terrible deeds of confident, ignorant men.
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I find it odd that the Nytimes is putting this as the headline above the actual story about the terrorist attack and subsequent capture of the suspect. Got an agenda? Making a headline about a tweet, even if it's from our hairtrigger tweeting president, is almost as silly as tweeting itself.
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Unfortunately the hare brained man allegedly presiding over the US has great impact on the lives of people who read Nytimes and thus, sadly, his utter and unending inanity merits as much close scrutiny as anything else happening in the world.
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As an American I apologize to the people of Great Britain for having elected the most egotistical, clueless, unintelligent, narcissistic president to ever have reached that position. He is someone best ignored because what comes out of his mouth, or his Tweeter, is the fabrication of a confused inadequate little mind. It is sad to think that we Americans have elected such a flawed jerk as President, but he is what he is and we will have to live with this dolt until he is removed from office. My sympathies to those injured by this latest terrorist attack. London made it through the blitz and will make it through the latest scourge. Luckily the Brits don't have to depend on Donald the Dolt for help.
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And why is this a leading article in today's newspaper? Lord knows it was cheap to produce. Yes, the comment was ill advised. Yes, we know this newspaper hates Trump. Yes, I dislike the man. But this, with Clinton's book, does little to further a viable liberal fascist agenda. It's certainly mentioned in the British newspapers, but nothing like it is here in in liberal news-outlets. You've lost sight of the actual tragedy and the effects such events in the popular psyche will have on our society and how those effects could lead to a leader much more competently insidious than Trump. But, hey, write another article about Trump's sister Maxine Waters.
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How many baby sitter does this guy have?
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"NNE" is the answer Shim.
Not Nearly Enough.
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Trump is not an ally or partner of the UK or anyone else. The American public, by electing this... person, has effectively repudiated these so called alliances.
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Perhaps his assault on our ally "seemed calculated to mollify his political base" (which is to say, it's still all about him). His supporters are pleased every day, happy when they wake every morning knowing that he is their "president;" so, too, are enemies of the U.S.A.
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Trump supporters voted him into office to blow up the establishment and so far he has been the proverbial wrecking ball. The Disruptor-in-Chief has also gone global and doesn't care how much damage he does to our global partners.
It is far easier to destroy relationships than to create them, so far Trump is batting a thousand at home and abroad.
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Why do you keep covering his provocative, self serving or otherwise valueless tweets? And in such detail. You are just giving him what he wants, which is to be the center of attention.
Far more people read about his tweets here than they do on Twitter. Have you ever looked at how many "likes" his tweets get? Not that many.
Stop giving his tweets so much airtime.
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Interesting, NY Times. A story about Trump's tweet about the bombing is higher on the web page than the story about the actual bombing.
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Trump's "talk first, get the facts later" shtick is wearing thin. The guy needs to get the facts, if there are any, then speak. Otherwise he's part of the problem.....rather than the solution.
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"...press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said she believed that Mr. Trump’s tweet had come up in the conversation with Mrs. May..."
Oh, on this she "believes"...she speculates,but does not actually know, as her boss has kept her out of the loop.
But on direct and obvious statements made by Trump, and their meaning - like those about Charlottesville - she doesn't ever want to speak for the President.
What exactly is her job? When does she ever know anything exactly...?
And how does she sleep at night? Or does she?
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Man is this dude downright cruel and uncouth.
I bet when POTUS was a child (no doubt) the mortality rate for Puppies and Kittens was extremely high:).
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Let me get this straight... Trump being a "White Supremacist" is not a “fireable offense”, but Jemele Hill pointing that out is.
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Just Trump being Trump.
The Donald is untrainable, worse yet unredeemable, and America is stuck with his childish impulsivity and boorish acting out for at least 40 more months.
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So we should, then, just aid and abet the biggest funder for ISIS and symbol of Islamic orthodoxy, namely Saudi Arabia, but just not take in the people practicing the religion of Islam? Hmm?
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Trump's Tweets anger large group of people. In other news, water is wet, and the sun is hot.
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presumably Trump believes that there are "fine people" on both sides of the London bombing, some were injured by the bombs, some made and deployed the bombs, all "fine people". Or is that just the case when the victims are blacks and Jews..?
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So in this article, which is in the news section, the NYT wants to censor the President? Doesn't trump has first amendment rights? Why is every news story about a disaster twisted into a Trump hit piece?
Of course, some people in London are upset at Donald Trump for pointing out the obvious! They should have focused on banning Muslim immigration in Europe and keeping native Europeans safe, not on Trump's tweets.
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Time has come for the Brits to throw Big Macs in the harbor.
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Why is the NYT making tweets the headline when there is an escalating problem with North Korea. Perspective!
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Mr. Anglo Saxon Christian is at it again, alienating friends and foes alike. Pathetic.
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BTW,
When your Spokesperson is a Narcissistic Bully, these are the types of things they say, believe, (don't) think,.. from the moment they're able to speak,...until they meet their maker.
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"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H. L. Mencken. July 26, 1920
The prophecy became fact on 9 November 2016.
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Wow. Way to make friends and influence people. Perhaps take a remedial course at Trump University???? Oh, Sorry. Loser.
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"In March, the White House press secretary at the time....."
The New York Times' journalists need to get used to that phrase "at the time." It's going to be used quite a bit in this administration.
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As an American citizen, I tend not to believe a word 45 says. He has contradicted himself so many times that he no longer makes any actual sense. His mouth moves and words come out, but often the words are completely different from the words he said previously. I also no longer believe SH Sanders either. Without the media, I would be lost.
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McMaster's main role these days seems to be wrestling Trump's tweets into something semi-coherent and less offensive. What a disappointment he's turned out to be. Wouldn't it be easier to restore the disemboweled State Department and appoint a Secretary of State who knows what he or she is doing? Tillerson, in addition to being woefully inept, is irrelevant since his and Trump's Russian oil pipe dreams have gone up in smoke.
I sure hope our allies remember who we really are when all of this is over.
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Please, fellow Americans, let's take up the slack on international diplomacy by directly contacting world leaders when things like this happen to express OUR support and condolences in the absence of a president who can represent us appropriately. Sadiq Khan has a FB page (Mayor of London) and is on twitter. You can send an email to Theresa May via her office's contact page on their web site. You can also email the speakers of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. What if thousands of us just made it a regular thing to do this, as a grassroots diplomatic effort, whenever the need arises? After this presidency is over, it will be necessary to repair our relations abroad, and I think that if there were a massive flood of support coming from individual Americans every time something like this happens, that might help ease the way.
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Trump's statement is almost certainly true judging by the outrage over the statement
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British leaders should just shut up. The UK would not even exist if it were not for the charity of the US. We saved them four times in the last century:WWI, WWII, the Marshall Plan, and the cold war. The UK was the largest recipent of Marshall Plan funds. Instead of looking for offense the UK should be thankful toward their benefactor. But they seem ingrateful like so many US allies (e.g. dependents.)
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OMG. Do you honestly think that even though the UK received aid and support in the past, that this would allows Trump to insensitively tweet and cast his opinion and speculate about the tragic events that occurred? And that the UK should forevermore Bow down to the US in gratitude for what was a win-win situation for both nations?
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I was wonder where i could find the rest of the Tweet, thx.
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Britain kept ports and airfields open for the U.S. to use. The RAF took out so many German bombers that Hitler stopped the bombing raids, except for night runs. The Brits held on after the Continent fell; we supported that effort. Perhaps you might want to read the history of The Battle of Britain Reader in Washington, D.C. The bravery of those young university students has been well documented. And, you might also add those small merchant ships which crossed the Channel under fire to rescue their boys from Dunkirk. The Brits also developed radar and kept it a secret; thankfully they had a leader who did not brag about it, as Trump would have done. The Germans had no clue as to how the Brits seemed to know what their next move would be. The Brits have never been lacking in courage; they are our allies, as are the Canadians, Aussies and New Zealanders. These alliances have stood for decades, regardless of who is President. They will ignore the current buffoon and remain allies of the American people.
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Donald Trump is mentally ill and unfit to serve in any public office. Why "the powers that be" allow this disaster to continue defies any sense of ethics, logic or human responsibility. Until this problem is dealt with, the behavior similar to that reported here will be on going and hardly worthy of note.
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I agree. The British government "must be proactive" and release the Steele dossier.
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As usual, Trump makes a fool of himself in serious situations. What an embarrassment to our country .
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What's really frightening is how this individual got to position himself where he did and detonate this bomb. What if he'd been armed with something really lethal and capable of killing hundreds?
And then to have Trump unload that ill-formed, needless, dumb, Tweet is deplorable. And another example Trump is unfit to be president. He is not maturing and settling in to be the responsible President those who voted for him believed, by simple attrition, he'd become.
He has the mentality of an adolescent and this is just another example of it. The adults in the room need to get this guy 'fired.'
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According this article Current US President claimed he was more effective past 8 month than 8 years of Obama at the white house in terms of war on terror.
Above statement seems that it is false claim because since 09/11 Terror attack on United State the extremist attacks and counter Extremist destroyed many nations and had claimed millions of live everywhere in the world. I am not sure if current so called world leaders will able to handle current threat face by every corner of the world.
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Trump is a national disgrace and he seems to accomplish that moniker every day. Give him credit for consistency.
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Trump's London terror attack comment is another indication he is not fit to be president.
His continuing lay-person performance at home and on the world stage shows how unfit he is. Apparently this most recent blunder, after the 'bucket-bomb' in London, was the result of picking up on a remark he heard 23 minutes earlier on, where else?, Fox News.
He is not assuming the Presidential mantel necessary during these trying times. If anything, he's exasperating incidents around the world.
World Leaders recognize they cannot rely on him because he continues to act, although during these serious times, almost comically.
When will the adults in the room reel this guy in or boot him out?
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I am a naturalized US citizen born in Germany. I am well attuned to German public opinion, reading daily major German-language newspapers. I pleged allegiance to the US flag when I became American decades ago. Now,under Trump, the worst European biases against the USA culture emerge: How is it possible that such an unfit person - I put it mildly - can be elected as head-of-state by Americans? Europeans recognize there are uneducated and undisciplined people everywhere in the world. But what kind of American public has produced Trump? What kind of politidcal process can produce such misfit? European public opinion about "Ugly America" is unfortunately once again, massively reaffirmed.: America is not, after all, the shining beacon of light on a hill it claims to be! America suffers badly under Trump!!
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Trump continues to act like a two year old. The British are responding by politely telling him to shut up. Someone has to be the adult in the room and it is never going to be our baby in charge.
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It would appear that "Fox & Friends" is the only information source Mr. Trump trusts.
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"“What the president was communicating is that obviously all of our law enforcement efforts are focused on this terrorist threat for years,” said the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster. “Scotland Yard has been a leader, as our F.B.I. has been a leader.”"
I learned grammar by diagramming sentences. I cannot see how the president's statements can in any way be translated into what General McMaster said without relying on some Humpty Dumpty-esque explanation in which a word means what the speaker intends it to mean and nothing else.
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"Mrs. May’s former chief of staff, Nick Timothy, wrote on Twitter, “True or not — and I’m sure he doesn’t know — this is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner.”"
"Allies" means support, mutual benefit and common purpose. "Intelligence partner" requires intelligence. Frankly, your allies really aren't feeling the love anymore...
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Shouldn't the focus be on the murderous, cowardly attacks being made with increasing frequency by Islamic terrorists and not some tweet? The immediate manufactured outrage at anything this President does is beyond tiresome.
If you want to express outrage, how about focusing on the bombing and those who committed it?
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If you want folks to ignore the POTUS,... can't you just ask?
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Rob, every person of goodwill in this country, whatever his or her political leaning, condemns terrorism. The U.S. by itself will never defeat the evil of terrorism. We need to work with our allies. It's in this context that the outrage over Mr. Trump's intemperate tweets arises. He alienates our allies at every turn. His behavior is not helpful, and not what most Americans look for in their President and Commander-in-Chief.
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On the contrary. I ask you not to ignore the terrorists.
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Bring back the hurricane disaster news... that was far more palatable and easier to envision a fix than this ongoing disaster of a president.
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Everything he compares what he claims to have accomplished, he mentions Obama. Yes, Obama is the gold standard Trump can never achieve
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It must really frustrate the career CIA career criminals how cavalier Trump and Americans in general are about security
Whatever happened to Trump's State Visit invitation, Prime Minister? What happened to his ride in a Royal Carriage?
Oh.
That.
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Poor Donald and Princess Ivanka won't get to see THAT fairy tale come true.
Looks like they remain stuck in the Emperor's New Clothes, con man version in which Trump both made and wears the nothing he parades around in.
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The President....of the United States of America...tweeting.....nuff said.
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Send in the grammarians: What in tarnation does the statement from the website named Security Studies Group mean? In olden days our English teacher would ask to diagram sentences. She would, I think, have acknowledged the challenge this one presents. Gobbledygook, I tell you, it's gobbledygook. All that is clear is that djt is the unpleasantest person ever.
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I know it's never happened before but the Republicans could have said, "We don't want this man to run for our party. He does not represent our feelings or opinions." Of course, they couldn't do that but I would have had a lot more respect for them if they had. Instead, they just go along with this demented, ego-maniac and by their silence, imply agreement with his craziness. They are all going to be looking for other jobs soon.
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Oh, they really should have.
Instead they are another in a long line of fools who thought they could build a monster and then control it.
Republicans are especially negligent in this extreme myopia:
We have both Bushes to thank for the organization, empowerment and legacy of Muslim and Christian fundamentalists waging war against us, the former from without, the latter now within.
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"Goverment by Fox News". How much lower can the collective intellectual bar get thanks to Trump and his supporters?
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I wonder if DT ever thought that his ratings would go up if for just one day he would shut up.
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He is an international embarrassment, to say nothing of a horror for millions of us who live in the U.S.
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We attack in some 10 Muslim countries daily without anything but that phony 2001 war resolution that Bush, Obama and now Trump is using justify any of our global interventions. Driven by the military industrial complexes who need constant wars to justify the huge defense budgets don't see any hope for world peace. Suggest highly to stop intervening in Civil wars and maybe we'd live safer and unafraid but doubt it.
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Agreed
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Sadly - I (we?) become numb to Trump's bombastic unpresidential demoralizing behavior. I wonder to what degree other governments that were our "friends" like Britain - not have determined it wise to withhold sensitive security information from the USA for fears of what may become of it with Trump & his impulsive behavior at the helm.
Another day - another headline about Trump undermining decades of the USA trying to give the impression of leading with some degree of integrity.
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I've been living in Europe for the past year and a half and every day it becomes more difficult to try to explain to people here what is happening in the US. How do you explain that an unstable, dishonest con man speaks for our country and that a large number of citizens support him? How do you explain that the governing party in the US continues to back up his lies, his destabilizing and divisive statements and actions? How do you explain that the majority of Americans are embarrassed and outraged by this man? Because, if this is so, why is he President? That makes no sense to people in Europe or the rest of the world.
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So true, but it makes no sense to many of us too. If it weren't for that anachronism, the electoral college, Trump, who lost the popular vote, would not be president. Sadly, as he said, it is a rigged system. Wake me when it's over.
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When Trump launches tweets like these they don't help. But understand they are not meant to.
Trump is like the kid in preschool (I work in one) who knocks down the other kids block tower. He does it because he knows, on a subdural level, that it's an easy way to cause pain and make everyone start shouting. I stress empathy in all therapy as a basis for learning. I fear the empathy ship has sailed for Trump. And this deficit, again and again, makes him scary and dangerous.
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Maybe we need another "British Invasion." The last one in 1964 was a resounding success when The Beatles arrived. England - save us!!!!!
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With every childish tweet, I keep trying to convince myself... he's the president of the United States, he's the president of the United States, he's the pre.. and I STILL can't do it!
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What's the problem with a little tweet or two or three a day to thrown the hounds off scent. With about a 60% pants on fire record it's like the world already knows that he doesn't know what he knows until the moment of the tweet. He is a perfect example of why waterboarding might not work because someone as unreliable as he is can not distinguish fact from fiction.
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"Mr. Trump even weighed in on the dispute over Jemele Hill, a black female commentator at ESPN, who tweeted that the president was a “white supremacist.” “ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics,” he tweeted. “Apologize for untruth!” Ms. Hill has apologized, but Ms. Sanders said her comment was a “fireable offense.”"
In that case, I think we can agree that if the President is not a White Supremacist, he is a Dictator. Who else would call on a sports commentator to be fired for an insult?
The President wishes to control public speech on the public airwaves (yes, they belong to us). Government censorship of public criticism stifles public discussion among the viewing, listening, and reading public. Next comes censorship at the local level.
Trump is a tyrant in the making.
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More people die of opioid addiction or urban violence in a day than the U.K. has lost in every attack.They are all horrific but the President has not plan or abilities to prioritize or address any of it.I hope our country can make him pay at election time
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I wonder if Mr. Trump ever heard the name Richard Reid aka the shoe bomber? He did not need a visa to come here. With all the terrorist attacks in England I guess soon he will have a blanket ban on U.K. citizens?
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Why does everyone ignore the obvious? He is simply too stupid to avoid causing unnecessary and pointless problems whenever he opens his mouth. He gets his"facts" from Fox because he can understand the simple-minded concepts they promote, and he ignores the people who know what is going on because he can't follow that level of complexity. The drunk at the end of the bar is more cogent. He is not rich because he is smart, he is rich because he is a remorselessly fraudulent bully with the morals of a lizard. He is President because he was more entertaining than Duck Dynasty.
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We have an expression for someone like Trump in Britain, but given The New York Times is not The Daily Mail, I won't use it here. That said, every Briton knows what it is and almost certainly apply it whenever the fool's name appears in print.
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Does it start with 'C'?
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Dear Great Britain, Your Majesty, Scotland Yard and the British Public,
He's not well, don't take it personally, try to ignore him as much as possible.
And if you can offer any help to our Robert Mueller, we would appreciate..
We're in a real pickle here.....
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Mrs. May thought holding the old narcissist's hand would soften him up a bit. She was wrong. And she's the wrong person to lead Britain.
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The Queen probably agrees with President Trump.
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No the Queen probably DOES NOT agree with President Trump, your thinking so clearly demonstrates a fine example of the true problem at hand!
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What makes you think so, Eugene? Did she call you?
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He's a sick dude and he places sick dudes all around him and the people that voted for him are sick and the more thoughtful people in the world need to find a way to help all these mentally disturbed people be more introspective and empathetic. But other than that.....
Let's just hope that Trump's anger doesn't feed gas to all the other angry testosterone driven dictators in the world because we're headed towards an armageddon that all these nuts are accelerating. Ugly, sick people.
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I can assure you his remarks are not appreciated.
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Russia successfully captured a demented Presidential candidate and set the clock back for the US by a few decades.
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Turnabout is considered fair play. Vlad Putin will see the US dissolve like the USSR because it can't rid itself of Afghanistan and Trump.
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How much longer will Prime Minister Theresa May pin the future success of post Brexit Britain on Donald Trump. The British public can't stand Trump, and even members of Mrs. May's Conservative party are dubious of him.
I have this image in my mind of Mrs. May waving an Anglo-American trade deal in the air and claiming "Prosperity in our time" the way Neville Chamberlain did in 1940 waving a peace treaty with Hitler claiming "Peace in our time". Then, the Brits learned the hard way that agreements made with despots usually end in tears and suffering.
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Definition: "unhelpful". Like a loose cannon.
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.......on a rolling deck
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American Exceptionalism is dead and Donald Trump killed it...
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Look at the photo attached to this article and it really makes you sick to your stomach, considering there Trump stands with the military behind him and yet Trump was a serial draft dodger.
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Immediately, Trump had all the facts about the attempted bombing in London.
Nazis, klan and heavily armed militia people injure dozens and kill one female in Charlottesville VA and for days Trump says nothing. Later says, he needs to first gather all the facts.
Trump is a chronic, compulsive and pathological liar.
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To an American ear 'unhelpful' sounds like mild disappointment. But when a British person says it they actually mean 'shut up you ignoramus'.
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Thanks for the translation.
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Or, as Q would say to James Bond, "Most unbecoming, 007." Ah, the old British reserve that says so much more than the actual words uttered.
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What an embarrassment is our ignorant, boorish president. Describing Mrs. May as "a wonderful woman" is truly faint praise in Trump's book, by the way.
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Remember when 9/11 happened President Bush said "ït is a crusade" and then retreated his words saying it was slip of the tongue . In most of the terrorist incidents Paris, Brussels , Manchester etc. the perpetrators were already in the Police list as potential threat but kept free without strict or limited monitoring. Wonder whether or not President Trump meant it that way rather than accusing Police they already know the culprit.
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Was he tweeting/leaking information he got from a classified briefing?
Can't he be impeached for that?
Please!!!
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And Trump is right...again.
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It's almost amazing how the Islamic State and Trump seem to coordinate efforts. "Almost" because Osama Bin Laden's attacks often seemed to come at times convenient to "W.," when "W." needed to divert attention and/or shake a saber or two.
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Trust that your kidding
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Dear John Kelly
It's not too late: In the wake of Trump's latest international fracas and misguided tweets about the London bombing, give up! And walk away with your dignity intact.
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Everyone and everything else are but props upon his stage...
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Turnabout is fair play. Aren't there some 'retired British spies' who could publicly disclose info about the notorious 'p tape'?
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Understatement of the year?
The President is "unhelpful."
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He reminds me of the process of cooking pasta...you throw it on the wall to see if it sticks
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When will this man learn to think before he speaks? Is he capable of fully understanding situations that don't directly involve himself? Is he capable of fully grasping the entire situation before putting his foot in his mouth? He has the sensitivity of a rhinoceros... or a bull in a china shop. Either way, everything about this man speaks "clumsy".
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To answer your questions: never, no, and no.
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When he learns to think.
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For what seems to have been his entire life, Trump has spent all his waking hours focusing on his own perceived greatness. This relentless narcissism has rotted what may actually have once been a perfectly serviceable brain to the point where it can function only as a device for declaring, once again, how great its owner is.
The positive side of that, to the extent there can be one, is that it makes him gobsmackingly incompetent in doing the daily job of governance. Little of his half-baked, self-aggrandising 'ideas' are likely to become law, because the legislative process needs Presidential leadership and he has no ability to understand that concept.
He can of course wreak great havoc with Executive Orders, as we have seen, but if democracy survives, those can be eventually overturned.
The bigger threat is that his puny-by-choice mind has essentially made him deliberately, wilfully stupid. Bigly. That would be no real problem were he confined to some other boot-licking realm (reality TV) where his self-love can be ignored by those made nauseous by it.
But when the big (Dare I say 'yuge'?), intentional, wilful stupid sits in the Oval Office with the nuclear codes, well, it's hard to see how we are not all royally hosed.
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Dear NYT
The fact that Trump is gauche or careless or solipsistic is well established. Can we stop have every anecdote becoming a headline.
I'm not American and not pro-Trump but like every leader he has his pros and cons and is trying to do what he thinks is right for the country within the political constraints of his constituency and the system and his own personality. Amplifying every passing statement is what makes so many people sceptical about the media.
Move on to more important things the world over.
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I agree 100%..Americans are so naive.
I still can't say President Trump out loud. Trump the buffoon, yes i can say that.
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Try "that man in the White House" or, my favorite, Big Birther.
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May the Lord save us from the fusillade of President Trump`s early morning tweets. He is angering England, her Prime Minister, Theresa May, as well as us, the majority of American people, who look forward to this president's ouster ASAP.
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Sigh. The presidential apple has fallen very far from the FDR tree.
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As has the Republican Party; the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.
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Trump's crazy has become the normal. Think back a year one could not imagine our country would be run into the ground by this grifter. Every tweet slips us down a darker path. America has changed so much in just 8 months.
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This article is really a new low for the New York Times. It attacks the President for criticizing British security on terror without evidence, yet it has no evidence at all that British security wasn't aware of the terrorists before they struck, just as the President said. The notion that the President should "cite evidence" in his tweet is bizarre and smacks of political vendetta, not journalism. The President would come by information about British security confidentially, and has been attacked in the past for revealing confidential sources. To attack him now for making sure not to do so is ludicrous and outrageous, and makes it appear there is nothing at all the President could do to satisfy the seething critics, not journalists, of the New York Times.
In essence, this article is calling the President a liar without having any proof that he is lying. This is why American respect for journalism is currently cratered at an epic new low.
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Let us keep this simple:
Generally he should refrain from tweeting as when he speaks his mind via that media as it cruely exposes the lack of said mind...
In that particuliar case it is also inapropriate for a president of a country to use a tragic event occuring in an allied country in order to push his own political agenda in a "told you so" fashion.
I know what to think of Trumps lack of ecological perspective but would have been shocked had my president publicly used the last hurricane events to attack Trumps policy on climate change and ecology in general!
Last point: a vast majority of europeans do not share his caricatural and simplistic views on most themes, terrorism included. My 14 years old has better general education and knowledge of the world than him and already can see that the first and foremost goal of terrorists is to get us to give up on our ideals and see the world in the same manichean way as they do.
There is but one way terrorism can win, and that is to get us to change and to become like them.
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When are the republicans in the House going to grow a spine and do what must be done to save us?
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the times' advanced stage of trumpalalia has it at odds even with itself...even though there is a turn, ever so slight, toward trump for his response to the storms and his willingness to start talking across the aisle in its pages, so deep is its affliction that those pages are still tinted by it.
ok, trump will ever find elegance of expression or measure of wit in his e-habit but his statement fits the (ulp!) facts...most of the killers have been on the radar, some for a while and many left loose because, "we can't keep watch on all of them."
it doesn't matter here what the times thinks of trump, what does matter (or did before the trump dump became a self-inflicted trust dump) is that the press, kept free by all of us, has become rather petty than pertinent, unreliable even in identifying the story much less reporting it.
the story today is the free roaming killers and their covens and sanctuaries, too many on the radar, too few on leashes or in chains.
the story is the war, a forest we still can't see for each of its trees, acts by conveniently mislabeled as "isolated," their actors "radicalized free lancers"
it is too easy to slam trump for his less than deft handling of vetting and immigration from places
that provide the cues and means for radicalization and a number of actual radicals (note that the countries are "predominantly muslim" not that it is muslims per se that he wants banned) - and so we we bicker over the packaging while still ingesting the poison.
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Thank you so much, Mr not-my-President Trump (VERY).
The entire civilised world hangs on your every word of advice (SAD).
You are, to be exquisitely polite, embarrassing beyond belief.
Such a shame you cannot witness, nor even begin to comprehend, your own unsuitability for such an esteemed position.
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Once again Trump proves to the world, including this very important ally, his complete unfitness to hold the office of chief executive. His deranged need to get attention at all costs, regardless of whether it's good or bad, indicates a serious childish flawed personality. Again one trembles to think that this is the person who will guide the USA through its conflict with North Korea and their equally pathological Kim.
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Trump's behavior pleases the third of our population that would rather be entertained by a charismatic, ill-behaved, blowhard than bored by a politically correct blowhard. That's kind of why he is in the White House, along with gerrymandering, the electoral college, and a Republican "leadership" that doesn't care as long as the money keeps flowing.
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When the phone call ended, Mr. McGahn relayed the news to the president and his aides. Almost immediately, Mr. Trump lobbed a volley of insults at Mr. Sessions, telling the attorney general it was his fault they were in the current situation. Mr. Trump told Mr. Sessions that choosing him to be attorney general was one of the worst decisions he had made, called him an “idiot,” and said that he should resign battles for the government to enforce our views of morality on everyone else
- those who pushed for unbridled version of capitalism without any consideration of those who are economically victimized
- those who demanded that we build walls to keep the rest of the world out
- the media which skewed and fabricated news for the "greater good" and for the $ on both sides of the political divide.
All of us. We deserve what we have. It's not about him, it's about us.
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Trump reminds me of DiCaprio on the bow of the Titanic, shouting,"I'm king of the world." It's still the Titanic.
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Your President consistently seeks to undermine UK security services which the US heavily relies on. He is not welcome here.
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"President Trump SEIZED on a terrorist attack in London on Friday to promote his ban on travel to the United States by Muslims..." A good and fair narrator does not show his bias against anyone especially the President of the United States of America. Rather s/he simply reports the facts and then allows the reader to come to their own conclusions. That is called good journalism. That is why I will find another source to get this information from. And that is why I will no longer read anything from this source again.
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How is siding with our nemesis Russia and alienating our closest allies going to make America great again?
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Over here in the U.K. Trump is persona non grata. There is nothing much else to say really.....
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He is a pathetic clown who knows and cares nothing about being President, only about strutting around with the title, and using it to try and get someone, anyone, to like him, But the entire world, except for a misinformed pocket to of cultists, holds him in complete attempt, openly or not, including and especially those who are around him all the time. Our previous President and his opponent, remember, poll year after year as the most respected man and woman in the world. Trump is less popular than Ted Bundy.
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Removing Trump from office, for solid constitutional grounds, cannot come soon enough. The world is waiting, and clearly knows that the last thing we need is an incompetent with a megaphone.
errr.... tweeter. :)
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So sacrificing innocent lives for politically correctness is now acceptable.
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"Loose lips, sink ships."
Trump is jeopardizing police investigations. How does that help save innocent lives?
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Europe, if you're listening: the Russians have placed a puppet regime in the United States. Please help us!
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President Tweet misfired again? Not a surprise considering his track record. His responses are too soon, too slow and more often than not, wildly inaccurate. After all, this is a guy who doesn't read, has a short attention span and almost exclusively watches Fox Entertainment cable shows for information.
Trump took days to publicly condemn Neo-Nazis and white supremacist violence in Charlottesville (then messed that up repeatedly... "some very nice people" carried torches?). He tweeted a false rumor about General Pershing using blood dipped bullets after the Barcelona attack. He even spoke about a non-existent "terror attack" in Sweden.
His ego and ignorance continue to embarass America.
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What happened to "getting all the facts"?
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Trump, please! I wrote before that I like your thoughts and policies yet I don't understand your inability to control yourself with this silly, teenage-run tweeting. I wouldnt know how to tweet if shown twice, nor do I care. I'm 60. Your 70. Now, stop it, leave this tweeting on Twitter to the kids and do the job I hired you to do. You have people that can speak for you, write for you and even review reports and capsulize them for you. Let people do their job, just like you did running Trump Companies that is just down the block from where I have my offices on 5th Avenue. Enough now!
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Sorry but supported a 70 yr old with the maturity of a 10 year old.
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Which ideas, exactly, led you to 'hire' a man who didn't even run his own business? You have no one to blame but yourself and those who used similar non-logic in voting for him to blame for our nation's national and international embarrassment.
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This latest manifestation of twitter incontinence is clear: Trump serves as a megaphone for Fox News AKA Fake News.
Embarrassing to the USA.
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When is the White House, to paraphrase a line from the movie "A Few Good Men," going to for the galactically stupid, inept and untruthful Sarah Huckabee Sanders? She's no more competent or truthful than her evangelist fraud of a father, Mike Huckabee.
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One day trump is going to open his big mouth and affect the outcome of a trial, or affect jury selection. Already he has found five young men guilty of raping a woman in Central Park, who were innocent. The guy's just got a big mouth.
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Trump is not just an ignoramus. He's a total embarrassment. If I was an American, I'd be ashamed to think he was my President. One might as well have elected a chimpanzee.
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Why can't he just express condolences, offer any necessary help,and leave it alone? Why does he have to use these terrible attacks to anger others? He's such an embarrassment.
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do you want an abbreviated explanation or the full 100 volume explanation?
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"Why does he have to use these terrible attacks to anger others?" Because he is ill-bred and doesn't know any better, when you have the intellect of a 5 year old you act like a 5 year old. He obviously missed the lecture on thoughtfulness and kindness...not to mention manners. He is for all intent and purposes a low life of the first order.
The good news, neither one of us has to go home to him!!!
Theresa May said Trump's speculation that the perpetrators were known to Scotland Yard was "unhelpful." It was a British understatement. She has reasons to be irritated with Trump's opportunism in past months, linking his Muslim ban with terrorist attacks in Britain.
Next week, when the world gathers in New York to attend the UN General Assembly, May might reiterate her request that Trump be more cautious with his remarks in future, without jeopardising the trust and confidentiality shared between UK and US intelligence services. May is due to make prevention of extremism on the internet one of her three key themes at the UN. Although she doesn't support Trump’s talk of cutting off the internet, she does agree with him that social media giants have not done enough to tackle online extremism.
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With such a crazy ruler as Trump, the Brits soon may seek their independence. :-)
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No wonder Trump's state visit has been put on hold. In January when May came to visit him in Washington and extended him the invitation, he insisted on a ride in the Queen's gold-plated carriage in down-town London.
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First, I would like to see the Brits give independence to those Islands in the Caribbean, the Falklands, Gibraltar and any other territory it continues to hold including Scotland.
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While news from England comes fast and is easy to understand. Could someone show Trump a map. What is going on in Myanmer (formally known as Burma) and what that supposed professional military is doing to a minority -Rohingya.
It is abhorrent.
We are not going to be bringing democracy. Lets just say, we are going to even up the odds.
England, as she has always done. Will look after herself.
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I'm happy to see a chief inhabitant of the White House who doesn't need an interlocutory ritual to speak his mind.
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One is astounded by the incapacity of American free-speakers to accept that they can prove themselves fools with their own speech.
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Even when what happens inside his mind is based on media reports rather than US intelligence ... ?
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Trump and his water-carriers prove themselves fools daily with little effort.
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Yes, as the WaPo wrote last week:
Americans are forced to see ourselves (because of Trump's mouth) as the world has been seeing us for years: Ugly, loud-mouthed, no nothing Americans
Are we tired of winning yet?
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half of us.
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I cringe at the inappropriateness of Trump's response to the London bombings. My condolences to the victims and their families.
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If the Republican Party does not act to remove this wart in the Oval Office before
permanent damage is done to the Presidency and our democracy, there may not
be much left of the GOP after voters clean house in the midterm elections in 2018.
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Sorry, that doesn't make sense. GOP is a partner in crime.
Two thirds of the Senate will be untouched by the 2018 election.
Why hasn't someone taken that phone and drop it into water is beyond me. Frankly his tweets only remind me of how farcical the entire organization, from the top down, is. He is a continual embarrassment not a leader of any sort. How do you think he would feel if his wife, daughter or even friend were in the car where the bomb was set. He tends to ruin every day for me.
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Trump writs the script...only to run afoul of other actors upon the stage unwilling to play alternate realities...
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No one ever accused Trump of having either any class or any sense of decorum.
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And says nothing of attacks on Muslims in his own country.
At best this guy is an opportunist, but it is impossible not to interpret his actions and words as everyone in New York City and surrounding areas have known for years, the same as his father, who's photo sits behind in him in The Oval Office, and the other real estate demons Sam Lefrak and Steven Roth have always played their cards against those of color or diversity.
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great article
thanks NYT
i believe new policy of Trump will change worlds picture.
it is getting worse
Hoping that his new strategy in Afghanistan will not push the mess in Central Aisa.
American troops should stay there to prevent terror
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The worst aspect of this most recent fiasco of tweet bilge is that POTUS spilled valuable and sensitive information that he was privy to. They need to cut him off. He is a security risk.
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The good people of this country are living in anger, fear and disgust. Never in my lifetime I thought the country described is the United States of America, very sad indeed.
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Face up to the truth America: Donald Trump is a Fox "News" president.
He doesn't just view Fox "News" as a useful propaganda tool, he actually believes what they tell him. This is a perilous situation.
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There is nothing but tautology to right wing rationales.
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Thanks for prompting me to refresh my memory of tautology definition.
As someone living in Europe, I think I know better what proactive measures are being implemented here than Mr. Trump. In fact, I know a lot more than most of you Americans who live with the threat of some gun-totting nut opening fire at an elementary school, movie theater or Starbucks.
Here's a piece of advice for all you Americans: heal thy selves. You can't even provide yourselves the basics these days.
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All this analysis about Trump's tweets while ignoring the much-needed analysis of Trump's mental illness. When will the media get brave and tackle that?
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You have to be a psychiatrist or psychologists working with him regularly and in private to have any trustworthy idea about his mental health.
All presidents have a public "persona" that they cultivate because they believe that it's what their office asks them to do (or, in the worst case, what they have to do to increase their ratings and keep their job).
There's always a huge difference between that public persona and who they are as a private person. So it doesn't make any sense to speculate about his mental health.
Presidents are judged on their words and actions - and in Trump's case, that's more than enough to reject him as a president.
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Trump always seeks to BE the headline everywhere,not just at home.
He suffers rampant 'foot-in-mouth disease.
How about dealing with the mounting problems at home before inserting himself elsewhere Especially when his two cents continues to sour relations with an ally he'd previously offended and still has yet to make amends?
If you have nothing nice to say, Mr. President (which is more than half the time) DONT say anything at all!
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A sociopath is someone who does not consider the consequences of his actions. President Trump offhandedly tweets unsubstantiated falsehoods after watching an entertainment news show. This type of behavior illustrates a total lack of a conscience.
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Britain's Scotland Yard and MI5 really don't need commentary from across the pond to help them do their jobs. True to form, President Trump shoots first and aims later. He is ever ready to offer unsolicited opinions on terrorism and its anti-immigration remedy. Mr. Trump could have instead more appropriately sent condolences and well-wishes to everyone impacted by this senseless act of violence on behalf of the American people. The English gumshoes don't need our president sticking gum under their shoes.
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Ignore him. He does it for attention and the more attention he gets, the more he does it.
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This is obviously America's first Fox News presidency. Roger Ailes must be very happy.
For years, Fox News invented lies about Democrats, liberals and the state of the union, all while pandering to racism and hate of large groups of people only because of the color of their skin or religion. Ailes managed to do so hiring ignorant reporters, who often seem to believe their own lies.
Two decades later, 30% of the American people filters reality through Fox News/Fake News lenses, and Trump is clearly one of them.
He's interested in power (it's a nice way to keep people you want to use "loyal" to you), but not at all in governing or policy. So he doesn't study intelligence briefings, he doesn't come up with his own HC or tax plan, he simply watches FN and tweets, in an ongoing conversation between himself and FN's audience that somehow the rest of the country and the world is watching as some kind of meta-reality show, where now the US presidency itself is based on what FN says and does, rather than the other way around.
In the meanwhile, his cabinet members and press secretary seem to be reduced to mere reporters, trying to guess together with the rest of the media what it could be that his tweets "actually" mean, once you get out of the Fox News bubble and try to translate it into "real news".
Republicans, THIS is what you did to this country. Sooner or later, you WILL be held accountable for it ... !
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I think the next President should be a hairstylist, since no qualifications are needed and they tend to be highly social and friendly. Less chance of alienating allies or starting a nuclear war. and every day wouldnt be a bad hair day.
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This man will never, ever come to terms with the fact that his role as President of the United Staes of America is not about Donald John Trump. The ongoing thirst to be right, to be admired, to be applauded, to be deemed the victor, once again scares the world's view of our nation.
I send my heart felt apologizes Mrs. May for this man's erroneous comments. These are not the words of we, the people of America. My heart goes out to the victims.I can not imagine what it is like to live in a land of fear.
The truth be told, these enemies of the people, these terrorist wear many faces and come from all parts of this planet. To deem these enemies of the world that cause such death and devastation all Muslims, would be a "slam dunk" abolishing this disease of hatred. It's simply not true.
How much longer will I have to wake up with the foreboding sense of dread that this man has done something else in word and/or deed that embarrasses and angers me?
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"British officials said the comments were “extremely unhelpful.” "
So, which British official has used this formulation? The article doesn't say. Mrs May said that “I never think it’s helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation.” which is not quite the same.
Having seen the headlines all day but not having time to read any of the stories, what was most shocking to me was that he knew the phrase "Scotland Yard". Having now read the article, it makes sense. That's how jaded I've become -- every fresh daily horror barely registers.
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Strike any future state visit by Trump to the U.K. If invited he'd be met by hundreds of thousands of demonstrators. He is loathed in Europe. You know, where our biggest allies live.
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Parsons Green is another in the long line of examples where buddy Trump needs to zip it. His spectator commentaries are tedious, inflammatory and are simply self serving. We know he only tweets to his agenda and for the benefit of his dwindling supporters. The messages he communicates is just not clever. Calling terrorists 'losers' - is that the best he's got? They would argue that they achieve their objectives.
Time for Trump to drop ' the reporter at large' portfolio as he tweets himself and the US into hot water. One would think that N. Korea would keep him more than busy to desist in his vainglorious habits.
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There are 2 problems with Trumps tweet. First he seems to divulge information that has been shared secretly with US agencies. That sharing should obviously stop. But what's insulting to the Brits is his paternalistic "we Americans know best" attitude. Theresa May would be well advised to write an open letter like Trump castigating Trump for allowing guns in America which leads to thousands of deaths, not to mention the potential for mass casualties perpetrated by Muslim terrorists. She should tell Trump he should have stopped the 9/11 terrorists from getting into the US and kept a better eye on them as some attended flight training school. And Theresa May should offer to train the US in the UK's infinitely superior and effective methods and techniques in counter terrorism. Finally since Hurricans are in the news, Ms. May might mention the European model was more accurate than the US model at predicting the path of both recent hurricans. The British have no need for advice or counsel from this ignorant man and he should just shut up. He is restoring the image of the know all "Ugly American" which does immense disservice to the reputation of an otherwise great country that grew out of this long ago.
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It is frightening that this admin. seeks to ruin the career of people who disagree. Sanders said that Jemele Hill should be fired, as did Kellyanne Conway about people who talked smack on Fox News about Trump (and most likely that was George Will was fired) Lawrence O'Donnell who disagreed with Will about almost everything except there mutual animosity towards Trump, treated Will more respectfully than any conservative often having him on his show. Kathy Griffin became a pariah when she used a fake head to illustrate an insulting and demeaning comment about Megyn Kelley, yet supporters of Trumps had just as hostile and negative images of Hillary with no repercussions.
No other president we have had in recent history has been so thin skinned, petty and vengeful. I do not know with Trump in power whether he is practicing facism or does he just want to practice lese majeste.
I think the patience of the world with this fool is wearing thin. Do we really have to wait until the next election before we get rid of him? If I were his boss I'd say "You're fired."
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Can't the poor old fool keep his mouth shut? The British do NOT need his unhelpful comments and how presumptuous of him to think he is any way helpful. Proactive? Is that the word he will now use to describe his own pathetic tactics?
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Those who are parents know that we must choose our words carefully with children. We also know intuitively that often the best approach with children is self restraint rather than say too much. So too a President must discern the words he chooses as appropriate in any situation. However as in parenting self restraint is called for often as the best choice of response. Presidents are cast in a paternal role for our nation but like smart parents who do not tell others how to parent Trump must restrain from lecturing other countries on their handling of terrorism.
Trump must restrain himself from lecturing anybody about anything
If I recall correctly, the FBI had Boston Marathon Bomber brothers "in their sights" too! Such statements are not helpful to world diplomacy and progress. Mr. Trust would not like the British PM making such a statement should we have a similar event. I am a Trump supporter but this is becoming childish and showing a lack of self-control. I also agree with Mr. Trump that we need to get rid of the idea that we cannot eliminate some potential immigrants that have a high likelihood of being terrorists.
how about the real threat of terrorism here in the usa, american citizens?
As an American ex-pat, I used to feel defensive when Europeans criticized the US. Then came the Bushes and now Trump, a trajectory pointing straight down. Can it get worse? Yes.
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I remember right after 9/11 the government was frantically looking for translators. The actual number of terrorists is tiny and they are surrounded by vast numbers of ethnically similar ordinary folks. Enlisting those in the community that would help, be they translators or soldiers is the most effective tool in defeating the terrorist ideology. Electing and supporting Trump is the perfect antithesis to a successful strategy as it promotes xenophobia via a toxic mix of hypocrisy. This is a deeply divided country that has lost her way.
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Oh, if there was only an easy solution.
Trump thinks banning whole countries.of people based on their (imagined) potential for terrorist violence should do the trick. (Oh, by the way, by not banning travel from Saudi Arabia, an actual source.)
Worried about EU safety? Hmmmm.
Perhaps European countries should ban travel from the USA. The citizens of this country are extremists when comparing deaths by guns with their EU counterparts.
In Germany, your chances of being killed by a gun is about the same as being killed by a falling object in the US. In the Netherlands and Austria, it is about the same as dying of hypothermia. In Poland or England it's about the same as deaths in US by falling from a ladder. Scotland, France- rarer. Etc.
For Trump to be criticizing the Brits about their capacity to provide safety for their citizens is ludacris, especially since he likes poking verbal sticks at groups to increase their level of (potentially violent) agitation.
Violence from groups inspired by a twisted notion of Islam IS a serious threat and must be addressed by serious & thoughtful police, intelligence, military & political expertise.
It's pretty obvious that the US needs to work together with the huge majority of Muslim citizens- both here and abroad- who are as anguished and angered as non-Muslims by the brutal horror of these attacks.
There are solutions, but no simple ones.
Certainly none in AM tweets that undermine serious efforts to score political points.
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At the appropriate time -- or the inappropriate time -- Trump needs to be asked this question at a formal or informal press conference:
Whose method would you prefer to be applied in America at this current moment in time? "Sir, would you prefer to apply the methodology of Malcolm X, or the methods of Martin Luther King?
Without prepared remarks, written by one of his staff members like Stephen Miller, Trump would be incapable of answering this question himself.
From Trump's words of mental incompetencies, he is incapable of understanding his heavy responsibility to lead America anywhere Good.
Plato undertsood the concept of the Good. Trump is incapable.
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If I don't watch "Fox and Friends" because it's always full of conspiracy theories, false information, and just plain fake news, why should I pay any attention to Trump's tweets? It's like he watches the show so he can have something false to pass along. Too bad our allies have to always pay attention to what he says so that they can defend themselves and set the record straight -- especially when they are dealing with tragedy and loss. So sad!
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Trump used the power of the presidential pulpit in a rash, irresponsible uninformed tweet to speculate and then criticize our allies about a terrorist incident in London. Irregardless of the circumstances surrounding this - our President should not be attacking our allies so he can tactically reposition himself with his base on immigration because they are angry at him about his conflicting actions on DACA. If he wants to use this incident to make a point about countering terrorism, he could have still have done it in a frank, but responsible informed way without badgering our allies in the middle of a crisis. The constant lashing out on Twitter by the president of the United States is a travesty, harmful, and it wastes time, taking everyone's attention off the real tasks that need to be done in this country and the world by his incessant Twitter chatter. We need to work with our allies - not attack them. Let's remember that we needed their support after 9/11 and we got it, not their leaders' criticism in a time of national crisis.
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The next president will have to have his Secretary of State develop a division within of "Trump Apologists", whose sole job will be to offer our sincerest apologies for the havoc wrecked.
Assuming the world hasn't been destroyed.
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Maybe even the US intelligence shared/speculated details with Trump that indicated that London police knew the assailants..Maybe even the British privately indicated to the Americans that these terrorists were in their sights
But Trump's reckless tweet is now going to freeze the intelligence sharing. The cardinal understanding between 2 partners that share intelligence is that any sensitive intelligence will NOT be shared with the larger public unless agreed upon. Trump has disastrously failed to abide by this bargain. Next time, any clue that lands with the British that may help the Americans may not be readily shared by the British.. Trump singlehandedly has strained the relationship with the British Intelligence and endangered us all.
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The president's comments are receiving more coverage and condemnation than the bombing itself. This is absurd and should be appalling. Foreign conflicts and horrors are almost universally not an extension of Republican vs. Democrat or pro vs. anti Trump, and this attack is not an exception in that regard. Please report accordingly rather then indulging the Pavlovian impulse to engage in rhetorical spitball fights with the president. I don't like him or his comments either, but the distorted emphasis of your coverage is counterproductive and offensive.
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What I find amazing, maybe not, are those who defend Trump on this story. Either those apologists don't understand what happened or they simply parrot the tired argument that these banned countries are dangerous. Overall the ignorance and hypocrisy is a big problem with too many Americans.
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I don't get what they're mad about. A tweet compromising an investigation? Please.
Ignoring him works pretty well. We should share this strategy with our English friends.
The 'true threats we face' mentioned by Mr. Hanson are quite apparent. It is the illegitimate regime of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. While the citizens of the United States are coping with several massive natural disasters, while North Korea becomes a greater threat and concern nearly daily, the administration indulges in twitter wars over sports broadcasters, and ill-informed comments regarding tragic events in an erstwhile ally. How much longer are the American people to endure this nightmare of Trump and company? Get him out of there, and ASAP!
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The presidency has only magnified Trump's ability to use twitter as a megaphone to the world, but he uses it irresponsibly and certainly not with the care and decorum of a president. He is still a carnival barker in the White House saying anything that the speculators and conspiracy promoters say in Fox News. No investigation, no search for the facts, no careful crafting of language, just spur of the moment tweets to let Trump express whatever went through his head in the last five minutes: true or not. Hardly presidential behavior and frequently as here undermining the credibility and stature of the United States.
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This is very appropriate.
At the appropriate time -- or the inappropriate time -- Trump needs to be asked this question at a formal or informal press conference:
Whose method would you prefer to be applied in America at this current moment in time? "Sir, would you prefer to apply the methodology of Malcolm X, or the methods of Martin Luther King?”
Without prepared remarks, written by one of his staff members (like Stephen Miller), Trump would be incapable of answering this question himself.
From Trump's words of mental incompetencies, he is incapable of understanding his heavy responsibility to lead America anywhere Good.
Plato understood the concept of the Good. Trump is incapable.
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I thought that the Europeans had already learned as we have to ignore the Donald's tweets.
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Why doesn't Fox and friends (who are they again?) do the Tweets directly, cutting out the middleman (one D Trump). In fact, even easier, why doesn't Mr Murdoch, the owner of the Fox News, do it himself, since this is precisely the power and influence that he craves.
In Britain we are debating the role of the Murdochs in British society, as they attempt to take over Sky, the satellite station they already part own. What is needed is a fully researched independent report on the societal role of the Murdoch Empire and how, in my view, it has damaged culture, whether this is in the USA, the UK or Australia, the three main places where the Murdochs have such influence.
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Exactly, if there's one lesson to learn from the Trump debacle, this is it.
Without Fox News spreading their Fake News minute after minute, people like Sean Spicer or Sarah Huckabee Sanders could NEVER stand at that press secretary podium and claim what they claim all while sincerely believing that they're doing a good job.
FN is THE key here, because a democracy can only thrive if all of the people have equal access to the truth. It's exactly this kind of equality that FN is trying to destroy.
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Trump is not content to sow discord in his own country alone, he continues to interfere in the affairs of other countries. This seems to work for him in the United States, but European nations are likely to further downgrade their expectations for US leadership. Not so, here, where Trump is being normalized by the press and citizenry. The sum total of Trump's effect is to reduce the stature of the United States around the world. As a nation we are big and powerful, but not very bright. Under Trump, the United States is in decline.
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And the Clown continues to reveal his stupidity and insensitivity, while playing on the fears of his base.
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Fear. It is what drives the Clown's base, and the Clown is using that fear (and therefore his base) to justify his ignorant, racist, xenophobic, isolationist, authoritarian program.
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Don't give into the fear. Don't allow the Clown to use you for his agenda. Remember: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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Keep calm and ignore the Don.
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Not only Trump is being wholly irresponsible while reacting to the terror events around the world but betrays lack of courage and conviction to take a principled position on the issue of terrorism or how to fight the menace with collective cooperation of the international community. Instead, the global terrorism has become a convenient tool for him to castigate the Muslims, impose travel ban on them, and justify his rigid immigration policy stance, which too is ridden with contradictions and inconsistencies.
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This president is a complete, and desperate amateur hack! He'll throw out anything to see what sticks! Zero tact and thuggish demeanor! Oh, how I long for the intellect and thoughtfulness of presidents past. I still feel it's a bad dream and I'll wake up soon.
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Being told you should be proactive shouldn't make you angry, unless you're too prideful to accept criticism. The NY TIMES should understand this because they criticize conservatives EVERY DAY.
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Patrick: There are customs that govern our relationships with foreign and sovereign nations. One is that any POTUS doesn't reveal security or intelligence matters from an ally in any way that confuses the matter or muddies the waters. Trump not only declared the London bombing to be a terrorist attack before the Metropolitan Police had advanced their investigations: Trump declared that the Met had had the perp(s) in their sights before the event. Now, the Met, the PM, and other foreign intelligence services have further evidence that they cannot trust Trump with anything.
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Well then, the US needs to be more proactive in combating white supremacists and the dreadful and flawed ideology that has persisted for decades. If God made man equal, as He did do, why do they claim to know differently?
Trump needs to be more proactive in his verbal condemnation of supremacists, and not lily-livered and equivocal. He should use the full force of the law to punish racists acts, including in the Deep South and change legislation so that the system does not work against people of color. Oh and he shouldn't use Dreamers as bargaining chips to serve his hidden agendas.
There, is that proactive enough for you?
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they deserve to be criticized everyday.
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Reality check the courts wil be responsible for what ever happens. Question is after world war two who took responbilty for the attack from japan on peral harbor. Mean who protecting usa now, really no differnet then what happen japan did to peral harbor. Washinton never admitted any fault then an probley not now.
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Trump is absolutely right to support a travel ban from certain countries. These nations are hot spots of the world for terrorism. Let's hope our courts come to their senses.
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"Certain."
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Let's look at that.
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Why isn't Saudi Arabia, one of the great purveyors of Islamist terrorist ideologies and home to almost every 9/11 terrorist, NOT on the list?
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I'll do the heavy mental lifting for you - the reason is politics. That's all.
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Oh yeah, and ignorance and hate.
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Let's hope fearful Americans can come to their senses and stop being so cowardly.
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Then why hasn't Saudi Arabia been banned?
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So why isn't Saudi Arabia on his list? Because it would throw a monkey wrench in his business interests. We all know what his first priority us, and it's not the welfare of the U.S. It's the welfare of his bank account.
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Timothy McVeigh comes to mind every time Trump says ban someone else from coming here because they might do us harm.
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Coming from a president of a country whose citizens are more in danger from their own than terrorists is a joke.
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If this sort of political correctness and denial of obvious threats had existed in the 1930s-1940s the British Isles would be speaking German today.
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there was denial, "Peace in our Time" I believe the quote said.
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Trump criticized the Brits for being weak on terrorism, something he intends not to be. His last sentence in his tweet, "Must be proactive" tells it all. It's not just the Brits. It's most of the Europeans. He won't allow America to get to the same place they are. He intends to push his travel bans and take other measures to keep America as free of terrorism as he can. What's not to like about that?
His full tweet: "Another attack in London by a loser terrorist. These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!"
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The problem is that Trump's idea of being proactive is simple minded and counter productive. It does more to energize and give fodder to extremists than it does to protect us. How about banning gun sales to people on the terrorist watch lists? That sounds to me like being proactive, but it won't happen because the NRA terrorist group is against it.
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Oh sure, and let's wage another war or two over this. The matter of terrorism is a complex one, scarcely solvable by bans. Do you realize that there are home grown terrorists in the USA, not the Muslim sort but the Caucasian sort?
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What is not to like? First, his lack of empathy for our closest ally. How about his complete lack of understanding of British antiterrorist law? You can be detained there far easier than here, before charges are filed. You would think that a tinpot autocrat like Trump would love that.
He has got to go, and I hope there is an island where he can move with his supporters.
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The utter hypocrisy of Trump's Muslim ban is shown by the fact that it does not apply to Saudi Arabia or the Emirates.
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As I recall, the pilots who took down the Towers were from Saudi Arabia, with a muscle man from Yemen. Bush got Saudis out of the country via flights from Florida, after all flights were grounded. Trump is developing business interests in Saudi Arabia, so they will no doubt be exempted from his Muslim ban. Saudis are Sunnis; and, they do not allow Shia Muslims to enter the Kingdom.
Indeed. And Saudi Arabia is a known sponsor of terrorist organizations, promotes Wahhabism, an extreme form of Islam, denies women's rights, and practices brutal forms of public execution. Except for the riches of the royal family, many might as well still be living in the 7th century. Let us also not forget that most of the 9/11 hijackers were of Saudi origin.
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Or Pakistan.
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I dream of a day that we can read, write, talk, and think about anything, or anyone but Donald Trump. The sooner, the better!
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I'm a dual citizen of the U.S. and the Netherlands, where I've lived for the past ten years or so. Like most American expatriates, there are still many things about the U.S. that I love dearly. Today's political situation... Not so much.
Without a shadow of doubt, Trump has reduced America to a bad joke around the world. His narcissism and complete lack of self-control has made him a global embarrassment.
I cannot count how many times I've been queried by Europeans as to why voters in the U.S. would elect such a dunderhead. Now, whenever there's a tragedy or terrorist attack, it's only a matter of minutes before POTUS Tweety pinches out a long loaf of hysterical and misinformed remarks.
Trump supporters should educate themselves by travelling to nations outside their American comfort zone. A few of them might even find enlightenment, and see what a destructive and divisive force this "President" has wrought upon the formerly "United" States of America.
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I just laugh whenever Trump supporters claim he is more respected than Obama or any previous president. As someone who also lives in Europe and travels quite extensively for work, I know this is definitely not the case. I routinely visit 10 different countries and the message is always the same. But don't take my word for it. Pew Research Center has the data to back it up. He is a laughing stock and a shame on this once-great nation.
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You are right, but I fear you ask too much of these Americans. People have a comfort zone for a reason, which is to fortify their prejudices and bigotry. They can not possibly allow this barrier of their own making (mostly) to crumble before their very eyes.
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Trump supporters are not interested in educating themselves.
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There was a long time when the favorite target was China. So day after day, week after week, anything that happened in China that could be spun as negative, however trivial, made front page news in the Times. Then gradually Russia, and especially Putin, began to take Chinas place and for years one could count on some item placing either Russia or Putin in a negative light appearing as front-page news on a daily basis.
Now, after the recent election, our President has taken over that role. So once again, day after day, week after week, trivial events are being elevated to front page news, with the relentless focus on the favorite whipping boy of the day. I could care less about what Trump tweeted about the London terrorist attack and I feel sure most Americans feel the same way. Im not an admirer of the guy and I didnt vote for him, but I do admire his unwillingness to play the political correctness game. He tells it as he sees it and the world would be a lot better off if all politicians did the same.
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I do not believe the world would be a better place. Diplomacy is the language of world cooperation not telling it as you see it. Trump has single handedly made diplomacy obsolete along with common courtesy and treating others as you would wish to be treated yourself. Evidenced by how many State Department civil servants are being ignored by this administration. I would have more respect for Trump's methods if he were a better informed person. Telling it like he sees is means speaking about a subject you know little about.
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Said in the knowledge that the 'telling it as it is' sledgehammer tweets are hastening a nuclear war! Yes, Trump's perspicacity is really bringing us peace in our time.
One does not need a running commentary president; one needs a president. He ain't it.
He may tell it as he sees it, but he does not tell it as I see it or as millions of others see it. He would be more persuasive to me and those millions if he thought things through rather than tell it as he sees it with knee jerk reactions and tweets. Honestly, he's a dope, so what's to be admired about his telling it as he sees it?
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Here is a man, our President, who has the resources of the most sophisticated intelligence agencies in the world at his disposal, yet uses "Fox and Friends" as his go-to source for information. God help America. Please.
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Ivy, what are talking about? Our President and Vice President both knew the day BEFORE North Korea launched their missile over Japan, as both viewed the fueling of North Korea's missile via satellite -- which then allowed them the option of destroying it on the next day's launch pad, and almost immediately, was known that the missile was Not a land-based threat to Japan nor Guam, as our intelligence is so sophisticated and advanced, and our military commanders so adept at reading the outcome, in order that the infomation could be relayed so rapidly for America's top officials to make any necessary decisions.
"President Trump seized on a terrorist attack in London on Friday to promote his ban on travel to the United States by Muslims"....Does this mean he is going to put the Brits on the banned entry list?
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No matter what happens: hurricane, train bombing, you name it, Trump finds a way to make the story about Trump. His need for attention is an abyss that can never be filled. The man is mentally unwell.
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The Brits are not denying what he said. They just don't like their failures being pointed out.
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Actually, I think the point is that no one at the time knew who carried out the attack. Baselessly undermining law-enforcement agencies while engaged in a man-hunt is a little unhelpful.
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No, if the Met had a likely suspect then they would want to get to them quickly when they didn't suspect it. They don't want a President pressing the panic button and causing suspects who may have had run-ins with the police to get alarmed and do a runner. It's really that simple.
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In either the case that he had inside information, and was now publicly and dangerously sharing it,
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He egotistically wanted to imply he had inside information, and yet of course was negligently sharing it,
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He shaped his tweet to push his hard line anti Muslim agenda, which again was reckless to international security protocols.
Never the leader, never can be or will be.
Its getting increasingly dangerous to have Trump at the wheel.
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How about Trump apologize for his lies about President Obama! Now he tries to get this woman fired after she apologized. After a day of a show of bipartisanship Dennis the Menace is back.
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"Loser" is a term used by pre-teens, not Presidents.
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Well, cut him some slack. He is not pre-teen but adolescent!
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Remember he has the vocabulary of a fourth grader.
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Of course, "45" did not apologize; he is not capable of apologizing. He thinks he is always right.
We are in the position of having to apologize to the rest of the world for the behavior of our president. Sorry. He does not represent most of us.
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SO Trump called it a Terrorist attack before it was found out to really be one? So that means he was right is all . If the Captian of a Ship says this storm is to strong to sail through before other Captians do does that make him a bad Captain? Only in the eyes of the Powers to be that dont like Trump its that simple nothings changed.
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The point is that Trump adds to the chaos instead of resolving the crisis. That is not an admirable trait in a world leader, especially in the tinder box of current world events, a tinder box he has clearly made more flammable.
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A bad Captain is one who does not have a proper plan. Enter stage left, one Donald J Trump. A man so flawed and ignorant he's unfit for Office.
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No, everyone knew it was a terrorist attack - it doesn't exactly take Holmesian deductive skills - what people didn't know was if a suspect was known to Scotland Yard, or even that the Met even had a suspect. And we still don't.
Normally this is deliberately kept quiet (if someone was known) so he can be promptly rounded up unawares without throwing a cat amongst the pigeons.
But no, 'someone' decides to publicise it to the entire world - and he might be wrong anyway!
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Thankfully the President is safely ahead of the curve,surely intends no ill will and will not allow complacency in these attack matters.While the Brits leaders only hide behind their sympathy for immigrants they are in constant denial of the dangers facing citizens of GB on a daily basis with terror right around the next corner. British citizens or those of any nation will not be safe until they demand protection from their leaders.
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Oh brother.
Methinks you should read about the IRA.
And speaking of immigrants, hello? The British are not known for staying on their little island now are they.
For that matter your name doesn't sound Native American.
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Brits are a different breed than Americans. The latter are constantly fearing for their fat derrières.
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This isn't the first time this has happened. By now, the British officials should have learned about Donald Trump what we already have.
Keep Calm. Carry on.
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I'm reading Hillary Clinton's book and watched her interview with Rachel Maddow last night, and I'm saddened thinking about what could have been... and I ask many of my friends who voted for this man... Really? This is who you chose to represent the whole of America? I just can't wrap my head around it. Will we EVER be able to return to a society in which, no matter our differences, we can be proud of our President? I have my doubts!
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Sure can! Most of us ( yes, most, that's why he got elected ) are proud as can be of our President.
Pay no mind to left-rags that claim he's unpopular; they also claimed he'd never win. There will always be those whining and crying that we are not socialists or communists like North Korea or Venezuela and claim that's not what they want while political leaning directly inline with those systems. And there will always be those who nit-pick because they have nothing substantial to say who are really saying; we just don't like him because the party I chose isn't his party. It's all just garbage in the wind.
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Trump did nor get elevted because "most of us" voted for him. Mos of American voted (over 3 million more) for Himlary Clinton. Then in moved a system that gives the presidency to him who has the least votes.
Go figure.
Saying that Trump has "hard line policies" is disingenuous and elevates his personal opinion to an inappropriate level. He has no policies, only his uninformed and off the cuff (very often) opinions, originated solely by himself for his own benefit.
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While I think donnie is completely unfit for office, top to bottom, and agree with the analysis here, this article should be presented as analysis, not as a headline top story. I've been reading the NYT since the 1970s, and it does seem to me in recent years the speculative reporting is getting more obvious:
"offered a moment to do some political repositioning by returning to themes that have animated him since the presidential campaign"
"the president appeared eager to seize on a range of red-meat issues to prove his bona fides"
Both statements likely to be true, but neither is objective reporting.
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If you solely demand objective reporting, why, subscribe to daily weather forecasts.
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The last tweet.
The first tweet arrived from a galaxy 321 million light years distant.
Crudely encoded, it was only 140 units in length.
The "tweets" were monitored for some time.
The content of the "tweets" proved to be completely vacuous.
The last tweet emanated from a data source identified as RealDonald.
Garbled and incoherent it was deemed unsuitable for any further consideration.
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Trump should be required to undergo a physical to determine whether there is an organic cause for his behaviour, and a psychiatric evaluation if it that proves negative or inconclusive. There is clearly something wrong with him that bears medical diagnosis if not outright intervention.
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If you look at the list of symptoms the American Psychological Association uses to describe a Psychopath, you will find a striking commonality with Trump's behaviors and utterances.
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What is wrong with Trump ? Is there some basis by which he could be forced to undergo a mandatory psych evaluation by a panel of neutral experts?Clearly, he is unfit to serve as the President of the United States.
As a United States Citizen,I would like to extend my condolences to the families of the victims, and my apologies on behalf of the man I am embarrassed to call President.
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Oh, now I get it. Trump's main qualification for his job is that he annoys liberals. The more ignorance he shows about government, the economy, science, social issues, foreign affairs, the better qualified he is in the eyes of his supporters.
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You hit the nail on the head! Ignorance is desirable in Trump land. Being informed is bad. Human evolution has taken a step backward.
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He continues to embarrass us. Daily.
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While the whole Duck Dynasty is on their feet-roaring in applause. In awe of their leader's acumen and insight?
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Horrible guy, Trump. Can't wait until he's impeached or the next election, whichever comes first. He's a tv carnival barker, all moved up in the world to the White House.
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His tweets about these things are so *gleeful*. Really sick.
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Dear Mr. President: Shut up and let Scotland Yard and MI5 do their jobs. Unlike you, they know that they're doing. Thanks.
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What needs to be "larger and tougher" is trump's self control over his impulsive emotions; and what needs to "more specific" are real facts and skillful actions, and not his pathological outright lying provocations.
What America needs is for this pathetic and sad clown is to resign and go away soon.
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Today's NYT reports: As Russian-backed forces and American-back forces were closing in on the Euphrates River city of Deir al-Zour, above, American officials yielded to a Russian request to leave the Russian zone, which allowed the convoy to pass. Credit George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Trump can tell the British why that was such a good idea.
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It was a good idea, and it was absolutely the right thing to do. And I doubt the Brits will disagree with that. We rightly did not kill innocent non-combatants who were being used as human shields by ISIS. Would you like to tell us why it wasn't a good idea??
General 'Bone Spurs' into action again .... who knows if they had twitter during the Vietnam days he might of actually considered going .....
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That "Presidential-ness" lasted; what-- a day?
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Dear UK, just remember...everything is all about Trump, 24/7. Any excuse for him to get his name in the news or make some stupid tweet is alright by him. Please accept our prayers and our sympathy for your fellow citizens, and just ignore the troll in the White House.
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prime minister may, time to rescind his invitation to visit with the queen. let him know just how unhelpful he is.
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When the reaction to DT's tweets is the lead story and the actual attack is in the second spot, I truly blieve the NYT has some badly twisted priorities. What is wrong with you? Who really cares about DT's tweets, anyway -- people were injured and there is a possibility of another attack - public safety should be the first priority.
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Maureen,
We have perfectly good security services in Britain. They are looking after public safety. We have no need for Trump to be involved in that.
The victims , their families, their friends and other Brits care about Trump's tweets because they are offensive to decent people. They seek to undermine our country, They hinder our security services and assist the terrorists.
Oh and we recognise the man is a complete failure causing harm around the world,
upsetting the sensible workings of other people going about their business.
We also recognise what harm he is doing to America, but we don't tweet that because we have manners and its not our business.
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"Here we go again, on our own."
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To our friends in Britain and elsewhere: please accept our apologies for extraneous comments by the man presently in the White House: they do not reflect the thinking or sentiments of most Americans.
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Will no one add this sick old man to the no-fly list? He's not fit to travel anymore.
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By now, after everyone has seen and heard what dumb things Trump says, only proves themselves dumber by responding to him in the first place. Doesn't speak well for Teresea May, to say the least. But for some reason moths as well still can't resist the glow of a hot lamp regardless how many dead ones are already laying underneath it either.
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What a shame, and sham! Is not the ISIS itself now claiming credit for the incident? Shame on these so-called leaders who will sell their relatives for a few votes, or pleasing some groups with lies so that they might get a few more votes.
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Trump is right; unfortunately for Europe it is far too late; Islam terror has become the new normal and thanks to Merkel will get worse in the near future. Twenty years ago it would have been shocking to see heavily armed soldiers patrolling the streets of Brussels; now it is just normal
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Yet again Trump tweets from the hip and not only embarrasses the United States, he creates serious danger in this investigation. "Church Lady" John Kelly needs to confiscate Trump's phone. His tweets are dangerous.
We have never had such a fool in office.
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John Kelly, have you had enough yet?
The path of destruction widens, and all we can do is post comments about the awful, destructive, unnecessary mess our CIC is creating and leaving for the rest of the world to deal with.
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I don't know which is more appalling - his latest tweets or the vapid remarks he has made the past few weeks visiting Texas and Florida in order to build up his ratings. I noticed that during these stops he is once again show casing Melania, his trophy wife. Like a Barbie dummy doll, she says nothing, can not crack a smile and has a depressed look. By dragging her along and putting her on stage, perhaps he is thinking, "all my white male supporters will love seeing her". This is one of the tactics he used during the campaign to attract followers -show Melania and Ivanka at every opportunity. Trump's campaign aides may have suggested that millions of white males and others would rather look at Melania and Ivanka than Hillary the next four year. That is probably the ugly truth and a factor why he has retained his base support. He has an insatiable appetite for being the center of attention and will continue to use tweets, pr stops, campaign rallies and everyone around him to retain his status and power,
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I agree with you. Trump supporters prefer a trophy model wife to Hillary Clinton. Hillary of course is pilloried for sticking by her husband during his impeachment, yet Trump gets glorified for having the perfect wife after 2 other tries. You do realize that the notorious tape revealing how Trump loves to grab women by their privates was made soon after he married his beautiful trophy wife. I'll never forget Rush Limbaugh going on during the 2008 campaign about not wanting to watch how Hillary gets older and uglier during her possible presidency.
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If Trump wants a ban on immigration from Muslim countries, I insist he include Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, actual exporters of terrorism.
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Making friends wherever he goes!
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Proving yet again, Trump unfit for the presidency.
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We had a Secretary of State years ago. Never mind who.
He retired. He continued to fix an attentive eye upon all our political doings. Especially foreign affairs.
He was dismayed (so I infer) by the off-the-cuff remarks habitually made by a particular U.S. envoy. "Well," this worthy man remarked. . . . .
". . .he has said EVERYTHING except. . . . .
". . .NO COMMENT."
Oh that the President would inscribe these words on some convenient wall. A wall facing the bed, so those weary eyes could scan them before dropping off to sleep. Or scrawl them on a slip of paper and stick that paper in some prominent position on his desk in the Oval Office. Or . .or. . . .
. . . you get my drift, don't you?
Mr. President! Sir! Your high position has imposed upon you many arduous duties. One duty is not among them.
The duty. . . . .
. . .of expressing yourself on any and every occasion, here and abroad. May I respectfully suggest something new--something different.
Just be quiet. . . .
. . ..and sit still.
Thank you.
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Do people really listen to what he says anymore? Why?
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These tweets are further evidence of Donald Trump's mental instability and his hatred that he harbors towards the "other."
It is too bad that naive liberals and attention-grabbing, sell-out politicians, like Democratic Party leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, didn't figure this out before they decided to heap praise on Donald Trump for his supposed "compassion" towards undocument "dreamers" - a "compassion" that will certainly change the next time Donald Trump picks up his smartphone to tweet what is truly in his dark, hate-filled heart.
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Oh they understand full well what he is. They're trying to save the Dreamers.
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"In the sights of British Police..." Donny - there you go again (to borrow from a former Republican president). You may have got that information from your conversation with PM May, or your morning intelligence briefing; nevertheless, by blurting this out in an aimless tweet you may well have compromised an important operation driven solely by your compelling need for self promotion. There is a further cost to this: the Five Eyes, as solid an international intelligence sharing operation as there ever has been, may evolve into the Four Eyes and a seeing eye dog, simply because of lack of trust with the senior partner. This will be to our immense loss.
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One day, perhaps sooner than we want, the United States is going to find itself in need of support from leaders of other countries who will be loath to get tangled up in Donald Trump's mess. America's defense will be left to the yahoos and yokels who believe they know it all with Trump as their cheerleader.
Why will any country be willing to participate and sacrifice their countrymen and women to an arrogant "leader" who insults and demeans them? Answer: They won't.
God help us when that time comes.
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Once again, the first impulse of Donald Trump is to criticize our great, good friend rather than to offer condolences and support. Trump is a complete and utter embarrassment to the US. He appears to be incapable of learning.
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Terrifyingly, as we know, a critical source of intel for Mr. Trump is cable TV. If that weren't beyond pathetic enough - he can't even get that information straight.
There is so much that is terribly wrong here one knows hardly where to begin.
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Perhaps it is time to put his travel ban agenda to a test. If the ban was in place, could it have stopped this last attack? how? What about the previous attack? and one before that, all the way back for the last decade. Where were these terrorists from? were they affected by such ban at all?
Alas, objectivity is as uninteresting as facts nowadays.
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We will soon find out where these terrorists are from and where they have recently traveled and its a fairly good bet that it includes one of Libya, Somalia, Sudan, or Yemen where terrorists are trained.
I do not want terrorists coming into my country and definitely not becoming citizens like so many have in Europe.
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I am a photojournalist returning from a week at a photojournalism festival, and I write this from Oakland airport. I spent the whole week expressing embarrassed apologies for Trump and his disgraceful regime (and comments) to everyone from waiters to colleagues. His comments and ejaculations about the London event are quite true to his form. This monstrosity is an embarrassment to the presidency and to America, and everyone in the enlightened world knows it.
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Trump's carelessness and self-padding go on uninterrupted. Narcissism is a demanding beast and must be fed, however unbecoming the meal. And no adverse effects yet?
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When will this international embarrassment be deposed or silenced, or possibly develop the character to resign?
Surely he realizes how many good people in this world are turning rabid against him!
Does the Trumpet ever utter anything significant and appropriate?
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The intel community doesn't always get it right but is surely a better source than speculation from Brian Kilmeade.
One quality Presidents need is self control. No Chief of Staff, not General Kelly nor even the legendary Jim Baker, can supply that.
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I'm so embarrassed. To the people of Great Britain, I apologize for the showy vulgarity of my president. Good thoughts to those who were injured or traumatized and to their families and colleagues. I am sorry this happened to you. I hope we can all sort out a way to live in a more peaceful world.
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I'm curious.
Has Donald Trump, since becoming President, ever apologized to anyone for anything, either privately or publicly?
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I apologize to the British people. The man now in our White House has no class, manners, intelligence, or empathy. I am so sorry he added insult to injury. I love London and my heart goes out to all who were affected by this attack.
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No need to; actually Many Europeans including myself strongly agree w Trump;
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No, most don't agree with Trump, or anything he says or does. Most Europeans think he's a joke.
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Trump is right about the travel band/ he is right about having a more secure border/wall...and everyone who is hating on him will cut off their nose despite their face just to oppose him the hot air and smoke and mirrors from the left knows no end and it will bring the Democratic party even more so to its knees....may a independent moderate movement begin /Amen
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You can call the perpetrators sick, demented, or whatever. One needs to keep in mind that it is generations of people that have been perpetrating the terror attacks - not just one individual.
It is necessary for the West to ask themselves the question - why are generations of people attacking us?
Just blaming their religion, culture, or morals without deeper reflection only results in the West taking non-action (or wrong action,) which would keep perpetuating these attacks forever.
The West must understand this simple truth: It's they, the Westerners - beginning with the Europeans in the 1900s, and then the Americans after 1945 - that have been looting, pillaging, marginalizing, and lampooning a huge swath of peoples in the middle-east - for generation after generation.
When these victims of bigotry have no military power to defend themselves, what's the only weapon they can use? Answer: Terrorism.
Terrorism has always been the weapon of the wronged and weak since the beginning of mankind. Advice to the West: Understand this first. Begin making amends and reparations, next. Then hope that your penance will be recognized and you'll be left alone in peace.
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Excellent analysis and right on the money. You reap what you sow. Also known as karma or the universal law of cause and effect. Or in Newtonian terms: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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@Arun Not true. Long before the United States existed, Muslims have been violent. There are even passages from the Quran which explicitly promote violence against "disobedient" women:
"Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and BEAT them."
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McMaster in yet another attempt to clean up behind Trump. This is getting so tiresome. An unequivocal ally insulted again. Robert Mueller please hurry and end this national nightmare the country was plunged into with the election of what has to be the most dismal excuse maybe ever for a president, for certain in modern times.
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God forbid that the Left, as evidenced by the snide comments on this thread, is wrong about Trump on this occasion. Scotland Yard has been watching numerous people who still managed to carry out terrorist acts in the UK.
If it turns out the perpetrator responsible for today's bomb attack in London's tube was indeed under surveillance by British authorities, a fact that will come out, the American Left will once again have eat crow if Trump was correct.
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Scotland Yard either knew of this person or didn't. Trump had a fifty-fifty chance of being right. It's totally beside the point. Clearly, it is logistically impossible, for SY (or anyone) to track and control every person suspected of violent potential, terrorist otherwise.
I feel stupid having to state the obvious, but Trump should not be making guesses based on something he saw on Fox and inserting himself into the early stages of a terrorist investigation by British intel experts.
I agree that this is a liberal issue if liberal means common sense. Plain ol' sense.
Trump wanted to impress us with his smarts.
I'm laughing too hard to actually finish this!
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Mr Trump should be reminded that he is President of the United States, not Prime Minister Of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I shudder to think what would happen if any other world leader were to comment on Mr Trump's handling of a domestic matter in an unhelpful fashion.
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It really is time for Trump to stop parroting Fox TV's inaccurate and misleading reports as his main source of information. Kelly has to insist that he rely on intelligence from the many Government agencies at his disposal.
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It is basic human decency to express concern and solidarity when a close ally experiences a terrorist attack. To make the first statement a naked political opportunity designed to generate support for your own controversial immigration positions is unconscionable. That said, we should not be surprised by Mr. Trump's behavior.
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Even in international scenes, Mr. T shows mis-judgement, mis-speech, mis-twitter, misbehavior, and pretense of truth lover.
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To the British people, please understand that this country is being essentially held hostage by a disturbed individual. The vast majority of USA citizens stand with you and applaud the quick identification of the suspects and the professionalism that we have come to expect of British law enforcement.
I can only hope that your leaders, as well as those of our cherished friends throughout the world, see this state of affairs in our government for what it is, with confidence that the current stance of bullying, isolationism, and dismissive indifference to matters that impact upon other nations deeply, will pass in due time. Hopefully, this occurs before irreparable damage has been done, but for now at least, please know that I am praying for the injured from this horrific incident and I wish that our government could be more helpful.
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For the next Presidential election, let's have a written, timed test with questions ranging from social media usage to civics questions about the role of government and the three branches and their purposes. We can see how the candidates think and build logical arguments, and whether they speak and think in complete sentences. And, let's have a 10 minute taped speech where the candidate speaks extemporaneously on a topic. No teleprompters. No advance notice of the questions.
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Scotland Yard held up as a shiny object to distract his unhappy base from negotiations with Dems. And his generals cover for him. No doubt British intel would like America to be "great" again. Make that sane again.
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One should not take Social medias' comment and react to it seriously. Trump's remarks remain his only, like all others here. British choose to respond is their own doing.
We must understand Donald Trump's statements as coming not from an informed policymaker or the chief representative of a country and its people, but from a promoter and the self-imagined host and narrator of a show of which he is the creator and in which we are all characters and players, as well as the audience. When he says something like he did today about the London attacker/s being “in the sights of Scotland Yard” or when he seemed to get almost giddy while live tweeting hurricanes Harvey and Irma, he's just trying to make the show exciting for us, but at the same time reassure us that it's all going to turn out OK. He's The Greatest Show on Earth!
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Mr. Trump does not need evidence. He does not need facts. Whatever his gut feelings tell him, that is the truth. His wisdom is above fact, above ordinary truth, above science. Listen to him. Act on his words. Not!
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Truthiness incarnate.
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I just came back from five weeks in various parts of Europe. Yes, as a Norwegian citizen living in the US, it was very tempting to join in that chorus of anti-trump feelings, which I totally share. On the other hand, there are many right-wing nationalists in Europe that totally agree with some, but maybe not most of his rants. My sister lives in Denmark (I just put her and her husband on the bus to DIA this morning); she has been anti-immigration for at least 20 years, while he, being a leader of the right-wing local party where they live, outside Copenhagen, may have a more temperate agenda. In any case, I do think that main-stream Europe, like its earlier right-wing radicals, will vote for a narrower immigration policy, and I think it will prevail. On that basis, if they cannot dictate better immigration polices, more countries will leave the EU in the early future. There is a lot of anger in Europe about what the EU has forced on them, and I frankly don't see the EU surviving in the long term. The right-wing nationalists are being energized by Brexit, including the Catalans and other tiny factions all over the continent. My trip was an eye-opener, even with a week in Croatia, which was beyond happy with its participation in the EU. They, however, did not opt to join the euro, which will give they a much stronger position if they want to leave.
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Rather than being energised by Brexit, most Europeans are looking at the UK negotiating shambles with concern. The EU however seems to be energised, with its economies performing better than expected. No signs of Brexit inspiring others or that it has started a chain, quite the opposite.
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One saying sums it up succinctly-
"Open mouth, insert foot."
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There is nothing left to discuss about Donald Trump that we do not know. The list of applicable pejoratives is virtually infinite. Yet, we, and the liberal media, analyze his tweets as if somehow he was reincarnated overnight as a thoughtful, inclusive, articulate and humble leader. There is zero mystery - this is it, folks, and his election will forever serve to remind future generations, to paraphrase another media outlet, that democracy*can* die in darkness.
As to the article, Trump is a laughingstock in Britain, among other nations. My British friends refer to him in terms that cannot be published here. PM May has made very clear that she regards Trump as the village idiot. His sophomoric tweet today removed any lingering doubt as to the veracity of her beliefs.
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Theresa May was not wise about him earlier. She appears to say what she thinks will advantage her (no surprise in a politician, but her policies appear to me to not be a million miles removed from the looting of the commons going on here).
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Robert - Democracy will not die in darkness. We'll get past him, we'll recover and rebuild, and by doing so we'll demonstrate that this country is robust and talented enough to weather even having a malicious idiot for its president.
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I agree, Jonathan; that's why I used "can die" but I should have been more clear as to my statement. If any good comes from having this narcissistic charlatan as president, it will be to warn future generations of the consequences of the hate, racism and false nationalism that elected him - not to mention the help he obtained from Russia.
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After a week of no really Trump drama and Trump acting if he has finally learned how to not be Trump, we are pulled back into Trump world.Trump's comments on Virginia and his tweets about the London bombing lets us know the real Trump is no longer dormant.Trump's tweet about the London bombing was just to let us know he had the inside scoop on something.Trump thought nothing how his tweets would effect the investigation because he wanted to be the first to tell us something we didn't know.Trump's comments on Virginia needs no explanation but his remarks on the ESPN host are in themselves remarkable.Trump called Obama and Clinton every name he could think of and now he is offended by being called a White Supremacist? Trump has shown us once again that he can't walk and chew bubblegum at the same time.Will he ever learn how to keep his foot out of his mouth for more than a few days?
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The answer, of course, is no.
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Since before World War II, the United Kingdom has been our most loyal ally. But, following the attacks on the USA September 11, 2001, we betrayed them by withholding evidence of a terror cell, linked to 9/11, operating in London. It wasn't until after the July 7, 2005 bombings in London that the United Kingdom was informed, by the same private US citizen who had previously provided the original evidence of the cell to the FBI on September 20, 2001. Once the UK was informed, the US Department of Justice was forced to allow the FBI to join an investigation in London of this particular cell. As a direct result of that investigation, a plot to destroy up to 10 US owned airliners departing the UK for the United States was uncovered and prevented. A plot which could have succeeded if not for the persistence of this one private citizen.
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So, London did not know about terror cells in Britain who were planning to blow up 10 planes.
Someone is responsible for letting these people into the country.
Dozens of families are grieving today with injuries that will change lives forever because some liberal politicians were more concerned about future votes so they could stay in power.
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We are progressively normalizing the Trump presidency in the U.S. This presidency is anything but normal, and normalization is dangerous because it enables the deterioration of American democracy.
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I was in a relationship with someone with mental health issues and after it ended I was amazed at the behaviour that I came to accept as normal.
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The Donald.
Unsafe at any speed.
Always has been. Always will be.
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Not only is it another big, fat lie from Trump that more has been done to combat ISIS during his brief tenure than during President Obama's, he -- the so-called Commander-in-Chief -- somehow doesn't even know how long we have been fighting ISIS, who first gained international recognition in 2014.
That's less than 4 years -- not 8!
This is a war we are in, not his inauguration audience. He canNOT exaggerate something this serious.
But he claims the war is going on twice as long as it really is?
Unbelievable!
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I'm surprised Trump's not shilling his overpriced hats to the bombing victims. He used his visits to victims of Harvey and Irma to peddle his $40 ball caps.
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I've been trying not to do it, but much to my disgust and shame, this man is:
Not My President!!!
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Susan: "One if by land, two if by sea..."
You knew you were going to have to take that ride at some point. Much appreciated.
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We must finally accept that the principal characteristic failures of Donald Trump are caused by plain and simple immaturity. He has never grown up. The gravitas and wisdom we hope for in a head of state aren't there, and are unlikely to be there in time to salvage this mess of a presidency. (There is also the clear possibility that he can't grow up.)
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His history is one of meanness and selfishness from early childhood. He was taught that he could get away with anything, and he doesn't care as long as he gets his. Roy Cohn, Roger Stone, that Hitler book. he's always chosen the darkness. I don't think you can excuse him with immaturity. He's twisted, not half-grown.
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Can't wait to see Pumpkinhead's tweets when this country suffers its next real terrorist attack--probably from white supremacists. It will be fascinating to see how he blames Obama--or Hillary. Guarantee he will take absolutely ZERO responsibility himself.
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Totally manufactured row. I am hardly a fan of your president but might one dare suggest that Trump is right? That he knows perfectly well that thousands of known enemy fighters are amongst us, they are known to the police, and that we should be more proactive? The idea this tweet is damaging or compromising is simply absurd. Groupthink journalism.
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OK if as you said he know perfectly well they are amongst us why he doesn't arrest them.
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agreed 100%
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re: Jonathan
Still smarting after Le Pen and the far right got trounced in your recent elections?
Seems to me you need to listen to your fellow citizens, because they had enought sense to reject the type of juvenile, paranoid nonsense that we see far too often from Donald Trump.
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Trump also tweeted, without evidence. that Obama wiretapped him.
This is what the republicans in the electoral college appointed to the oval office.
Apologies to the British.
He absolutely does not represent America. "We The People" did not vote for him.
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But, "we the people" did vote for him. He got enough of the popular vote that he had enough Electors. In reality, had HRC not gotten the majority of the popular vote but had carried the right states to have the requisite number of electors but was denied the presidency by the Electoral College, we liberals would be screaming at that unconstitutional exercise. Like it or not, the Constitution does provide for a two-step presidential election process. Don't like the College? Amend the Constitution. However, that takes action by Congress and the votes by the required number of states.
In addition to the Russian meddling and fake/planted news sites and stories, HRC contributed to her demise by running a poor campaign.She never broke through much of the public's perhaps somewhat justified perception of her as elitist and cold. She does not relate well to many working class voters and did not hide her contempt for Trump supporters--some (the diehards and racists) of whom deserve contempt but certainly not all.
Trump is elitist, even though his supporters do not perceive him that way. He cares not for the working class, the un-and underemployed, the cops etc. who voted for him. He cares about himself and the upper class.
Given Russian meddling and fake/planted news, we cannot say he won entirely "fairly and squarely." But win he did under the Constitution. People can say "not my president" all they wish. But wishful thinking won't make that slogan true.
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* Trump: endless, boisterous Tweets that pester civil, rational minds
* Trump: in 5 months as president, has yet to sign a major piece of legislation
* Summary: This Oaf gives new meaning to "all talk and no action."
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If we had a President who actually worked instead of constant tweeting.........
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It's not constant. He has to leave time to watch his beloved Fox News as well as things he claims not to watch (but somehow knows about), such as CNN and Morning Joe. After all, if he refuses the classified briefings provided to normal presidents, the pseudo-leader of the free world has to get his news from somewhere.
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Maybe Mrs. May can tweet back about the hurricanes & Trump's climate change denial. Fool!
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ME, ME, ME!!! All day, all night, everyplace in sight. Give it a rest, Donald. The Drunk Uncle routine is getting really old. Your " ratings" are sinking. A shake -up is needed, add some excitement. Start with something BIG: make all your Cabinet fight for their jobs. Excitement!
Suspense! Who will stay??? Who will go??? Surprise us!!!
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This Trump dog don't hunt.
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Simply the personification of the "Ugly American," insensitive, self-absorbed and self-aggrandizing. What an embarrassment.
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How about a ban on President Trump's tweets!
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Expecting something brilliant from his brain would be impossible.
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Every day in every way #45 demonstrates that he was never been, nor will he ever be, presidential material. Thus it follows, and as he has so beautifully, beautifully demonstrated, he is incapable of "acting" presidential, a quality falsely attributed to him by many so-called political experts.
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Mr. Trump knows nothing of politics, international relations, or running a country. Be assured that Trump's proposed ban would be larger, tougher and more specific in name only, as is much of his hyped up but substantively vacuous policies, the sum total of which is a cipher.
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I mean, seriously, I can't fathom the US Embassy in Saana flooded with applications for tourist visas--this whole ban is lots of nothing!
We know, or are at least capable of knowing which gun dealers sell the most weapons that are used in crimes. We know that there are thousands of people with gun violations in their history, yet we do nothing about it. The shooter in DC that hit the Congressman had a history that should have flagged him. Yet we do nothing about it.
But, some protesters broke some windows at the inauguration, and the DOJ can investigate 1.3 million users of a website.
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no matter anyone like it or not. President trump is right! remember that. He has the gut to say what is right and what he said is to protect american people.
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Well, he was right, wasn't he? But aren't we forgetting the original story? Must Trump always be the focus?
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Well, isn't this a surprise: Donald Trump treats the UK just like he treats every person, policy, substance, or idea: Just another tool for self-promotion.
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Omg, Trump guys, you're missing the point. It didn't happen to us. It happened to them (Great Britain). It JUST happened. The smoke hasn't wafted away yet. How would we have liked it if Tony Blair, on our 9/11, would have started spouting out about all the money we spend on our military and intelligence, etc. and yet we still let guys with boxcutters on planes?
Jeez, show a little decorum. Nobody wants nitwits in their neighborhood. Personally, I'm probably more frightened of religious fanatics in front of Planned Parenthood than I am of religious terrorists when I'm walking through the train station. At least at the train station there are heavily armed guards.
Religious fanaticism is a real problem. But it's unbecoming of Mr. Trump to co-opt this ongoing British tragedy for his own political expediency.
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Perhaps British officials should be paying more attention to their domestic security rather than following Trump on Twitter.
Honestly, do they have nothing better to do that they stopped their work in this urgent time to care about what Trump has to say?
Some of us already know that Trump has the right message. He's reducing illegal and legal immigration, and cutting down on the number of refugees from terrorist hot spots. The UK officials are angry of course because they can't stand the fact that Trump with his little brain is clearly smarter than all of them on such policies.
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Perhaps trump has been told, and having nothing better to do, tells the truth for once and hinders British intelligence and its police.
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Do not fret about these Tweets. The entire world should assume (correctly) that on a world scale, where he must operate perforce, the man is daft, and so ignore them.
Listen only to his White House keepers. And pray earnestly that they have a strait jacket ready on every floor and enough energy and determination to employ them in a crisis.
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General Kelly needs to cut off the cable in the White House. Didn't the President know that Tillerson was just there? Unreal...
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Next 45 will say Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
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This is week 34 of the trump presidency.
He is "unhelpful" to the world on a weekly basis.
Only 174 weeks to go until 2020. Gawd help us all!...
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Trump is a security risk.
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Remember that Israeli intelligence report where the U.K. was warned about provider intelligent to Trump?
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His campaign shots (from the hip) included the numbskull assertion that President Obama had telegraphed internal deliberations regarding ISIS. And now he issues a bleat - excuse me, tweet - that, except for the fact that it's just another lie, would do just that. Once again he has demonstrated that, when he issues a condemnation, he's really describing himself.
It's almost impossible to believe that we're describing the President of the United States here. It's equal parts wacky and horrifying.
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Doesn't Trump do business with Saudi Arabia? Maybe he should stop considering most of the 9/11 gang were Saudi. Oh that's right, there's money to be made.
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Donald J. Trump is an embarrassment. He's not that wealthy and has something to hide. Why else have employees sign non-disclosure agreements? Why not show off his tax returns? He seemed more than willing to whip out his "tool" when accused of having small hands.
Events will show Trump for the fraud that he is. "Can't fool all of the people all of the time."
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tRump calls London bombing terrorists "losers".
The world tells tRump "takes one to know one".
Once again showing the world his great leadership skills.
Name calling.
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He does this EVERY time.
what a fool.
What a demagogue.
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Did Trump say he liked to get all the facts before making any comments? That's what he said after Charlottesville. Why doesn't it apply here?
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All that's needed to confirm the man's ignorance, racism, chauvinism and prejudice is the output of his verbal diarrhea, whether oral or electronic.
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How many times do we have to say this. Trump cares about nothing but his own agenda and he'll use anything, anybody, any government, any tragedy to accomplish it.
He behaves like King of the World when he was neither elected to such a post nor has in any way earned it. His clumsy, tone-deaf comments about another government, particularly one of our oldest allies is proof enough. But still no one, no one at all is willing to knock him off his arrogant perch.
In some ways, Trump is like a defective GPS system and he keeps steering our country into one damned swamp or another all the way claiming to be "right."
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Trump is someone who speaks before he carefully thinks, measures his words, or even learns all the appropriate and relevant facts. We call it shooting off at the mouth. His base loves it. The rest of us, the vast majority of Americans, grit our teeth and unwittingly shake our heads in disgust.
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I see he "waited for all the facts" as he claimed in the aftermath of Charlottesville.
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Donald Trump - the most clueless and classless president in U.S. history.
My apologies to Britain and the world for this international embarrassment of a politician and human being.
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Our President is a JOKE. And the jokes on us.
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How are we going to rid ourselves of this menace?
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Pretty much no one, other than the deplorable, uneducated, or willingly ignorant believe anything Trump says. There are lots of ways to describe him, not least of which is that he is a world class fool. Sadly, he's also our POTUS. Woe is us.
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Congratulations America..... the founding fathers biggest fear: The election of a madman to the presidency.
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He needs to learn to bite his tongue. Hold his impulses.
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He needs to be removed from any public office and any salary to date refunded.
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and also the costs of his trips to his clubs. He is rich enough to afford it
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" Believe Me ". Um, Never. Oh, great and powerful Jaws.
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Unbelievable that anyone supports this showboat. This time the show is extremely insensitive, completely unsupportive, and totally ignorant. You know, "typical Trump".
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Needed for the White House: a Trumpslator. Changing Trumpspeak into something comprehensible. Bigly.
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Trump lives in a bubble. He doesn't seem to grasp that his hair-trigger tweets, absent real facts, make him and the rest of us look like simple-minded dolts to the rest of the world.
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Just back from Iceland. Unprompted, our taxi driver, called Trump an idiot. Said Icelanders cannot figure out how we was elected since every US visitor they meet claims not to have voted for him. He speculated that perhaps Trump voters do not travel and have a broader world view as much as non-Trump voters.
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Is it just me or does anyone else feel a wave of soul-crushing nausea the moment they click on the Times and learn the Donald has yet again spouted off some ridiculous inanity that makes all of America look imbecilic and moronic?
There should be a support group.
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It's called the Democratic Party. We welcome YOU.
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For god's sake - I'm not a great fan, but is there really anything wrong with Trump's remarks? Stop getting your knickers in a twist every time Trump opens his mouth or twitters.
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Trump conveniently forgets the "Terrorist" Timothy McVeigh.
White , freckle faced all American terrorist.
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Uni bomber Ted. Also
Every School and club shooter.
Every cop who shoots an unarmed person and gets away with it.
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So Trump has done more against ISIS in 8 months than Obama did in 8 years. What exactly does he think he's done?
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Dears US friends.
I have been ashamed by my presidents : Mitterand, Sarkozy and Hollande,,Now your turn !
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Trump tweets anger British Leaders.
Well they should.
They are responsible.
They let in people they shouldn't have.
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Once again 45 shows the world that he's a boorish blowhard unable to resist placing himself into any situation. Rarely has he written a helpful tweet when the world would rather he just say nothing at all. Any violence throughout the world is 45's opportunity to push his racest agenda.
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We need with Twitter-control skills!
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*We need a president with Twitter-control skills.
London has Scotland Yard, MI5, and access to Interpol and European intelligence. USA has Trump, whose intelligence is questionable . I'd move to London in a New York minute.
york minute.
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"These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard."
Really?
Either Trump is just shooting from the hip as usual, or, just maybe, he was briefed on the incident before the tweet and he's "leaking" info on an ongoing investigation by British authorities.
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Mr. Trump is our great national shame. I'm sorry, London. I'm sorry, Britain. Many of us would just like to help.
Trump makes enemies of our allies. He discloses classified information that undermines their terrorist investigations. He gets his information from TV shows. He doesn't care if what he says is true. His supporters are a cult that will follow him down any hole.
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Perhaps but at least he understands the game unlike the "enlightened" European leaders that are watching over the invasion of their continent and the slow destruction of a great culture.
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It's not a game, stanley.
He's playing with human lives.
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Sad Hugely
He represents America
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Sorry Brits, he can't help himself and suffers from foot in mouth disease. We suffer his suffering as well.
Our national embarrassment ( formerly known as the President) is prone to jump in, rush to judgement and run off at the mouth.
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The "president" speaks for himself... Another reason for NO state visit to U.K.
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A total lack of knowledge or facts has never been a barrier to the Trumpkopf expressing his ill considered (un-considered?) opinions as fact to be given serious consideration. It is as if he has no sense of....you know what? I give up. His behavior is so irrational and unbalanced that I have arrived at a total loss of words. He is beyond comment, beyond reasonable consideration. Beyond the pale.
Will no one free us from this meddlesome oaf?
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His presidency is now into the ninth month, he continues to do more harm to this nation and the world diplomatically . This man is mentally unfit to be our president who is morally bankrupt. This man does not do his homework, is ignorant about the immense levels how to govern this nation, let alone in the world stage. May someone please remove or delete his twitter account before he's done further damage?
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When will I ever stop being embarrassed by this man?
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And why do we care about this? Houston and FL seem to have disappeared. Off the radar.
The Brits claim they are on top of things. Great. Let them deal with it. We should deal with the concerns of our own.
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Lol. Trump's ISIS campaign is largely just a cintinuation of the one started under Obama (which was about 70% complete at inauguration). Not realistic to think that this admin could actually organize something like that.
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Our national embarrassment has done it again. His ability to offend our friends and allies puts our country and each one of us in a bad position. I don't want him to speak for me. I want him to act presidential, but it seems to be beyond his grasp. I am ashamed that he represents us to the world.
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Most children are taught to shut up and listen, a lesson never learned by Trump. His thoughtless tweets present a clear and present danger to our safety.
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Of course Trump's comments are ridiculous. This is hardly a surprise. But it shows a profound lack of proportion that a tweet is more talked about than the bomb itself.
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According to one Trump supporter, Trump is "brilliant", saying all these silly things as a distraction in order to push through his agenda. What is his agenda? To make this country into a powerhouse.
Reality check anyone?
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I find it most disturbing to see trump, as so-called commander in chief,
standing before a cadre of military men and women who are committed to serve and indeed sacrifice for the country in time of war and peace. Trump of course knows about sacrifice in war personally. He evaded sacrifice not once but five times in the Viet Nam war ... a draft dodger par excellence while over 50,000 of his fellow americans gave all up as he carried on his hedonistic life style with absolutely no regrets or second thoughts.
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More "false news" I'm sure. Countdown till when Trump tweets or comments that "many people, many many people," are praising him for what he said?
Can we just give this child a box of gold stars and move on? Ivanka, I am looking at you. Give him a "Best President Ever" mug and please, do us a kindness and take him home?
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I don't give a hoot WHO he irritates so long as he keeps doing the great job he has been doing since taking office! For some reason, some people on this forum can't accept POTUS seriously, as if the purveyor the of doom, H.R.C., could have done ANYTHING correctly as president. Thank God we dodged THAT bullet! President Trump is doing a GREAT job; something that hasn't occurred for over 16 years.
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Your list please.
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I have been doing my best this week to relax and think Trump might grow into the presidency. But the man is a hopeless, bigoted egomaniac, willing to throw allies (in this case England) under the bus whenever it helps him with one of his self-serving talking points. "Chuck and Nancy" should take note. They need to save DACA, but they should keep in mind that they are doing business with a viper.
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General Kelly's tenure as Chief of Staff will be deemed a failure if he doesn't wrest the Twitter from POTUS.
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Don the Con never let the truth get in the way of his bias. The only exercise he gets is jumping to conclusions.
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So there's two ways to go with this, Defenders of the Trump Realm. One, he jumped to conclusions about the perpetrators of the bombing. Or, two, he spoke based on privileged intelligence information. Item two presents a problem because of the ongoing nature of the investigation and, also, the possibility of revealing sources and methods of intelligence gathering, both or either of the UK or the United States. So, either way, it's probably better for him to have held off on his pronouncements (tweets). He probably should have gone with 'thoughts and prayers,' etc.
And what is this Fox and Friends? I don't have a television, but sometimes see it at other people's homes. Is this something like Paw Patrol? Is this something the President of the United States should be watching? Perhaps Mommy should turn off the TV and insist on some quiet reading time.
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But then he would have to be able to read - a skill that he sorely lacks. No wonder he "loved" the poorly educated.
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Not one word from Trump on the school shooting in Spokane this week. Not one word from Trump on the mass shooting at a football party in Plano that left eight people dead. No calls for sensible gun control, or better access to mental health services, or earlier intervention by family or officials when someone threatens harm to others.
When are Trump and others going to stop using the "they're coming to kill us!" scare tactic to justify their own bigotry? And just as important, when are they going to realize that Americans are killing each other much more often and in greater numbers than any immigrants are?
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During the presidential election campaign, Trump took time off to travel to Great Britain to campaign for Brexit. It was most improper for Trump to do this; we should NOT be interfering in the internal affairs of our NATO allies. As the Brexit vote was very close, Trump could have been the difference between victory and defeat for Brexit. Great Britain should avoid the severe economic damage that will accrue to them because of Brexit by disavowing the Brexit vote due to foreign interference.
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They need to just get used to it and ignore him. That's what New Yorkers have been doing for more than 30 years!
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Except, we get New Yorkers in political leadership positions like Senator Chuck Schumer who act as enablers for this behavior by heaping praise on Donald Trump for a "deal" that any common sense New Yorker knows is worthless.
I haven't been able to follow the news closely today, but the top stories I've seen are about Trump's premature and inappropriate pronouncements on an attack in London. This before I got any information on the attack itself. Is news in these times not about what's actually going on, but Trump's blustery reaction to the events of the day? What a sad state of affairs!
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Suggestion: Just as Republicans (eg, near unanimous House-Senate Joint Resolution) have started calling out and educating Pres. Heelspurs about his unconsidered inflammatory comments, perhaps world leaders could have a daily Twitter campaign simply requesting that he not use Twitter to comment and pass judgement on their countries.
Did Trump just tweet about confidential information? If so, why isn't the base calling to "lock him up"?
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Doesn't Twitter have an obligation to turn off his account for breaching international security and violating confidential law enforcement reports?
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Our fearless leader - making new friends wherever he goes. So proud....
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Incite filled rhetoric hurts many, helps not one. But of course he will never see that. Shame on him , as usual. And yet, try to stop him. We once again have to apologize for a leader who doesn't know how. And continually makes matters worse.
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Truth hurts, and rankles even the stiff upper lipped British.
Trump's message to Britain was correct -- political correctness has no place in fighting terrorism.
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If there is an inappropriate, stupid, out of place remark to be made on just about any topic, Trump is busy making it.
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They haven't even identified potential suspects, and Trump is already using the incident to whip up his base over his Muslim ban.
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So, according to Trump, the perpetrators in London are "terrorist losers", but some of those white supremacists are "good people"?
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well, the perpetrators did plant a bomb meant to kill and maim while the supremacists did congregate to protest racist statues so there is that.
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Just another example of spontaneous "tweeting" by our "Twit in Chief." People, don't treat anything he tweets seriously. He is simply a "twit" = silly or foolish person.
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His base takes his tweets seriously! :(
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So on this issue, Mr Trump doesn't see "many side, many many sides" to blame???? Now it's only Muslims? And it's all Muslims? Even the moms and the babies?
I am ashamed of our president and sad for the innocent lives we are destroying by barring refugees who are fleeing this mad violence. Deeply, deeply, ashamed and very very sad.
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That was an excellent comment.
He is an odious individual and completely unfit in every way imaginable. He will never change or care about anyone other than his self. What on earth happened to us?
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Sorry, London. At least you don't have to live with the guy. It's horrible.
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In response to Gen. McMaster's quote: When will you stop defending him?? This was a terrorist attack, and Donald Trump does his usual disgusting, aggressive morning tweet. It is even more disgusting to watch you contort yourself to try to explain or justify it. Please, spare us all.
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Why is this now your lead story? Why attack Trump instead of drawing attention to terrorism?
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Because if the Brit's had any sense, they would stop all information sharing with the US since Trump cannot be trusted. President Dumdum harming foreign relationships is bigger national news than a non-fatal explosion in a foreign country.
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Because his bungling of international relations, even with our closest allies, puts all of us at risk.
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Because Trump is actually a more serious threat to our (hopefully) shared democratic values than any religious fanatic terrorist
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Imagine Trump's fury if the shoe were on the other foot. Our allies stood shoulder to shoulder with us after 9/11. They never referred to all the dots our intelligence communities didn't connect. For a man who so easily offended, Trump never misses an opportunity to criticize others.
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It's a "conservative" thing--you wouldn't get it.
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Who's surprised? It's clear he is compelled to go onto Twitter, typing a comment on difficult situations Britain faces. Some weird competition related to what Steve Bannon told him about Brexit.
He's compulsive, thinking he knows more than the generals.
There's a phenomenon known as Sundowners Syndrome, where older people decompensate at night, doing the wrong things.
Perhaps this seemingly caffeinated morning tweet issue needs examined by the generals? Or psychiatrists?
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The Sundowner's Syndrome you refer to is experienced by people with dementia. My suspicion for months now is Trump exhibits signs of dementia -- limited vocabulary (look at interviews from 20 yrs ago, different speech patterns), difficulty with coherent sentence structure or remembering what he's said only days or moments before. Terrifying.
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Trump apparently has zero respect for intelligence agencies, not just ours but now Scotland Yard.
But completely respects the words of Brian Kilmeade and the other clowns on Fox and Friends.
Trump does deserve props for no spelling errors in his latest series of juvenile tweets.
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How can Trump bleat that the perps were " in the sights of Scotland Yard" when the perps haven't been identified yet? How can he whine that his so-called travel ban would prevent such an attack, when so far there's no evidence that the perps were non-British?
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He's omniscient, of course--just ask him!
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What is the meaning of "perps?"
We need to stop entertaining intellectual curiosity items about this guy and hold him to account for doing everything from obstructing investigations to enriching himself by refusing to divest interests. His henchmen keep trying to normalize the abnormality of his behavior. Nothing about his time in office has been normal and nothing about him has changed. He is grossly incompetent and proves it daily. He is using the office to enrich himself and his spawn, and proves it daily.
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Trump is giving a speech at the UN? There go our remaining allies.
GOP inaction to remove this disaster from the presidency is unforgivable.
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When will the GOP learn from history?
To understand Mr. Trump one needs to consider how a narcissist thinks. He is in constant need of reassurance but only from those who don't question him in the slightest. In this case, his "base." When he's drafting a tweet he's only thinking how it will sound to those who support him without condition, or how many more he might convert to that state. Meanwhile we keep wondering, why would the President of the United States keep doing things like misstate the facts and be rebuked, in this case by British leaders. There's a mystifying part of a narcissist mind that also believes that truth is truly of no consequence. That the only valid facts, even if they are distorted or made up, as evidenced by his base, are those that will advance the narrative that he and they mutually enjoy, and that both feel empowered by.
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In 1978, the great Russian writer Alexander Solzenitsyn delivered a famous speech at Harvard University. "A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days", the author of "Gulag Archipelago" said at the time. "The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course, there are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life".
Solzenitsyn uttered these important words at a time when the West still had some courage against Communism. What would he have said today seeing Europe's reaction in front of Islamic terrorism? 'Peace marchers' linking hands in Kumbaya mode and profuse laying of flowers at the terror sites. It's no wonder the Jihadis see the West as a weak and easy target. And all of this aided, as always, by the Liberal MSM, which has embraced the Islamists and elevated them to official 'victims' status.
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For what does MSM stand mean? At any rate, I don't think Western Media has "embraced" Islamists. Most religions have a few intelligent members. I am not a Christian but believe that those who believe in Christ are very moral people. This is also true of Islam and Buddhism members.
We -- the world -- do not need the gratuitous, self-inflicted wounds that The Orange Creature specializes in, as we have plenty of real challenges.
Apologies to the Brits and the world for having to endure a uniquely flawed individual that we nonetheless have to take responsibility for.
Our special counsel is hard at work to bring a case that can only end in resignation, impeachment and, possibly, incarceration.
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I hope you are correct and that he is impeached. I very much doubt it will happen, however. Our country used to function a lot better.
The Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, were he any other rank, would be facing court martial for breaches of national security. It is incredible this man has access to top secret, eyes only information.
How can one despise Chelsea Manning and simultaneously admire Donald Trump?
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Really, why is anyone even remotely upset by this. You all know who he is by now. You all should have already lowered the bar to historic lows, and accepted that. It only gets worse from here. Forget the drama, this is real world.
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