Pres Trump protecting and promoting the USA
Finally, a president looking out for us. MAGA
Lesson one. Do not believe President Trump's explanation of how a private meeting went. He is the most crude, vulgar and embarrassing President of the United States in my lifetime.
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“It was damage control, Trump style.”
In other words, blatant lies.
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“I will absolutely, firmly ask the question.”
Trump doesn't have to "firmly ask" Putin if Russia interfered in the election. Trump knows the answer. And he knows Putin will "firmly deny" that Russia interfered.
Game time is over. It is now time for Trump to tell Putin that if Russia persists the US will be taking firm counter-offensive measures in response. And if he doesn't tell Putin that, he must be considered in severe dereliction of duty in protecting our national security. That must be an impeachable offense of the first order.
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I'm sure his mother thought of him as the 'highest level of special'.
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Trump is getting some of his own. Saw an interview with the NATO head. He would not commit to a percent of GDP. NATO are telling Trump what he wants to hear but have no intention of following through. This is the poison that lies bring. Your President has isolated himself from the truth. He should go now.
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How many times is this man going to be able to get away with denying things he said after he said them?
Are we all on one bad acid trip?
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I’m afraid for the entire Trump presidency the most common headline will be “Trump tries to repair damage after...”
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Trump, now our self declared stable, genius has been on damage control ever since November, 2016. He will go down in history as the greatest Sleepwalker ever on planet earth. He accomplish zero in Europe, yet his failures were many. Our obnoxious president may never be invited again to visit a European nation, the only exception being Poland, possibly Austria.
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Trump in his own way is a classic example of cluelessness. If he thinks for even a second that his lame attempt at an apology is going to be appreciated or even accepted in this the real world his ego must really have reached insurmountable heights. I would guess he thinks, OK so I spit in her face. She'll get over it and then like the rest of world love me for the marvelous person I am. On the other hand, considering his habit of ignoring all news except that which comes from Fox and company it might be possible that he actually doesn't realize that 90% of the world thinks he's stinking pile of you know what. Those 250,000 plus demonstrators in London have duplicates planet wide and the vehemence of many of their signs indicated not only disapproval but downright hatred.
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How is it that the two European leaders that Trump has insulted and attempted to undermine most grievously are the strongest women leaders in the G7 and NATO? Doesn't he have tremendous respect for women, except for walking in front of the queen?
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Superbrat 2.0 (with apologies to John McEnroe)
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This is manipulation, not damage control. Trump consistently promotes right wing interests, then he supposedly walks it back. Slowly he is moving everyone further right. Being born with white skin should entitle you to nothing.
Putin's puppet should have been impeached by now.
I don't like Sessions, but given Trump's despicable treatment of him, it would be nice if Sessions went after Trump...
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"I said, I want to apologize because I said such good things about you," Mr. Trump to PM May.
“I am doing a great job, that I can tell you,” Mr. Trump said, “just in case you haven’t noticed.”
Direct quotes, (not fake news) by 45, doing a "great" job.
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Mr.Trump retreats to his golf clubs so he can avoid difficult decisions at the White House.If he had studied position papers as energetically as he has played golf he would not have created the chaos nationally and abroad.His golf clubs are not making money- has anyone checked to see how the golf clubs are financed- maybe with Russian money?
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Our unfiltered POTUS shoots from the hip and,.as usual, fires blanks. Calling his behavior " relentless convention-breaking" gives him a pass he doesn't deserve. His boorish behavior is an embarrassment to the Brits as well as Americans. I'm sure the Queen and PM May are glad he is finally gone...with a good riddance.
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I'm more worried about the aged toddler interfering in other Western democracies, and elsewhere, than Putin interfering in American democracy.
...Or maybe it's tha same thing...
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Just another example of the Left's unremitting, chronic, mental derangement brought on by absolutely anything President Trump says or does (includes the President's gestures and body language, and Twitter misspellings). The left works itself into such a frenzy that this phenomenon constitutes another whole genre: Political Fear Porn.
Instead of calling it the “unpredictability of his relentless convention breaking” why do you not call it what it actually is; stunning and breathtaking dishonesty. He isn’t “breaking conventions”, he is uttering lie after lie after lie. Unless you truly want to live in a a post truth world, start calling him what he is, a pathological liar.
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Unlike Americans, Brits have long memories, and a command of the English language we can only envy. The news reporter questioning Donald Trump very politely cut him to little pieces by simply summarizing his outlandish, uncalled for and brutish remarks about May and her policies. Trump winced then tried to make 'nice' to May. You can't fool all the people.
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This is not damage control, this is gas lighting. A perpetrator commits abuses and violations, then tries to muddy and deny in order to cover up and confuse. Rapists, dictators, sexual abusers do it all the time.
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Americans, can't you keep your President at home in the USA? He is the most unwanted Person in Europe. Sincerly hope, that Relations between Americans and Europeans will not be damaged by your Administration - but it is hard to believe.
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The world leaders continue to enable Trump's behavior by standing beside him and smiling like everything is normal and tolerating the insults and insanity. They are just like the Republicans in Congress. NO agenda is worth giving this unstable repugnant individual credence.
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Trump"s repeated predictive uncouth disrespectful and despicable behavior proves that he feels there are no protocols, person, place or laws that he has to respect and obey. I feel Trump's rude inappropriate behavior was done on purpose to embarrass and belittle the queen while attempting to elevate his own. . She never should invited him. Unless rational thinking people come to senses and get to the polls to rid America of Trump..Woe to America.
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I'm wondering if any other Americans are feeling a profound sense of embarrassment as I am when I watch President Trump representing us. Here he is at the epicenter of civil conduct in Great Britain. Visiting locations where some of the most eloquent words were ever spoken seems so incongruent. And did you notice his gratuitous grabbing of the Prime Minister's elbow as if she needed assistance in walking? He is truly cringworthy.
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True/False (T/F) are values of representations. True is perfection--no degrees; it's the bull's-eye. Degrees of falsity are limitless--off the bull's-eye, off the target, out in left field, not in the ballpark.
But T/F is not precise/vague (P/V), nor general/specific (G/S).
P/V are about degrees of information in the representation classifications. Hot/cold are vague; 100 degrees C is the upper limit for water; at 0 it freezes: Meters give us more precision. Vagueness is about fuzzy boundaries--gray areas--where T/F are indeterminate. There is no precise number of missing hairs making you bald. We say "sort of bald" or 'balding".
Still vague representations can be clearly true. But they are harder to prove false because of the fuzz. And there is no such thing as perfect precision. 10 C is more precise than cold; 10.1 more so; 10.11 more so--on and on.
For ordinary life "cold" will do; sweater time. 10 is little better. But for nanotechnology they are grossly inaccurate. But the more precise representations are easier to prove false. And precision can be expensive.
G/S are matters of classification size. Bio taxonomy goes from more to less general (less to more specific): Domain-Kingdom-Phylum-Class-Order-Family-Genus-Species-etc.
Some academic disciplines specialize in V/G representation--compared to nanotech. But still, their aim is better classifications and proof of T/F.
Trump contempt for T/F, P/V, G/S is idiotic. Trumpie tolerance for it is staggering.
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The body language of this coarse, vulgar, appalling man says it all. He has clutched Mrs. May by the upper arm and is clearly trying to control her - likely in the manner to which he is most accustomed. We can applaud her grim and dignified determination to soldier on, but I would have cheered had she wrested her arm away from him!
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Passive-Aggressive behavior from a narcissistic bully and a stiff upper lip from the PM. Nothing new here. Neville Chamberlain is on the line.
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"I love the United States, but I love getting along with Russia. And China. And other countries.”
And there you have it - nameless allies following Trump's marquee billing for Russia and China.
It's entirely fitting that Trump's trip to hang out with British royalty was completely obscured by Rosenstein's Russian indictments (and Melania's Beauty & The Beast/Handmaid's Tale gown).
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Thank you to those who make a bold attempt at providing the view of a tiny minority of NY Times readers. commenters and opinion columnists. If it is any comfort to you, let me me assure you that a silent majority that matters on election day will by voting demonstrates what will matter. Remember the results of the 2016 presidential elections after all the endorsements and editorials and maligning of a demonized candidate that ended up winning, was not the darling of these self proclaimed custodians of the liberal international order. America is not hated at all. On one side there are the protesters and on the other side are grand ceremonial reception that our president is receiving. Leaders across the world have showered our president with respect and honor by doing that they have honored US. Trump showed the queen due respect without unduly cow towing to her. He ended his official UK trip on a very pleasant note leaving an opening for a mutually beneficial free trade deal with a Brexited Britain, when it happens in 2019. American first has taken the world along on to a more peaceful and prosperous world. America is not alone, but is truly independent and free of bondage to all the burdens of our planet and free of guilt that it is not bending over backwards to the demanding free loaders, unfair traders and those expecting that American tax payers are exclusively responsible for defending them and solving problems of their own creation. There is a new world order for sure.
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Trump is leading us to war, not by design but by his inability and/or unwillingness to think through the consequences of his actions. An unreliable American "ally" will force responsible leaders in Germany and Japan to seriously consider developing their own nuclear weapons. The chances that Russia and China will not take decisive action in response to any such developments are very, very slight.
We are heading for the worst kind of trouble.
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Admirers worldwide of Great Britain's modern, progressive principles and values watch with concern as it approaches severance from its like-minded European neighbors, and its likely economic descent and resulting loss of influence.
Given the U.S.'s own reversal of the disaster of Prohibition in Amendments 18 and 21, one hopes sane British minds of its next government would implement a revote on Leave vs. Remain, and the E.U. would accept a "never-mind" cancellation of its Article-50 withdrawal declaration.
The only positive result of Trump's astoundingly shocking recent interference in British politics is that his endorsement of boorish Boris is the kiss of death in Johnson's ever leading his party to become Prime Minister of the next elected government.
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"Trump Tries to Repair Damage After Criticizing British Leader"
What a strange headline. Who says he want's to repair the damage? The damage was the whole point.
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I don't understand the choices Mrs. May is making, at all.
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Enough. Michael Bloomberg should run against Trump on the next go-round. He’s a Republican, he’s experienced, competent and progressive. Moreover, he has integrity. He could win. I’m a Democrat and I would vote for him.
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Locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen.
The major conundrum, or more accurately, dilemma, with Trump is that since he's president, we must pay attention to whatever he says (or tweets). Yet whatever spills from his fevered tiny brain is meaningless. He undermines PM May, but then he says she's awesome. So, which is it? He calls Mexican rapists, but then he says he loves Mexicans. Substitute Chinese for Mexicans, and so on. So, because he has the awesome power of the presidency, we hang on his every word. Yet we know that his many words - his word salad - is a meaningless exercise in obfuscation. What counts are his actions - virtually all of which are deplorable.
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This is his m.o. Blustery bravado self absorption without rhetorical restraint. All recorded on a device that was not hacked. Cue the cheers of the followers. Then public outrage by sensible folks. In the meantime his staff revises his statement either through Trump-splaining by Sarah or he denies his statements as unfair inaccurate quotes by the fake news. Cue cheers of the followers.
Please Madam May, step up and call him out in a very Brit way! Standing up to his insults will not adversely affect trade.
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I'm wondering if there's a way to sneak that balloon into the military parade later this year.
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Our president says "I am doing a great job,that I can tell you, just in case you haven't noticed." Yes, you have done a great job at breaking the bonds between the United Sates and our allies that have been developed for decades. It will take decades to make up for your deliberate hurtful words.
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Now that President Trump has defined "fake news" as encompassing anything he disagrees with, including his own statements given only hours before, why not dispense with all subtleties and include absolutely everything he says. It's just a thought in a political climate where thinking has become an overwhelmingly secondary concern.
While Trump is going lose and babbling insults at Europeans what is the White House staff doing? Are we paying their lavish salary and benefits for sightseeing?
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"Then it was on to Air Force One and Glasgow, Scotland, where he arrived at his golf resort for a weekend of preparation for his meeting with Mr. Putin."
Why does he need to prepare? He knows everything.
Doesn't he?
Why does he have to go his own golf resort to prepare unless he's really there just to play golf?
Does someone have a drone to fly over the golf course so that we can find out what he really does this weekend?
Pompeo, Trump’s latest sycophant, has just announced Trump may well try and get Putin back into the G7 and announce this after the Helsinki meeting. This demonstrates incredible American arrogance, and ignorance of the G7, which is an organization of equals and is certainly not owned or run by the US. There is no way that the other members of the G7 will accept Russia back, particularly the UK which has had 4 of its citizens very recently poisoned by the Russians, not to mention five Russian critics of Putin resident in the UK who were poisoned or died of a “heart attack”, or “suicide” in the past 4 years including Alexander Litvinenko who was, like the recent victims, attacked with a highly dangerous substance with brazen disregard for British citizens. There’s a reason why many Europeans hate Americans who, as a result, often travel with my country’s Canadian flags on their backpacks. Trump’s anticipated deal with his puppet master will be soundly rejected by the civilized world, but there will be increased palpable hatred of Americans in Europe where Russia is a dangerous neighbour. There are consequences of America unleashing this dangerous man on the world.
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In my more than 70 years I've had deeply worried premonitions about US international behavior only three times.* The first was in 1963 when President Kennedy ordered 24,000 US troops to South VietNam to 'advise.' The second was when GW Bush abandoned the final destruction of the Afgani Taliban to start the unprovoked and totally unrelated Iraq war. Look how those have turned out.
Now I have the same deep premonition about Trump's reactions to Russia which imply to me that they've somehow compromised him.
*The Cuba Missile Crisis wasn't a premonition, it was an obvious and immediate world ending threat.
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I find it revolting that he insists on holding her hand...and like many women, she has acquiesced to a man who unnerves her to avoid a scene.
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This is the modus of the abuser, keep all others off-kilter, gaslight them in the public arena so as to keep the media occupied, to keep the message garbled, to preserve every option of obfuscation.
Celebrity Sociopath. Only in America.
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One thing you can say so far about Donald Trump and his press conferences--no shoes have been thrown his way.
Every second we talk about Trump is wasted. This one included.
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One of these days Trump will tell the truth about something and nobody will believe him. That said, I’m not holding my breath for that to happen and neither are the leaders of the G7 or NATO. One wonders what Queen Elizabeth thought of the man but I doubt that we’ll ever know because the lady has class.
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That's the crux of the problem. Even when Trump leaves the people and their accompanying anger and ignorance will remain. Trump will be followed by another Republican grifter who will gleefully pour gasoline on the fire just for the sake of "winning".
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After Trump trashed prime Minister Theresa May in the news paper interview, Trump and May walked out to the joint new conference holding hands, "hand-in-hand" , according to news reports. However it looked like he had grabbed her hand and not as though she willingly had held hands. Could the press please comment on that. Was this another example of a type of #MeToo behavior, unwanted touching? Look at the tape and see how he was holding her.
There is nothing funny about Trump and the damage he incurs. Would reporters please stop laughing when he tries to be funny. How about a "Joe Wilson" moment every time he lies.
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The Con Don is a repulsive embarrassment to everything that is good about OUR United States of America.
Throw him OUT of OUR government - along with his Robber Baron brethren and their operatives. Lock them up. They are traitors.
NOW is the time, Mr. Mueller.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/world/europe/trump-may-brexit-sun.htm...
I'm sorry to say this, but as an international student from a foreign country who might go study abroad, it worries me in terms of securities. Despite it being trump, he is still the president of a respectable country and we shouldn't disrespect him this way.Furthermore, having this kind of article posted will definitely effect the country's reputation negatively. As a concluding sentence, i believe that the citizens of not only Britain but everywhere else should refrain from protesting whenever unnecessary.
Several times since the first day that children were separated from their parents at our southern borders, I have contacted my U.S. Representative and my Senators to protest the obscenity of such separations. This comment space might serve as a forum to contact them about another important matter, Trump's upcoming visit with Vladimir Putin. I hope the NYT won't object.
Dear Representative Martha Roby:
Dear Richard Shelby;
Dear Doug Jones:
Honorable Congresspeople:
Please make it clear to our president that he must not meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin unless officials of American government are in the room also, as witnesses.
Please make it clear that if Mr. Trump meets alone with Mr. Putin, he is courting impeachment.
It is my hope that my elected U.S. representative and senators will have the courage and the decency to take the above action. I ask each of them if their re-election is more important than safeguarding America's democracy.
Sometimes, playing to your base is just that: base.
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There is a comment below from London Calling - besmirching America and its elected leader.
Give me a break.
The fact of the matter that Brits in thousands took to demonstrate on a working day - simply shows that America matters - regardless of what Brits may think.
It's hard to believe that we would have a similar demonstration over a British PM visit to DC.
And let me remind this London Calling that the best of Britain are still migrating in droves to America - Beckham comes to mind.
And even with all said and done, thousands are still invading America from the South - because America is still the last and best hope on earth.
What Brits and Europeans fail to acknowledgthat all politics is local and Americans have a right to elect whom they think is best for the moment at hand. Their opinions do not count.
America had its Amexit moment 250 plus years ago. We broke away from the most dominant nation on earth at that time. And we never looked back.
Britain in it's current state of affairs - cannot even manage to fulfill what the voters demanded.
So, give me any time American democracy and a country like ours - all this whining and calling us names won't pull Britain out of its mess.
Unfortunately, our American nightmare was visited upon the British people.
With Trump’s constant and deliberate attempt of obfuscatiing statements he made previously, I feel like we’re living in a George Orwell novel.
Europe is just biding its time until 2020. If this person is elected by voters to a second term, then the nations probably will up their defense spending for NATO with the goal of eliminating the U.S. from the alliance. An unreliable ally who might switch sides for a few bucks is not worth keeping.
President Trump likes to tease that the U.S. make simply drop out of NATO (or whatever group). It's his method of negotiating to say he'll walk away if he doesn't get what he wants. Works in real estate and on scripted reality shows; not so much in the real world.
We are all going to pay for this man's behavior for decades to come.
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The horse had left the barn. these retractions are like spilled milk. stay tune for more fire work.
Time to invoke the 25th Amendment--this week's bizarre behavior tops it all.
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Mr. Trump.
Nobody believes you. Nobody. Ever.
Which is a miserable position but okay if you are living your own life. But it is not okay if you are in a position of responsibility in any organization. I hear that the Cabinet has the power to step in but they are short on character themselves. You need one really good friend to make an intervention. Please quit your job and get yourself healthy before you bring down the planet (no hyperbole here) with you. As a country, our love of redemption stories stands out. Pick that card and get on with it.
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I wonder how Mr. Trump would feel if Ms. May were at Mar-a-Lago in a news conference with him saying that Mike Pompeo would make a great president? No one else talks this way. And no one else would be forgiven. But the dead wood Trump supporters drank the Jim Jones Kool-Aid and are willing to follow the modern-day Pied Piper into the mountain.
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we don't want him back here - but no one else should have to tolerate him either!
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Although I had to spend yesterday here in Hove, I was much heartened to read reports of the huge protest against Trump which reached Trafalgar Square. Everybody is talking about it, and I suspect that the Queen would have liked to send him to the Tower or at least settle for whacking him with her handbag. But she restrained herself.
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" It is the true believer’s ability to “shut his eyes and stop his ears” to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger nor disheartened by obstacle not baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence." - Eric Hoffer
Trump supporters and apologists are true believers. The "Fifth Ave Principle" is alive and well as Trump continues to generate his propaganda through lies. This country is in deep you know what.
If nothing else, Trump has lots and lots and lots and lots of really good words.
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As long as no one, the press, the leaders of foreign countries, the congress, etc., holds Trump accountable for his bullying and his lying, he's going to keep on doing it. So far on this disastrous trip to Europe, only one person has stood up to Trump, Sadiq Khan the Mayor of London. The rest of them have embarrassed themselves trying to placate him. In response. they got more lies and more outrageous demands.
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I think I finally figured it out. Trump is not lying. It's just that whatever is true on even-numbered days is untrue on odd-numbered days. Trump is always speaking of reality, it's just that reality is constantly changing. Simple! You just have to step through the Looking Glass into Trumpworld.
We have reached an age of the acceptance of implausible deniability. President Trump and President Putin both tell lies which they know are totally implausible, yet their followers believe them.
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Mike, have you ever noticed that a twist tie works closing a bag either way you twist it, probably depending on which hand you use, left or right. It’s actually the perfect securing device. Believers are no different, as long as they like what’s in their bag.
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Think before you speak, and look before you leap.
We learned that in kindergarten, 45 must be such a ‘stable genius’ he skipped kindergarten.
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That leading photo made me cringe. T has been putting down May since day 1. I wonder why she doesn't just shake his hand off.
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I read with dismay comments from American contributers inviting me to rest assured that the majority of Americans disapprove of this President. It was complacency and passivity that got us here in the first place. I am posting this as I leave the house to attend the Edinburgh anti-Trump demonstration.
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Very disappointed that there is no proper coverage of the mass demonstrations that have been going on all across the UK to protest Trump's visit. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in towns and cities across the country in the biggest protests against the visit of a foreign leader in history. I would have expected the NYTimes to cover this unprecedented protest in depth. Still, it's not too late ...
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Of course Trump’s public criticism of May was ‘fake news’. Nearly everything he does and every word he utters is ‘fake’: he’s just playing the role of POTUS.
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This wrecking ball of a President, if he was ever an unwitting participant in the Russian attempt to weaken our country, is certainly no longer so. He actively and consciously (if he's even capable of conscious reasoning) goes about destroying our relationships with other countries, our economy, any common standards of decent behavior and the delicate balance that holds society together.
Perhaps the time was right for our country's national shame of slavery/racism to be front and center again. "White is Right" has always been the true face of America, however much we have tried to gloss over it through the centuries. This perception of reality is as blatant as it ever was, and those who embrace it want their country back; and from the looks of it, not just the United States.
And while we're at it, remember that the middle class is a fairly recent societal development. The underpinning of this broad swath of the populace is being slowly, but surely eaten away, and soon, we'll ALL be slaves to the Uber-wealthy.
Trump is simply the most obvious, gross and offensive face of this insidious take-over by the 1%.
Fortunately, we still have the vote, and at least major aspects of a Free Press. God help us if we lose those too.
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While Trump like to hear himself talk, he should also listen to himself.
Every citizen of our country should feel shame at the behavior of the clown-masquerading as a president.An embarrassment to our Nation and decent people everywhere.
That balloon should be flown everywhere he goes. The man is obsessed not only with being the center of attention, no matter good or bad, but is further obsessed with destroying every positive influence or global movement to betterment.He opposes everything from trade agreements to climate and ecological issues.
He's beyond hope of ever rising above being a third-rate TV huckster.
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It is apparent, at least to me, that Trump must be relieved of his office as President of the United States and as soon and as expeditiously as possible. He is obviously not operating with a full deck of cards. The same may be said of his cowardly supporters in Congress who place their own positions as being members of Congress over the good of the country (not to mention for the good of the world).
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So long as Trump's pathologies were restricted to talk shows and reality TV, he remained a sad joke, who still managed to harm investors and contractors whom he cheated and stiffed, and women whom he molested. But now, as he spins out of control, he's taking us all down with him. As his sense of his power and wonderfulness grows, he becomes more dangerous.
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Trump ,every time he opens his mouth,harms the long term economy of the world and /or denigrates democratic institutions.
While this is a sad example for the leader of the free world it is even more serious because he is supported by the Republican controlled House and Senate who have no interest in the country or the world,only their own election.
Hopefully the voting public will throw them out in November
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We've elected someone who has more in common with a loudmouthed drunk at a dive bar than any President we've ever had. Trump makes no effort to represent our country and has no sense of a future for anything except the profitability of his resorts. Yet, despite every bit of reporting of how outrageous he is his supporters still flock to him. Even if indicted, tried and convicted Trump has set the stage where millions of supporters will believe, beyond a shadow of doubt that Trump was railroaded. That is the real ongoing problem - the angry, armed and profoundly ignorant people who've been conned by this man.
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We horrified Americans ought to consider that in all of the bluster about North Korea (from “Little Rocketman” to “denuclearization”) absolutely not a thing has changed. What we’ve witnessed is a WWE style set-piece drama with Trump claiming a great personal triumph. In reality, N. Korea was never going to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons anyway (MAD works and always will!) so proclaiming that we can all sleep easier now seems credible to a confused public.
We’ve just witnessed the same whiplashing, contradictory set-piece drama, first with NATO, then with England, ending with another self-proclaimed triumph: Trump heroically fixing and strengthening NATO, setting Germany straight about Russian domination and schooling Teresa May on Brexit. At the end of the day, nothing has changed because these dramas/crises were self-created delusions and concocted fantasies (NATO members are contributing, Germany isn’t energy-dependent on Russia, England will negotiate its own self-created Brexit mess on its own.)
This Presidency is only about buying time for Trump to build his brand and feeding his base —with no intention of actually accomplishing anything ,coupled with incompetency when it tries, hurting only helpless children of voiceless people his base considers “animals”anyway.
It is all horrifying yet strangely comforting that somehow so little is being accomplished by this administration (or is intended to be accomplished) . The greatest scam of all time.
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Sad. Stupid. Stoppable:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/14/uk-protesters-defy-trump...
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Why - if it has been proven over and over again, that this... man doesn't know what he is saying - doesn't the NYT finally put a disclaimer or ''warning'' in front of all of his quoted?
Like:
"Editor’s note: Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who might say tomorrow something completely else than today''.
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Everything Donald Trump does is deliberate, the snubs included. The so-called faux pas are part and parcel of his bully tactic. But how does one deal with a bully who also happens to be the most powerful man in the world?
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The man is unbelievable. He sort of apologizes by immediately absolving himself since he said "such good things" of her and then reinforces this notion by pointing out that it is the injured party herself who blames "fake news".
I am truly repelled by the man. He does not have an ounce of integrity or honesty on his body.
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Unfortunately, London Calling, you are right on. Please thank your fellow countrymen for demonstrating against this miscreant. Seems too many are getting too used to him here, and I fear, as you so correctly pointed out, that he really might be voted in again. Our apologies that he's not only messing up our country, but the rest of the world as well. Loved your Balloon,
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Immaturity, divisiveness, vindictive, insecure, bullying, Trump’s style of interaction with others. In Europe they are voicing concerns that behind all this idiotic behavior... he has an strategy? Interesting to see how regular people attempt to explain the nonsense, erratic man seating at the Oval Office.
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We Americans need to straighten out a lot of things, starting with an out of control POTUS, who gets away with a lot of his nonsense (or worse) because the Republican controlled Congress fails to perform the constitutional duty of oversight of the Executive Branch.
We start to make the needed corrections by voting on November 6, 2018 for a 116th Congress that has a Democratic majority in the House and a Democratic majority in the Senate, who will perform the constitutional duty of oversight of the Executive Branch.
Government "of the people, by the people and for the people," not government by one man rule.
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Nobody who projects a human personality onto nature is honest with themselves and others.
And there is no place for God in legislation, pursuant to "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".
Trump maligns our longtime ally, then lies about it. America loses respect, friends. America becomes more and more isolated.
So much winning. I'm getting tired of it.
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If the NATO members wish to increase their military spending to 2% of their budgets then let them do that. But for God's sake they should add the proviso that NONE of the military equipment should be purchased from the United States.
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In his dealings with Theresa May and his rudeness to the Queen (by walking ahead of her), Trump proves that while he has plenty of money, he has no class. To paraphrase the words of Henry Higgins' mother in the movie "My Fair Lady", Trump is barely fit for a canal barge (the way of disposing garbage in much of England, in years gone by).
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Trump didn't "walk back" his comments about May, he lied about them, went to the "fake news" defense for the millionth time. He arrived in England actively seeking to help oust the Prime Minister of our closest ally. He's been doing the same thing to Merkel in Germany. Had any other US President tried such a monstrous thing, they would have been impeached. But Trump simply says "fake news" and all is forgiven and forgotten. What he didn't even try to walk back was his racist assertion that immigrants are destroying European culture, an equally stunning statement from a sitting US President in 2018. His white supremacist worldview is a tacit endorsement of hate, and the rise in hate crimes is evidence that words have consequences. The world will not survive much more of this administration.
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Mr Trump is encouraged to behave politely with allies.
Ms Merkel and Ms May are polite and allies.
Mr Trump is clear about his disdain for rational discussion.
NATO continues.
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Trump-May vs Clinton-Major.
Back in the early 90s, things between Bill Clinton and UK PM, John Major were pretty frosty. John Major "interfered" in the 92 election by providing the Republicans with information about Clinton protesting the Vietnam War while a student in the UK. Later Major went ballistic when Clinton gave reported IRA leader, Gerry Adams, a visa to enter the US.
Everybody got over it, as they will over any hostility between Trump and May.
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Polite leaders like May should take page or half a page from Trump's style sheet and directly contradict him in public when they disagree with him. May and others should practice standing at a podium and saying "Actually, the President is wrong when he says..." It would be so refreshing to hear that. Direct and to his face.
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The conflicting statements on the UK PM May by our President is cause of concern on the mental stability of our leadership. Our congress should make a note of it and discuss this matter in the congress proceedings. It is good that in the second turnover he said good things about the PM.
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“I am doing a great job, that I can tell you,” Mr. Trump said, “just in case you haven’t noticed.”
Painfully pathetic.
Trump supporters, I'm sorry that we who think he is dangerously incompetent and self-serving have made you feel backed into a corner with him. I have a feeling that this is a guy whom, under ordinary circumstances, many if not most of you wouldn't let into your living rooms. I don't know how to cure this polarization, unfortunately. I realize you probably think that if you were to let go of him then the only political handhold left would be Hillary Clinton or similar. I actually think that would be terrific for us all but I respect your right to disagree, particularly as I'm aware you have been victims of a colossal effort to cast that regular (albeit extremely smart, capable and levelheaded) woman, and "liberals," as huge, demonic shadows on the walls of the mind.
I understand that Mr. Trump is now the president and I ask only that we reinstitute the system of checks and balances that is integral to the proper AND FAIR functioning of our government. The way to do that, since the Republicans in Congress have stated outright that their intention is to deny any voice to the Democrats and their constituents, is to turn control of Congress over to the latter party. I do realize that you will never vote for that objective. But I believe that, in the hypothetical scenario of 100% participation by eligible voters, it will happen anyway, in a tidal wave.
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If PM Teresa May falls for Trump's totally "fake" apology and shallow flattery, and continues her fantasy of a trade deal with Trade War Trump and an exit from the E.U., she deserves a vote of "no confidence." The British people clearly have not been conned by Trump and realize his deceptiveness, his deceit, and his dishonesty and have been vociferous in calling for a swift and permanent Trexit (Trump exit). It's time for Mrs. May to take their lead a call for a new vote on Brexit. England's future in with its allies in Europe not with a volatile, untrustworthy deal breaker in Donald Trump. Brexit will only weaken England and NATO at the very time they need to be strong. It's time for "tough" leadership in Britain, if not from Teresa May, then from someone (not Boris Johnson) with courage and vision.
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Trump is not proficient enough to understand that when a camera is on (Russia, if you are listening...) or an audio tape is running (The Sun interview) it will never go away.
He cannot wind it back.
Every rally he has ever done, which are littered with lies and lies, will be used as a cautionary tale in history and political courses for generations. He will be laughed at by the generations to come and his name used as a punchline.
And I say that not to be mean, but because history holds people accountable.
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Trump has, once again, brought shame upon the U.S. , but the Republicans in Congress are aiding this travesty by their refusal to stand up and do the work they were elected to do. Instead they remain silent while this narcissistic madman is ruining our country. We the people have one more chance to start reclaiming our country by voting for candidates in the November 2018 mid term elections who have the moral fiber and decency to stand up against this evil and dangerous man.
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The argument by Trump and others that immigration makes Europe less safe is not only false but also incredibly ironic and hypocritical considering Europe was the nation to immigrate (forcefully) into myriad other nations and make their native peoples less safe.
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My father suffered from dementia. He couldn’t remember what he had done from one day to the next. He would lash out at his family and care givers. He was insulting, belligerent and unapologetic. His executive function deteriorated the fastest. Trump reminds me of my father. Trump seems to be getting worse.
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Trump actually apologized?!!!
Perhaps our cowardly bully in chief might look before he leaps.
But honestly, he's owned by Putin's allies the oligarchs and every slimy international investor who partners him, as his money affairs make all too obvious. He has resisted any kind of US limitations put on Russia with everything he's got. Anyone who thinks he assented to sanctions is ignoring the record, where he first refused to sign and then refused to put in action the sanctions voted by the overwhelming majority of Congress.
He is lazy and doesn't mind hurting anyone who gets in his way, as he's discovered that nice people tend to give in rather than standing up to him.
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I no longer recall the reason for the visit, but it should be obvious that from now on, many world leaders (esp from democracies, as tyrants seem to be accorded all the respect) should consider whether they really want to deal with Trump’s misbehavior before extending an invitation.
Or did Trump just say, in his usual boorish manner, that he was coming, with or without an invitation ? unfortunately, as leader of the US, no longer a mere citizen, it’s become harder for foreign leaders to say no to him.
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Here is a quick critique of one of Trump’s limitations and the nation’s bad fortune.
“In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability; without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.”
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We have a President of the USA giving a one on one interview trashing the Head of State of the country he is currently visiting, in a separate statement trashes the single most important political and foreign initiative (Brexit) that country has undertaken since joining the EU, at the same time endorses the just sacked foreign minister (Johnson), and then flatly denies all that in a live news conference held in that country with the PM, babbles something about fake news, only to take the hand of the tottering along PM and to walks off. Amazing that we even take any of this seriously, try to analyze, and thus give credence to this ludicrous display and farce. No one could have made this up 2 years ago, even MAD magazine would have been dismissed. The lost ship of Republican fools careens into deeper and deeper waters from which there is no return and it seems that Theresa just holds on to the helping hand of its captain.
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This country is now paying the price for decades of praying to the all-mighty dollar, putting the material above everything, and creating a world of the survival of the fittest. We are witness to the decline and fall of the American Empire, soon to be replaced by the Chinese Empire. We are entering a new Dark Age. I am glad my father, a veteran of WWII, is not alive to see the utter destuction of everything he fought for.
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The president's statements and denials call to mind the title of Yogi Berra's book, "I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said." And as several observers have noted, his foot-in-mouth critiques of the Prime Minister and fawning praise of Boris Johnson are the equivalent of the PM going to the White House, condemning the president's foreign policy, and saying John Kasich would make a great president.
He still has two days to lie, and deny before he even arrives to Helsinki to pursue his Russian bromance. The damage he's done is real and the potential to do more harm is great, but more than anything, I'm embarrassed for my country. I also can't blame Mr. Putin, Mr. Kim, and other world leaders for taking advantage of America's president. They know a fool and an opportunity to use him when they see one.
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I am "shocked, shocked" to find dissembling going on at a Trump news conference.I have a fantasy that one day Trump will start with a whopper of a lie and the press corps will get up en masse and leave the briefing.Mr.Trump's statements are an insult to anyone with intelligence- they are so beneath the level of accurate information that we need and deserve.
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The best place to start would be our lawmakers, Congress, the GOP to step out of their illusionary trance and get back to work defending American principles which made this country what it was before this ego maniac took office.
If Trump had the grace and diplomacy of FDR he could be one of the greatest presidents of the century. But, he practices "Sledgehammer politics." Now, that's OK in certain circumstances, but as the saying goes, "You get more flies with honey than you do with vinegar."
I'm sure Trump doesn't have the patience for soft soap and diplomacy. That's a shame. He needs to just calm down. relax and enjoy life. He's a billionaire. He has a good looking wife. He's president of the United States and he has a great family. It's time to count his blessings instead of frowning and scowling all the time.
Too late to undo the damage Trump did criticizing the British government and then trying to smooth it over. Also growing tiresome is his bashing, not just of America’s press, but even Britain’s! The press is FREE in both countries and his constant blather is just a stupid waste of our time and his foolish tongue.
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It should come as no surprise that Trump is a pathological liar, defined as:
"Pathological lying is noted for the chronicity and frequency of the lies, and the apparent lack of benefit derived from them. The lies are easily disprovable tales that are often fantastic in nature and may be extensive, elaborate, and complicated. There often appears to be a blurring of the boundaries between fiction and reality. The magnitude, callousness, or consequences of the lying behavior are irrelevant."
When someone afflicted with this disorder has the power of the presidency, the terrifying danger for our citizenry is that these lies produce pernicious repercussions, both domestically and internationally.
The mere fact that Trump called The Sun's tape-recorded report "fake news" is clear evidence that Trump is indeed a pathological liar who is leading our country to disaster, both here and abroad.
Reining Trump in and limiting his powers is the only way this country can recover from its lost reputation and diminished dignity. The electorate can do so by voting out ALL of his GOP sycophants in the upcoming midterm elections, before it is too late.
There is not a moment to lose!
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Trump doesn't drink, but he still acts like the drunken relative at the Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner table always creating scenes and embarrassing the rest of the family. He's always saying and doing things that make people cringe. Then he wonders why people don't take him seriously, and don't think he's fit to be president.
He ought to really learn from his daughter who is extremely well spoken how to tone it down. He ought to sit down with the Chief of Protocol and take a few lessons.
Sure, he's free to think whatever he wants, but he doesn't have to voice his opinion directly.
On one hand he avoids making diplomatic blunders with Putin because he wants to preserve his business options in Russia, but in the UK, he feels free to insult his host. This is not good.
Diplomacy is an art. And, as President, like it or not, he ought to learn it.
LBJ was a master at diplomacy.
There is a recording in the LBS Library talking to a governor in the South who was vehemently against integration. So, LBJ said to him, "Governor ABC, do you want to go down in the history books as a bigot?" The Governor replied, "No, certainly not. He did a complete 180 and became in favor of integration in his state."
Now that's diplomacy.
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Trump's "damage control" yesterday once again served his very own interest. He was going to meet Queen Elizabeth and fly to Scotland later in the afternoon. He was eager to meet the monarch, only to snub her by keeping her waiting and walking in front of her. He also wanted to be in the Britons' good books because he needs heavy security the rest of his stay in the UK - at the expense of British taxpayers - to dodge mass protests.
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He really brings distinction to the office doesn't he?
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The Queen walking Trump down past the honour guards like how she used to do it with her corgis was fabulous
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No one knows what exactly Brexit means. Or what Remain or Leave means. Actually Remain is easy. It's Leave that's a political Rorschach test.
Numerous decision-making experts -- economists, political scientists, statisticians, behavior analysts -- contend the multi-dimensional complexity of Brexit and the binary choice voters were asked to make, compounded by a noisy campaign of misinformation, Anglo chauvinism, and Russian cyber-sabotage, made it impossible to reach genuine consensus and thus rendered the vote moot by design.
Leave won 51.89% of the vote and Remain won 48.11%. The overall voter turnout was 72.21%. About a third of the entire electorate voted to Leave. Roughly the same percentage that voted for Trump.
Nobel economist Kenneth Arrow held that complex issues had to be resolved by elected representatives able to negotiate and compromise to achieve a larger purpose. Binary referenda, complexity and distorted knowledge invariably result in what Arrow called a "hidden stalemate" even if one side "wins".
When researchers tested referendum wording that explicitly juxtaposed the known consequences of Leave and Remain, the results are entirely different, confirming for many a fatally flawed vote.
For Scots the vote meant Leave the UK and Remain in the EU. Scotland and Northern Ireland voted Remain. If UK leaves EU, Scots will leave UK.
Empire to island to part of one. Trump likes Leave. The English wish he never came.
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Putting band-aid on the scar caused by the hammer hit will simply add to the pain and discomfort both at the personal level of the Trump-Theresa May relationship and also at the level of the US-UK ties.
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Unhand the lady, you cur!
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Wasn’t John Kelly supposed to be the “adult” to tamp down Trump’s offensive behavior? Or has he been reassigned the job of babysitting Barron?
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How did Theresa May restrain herself? - must of been one of the longest days of her life.
A hearty thank you to our friends in London for the anti-Trump protests. Rest assured that the majority of Americans do not support Trump and want to maintain our special relationship with Great Britain & the rest of Europe.
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She's not a nice woman. She thought she could enhance her own power by using Trump. Her party is stealing everything not bolted down in order to stay in power. She hired Boris Johnson because she thought it would work. It didn't. This is about it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2018/jul/11/steve-bell...
And it gets worse: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2017/jan/18/steve-bell...
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Here's a thought, Trump. Since you're a "master negotiator", why not approach Putin by affirming that he was indeed behind the meddling in the US election and that we are not going to tolerate any further interference? Don't impotently throw up your arms and say "Oh well, he didn't admit it. What can I do?"
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He's not trying to save anything he's said. A voice recording and he denies it. He is suffering from the early signs of dementia. A clock alarm goes off and he thinks it's a fire alarm! Get him to a doctgor and certify him dementia!
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Actually, DJT knows his Cult will believe anything he says, including when he contradicts himself from what says in the morning to what he says in the afternoon.
Actually it’s Monty Python’s “Minister of Silly Walks” which STILL fits this president as once again he clutches onto Mrs. May’s elbow to keep from falling.
She needs to follow the action of the First Lady--smack his hand away and watch him fall. Too bad that she has impeccable manners. I would LOVE to see Trump fall flat on his face as a perfect metaphor for all the ridiculous stuff he has said so far.
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Damage, yes. Control? Never.
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Trump is an abuser. Anyone who has been in an abusive relationship has seen many examples already of the cycle of abuse from this president - but his manipulation of Theresa May, even the reporter with the hat - taking off his hat to please the president, and going after CNN and NBC - the other reporters not wanting to make a fuss about this or do anything - so they can keep him in a calm mood. As long as people capitulate to this behavior it will just continue. The press needs to find some way to let CNN and NBC be heard. Don't just be thankful he's not after you today. thehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_abuse
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This post is a reader's gold star pic for me. Yes, Trump is an abuser. He uses the same tactics that abusers use in domestic violence situations. I know because I was part of a crisis intervention team for three years that intervened, rescued and sheltered domestic violence victims. The double whammy tragedy of it all was....the majority of first time victims went back to their fast-talking, lying and manipulative abusers.
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Theresa May will need the world's longest shower and a massage.
The president's ineptitude and lack of diplomatic skill is unprecedented.
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Being anointed "the highest level of special" is not quite as flattering when the person bestowing this appellation upon you is "the lowest level of not special".
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I hate this man more everyday and I don’t hate many people.
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McConnell and Ryan make my personal triumvirate.
Going to a golf course for the weekend to prepare for a meeting with an adversarial dictator? Sounds like the Liar in Chief will be hard at work on behalf of the US taxpayers who fund these endless golf outings. You would think a billionaire could afford to pay for these outings on his own.
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"Then it was on to Air Force One and Glasgow, Scotland, where he arrived at his golf resort for a weekend of preparation for his meeting with Mr. Putin.”
Why does this paper and the rest of the media PERSIST in treating this incurious LIAR as if he were a normal head of state?
“Preparation for meeting with Putin?” Every member of the intelligence community has consistently stated that Trump has ZERO interest in learning anything before meeting with important politicians.
Before Trump met with Kim Jong-Un he made the incredible statement that he had been “preparing his entire life” for their secret one on one meeting. For Trump that meant a lifetime of making real estate deals with contractors, mafioso, involving outright misrepresentation.
In “Art of the Deal” Trump used the phrase “truthful hyperbole,” a term coined by his ghostwriter Tony Schwartz referring to the flagrant truth-stretching that Trump employed, over and over, to help close sales.
Why can’t the media just speak the truth? “Then it’s on to Glasgow, Scotland where Trump will be playing at his Championship Trump Turnberry course.”
Trump is the first modern U.S. leader to maintain ownership and control over his private enterprises while in office, sparking concerns from ethics watchdogs. Trump has already twice referenced the club publicly during his visit to Europe.
The Trump family is making millions from this presidency. Jared and Ivanka made $82 million in 2017!
Write THIS story NY Times!
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Not undermining an ally is not the same as agreeing with everything. Yould would immediately see this if you weren't blinded by Trump's snake oil.
He just can't stand smart, competent, non-servile women.
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What "style"? Unless the NYT means oafish, boorish, and all-round Trumpish vulgar behavior. I'm surprised he didn't pushed the frail, 92 year old Queen out of the way to assert his Alpha male bogus dominance. He wanted to.
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He’s America’s Nero.
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When Salvador Allende was elected by the Chileans, Dr. Kissinger said something to the effect that we cannot let a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its citizens. Not an exact quote.
I guess we can let the US system put a bull in the China shop. We have achieved the goal of making sure US courts remain conservatiove, supress voting by approving gerrymandering, destroy labor union and (quiet foreseeably) force women to carry a foetus to full term.
Above all tax cut justifies everytihing we are witnessing.
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This feels a bit like an abusive husband trying to make amends by proclaiming how much he loves and admires his wife after denigrating her for not behaving as she was told. Let's hope May listen's to the people telling her to divorce the lout rather than the people telling her to suck it up because she can't live without his money.
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Reminiscent of the Churchill quote, 'The only bull I know who carries his own china shop around with him'.
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Trump sounds so incredibly stupid. Maybe he is smart, but he sounds stupid.
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To say Trump is two-faced would be a gross understatement.
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It's shocking that Mrs May hasn't been able to defend her country's sovereignty by standing up to this display of un-presidential behavior. It would've been well deserved had she publicly "apologized" for the many thousands of demonstrators in the streets of London and other cities saying that it never happened during the visits of other US presidents. She could also have struck a coup de grace by adding that the demonstrators numbered more than those who attended his inauguration.
Has she done that, she would've regained her country's respect, that of Europe...and dare I say, of the world.
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Her Majesty’s Government do not think it expedient in preserving good relations to argue and insult a democratically elected leader of a valued friend and ally.
In public, anyway ;)
If England can put a man in jail for criticizing the immigration policy, they are no better than Russia.
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Very weak display by Mrs. May to tolerate this boor. I hope her constituents let her know she is a mindless sycophant and dump her. Why does Trump has his hands on her all the time? Much more often than he handles "I don't really care, do u?"
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Someone could make a fortune selling Trump-baby balloons. I would happily fly 10 in front of my home. I don't have the words in my vocabulary to express my disgust and shame with the reprehensible behavior of our so called president. Because of his deplorable base, which supports him regardless of any action he takes, no matter how low, this man-baby thinks he can just erase whatever insults he said yesterday with some new nonsense today. His meeting with Putin, which he going to have regardless of today's indictments, is just the most recent slap in our collective faces, but will probably be surpassed tomorrow. Sick making. Humiliating. Our dear leader.
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Scratch the tanks. Order up bearskins for the Secret Service.
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your president has made you a joke country. powerful, still, but lying, deceitful, racist, mysogynist and anti working class.
maybe he's just exposing what has always been there but, but for main part of history, you have at least attmepted to expand democracy and morality.
this lying president has no truth in his mouth... he's a liar on the world stage and doesn't even have the capacity to hide it. your countrymen and women often talk about the devil, well he seems like the prime candidate.
never has a president in modern times so cleaved your country. your republican party now wears the clothes of the righteous while gifting support and power to the closest you'll ever come to an antichrist. literally, everything he stands for is the opposite of christ's teachings.
america currently has a blackened heart and i find it extraordinary that you all find it acceptable.
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I disagree about America having a Black Heart, I think there are a lot of people in America (us in the UK) suffering long term economic and social depravation. With that there are concomitant political issues that have lead to Trump in the US and Brexit in the UK.
I am enormously heartened by the comments from US citizens on here that are cognisant of the situation and the harm being done to their countries reputation. Why? Because it gives me hope that the pendulum will swing the other way, that America will reject the extreme right wing and become the nation that we all hope it to be. We in Britain understand and respect the office of the POTUS; currently we have some difficulties with the incumbent.
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The majority of Americans do NOT find it acceptable, and our nation is in turmoil as a result. Please understand that our out-dated electoral college allowed this buffoon to be president, that indeed 3 million MORE people voted for Clinton in the popular vote.
I am sure you do - so too does 65 percent of Americans, many who didn’t bother to vote in Nov 2016.
Part good cop, part bad cop, mostly Keystone Cop. This would be a laugh riot if it weren't so pathetic.
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And to add to the affront of keeping the Queen literally waiting, when they did rock up, their clothes said it all: Melania’s trashy suit and Donald’s creased trousers were a blatant display of their disrespect and patronising demeanour. Obviously cutting back on designer clothes now that import tariffs are in place.
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Our electoral president is the worst example of presidential leadership known in the modern history of the US. He personally is unethical, unscrupulous, and amoral. His dealings with Mrs. May were underhanded and cheap. You notice that Trump was also dismissive of his protocol busting antics.
The Europeans should roundly exclude the US from any more group meetings. Why should they continue to associate with Trump’s willful destructiveness?
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OK, I'm now officially tired of the euphemism "convention-breaking" when applied to Trump. That implies that he is knowingly breaking conventions with some end in mind, some notion of a different and perhaps better way of proceeding through life.
Not so with Trump. He is, among many other things, simply a crashing boor, an unmannered lout too ignorant to know what the conventions are in the first place, let alone what other guidelines should replace them. Driven only by his egotistical whims and impulses and devoid of any concept of respect for other people, let alone social situations, he just does and says whatever he feels like at that moment.
He is breaking conventions, in the same way an enraged bull tramples clover as it hurls itself blindly and erratically around its pasture.
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Trump finally get the huge crowds he craves. Tens of thousands Brits turned out to protest his boorish bullying.
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Good for the Brits! - they are smarter than 35 percent of Americans.
The current POTUS conducts himself more like a teen Lindsey Lohan than a world leader.
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That’s not fair to teen Lindsey Lohan.
Does Trump even know what day of the week it is? He's a total embarrassment.
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ok i think we have now reached the point where need to all relax and enjoy this. I mean you voted for the guy so he is the pres and we should show him the respect the title deserves but clearly he is just trolling the whole world and from now on i an just going to treat this ast the entertainement he intended it be!
Ps. Don’t vote him in again. (Top tip)
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Uniting the right and the left wherever he goes (foes coming together in opposition to him), except in his own country.
Relax and enjoy it? Maybe you can be
cavalier across the pond, but Americans are seeing our country and democracy being destroyed on a daily basis. People are hurting. This isn't a joke. As for not voting for him, you do realize Americans didn't vote for him in the first place? He lost by three million votes and won because of gerrymandering, a flawed electoral system, and very likely, Russian interference. Go tell immigrant kids still parentless to relax and enjioy it. Or minorities, Muslims and poor people. Or ordinary Americans who see their rights being taken away on a daily basis. Trump is not just a bufoon. He is dangerous and has done damage to our country that will take decades to reverse. We are not laughing over here.
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My british fellows, please mercy to us, we are living with thsi guy since since he entered the presidential race, we are literally overwhelmed with his lies, tantrums, nonsense talking, fake bravado, sexual insults and racism.
My sincere request to you, could handle him a couple days while we can catch our breaths.
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Having a "narrated reality" certainly helps! The whole world heard what he said, but in his narrated reality "he did not say that!"
How convenient and how cowardly. Shame!
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This is the epitome of stupidity when Trump called his own interview with "The Sun" a fake news. His ignorance about the European history is not a bliss at all. In fact its curse for America as Trump's foolish statements have damaged the UK and the USA relationship for ever.
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DJT knows his Cult will believe anything he says - if he says he didn’t say what he said, they’ll believe him.
You can't repair stupid! After one and half years of his presidency I'm still waiting for Trump to say one smart thing. I guess I'll have to wait a long time.
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Why would anyone believe anything trump said?
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He despises all women particularly those who are intelligent and industrious. Her fatal mistake was cozying up to him in 2017 like a smitten high school girl.
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If we're lucky, Putin will take Trump home to Moscow!!
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Trumps game show goes something like this:
Leader of country? Ding-dong add $100
Elected with a plurality of votes? Ding-dong add $100
Woman leader? Bzzzzzzz, give $200 to Donald.
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From the looks of it, the size of our London crowds today were nearly as big as the 2016 inauguration crowd. And if he'd stayed longer than a day, the crowds would have grown bigger and stronger and louder with each passing day.
England and Europe stand united against Trump https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/13/the-guardian-view-...
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Thank you, Brits! Millions of Americans are thrilled by the news of your protests! We stand with you.
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Exactly. There’s been more unity on display in the UK over the past few days than in the past couple of years, with the majority, regardless of political leaning, united against this hateful, divisive, fact-free, anti-democratic, lying American president.
As for a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal, hopefully we’ll decline, and come to a new arrangement with the EU instead.
Trump destroys everything and everyone, even his country and American citizens themselves, if they aren’t directly benefitting his personal wealth.
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Please understand that there have been multiple mass protests all across the United
States, beginning on 21January 2017–the day after this person was inaugurated. It breaks my heart to see that some do not think we are not standing up to this person here in the United States.
The best thing we can do here is make good on the apologies to the rest of the world we have shared in those protests since the beginning and clean up our mess—beginning on 6November 2018 and again in 2020. VOTE BLUE as if the whole world depends on it—as we so clearly see it DOES.
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So, after all the evidence we've already seen, is there still a cohort that believes that Mr. Trump's misdeeds are attributable to incompetence rather than fealty to Vladimir Putin and to his own bottom line?
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How does this differ from what Netanyahu did when he spoke to Congress at the Republicans invitation, and trashed Obama and the Iran deal? How happy Mitch McConnell was then and shamefully Chuck Schumer also attended. No wonder both men are sikent about Trump’s obnoxious words.
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Someday, maybe, if we survive this mess, we will have a real president, again. What a job, he or she will have, trying to undo this catastrophe.
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I hear you London; the ice age is coming...but I have no fear.
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Hmm, praising Johnson because "he's been saying very nice things about me" is a huge surprise. And that he openly favors male leadership over female only completes the picture of the complete buffoonery.
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Note to Trump: the best way to repair damage is to avoid creating it in the first place. There's more to life than entertaining your base while leaving a stream of catatsrophe's and damaged relations behind you.
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I have been warning the British people for several week not to allow Trump into the UK. Did you think I was kidding? He is crass and without a shred of class. Actually, he is worse than that but I am sure you get my "drift."
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Well, Mr. Trump --
What have you done today to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" -- hmm?
Doesn't questioning and impugning the reputation of
- federal agencies you nominally lead;
- the judiciary;
- members of Congress;
- officials all the way down to the local level;
- the news media;
- and private citizens (not to mention our allies)
in essence:
- divide this great nation;
- do a disservice to, and go against the interests of, our country;
- violate your oath of office; and
- qualify as treason?
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So which Trump should we believe. The one who indicted the British PM yesterday in an interview or the one who praised her today when he was in her presence? No wonder he enjoys Twitter so much. It is the preferred media for hormonally imbalanced adolescents....his peers.
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It’s possible he actually helped May. Brits don’t think much of Trump, so insulting and threatening her might well move people to her side.
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Trump did one good thing in Britain and that is kill the chances of getting Boris Johnson elected as Prime Minister
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Watch Trump try to lie his way out of lying about a bunch of other lies he lied about.
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I can’t wait ‘till the talking ends and the civil disobedience begins!
(Sharpening my pitchfork, whistling.)
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I wish the Queen had clobbered Trump with her handbag. This sad excuse of a president is destroying any good will that America formerly enjoyed among the country’s friends and allies.
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Many Americans share this wish.
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Mr.Trump blames and shames.That is his shameful game. Harry Truman had a plaque on his desk which said, "THE BUCK STOPS HERE !" He was a brave and decisive leader. The wimp in the White House blames everyone else and makes up preposterous stories.His declarations of fake news and witch hunts are his way to hide and to take no responsibility.
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And despite it all we now KNOW that he will manage to find a new, lower level to stoop to.
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Trump, in this press conference, continued his boorish and anti-democratic treatment of the press by insulting a CNN reporter and refusing to take his question. He then queued up a reporter from the official White House network, Fox. Where is the integrity of the other news organiztions, including the Times, who don't instruct their reporters to walk out when Trump pulls these dictatorial stunts?
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Agree, and where was the integrity of Trump/Fox network’s John Roberts to do what he should have done - defer to his colleague at CNN. And yes, NYT and other reputable media outlets should have walked out.
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Embarrassing, humiliating and just plain wrong.
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Oh how I wish Ms. May had told him and his wife they were being dis-invited from the dinner and then the country. Have him picked up by his collar and just tossed back on the plane that brought him in...I know we want to go high when they go low but just once I would love to see him get his comeuppance. He is continuously let off the hook and seems to be rewarded for his ignorance, his lying and just plain meanness.
After yesterdays debacle I know we can't count on the gop to do anything...maybe I need to start learning Russian.
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What a circus. No rhyme, reason, foresight, no hint of any intelligent plan.
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Most of us have learned painfully that it's easier and better to avoid offending people than it is to get true forgiveness. But not the loser who is our current president.
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“I said, I want to apologize, because I said such good things about you,” Mr. Trump said of Mrs. May, adding, “She said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s only the press.’”
Prime Minister May is smart enough to know that an apology from Trump lacks sincerity and is meaningless. As such, why want one, let alone accept one.
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Text book cyber bully behavior - he's a tough guy when he doesn't have to face the person he's criticizing/mocking/degrading.
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I saw photos of the crowds in London. They looked much bigger than the ones at Trump's inauguration.
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I can’t believe your title, “Trump Tries to Repair Damages” – he’s doing no such thing. He’s just prefers disparaging people once their backs are turned - it requires so much less courage.
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Maybe he should just be quiet for a change of pace!
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In elementary psych it is thought that praise AFTER criticism is more ‘appreciated’ by the ‘victim’. That is whay the ‘stable genius’ must have heard. Somewhere. Not so at these levels. It is a very destructive behavior - only a narcissist would do that.
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As I stated on the day following the 2016 presidential election - four years of controversy!
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I am worried about what will happen if your unfit president gifts putin by announcing a unilateral American NATO withdrawal starting immediately. WILL HE BE ARRESTED IMMEDISTELY ON HIS RETURN TO DC or will the impotent republican congress sit on their hands singing Kumbaya over their right wing coup of your judicial system. BTW would not that enormous credit card debt over ball
games make the new right wing nominee ineligible..make him open to influence and demonstrate poor judgement.
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Being an American on vacation in London right now, Trump is clearly not well received. Nor should he be. Even the conservatives here object to his ignorant verbal blatherings, especially about Johnson and May. It truly feels shameful to be an American here. Glad to have come across Brits protesting in the tens of thousands. As one fellow said to another "why arent the Americans protesting over there".
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We are protesting, over and over and over! We just had major protests across the country on June 20.
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Gosh, such a stable genius. Why are we so lucky.
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And yet Mrs. May did not call out Trump for the liar he is. He publically humiliates her as her guest and she says nothing. He ignorantly criticizes the London Mayor, applauds the cowardly incompetent Boris Johnson, encourages the worst of xenophobic nationalism, and promotes the interests of Putin who has committed acts of murder on British soil. And Mrs. May is silent.
To her it is political expediency; to Trump it enables what he does because no one, domestic or foreign, has the political courage to look him in the eye in front of the world press and call him out as the despicable lying demagogue he is. Yes, Trump is an American problem. But I don't see the leaders of our allies calling him to task either even as their citizens demonstrate against him in the streets. It is not just Republicans who are cowardly enablers.
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Rainman: "I'm an excellent driver."
Trump: "I'm a very stable genius."
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Thank you for the lovely belly laugh, which is welcome everyday, but doubly so after catching up on the latest Trump news.
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Triumphant Trump Trumping along with best behavior. Protesters got their say and had their fun launching a balloon. Win win for USA-UK relations and now on Helsinki for a meeting with Vladimir Putin.
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Some us are really beginning to feel sorry for Donald Trump. And we feel more sorry for those living in the USA.
They have a saying in India: :Aanndho mey Kana raja", meaning "In the land of the blind, a man with one functioning eye is a king."
This man, who claims to be "a stable genius", is clearly not in the same league as Europe's Theresa May, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and others. On this trip to Europe, Trump is coming across as a buffoon, rather than a blustering bully. And this man talks about Europe losing its 'culture', as if culture is only a matter of skin color.
Trump and his minions have a lot to learn. But will they? Pompeo hopes to meet Kim in North Korea, and Kim apparently goes visiting potato farmers to encourage them to grow more potatoes. So Pompeo had a 'productive' meeting. Trump boasting that European nations had committed to spending billions more on NATO defence; only to be publicly contradicted hours later by Macron, Merkel and others. No US president ever accomplished so much!
Trump's blind followers and one-eyed he himself all inhabit a bubble where they find their reality; everything outside is "fake".
Obama's birth certificate is a fake. Elizabeth Warren's lineage is a fake. We suppose the fact that Trump's grandfather ran a saloon and a brothel in the Yukon is also fake.
What a pity.
AG
Calgary, Canada
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Trump is unforgivable. He’s out of contrail. Why can’t the GOP protest the madness? Like his family - bought and paid for. Like the tax cuts democrats take too.
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Placating a bully never works.
We need a Churchillian figure to take on Trump.
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Let me share the only US-centric perspective I have about this piece. The comma is out of place here--though it is where the Brits put it: "Mr. Trump praised Mrs. May’s leadership during a news conference, calling her 'tough' and 'capable', even as he continued to publicly question her decisions." As the President degrades the English language (and any semblance of civil relations abroad and at home) let's not have the NYT join him in the former.
Thanks for all you do to keep the Press alive in these times.
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It Trump would engage brain before opening his mouth, he might not get into such trouble. His idea of diplomacy is to shoot first and apologize later. What a way to be a diplomat.
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250,000 Londoners protested against Donald Trump, many more around the country - 77% in a poll thought unfavourably of Trump.
We love Americans - it's the unsuccessful bully businessbaby with the huge fragile ego we struggle with.
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We love you, too, Brits! Thanks for protesting our sickening so-called president!
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The fact that Trump brands as "fake news" the report of his attack on Ms. May, notwithstanding that his comments were captured on tape, is only the latest demonstration of his waning grasp of reality. That he levels the accusation at a newspaper owned by his protector and Fox News chief, Rupert Murdoch, brings Trump's conduct into the realm of dementia.
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The damage is done. It's just further evidence how he continues to erode our image and credibility around the world. He has spread a malaise not only here at home but to our trusted and longtime allies as well, as they shake their heads, wondering if they, along with those of us with any common sense, are in bad dream. We just sit back and hope he and his ridiculous rhetoric, along with everyone in the White House will magically go away. Where are the protests? Where are the riots? This country is falling apart at the seams.
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Trump thinks he is Caesar. First Caesar became dictator; four years later he was declared Dictator For Life. We all know how that ended.
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Not sure if I'd call the post-backstab compliments 'best behavior'.
'Gaslighting' maybe, or 'smiling betrayal'?
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What he does is speak from both ends of his mouth, highly critical and insulting and complementary - often at the same time. Of course the press will pick up on the insults. Then Trump comes back and accuses the press for not reporting his good side.
We should all be aware that nobody says bad stuff about someone by accident. We should believe the worst of what he says, not the best.
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When dealing with international leaders and influencers you cannot simple deal out platitudes all the time hoping to politely make a difference. The UK govt is wrong to not proceed fully with Brexit and Trump was right to make that statement. The people of Britain voted for it. I am starting to see some focus in the way Trump works.
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Give Mr Trump 24 hours, maybe 48, he will say something completely different. The rest of the Republicans will say nothing. Vote against every Republican.
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Best "reading" behavior.
Here's Trump's deal: He is incapable of dealing with substance. He lacks knowledge, doesn't have much of a vocabulary, no ability to process details (except money). I don't know if he is smart enough to do these things, no need to go there because he is incapable.
Meeting, and dialoging, with allies requires all this stuff he lacks. So, instead, he trumps up confrontation. It happens every time. Later, his advisors manage to have him walk things back a bit with prepared text. Still no dialog. He figures out a way to justify his behavior, and declare victory.
When he meets with bad guys, there is no expectation of real dialog (especially since most don't speak English), so he gets away with just forced handshakes and smiles, and again declares victory.
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Who said that Trump has to agree with everything May does? He is supposed to look out for the best interests of the United States.
The demonstrations show that London has radical liberals also.
Trump's best behavior is all, as he might say, "fake news." He's a dishonest, deceptive, demeaning, and certainly absolutely distrustful person. His blitzkrieg in Brussels and now Blitz in Britain is a wake-up call to both NATO and, especially, to PM Teresa May. Trump has shown her that the only real way forward for England is to stay in the European Union. There will be no trade deal with the U.S. and any hope were dashed by Trump himself. Mrs. May needs to do what so many fail to do with Donald Trump show him that you really are "tough" and that Brexit is dead and Trexit (Trump exit) is the way forward with a strong E.U. and NATO. The divisiveness and discord in Trump's rampage through Europe should be a unmistakable warning that there can only be strength through unity in dealing with Donald Trump as well as his seemingly authoritarian patron, Vladimir Putin.
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Trump says he will “ask” Putin about Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections. Ask? After today’s indictments, he had better tell off Putin and make clear any repeat will come at a high cost to Putin, his oligarch friends, and Russia. But if all Trump does is “ask,” then Americans will know Trump is a paper tiger, who happily beats up on his allies and cowers before his foes.
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What would happen if we stopped paying attention to what Trump is saying, and focusing on what he is doing (or letting happen). While we are distracted, we are slowly transforming into a country run by a TV network, nutcases trained and imbued in the Heritage Foundation Kool Aid, a whole army of people appointed to key positions (including judges) that will tilt the balance toward the rich, the religious, and the conservative; and religious nuts who want an all-Christian (their version) nation. The actions of the administration far, far outweigh the damage caused by Trump's words.
Our awareness of Trump's utterances: Total.
Our deconstruction of Trump's utterances: Total to the point of absurdity.
Our understanding of what his minions are doing to the country: ZERO.
Our plan to manage the future of our children: woefully absent.
There is something to be said in favor of getting a clue.
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Yes, Trump is in oaf. But please Europe, don't discount 250 years of our history and democratic, liberal values because of this one person. We've made many mistakes to be sure (and Trump is clearly one of them), but as Churchill said, "Americans can be always be counted on to do the right thing after they've tried everything else."
Do your best to ignore him and stand together. The 2% defense target is just the same as in 2014. So, nothing substantive has changed there. One of his main disruptions is his constant blathering. Deprive a fire of oxygen and it goes out.
Demographics are changing quickly in the US and there are increasingly more liberal young people and progressives than Trumpites I can tell you. Trump has been a wake up call to everyone. It's important once in awhile to have a good scare and then act accordingly. I'm not saying he won't do damage - he will - but he's writing on water as far as I can tell. Ephemeral, just like the Trump Taj Mahal.
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We have seen enough his approach, both attacking and praising the US allies, which is no longer surprises.
When we sent troops to attack Iraq after the Kuwait invasion (1st Gulf War), and to attack Afghanistan after the 9/11 event, our NATO allies also sent troops to support us.
Now with all these tariffs against our allies, and verbally attacking the Canadian prime minister (G7), the German Chancellor and the UK Prime Minister (NATO), I am not sure our allies will line behind us when the North Korean deal goes sour.
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"America will always do the right thing after they have tried everything else"
Those prophetic words from Winston Churchill come true once again as we stand by and watch our president continue to make major mistakes but he then "backpedals"them.
As Churchill described, The U.S.A and our current president seem to be "trying everything else", before we do the right thing.
Trump is once more backpedaling comments made yesterday. This time, about the leader of Great Britain.
Here are some other things we "are trying out" before we finally decide to do the right thing.
#1 Our Presidential System is wrong. (Most developed nations-use the parliamentary system which makes it easier to remove a bad leader. Trump in this case.
#2 Lobbyists. money, money, money.
#3 Congress without term limits is wrong (Congress spends half their time raising money for the next election)
#4 Money in politics is wrong .The mistake of Citizens United.
#5 Electoral college. The Electoral college as such is a uniquely dumb American invention. Hopefully, we'll get rid of this college which can deliver a president with fewer votes from the citizens
Ridding ourselves of these Five would be a good start.
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What's not said much is that for two years the UK has been after a good trade deal with the US after Brexit since the EU has promised not to treat them well afterwards. So Theresa May has decided to kowtow to the EU and intends to treat US imports as shabbily as the EU does but she still expects a good trade deal with us hoping we continue to be a doormat. The president should have articulated this point better.
Once again, that simple word “idiot” comes to mind.
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You’re right. She has been a bit of an idiot.
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Let's suppose Trump and the Republicans' aim is to go back to eighteenth century European politics where militarized states partitioned weaker countries, ie Poland. The players then were Prussia (Germany) Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia. With the breakup of the EU Russia, which is not really a superpower but a militarized economic husk and the US could achieve an aim which in realpolitik - but not Enlightenment goals would satisfy both conservative factions. This is the shedding of post-cold war countries from NATO, giving the Baltic and Balkan states back to Russia and leaving Western Europe with the choice of paying fealty to the US or taking the risk of going its own way. Since the Republicans have abandoned Enlightenment values in favor of quasi-monarchial theocratic ones this might suit the conservative majority running America.
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Donald Trump is a loose cannon who shoots his mouth off before thinking about all the ramifications of what he spews out.
As a CEO of a corporation he has absolute power.
But as President of the US he should learn to be more restrained.
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Of course he says it is the media’s fault. Tonight Sean Hannity will say the same. The fact is Mr. Trump believes his own lies. Those in the media try to hold him accountable. Sooner or later he must come to the realization that on the Diplomatic stage, words have consequences. We can only hope that the mid term elections change the balance of power in Washington. This is not a great week for his Presidency and that is a low standard.
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In any case Trump’s comments reflect very poorly for Trump and for our nation. Maybe Trump actually believes he didn’t say anything negative about Teresa May or he knows that he offended her and he’s trying to fib his way out of it. In any case his comments are very disturbing considering Britain has been one of our staunchest allies.
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He figures he can say anything he wants as long as he throws in a few complements. When confronted he always says, but I complemented her, the press didn’t report that.
Fake news.
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My wish is that those who voted for Trump would take a good long look at the balloon of Trump in a diaper flying over the protest and recognize that that is what Trump has done to the U.S.'s reputation abroad. Secondly, that they also recognize that the balloon particularly represents Trump voters, and how they treated the last election. It represents their response to the dog whistles of racial hatred. It represents their obliviousness to the harm that Trump is doing. Thirdly, that Republican Congressmen take a good long look at it and recognize that it mirrors back to them how they float along on the currents of Trump's hot air, oblivious to the dangers to democracy of Trump's creed, which is their creed. And also, that it represents their infantile tantrums against Strzok, accusing him and the FBI of trying to defeat Trump in the election, when in fact the only mistakes the FBI made worked against Hillary and Trump lauded them for it. Unfortunately, photos of the balloon and the protests as well have disappeared from some number of news sites.
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President Trump's followers love him not despite how he behaves, they love him because of how he behaves.
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Yes, they do.
Trump's undiplomatic and hostile outbursts towards Angela Merkel at the NATO summit should not be a surprise.
Nor should his trashing of Theresa May as soon as he set foot on British soil seem boorish to anyone.
They are both women and they are both leaders of their countries.
Trump's treatment of women in power is just a magnification of his treatment of women in general. In his mind, they are a lower form of life. His 'exploits' with women are well documented. To this day, he is still obsessed with Hillary Clinton. Something is not right with this man.
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Is there anything right with this man?
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It’s called narcissism, a personality disorder.
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The person May should seek out for advice is Trump's first wife, Ivana. She's the only woman, or person for that matter, who seems to have successfully cowed the Donald into submission.
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Bone Spur Warrior talks big,
then he gets broke down by Angela and Teresa.
That wasn't his voice on the interview tape with the Sun.
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Is Trump registered in the U.S. as a foreign agent (Russian)? Strange that our foreign policy vis a vis Western Europe is EXACTLY the same as Vladimir Putin’s.
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So he can be shamed into backpedalling.
Now, identify more precisely which metrics of adulation his vanity responds to.
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He visits the queen at Windsor and doesn't know enough to button his suit jacket, assuming of course that he can actually button it. If he can't get the small things right, there's no hope for the big things. On the other hand, it could be HIS way to say "I really don't care. Do u?"
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Would that the world understood that Mr. Trump is a disingenuous talking head with a bad comb-over. He says whatever is expedient in the moment and is entirely willing to edit his historical remarks and representations to suit his mood and interests. He cannot be trusted at all.
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I can't wait to hear how Sarah Sanders spins this one. Though it will be hard to top that "John Kelly's upset because the breakfast was meager" howler.
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I don't understand elected Americans' reluctance and timidity in addressing the crucial, immediate political issue of our time: President Trump's mental state. This goes far beyond party.
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Why does he keep saying about various leaders and other persons "He was very nice to me" EE gads its like a 5 year old. So embarrassing! What adult talks like that???
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Trump craves applause and admiration. Everything is personal to him, and he feels he is the center of the universe.
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Wouldn't trust Trump as far as I can see him. He'll renege on any deal and leave you hanging and call you a "National Security Risk" - ask Canada.
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In his defense, Trump was probably sundowning in his evening interview with the Sun (no pun intended).
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It’s clear from Trump’s repeated remarks in Britain that he is openly and unabashedly a white supremacist.
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I was just thinking about Dante, who had a finely parsed sense of the tort. I discovered he had a special place in the Inferno for guests who betray their host -- third Bolgia, Ninth Circle of hell, Ptolomea, one tier above Satan himself.
http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/circle9.html
The tort of torts is the abuse of privileged access.
Shame, shame, shame on us.
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Aren't we all sooo proud of little Donald? He didn't even break any of Theresa's toys. He does know how to play well with the other children,he just needs a bit of adult guidance now and then.
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Now Trump is claiming that the things he said about May were "fake news"? We heard you say them, moron!
President Trump is clearly suffering from cognitive impairment, and must be removed from the Oval Office as soon as possible.
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"Now Trump is claiming that the things he said about May were 'fake news'? We heard you say them, moron!"
Yes, Mr. Trump did say those words, and the words were fake in the sense that Mr. Trump speaks falsehoods because it's in his nature to speak falsehoods. That's what he does. These fake statements by Mr, Trump were then reported in the news, so news once again was reporting Mr. Trump's falsehoods, thus once again being fake news. QED.
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These headlines today are ridiculous. You make it sound like Trump accidentally dissed May and now is apologetic. Nonsense. There is nothing accidental about this. This is how abusers work. They abuse (verbally, sexually, physically, financially--take your choice) and then they play "nice." All of a sudden they turn on the fake charm. They assume that they will shake up their marks by continually lying about their behavior. Trump has used every one of these forms of abuse in the past and continues to do so. They are the only tools that an utterly sociopathic and ignorant man can use. You can see the debris of his methods in the pathetic faces of the people in his administration like John Kelly who have chained their reputations to a man of utter immorality who truly hates democracy and democratic leaders, especially ones who are women. And there is not a single Republican who is willing to stand up and say, "You cannot meet with Putin without witnesses and if you do so it is grounds for impeachment."
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You are so right. And there is the typical sort of gaslighting that Trump also habitually tries to get away with, although I never quite understand how it is that he is often so successful at it considering that most of what he has said is recorded and/or reported verbatim.
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Oh please. Repair damage = lie about what he just said.
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As a resident o f both continents (New York Berlin) I can tell you that this just the kick in the ass that Europe needs Trump is right Europe will soon be a thing of the past don't let all the rosy stories from the times fool you Europe is in big trouble immigrants, the north south divide , lack luster economic growth. The Eu was a blunder forced on the people by France a nd German business interest the average citizen does not want to European the want to be French or German I hear it everyday
Pompous ass.
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spanky is such an ignorant fool. He thinks tough means something. He is neither tough nor capable.
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Trump clearly has no idea what he's doing. Chances are slim at best for any marionette to rebel against his puppet master who maneuvers his strings.
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So, anything living under the sky knows that Donald Trump is selfish liar, he tries to deceive but to be honest who believes him, why, for what reasons?
Donald is out there for only himself, that is all.
Trust is no where to be seen around Trump's world.
Watch your back before stabbed to death or betrayed to deepest level.
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Trump gushed about the "special relationship." Oops--he got confused and thought he was meeting with Putin already.
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The Murdoch’s and their right wing propaganda machine that ill informs the entire world. When will Fox viewers realize they are being manipulated by the Australian immigrants? Never. Other than Putin, who has more influence in world affairs?
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He’s insane.
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Mrs. May, I hope that you stopped to wash your hands after shaking hand with trump. You would not want to catch what he has.
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so he says the things then denies it ... hmm like a child with his hand caught in the cookie jar
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Embarrassing and SAD.
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In the words of Bugs Bunny, Donald Trump is a loud-mouthed shnook! If he opens his mouth wide enough his whole head disappears.
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Our Nazi President is right about stupidity - it's all his.
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I have always thought that de Gaulle's notion that Britain would be an American Trojan Horse within the European Union would prove true. It is happening now as we watch.
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But remember that Trump said he was also "fine with Russia".
How's this for the upcoming private Trump lovefest with Putin, without witnesses?
Putin makes a vague reference about some future return of the Crimea to the Ukraine.
In return, he asks for the closing of the Minot AFB missile facility in North Dakota and the Malmstrom AFB missile facility in Montana.
Trump comes back, and, a la the Kim Jong Un "contract" to denuclearize, trumpets his "success" on Putin's "absolute" commitment to return the Crimea to the Ukraine...someday.
Of course, neither Defense nor State will be told of the base closings--Indeed, the Trump administration will go into full "fake news" denial--until after the election.
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"President Trump on Friday tried to repair the diplomatic damage he caused [...]"
What makes you say he's trying to repair anything? This is simply part of his long-term strategy of saying one thing to create mayhem, then putting something contradictory on the record later for his followers to consume. Why continually play his short-term game? Have you learned nothing along the way these past three years?
This is nearly as depressing as his presidency.
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trump described the 'suggestion' he gave to Theresa May regarding Brexit as 'brutal'. But everything trump does is brutal, and that is how history will treat donald trump.
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The damage is done. It started in November, 2016, and unless there is a deus machina, it will continue until 2020 and possibly beyond. The man is a nightmare.
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Friends who have dealt with him tell me he can be very urbane and charming when he wants something from you so I imagine he can behave himself when the “deal” requires it. But he cuts people dead if they are no longer of use and of course he attacks if he feels at all threatened. He is a person who cannot be trusted at any level.
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Kind of like Richard III
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The British now have endured the political blitz of Donald Trump. Their take-away message should be one that Ben Franklin urged upon the colonies when they we're seeking relief from the economic and military grip of a British monarch, "We either hang together or hang separately." Teresa May should now realize more than ever that Brexit is a huge mistake for England and seek to have a re-vote given recent evidence of Russian tampering in the original vote. Britain clearly cannot rely on Donald Trump as a trading partner, and must, if it's to avoid an economic recession and isolation, rejoin the European Union. The E.U. is an economic bloc as large as the U.S. and will give Britain and NATO the strength and unity necessary to weather Trump's tirades and tweets and outright dishonesty. The British people and the world have seen the crassness and cruelty and duplicity of Donald Trump up close. This is the time for them to reverse course and hang together with their friends, neighbors, and allies in Western Europe. It's time for Prime Minister May to show just how "tough" she is and take a Churchillian stand against a destructive demagogue.
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As a diplomat Trump makes a good bulldozer, then again,maybe not that subtle. It’s as if he wants to bring down May’s government in the hope that BoJo will get the leadership. His retractions have zero credibility. He fails to recon with the fact that the Tories are a minority government and any association with Trump can be viewed as a liability.
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Donald Trump likes to keep saying how popular he is in England and how much the British people love him, well he's right, it showed by the way they crowded the streets of London hoping to get a glimpse of him.
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Words were said. Said words were recorded. Then, said and recorded words were printed. Take what you will from the subsequent disavowal in front of the press corps. Fake comes nowhere near it.
So what does the "highest level of special" actually mean? We suspect it means taking a nation, which is on an unnecessarily destructive act of self harm to the cleaners with minute by minute tweets to build morale and indebtedness!!
His playbook words of advice were noted but since he was dealing with the Maybot, words of rebuff were not uttered. So our countries are heading for an "ambitious bilateral trade deal". Amusing. What could America possibly want from us that we don't already provide? More cheese? More apples? More beef? I don't think so. What about the odd car or plane wing?
The Maybot and her ideological friends, have been spouting this nonsense of global Britain alongside tucking away cash in l safe havens for years. We live in a nation with a democratic deficit. Ruled by oligarchs and enslaved by a government unable to legislate to protect its citizens, May's brave new world is just like Trump's. Smoke and mirrors; a mirage in the desert; unicorns that fly and proper fake news.
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I'm sure Mrs. May understands that President Trump's praise is every bit as sincere as most of his pronouncements.
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Have we seen enough of Trump's amateur tactics? He bullies, then retreats, bullies, then retreats. The first punch gets the attention he craves and also serves as distraction for what is really happening. The second, creates a conciliatory refrain.
Rise, repeat.
Anyone who has raised a child can recognize this.
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What damage repair? Didn't Trump say a few hours ago that he never criticized PM May? He is indeed a nightmare on any street.
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What America needs now is a million or two of those English Trump Baby blimps. They will sell like hot cakes here and boost the English economy too. I, an ancient grandma, will be the first to buy. Seeing Trump gone before I die is a major goal in my life.
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Dear world, please forgive us during this time period of Trump, we hope to reset in the near future to get back to our regular sane program.
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Texas Representative Gohmert, in his questioning of Strzok, implied that adulterers should not be trusted. Why therefore should we be surprised at the lack of honesty, presented in this article, from a serial adulterer such as Trump?
I assume that Gohmert is similarly disdainful of his party's leader.
...Andrew
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It's all about Donald! NATO? Donald may blow it up. Euro-spending on defense? Donald says 2%....no, on second thought, 4%. Theresa May and Brexit? Donald told her how to do that; she just didn't do it...so weak! Now Donald likes Boris for PM (Boris: Isn't that a Russian name?). Angela Merkel? Donald told her how to clamp down on immigration, and at last she did it. Donald has lots of plans for other countries...the best plans, too, so just do what Donald says. After visiting Russia, Donald will probably go back home, so people in American can expect to hear about a lot more good, no, best, plans, too.
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Diplomacy trump-style. Lie, recant, then lie about lying. He said "we record these things." Yes, Mr. Trump, they did. It was recorded when you said Theresa May was a bad leader, had done a terrible job, etc. etc. So when you turn around and then say it was Fake News, that's a BINGO! Another Lie. The I believe Irish reporter that asked the question did a fantastic job asking her question diplomatically. Too bad you can't answer that way. Or think that way. Or be that way.
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The question that bothers me: how huffy is mr. Trump when he discovers that his interpretation of the world is not correct. What if military spending of NATO members does not go up to 4%. What f the trade war causes an economic decline. What if his advises to other governors are not taken into acccount anymore. When other countries wll try to avoid involvement with the US due to the unpredictable policies of its president?
When mr. Trump discovers that drinking tea with the queen mother brings him in a replay of " the emperor's new clothes'?
What could be the next step if mr. Trump's angriness on "others"? Will he self implode or is he capable of sending out troops to "mould" the world according to his worldview?
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I've noticed that, in general, if Trump says you're doing a good job, you've been busy destroying something. If Trump insults you, you've been busy doing a good job.
For decent people:
An insult from Trump should be treated as a badge of honor.
A compliment from Trump should be treated as a stain on your shirt.
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“I will absolutely, firmly ask the question.”
And there's the problem. A president unbeholden to Putin would not be dealing in questions on this matter, but in ultimatums, and would have issued one the day he was sworn in.
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Republicans rightly applauded when President Reagan started the process to dismantle the ' Evil Empire" and now they look on as Trump tries to help Putin put it together again
Indisputable evidence, Trump actively trying to destabilize NATO, the EU, the global economy and ignoring the cyber attack by Putin on our country and democracy . Interfering in Brexit , taking sides must please Putin
His fulsome praise of Putin a murderous thug guilty of illegally occupying Crimea, parts of the Ukraine has to offend all who appreciate decency , civility and Democratic values.
Meanwhile the Republicans are guilty by virtue of their deafening silence
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Trump did an obvious turnabout in a single day, this erratic, changeable, fickle and temperamental man.
It is clear he arrives as the wrecking ball. Tries to patch it up the next day. And takes credit for supposedly making it better.
If he goes to Russia, time to invoke Article 25.
I almost wrote Article 45!!
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I’ve read in the last 24hrs a lot of comments on here from US posters apologising for Mr Trump’s behaviour: Folks, you don’t need to apologise for anything.
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We want to apologize. We're appalled & humiliated (as well as scared).
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I really wish that NYT would stop with the ledes ascribing good motives to this person. Pres. did exactly what he wanted to. Damage is done. He is not trying to repair.
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Imagine that you own USA, Inc. and hire Donald Trump as its General Manager. You send him to the U.K. on a sales call. He gives an interview the day before his meeting and demonizes what has always been a good business relation of yours. Then he pretends to ignores his bad behavior on meeting day, thus speaking on both sides of his mouth.
What do you do?
You don't evem fire him?
YOU should go out of business.
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Your headline is misleading. Trump wasn't trying to repair the damage he deliberately caused in the interview with the Sun. He was just practicing the usual tactic of abusers and bullies - do something that creates as much damage as possible, then execute a reversal, causing whiplash for those targeted and everyone watching. This isn't a calculated strategy, it's the natural impulse of a vicious man with no cognitive capacity for reasoned judgement.
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No, it's a calculated strategy.
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Consider this: The president of the United States goes overseas and publicly INSULTS the Prime Minister in multiple ways (then reverses course and says he didn't do any such thing). THIS behavior is insanity personified.
What does it say about everyone's gullibility that NO ONE calls this man out - on the sport - when he lies so outrageously??
I'm sorry Teresa May didn't tell him *exactly* where to go, preferably right to his face. Someone needs to tell Don-the-Con that he's a quite low worm.
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This Trump character is behaving like a child who thinks they can say anything anywhere, and then un-say it later, and it's all OK. It fits perfectly with his lying/denying compulsions.
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We have a Manchurian candidate who is now President, and we have a Manchurian majority in charge of Congress.
Just watch how House Republicans imitated their man, Trump, in their questioning of Strzok.
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Trump is quite simply a bold face liar. There is no other way to put it. His interview with the British newspaper is on tape for all to hear. He simply called it fake news at his joint news conference with the Prime Minister and basically denied everything he said both on tape and in print. You cannot believe anything that comes out of Trump's mouth. It's time for a journalist
To confront this bold face liar directly and play the tape.
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It was both excruciating and comical to watch Trump's joint press conference with Mrs May. What a two-faced, inarticulate dimwit. He stood there and lied about what he had said about Mrs May (the recordings of the interview are solid proof), and he lied about how and when he made his prediction on Brexit (again, said proof), and the he has the audacity not to take a question from a CNN journalist because CNN is fake news having, for all to see, dumped fake news all over the lawn at Chequers. The man is a disgrace, and please get him a tailor who can fit trousers (pants to our US friends) that don't make him look as though he's wearing a skirt - he should at least look the part even though he's not.
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At some point, in the not too distant future, perhaps when he is forced to testify in front of a Grand Jury, we will see Trump, with the steel bearings being revolved in the palm of his hand, tell us he is positive the strawberries were pilfered by the porters in the White House kitchen.
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President Trump would make a reasonable, diplomatic statement only if he had a previously written by diplomats statement before him and read it.
This rude, crude, mean, ignorant president we have has no knowledge of how to be diplomatic.
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What May should feel demeaned over is the literal hand holding with this guy-- a sign of disrespect to her, every Brit and to all women. That she allows this is a disgrace.
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What an embarrassment he is. But the real clue to the convoluted, egotistical and dangerous working of his mind is in the second to last paragraph about his praise of Johnson - "He's been saying very nice things about me as president....He thinks I'm doing a great job." That's all the counts for Trump in his narcissistic little soul. Is he liked and praised? Of course as Trudeau, Macron, Bannon, and countless others know - it's a short-lived and ineffective strategy.
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The Republican senators are cowards and are afraid of Trump.
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Trump himself is the fake in the news.
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This is like telling your wife she looks fat, and then a few hours later saying you didn't mean it.
That's pretty hard to take back.
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In one picture, it looks like he's taking her into custody. Book 'em, Don-oh!
May day, mayday, mayday... God save the Queen and US all.
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"Repairing" is usually harder, if he doesn't have the ability not to have damaged it in the first place what gives anyone the impression he has the ability to "repair" anything? Let's leave the repairing for the next President, his past efforts to "repair" things haven't worked out very well.
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Trump endorsed Boris Johnson? Well, that's the big wet kiss of death to his political future, I expect.
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Not surprised he would endorse Boris Johnson.
He probably thinks he's a fellow Russian.
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Right, given the fact that Trump learned all he knows about Russia watching Rocky and Bullwinkle, and doesn't know the difference between Boris Johnson and Boris Badenov.
The lying, the corruption, and the immorality of Trump is both sickening and frightening. But the thing that is worse than the evil Trump himself is to know that 1/3 of the population is either stupid enough or vile enough to support him.
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This story should NOT be your second lead. THIS is what follows a story about indicting Russian spies for meddling in the 2016 election: A quarter of a million Londoners turned out today to show our embarrassment of a president that they think of him as the dysfunctional, infantile, racist nitwit he is. He's not welcome in civilized countries. Period.
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Trump is a fool with too much power. He is a danger to our Democracy, he is damaging our relationship with Allies. The Russians are gaining power while the US is loosing respect.
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What an embarrassing spectacle. With all this bumbling about in Europe and the UK by trump who talks out two sides of his mouth at one time, once again we are reminded that we have a tragically unprepared and dangerously unprincipled ‘fake’ president who is an unabashed leech and an unrepentant liar.
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May if she had any pride would have done a Melania and pushed his hand away.
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Ugh. Every day we have to put up with this ugly repellent liar.
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The man is what in England we call a "knobhead" End of (or "period" as you say over there)
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Worst President ever! No class at all. He has the worst of all human traits. He seems to have no ethics, morals, he's a liar, crooked, lazy (how many more days wasted golfing), lack of empathy and a traitor(why the one on one meeting with Putin? Is he going go get new directions to save his sorry rear end from the so called "witch hunt")
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Don’t forget how critical Fox News (run by an Australian) is for amplifying Trump’s message, spreading propaganda, and intimidating any Republican who might try to grow a pair and oppose him. It’s de facto State Media.
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The Murdoch’s control Fox and, what a surprise, the Sun.
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A blundering, incompetent moron. His damage is incalculable. Oh when will this be over ?
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Dear Mr. Trump, Forget about making up with Theresa, there are forty million voters at home, outside of your "repulsives," who have a bone to pick with you. And don't forgot about Vladimir, he is impatient to "make Russia great again."
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Trump praises May as "tough" and "capable". And also 'I told her how to do it and she didn't do that, and she could have done it much much better if only she'd done it my way.' and 'Her main political rival would be an excellent Prime Minister'. Stab in the back much, Trump?!
Typically Trump - chaos and churlish comments, shallow and insensitive, stupid and insulting. Maybe we can give Trump money to stay home and play golf.
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@Tamsen: Because that's what he does to women: he touches them inappropriately.
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@Jim: Do prisons have golf courses? Because Trump belongs in prison.
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There isn't enough crazy glue in the world to repair the damage that this bull in the china shop is inflicting around the world.
And by crazy glue, I mean CRAZY glue.
This guy is unhinged and detached from reality. He thinks he is in his own reality TV show. Trump Nation. He says whatever comes to his feeble mind and spits it out like tweets with a 140 word vocabulary.
American has become the laughing stock of the world.
When Obama took office he was chided for his round the world apology tour, asking the world to overlook the previous 8 years of G.W. Bush. Our next president is going to have a much harder time begging for forgiveness for what this cretin is doing to US world policy.
Make America Great Again. Ha!
Thanks to you Mister Trump, America has lost its luster and is beginning to develop a rather nasty smell.
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May is the highest level of especially stupid if she thinks she can trust any deal she makes with Trump. He's already stabbed her in the back, yet she still compliments her? She must be desperate.
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"[President Trump] claimed that the slights were so insignificant that she had waved off his attempts at an apology."
Please accept my apology Theresa. I've said so many rude and ignorant statements so many times to so many people I can't keep count. It's just my nature.
Oh pish-posh Donald. Water off a duck's back I say. We all can't be responsible for our actions can we?
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I am appalled that Mrs May’s government would subject the Queen to tea with this rude and churlish man. I know the meeting is to honor the country and his office, not give approval to Trump the man but I would really prefer the insult to our Nation than to see this proud woman brought so low by international politics.
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We can see through the imposter. Please visit us - we love Americans just not this con man and liar.
Don’t worry - she outclassed him. Bigly. Shame the Duke couldn’t use some of his acerbic wit to put the conman firmly in his place. But our Queen is more than capable of putting the great pretender in his place. Note he didn’t dare grasp Her hand. Boy he can’t cope with strong women.
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The way Trump tries to "repair damage" he does with his tongue is to deny that what he said caused the damage. So, then he lies on top of what he said.
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What he said was the truth. PM May is probably on her way out and Johnson would be the one to replace her. She was never for Brexit and yet she is being asked to take charge of it. That reluctance shows in her proposal and her lack of popularity among Brexit supporters. She is slow-walking the exit and may very well cost her the prime ministership.
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For Boris Johnson to become Prime Minister he would need to be elected by the Convesative party membership and Conservative MPs as party leader. I don't think he has anywhere near enough support for that.
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If the Republican legislators want to keep their phony-baloney jobs, they need to pull the 25th Amendment lever soon.
Or they can ride this out until at least November and hope for the best for them. But they may be voted out by then. Then the majority Democratic legislators will hurry to impeach Mr Trump.
So, better to pull the lever before November. Yes, there will be an outrage by the fly-over states hoi polloi, but fixing Trump's damage to international relations is worth it.
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Don't we notice a pattern here? Donald first insults foreign leaders threatening global stability and the status quo. Then he tones it down when he meets in person, and then he claims to have made real progress, all thinks to him, even without evidence of any change.
Donald is interested in appearances, not substance. He wants to be the executive producer of the country with a global audience.
The only person he doesn't hold in contempt is Vladimir Putin. That is the only substantial relationship he envisions.
If he gives in to any of Putin's requests, no matter how insignificant, he should be hauled before Congress for hearings.
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If I was May, and/or the queen, I would have come up with an excuse to not continue with the "set agenda" and encourage dt to continue his journey to his next country, diplomatically of course.
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It's good to see he finally learned to recognize real 'fake news' - i.e., his own words!
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I really doubt that Trump cares about the damage.
Doing damage is his goal.
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Another day, another needless, mindless embarrassment. Those with our eyes open knew exactly what we were in for with the Teflon Don, so no surprise. The real crime is the GOP leader ship that lets this go on without a peep, and persist in beating up on the FBI.
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Trump's insults always come from the very same place. it's how he feeds his ego. and there's nothing more important in that man's life than his ego, least of all the United States of America. it's automated it's unhinged it's never based in fact it's childish.
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Me. Trump is inconsistent and shameful. When talking to Fox News and the Sun newspaper he attacks any who is worship him viciously while he tune down his attackks particularly against other head of states when faced with other journalists and news outlets. Shame on you Mr. Trump.
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The man's a philistine. He's lucky any other world leader takes his calls - the only reason they do is because of the reputation of those who went before him.
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Ever the typical bully, he rants, he raves (from a protective place); but when confronted with truth he obfuscates, he lies (even when there is evidence to the contrary - actually he does this always). He is master of doublespeak in part because many of the recipients of his nonsense know no better, and also in part because the Republicans and certain media (Fox) promulgate the lies. Weak, Mr. President, weak.
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I think it goes without saying that saying words out-loud has consequences. Everyone hears you and you can't do backsies.
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"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."
--Maurice Switzer
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Putin will have a recording.
Despite Trump now saying that Rupert Murdoch’s “The Sun” was “fake news” in its reporting of his interview and criticism of Theresa May, “The Sun” has just issued a statement saying “it stands by its reporting.” I guess even a pro-Trump gutter press tabloid like “the Sun” can’t stomach such bald-faced lying from Donald Trump.
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The Sun stands by its reporting because the interview was recorded. I guess if Trump can claim that it wasn't his voice on the Access Hollywood bus tape, he could lie about this as well.
The man has no shame, or conscience or soul.
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Trump has embarrassed our entire country with his bully behavior. I am sure he would not dare bully Putin.
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He tried to pull off the very same thing on Germany on this NATO meeting.
First, scolding them, using fictitious (probably just made up) numbers with regard of the Russian gas and their alleged dependency. Then, sitting next to Merkel, praising the "outstanding" relationship, and then later, back on board of AF1, bloating again about their shortcomings on their defense budget.
He must be of the belief everybody is as stupid and ignorant as he is not to look through his transparent play (ploy).
Psst, Mr Trump, just for you to know: we're not.
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It would be hard to imagine a more childish display of temperament than the out of control Trump. First have a raging tantrum to make sure you get ALL the attention, and then when you realize consequences could go badly for you then lie, backtrack and try to make nice with everybody. Unbelievable, just who does he think he is?
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Why does he keep touching her? Ick.
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@Tamsen: Because that's what he does to women: he touches them inappropriately.
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It seems pretty clear that PM May is attempting the almost impossible task of obtaining Brexit in a way that doesn't completely destroy the United Kingdom and its economy. She should be applauded for her commitment to doing the task that the people voted for and trying to make it as painless as possible.
I'm not a fan or hers BTW, and I'm not Brexiteer, but I can respect her dilemma
Yes, the touching really turned my stomach. It is indicative of a man who doesn't respect women nor the office of PM of the UK.
Ick.
Why did PM May allow him to do that? It made her look servile.
Is it possible Theresa May gave our embarrassment an ultimatum, retract or leave the country immediately?
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World leaders need to stop tipping around Trump. Its time, to call him out in public face to face. Trump is an unstable, blathering, lying, coward. Mr. Trump saves is trash talking for print media and Twitter but, when he's come face to face with an "adversary", his lips are zipped.
Sixty-four years ago Edward R.Murrow took down Senator McCarthy’s. Mr. Murrow didn't spare or trade insults with Senator McCarthy, is exposed the Senator's lies, his many lies. It would behove Mexica, Canada, and members of NATO, to call an ace an ace and a spade a spade.... to Trumps face as the camera rolls.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 16 days from today:
We the majority can take back this gerrymandered minority-ruled Congress and effectively emasculate the hate spreading bigoted know-nothing liar squatting in our White House, and begin the American restoration project.
And never forget the elections of 2000 and 2016, Folks:
We have to win by a huge margins everywhere or these unscrupulous, voter suppressing, system rigging goons will steal it away from us again.
Register Today! Encourage Others!
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Since he will meet with Putin alone on Monday, he will tell us whatever he wants and no one can claim he is lying!
Is there a way to insist someone is a witness to their meeting?
Or, please bug the room!
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For all these insults, donald can forget about another invite to england. He should stick to palm beach.
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This is the utter disgrace that represents us before the world. Ignorant, petty, asinine, boorish, incurious, bigoted, uncontrolled, unfocused, and narcissistic. Enemy of our allies and ally of our enemies. Thank you, Trump voters.
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Trump is hopeless.
Thanks Republicans, for nothing.
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The coward was standing right next to her but shut his mouth. Good old bone spur tuff guy skeert to death of direct confrontation.
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I love to travel overseas but I am embarrassed to be a American now. I do not wish to spend all my time apologizing for the idiot we unleashed upon the world. So I stay at home.
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The consummate American bore. Yup, he i sour president. How sad.....
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The pattern is to lie about a democratic ally in a vile manner, and when there is pushback, to claim he was a victim of fake news media while walking back a minor component. Then, with our foes, to praise the violent dictator and claim victory while allowing them to continue or expand their predations on our electoral system. The manchild is a proto-fascist who must be neutralized by a Democratic Party-controlled congress with backbone, then removed from office and tried for treason.
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When trump visits a foreign country, he becomes like your neighbor’s dog that fouls your lawn, kicks back and then walks off, having accomplished nothing but his own fetid deed. And proud of it.
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No surprises here, Teresa May. When you lie down with dogs you get fleas.
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As Trump our NATO friends ditches
Mueller, together the evidence stitches
This so-called Witch Hunt
No deep state led stunt
As Mueller’s found himself twelve KGB witches
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Trump is a national embarrassment. Thank you low information voters for a leader just like you.
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Trump's dementia is getting worse. Now he's calling his own verbatium comments Fake News.
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Best if he STHU and stops making America hated again.
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Look at how he is manhandling her. What a boor--can't stand the idea of a woman in power.
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Trump is acting and is the kid who got caught doing something wrong, in this case, speaking badly of an ally and a host who is receiving him as a guest.
What is a bigger disgrace is that the gop (small caps intentionally) is no longer a party or stands for anything except racism and greed. I thought that some of the legislators of the gop were bigger than that but they are not. Trump has ruined the gop and they are just as big fools as he is.
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an itelligent leader would listen more than talk. don the con talks
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I wonder, given the Brits' pre-WWII saga, if Queen Elizabeth's father or mother would ever have envisioned inviting Adolph Hitler to London.
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Can't believe our Court Jester in Chief bad mouthed Prime Minister May, and now thinks he can right his incredible stupidity.
And Monday, he'll kneel, kiss Putin's ring, and ask if it's okay to ask about the Russians doing more bad things to America.
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I believe Trump's interview may have saved Theresa May's government. After this, the Conservative party's decision between continuing under Theresa May or switching to Boris "Baby Trump" Johnson couldn't be clearer. If the Conservative party would now still pick Johnson for Prime Minister, they are almost guaranteed to loose the next election in a landslide. Brits really resent it if outsiders, especially Americans, tell them what to do and who to vote for. In Trump's case, that resentment is a lot stronger, and his attempt at an about-face now makes it even worse than it already was. Lastly, I wouldn't be surprised if Boris "Baby Trump" Johnson, who either had or still has dual UK/US citizenship, ends up following his guru to Washington, D.C., where he could join some other Brexiteers who fled the UK after their lies brought about the current calamity known as Brexit.
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Once again Trump's dysfunctional behavior is front and center. Sooner, I think, rather than later, the rest of the world will simply ignore him as they figure out a world where they don't need to accommodate him. That the rest of the U.S. is put an the back burner is simply collateral damage.
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Putin will probably be deeply impressed how Trump now try to get back control over his own words, what exacty he told the SUN and how he changed tone to Ms. May within hours. Not to mention how he stumbled through the NATO Meeting, where everybody has letting him talk and tweet only to move on as usual afterwards. His Bully tweets still overtone it, but everybody is now geeting used to his simple tactics: Give him the room and show that pleases him, don' t provoke but offer only minimal compromises and send him home after a day or two. He soon will get bored with the topic and going for another one to start the next fight.
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The snake in a suit is still trying to try sales pitch approach, after sales pitch approach.
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Yet another milestone of the Trump era. He is now publicly employing the Shaggy Defense. Questioning May's leadership? It wasn't me. Talking up her chief intraparty rival as her replacement? It wasn't me! Stating that the US-UK trade deal would be dead without hard Brexit? It wasn't me!
We have fallen really far, really fast. Our enemies are laughing at us. Our friends are looking for new friends. I guess that is what happens when a large minority of a country fails to recognize a sick practical joke for what it is.
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We all have a boorish aunt, uncle or cousin that circumstances demand they be invited to the wedding. The relative never fails to insult the mother of the bride, embarrass the bride and groom with off color comments, and asks for seconds and walks out the door with a full dinner in a box, and does not leave so much as a "have a wonderful life together" let alone a card or gift.
Nothing to be done. We look down, avert our eyes, try to carry on a conversation with our tablemates, sympathize with the marital family and leave early.
Just a bit of advice. Never, ever invite Trump to your wedding if you can help it.
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If it weren't tragic, it would be hilarious that someone who can't read a book or even listen to his morning briefing is presumptuous enough to tell a leader of another country how to do her job.
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Enough!
When will the proceedings start?
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Interesting to see the UK press react to the Trump press conference that we in the US have, too unfortunately, become accustomed to. I am in shocked disbelief that Mrs May stood through the entire press conference. Her lack of any sort of backbone does not bode well for her leadership of the UK. It was one of the most humiliating scenes we have seen on international level. I will be interested in seeing how the British people react to her willingness to stand up there wiith the Trumpster as she did. It is my sincere hope that the people of the UK call this charade and expose her groveling performance.
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I will. This visit was a total debacle and humiliation. We know he's a "rent a gob" yob, but his conduct and character are deeply offensive.
Not since my long -gone adolescence have I heard someone capable of saying whatever suits his mood or his aspirations without any filter, and then back-tracking abjectly if worried about the outcome. And the ones I heard before were 15-years old, not the President of the US.
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The stable genius is right: he never criticized Mrs May. We only believe that we heard it. After all, the stable genius is a stable genius and we - the public - are really not that much.
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Dear Britain,
We too have commoners. Not all of us commoners behave as abhorrently as the president, who, clearly, is a commoner. Please be assured that he really is not representative. He didn't even get the most votes.
Sincerely,
Not that kind of a Commoner.
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The GOP is interested in money and power. If Trump threatens the outlook on either of those, if it seems he will take the whole party down, they might consider the 25th amendment for removing an incapacitated president. The GOP has the Reagan view that government is the problem, never the solution, and are happy with Trump as long as he is helping cripple government (so it can't interfere with whatever businesses want to do). So far, he's doing what they hoped he would do to deconstruct the government
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Theresa May made a mistake by inviting Trump to the U.K.
It’s possible May thought she could get some constructive work done on trade, but instead, she opened herself up to Trump’s particular brand of bullying and humiliation. Trump uses visits with foreign leaders to posture and gain attention for himself. Day 1 he insults, day 2 he backtracks. Two days of press for the price of one. He’s not there to work on behalf of the American people. (Perhaps some attention on that golf course in Scotland with travel paid for by U.S. taxpayers.)
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Classical gaslighting - like he has been doing all along because it works. Trump is getting exactly what he wants and the public and media just keep feeding it.
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Sadly, Trump's feeble attempts at being correctly diplomatic go so against the grain of his aggressive, resentful character that they never last more than a few minutes here and there. Should US international policy now be based on whether Trump perceives a head of state to admire him or not???
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First. Too late. That horse has already left the barn, and you can't take back what's already been said.
One might have thought that a president who prides himself on knowing EVERYTHING, would at least know that.
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In "Mr. Roberts", the Trump-like captain, Lt. Commander Morton (Jimmy Cagney), in a fit of rage, interrupting Mr. Roberts (Henry Fonda) saying "But, Captain you said..." rages
"I don't CARE what I said! I'm saying...."
That's Trump. What he said yesterday, offensive, insulting, obnoxious, intrusive and...wrong, is, in his mind, excused by what he says today. Prime Minister May would be well advised to not believe a single word by Trump and expect, only, that he will have a "love-fest" and be played by a dictator, yet again, when he meets Putin.
No matter what Trump says, in every action he's Putin's Poodle. What DOES the former KGB black ops specialist have on the President of The United States????
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Note the pattern: Trump does or says something horrible and indefensible. He doesn't admit fault or apologize. He just contradicts himself and attacks the press for reporting accurately on his transgression.
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Because his base likes it and they don't fact-check.
Just as Trump believes that the human body is capable of exerting only a finite quantity of energy over its lifetime and thereby does not exercise, the few working brain cells in his head are a completely closed system; similarly, he is impervious to new information, contradictory realities, or revised preceptions. His growing awareness that the hopeless fantasy world in which he dwells is marching steadily toward the cliff has only intensified the lying necessary to keep the entire contraption upright.
No, Trump will not depart the office in Marine 1 with a Nixonian wave; he will be escorted by quietly Secret Service, out of public view (photos will be prized scoops), the more to minimize our national humiliation.
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The genius bull in a china shop again. I really wonder, if Trump voters really still believe what this guy is doing and saying? We Europeans are sick and tiered of this toddler. And in hindsight I think we Europeans should be thankful that the US has made such a guy for president. We now will go our own way and let the US behind us. So will China, Mexico, Canada and and and...
I feel sorry for those Americans who are taking hostage by this guy.... Don't give up the fight!
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In the beginning,
there was faith, which is childish;
trust, which is vain;
and illusion, which is dangerous.
Elie Wiesel "Night"
#NeverAgain2018
#StopFascism2018
#VoteBlue2018
November 6, 2018
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It's TrupmpSpeak; just talk about two opposing ideas at the same time and people will take with them the parts they agree with and ignore the rest; well, in his mind anyway.
His penchant for eviscerating people and then complimenting them and letting everyone know they are really chums is another form of this ploy.
I believe both scenarios are well described by the word "delusional".....yep, that's the word.
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Trump characterizes his own direct quotes as 'fake news.'
At last, some truth.
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The Ugly American has made the entire country ugly in the eyes of the free world.
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As well as the populations of repressive leadership. I wonder how many that used to yearn for the United States are reconsidering their dreams.
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The stable genius strikes again!
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Oh come on, this way depending on his audience, he can spew either perspective!
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An open letter to Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine):
As a Maine native, I would like to express to you my continued dismay regarding your de facto approval of the president and his terribly destructive path. Through the continuous "noise", my biggest concern is the erosion of our country's position among the community of nations - particularly with our democratic allies.
When I studied in Germany 40 years ago, I was proud of my country; and even though I did not vote for Reagan, I felt his foreign-policy conduct was in the overall best interests of the country and world. This week's ghastly display was an embarrassment to us all. Beyond embarrassment, it does severe long-term damage to our influence and standing abroad. 75 years of successful bipartisan post-war policies are in the process of being destroyed in a few short months. It's one thing to reverse Roe vs. Wade. In due time, We the People will rectify the course on which you and your president are taking us. But our global leadership, presence, and influence are priceless treasures that may take many decades, even generations, to restore.
One of my favorite Maine political figures was Margaret Chase Smith, owing to the leadership and political courage she displayed during McCarthyism. I urge you, as an important member of our system of checks and balances, to display similar courage. And if you don't, "have you no sense of decency?". Have you no sense of history? And have you no sense of shame?
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I hope that you actually sent her this letter and called her office.
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I hope that you will now send that letter directly to Senator Collins...that is, if you actually want her to see it.
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Oh yes. Now I’m trying to publicly shame her.
It is obvious. Trump is not insulting May as PERSON and has said it explicitly in his interview with the Sun. He does disagree with her policy.
Why is the NYT pretending that Trump insulted Mrs. May?
I understand that you want to "get" Trump. But you are also damaging US-UK relations.
Do you have any sense of ethics?
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Try reading other newspapers, which, like the NYT merely report what has been said. Nobody is pretending. The reporter from the Sun has the audiotape, I'm sure. Donny said what he said, his insult was personal. He's not too fond of smart gals. Get a life.
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Oh really! Does he disagree with her policy or doesn't he? Like the weather in Kansas he changes every five minutes. And that is the thrust of this article that you apparently failed to read. It must be exhausting defending the indefensible every single day.
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What a coward.
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Trump tries to walk back his usual stupidity by blatantly lying about what he said publicly and provably.
Hey Trump supporters...today you look like dupes to the entire world. Humanity isn't just laughing at your Dear Leader, they are laughing at you.
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What a abominable ambassador Trump is!
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It's creepy the way Trump is latched on to Theresa May, why does she allow it?
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She learned when she first visited him in the WH that he is afraid of falling on stairs, ramps, etc.
He has always latched onto her because of this.
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Rupert is only interested in money and ratings.
The bathmophobe needs support on the stairs.
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"He blamed “fake news,” falsely claiming the report — in a right-wing, pro-Brexit, Murdoch-owned tabloid — had omitted any praise of Mrs. May."
His wish-of-the-moment to emphasize his "praise" of PM May reminds me of the old adage that even a cat on a piano will eventually strike all the notes that add up to a Beethoven symphony… .
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*double facepalm*
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Undisciplined at best. Reckless at worst.
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Trump’s manacle-grip on May’s arm (she is PM of Britain, right?), in the photo for this story is visual evidence of his thuggish attitude towards women. It all but says “you WILL do this photo up with me, whether you want to or not!” Would he dare do this to Justin Trudeau? Would Obama do it? I think any woman suing Trump for assault could submit this photo as exhibit A.
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So now we learn fired Fox News exec Bill Shine will work in the White House and coordinate the Trump presidency show with Sean Hannity et al.. Fox News will now operate as State TV, a fully integrated government propaganda channel that sells lies like its counterparts in other authoritarian regimes.
The strong man behind Fox, of course, is Rupert Murdoch, who also controls the tawdry Sun newspaper in the U.K. that carried Trump’s explosive anti-May interview.
Why is Murdoch also serving Putin’s plan to disrupt the rule of law and reason that has defined the post-enlightenment West? Is it as simple as money and ratings?
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Trump obviously hasn't learned you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
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Why is the New York Times giving this wretch any slack? Trump isn't trying to "repair the damage"; he is lying and obfuscating in order to cover his own reprehensible behavior. Stop enabling him!
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Sadly, Trump's feeble attempts at being correctly diplomatic go so against the grain of his aggressive, resentful character that they never last more than a few minutes here and there.
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If it wasn't so deadly serous, the word salad that emanates from this guy's mouth on a regular basis would be hilarious.
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By lying and calling his own statements FAKE NEWS. Always seems to work.
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Trump is completely out of control and an embarrassment to every American..even his fans. How long will the cowardly Republican congress allow Trump to destroy the reputation of the United States around the world. Trump is an extreme narcissist who cannot tell truth from fantasy. What is the excuse of the Republican leadership?
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I am embarrassed by the constant lies that come out of the mouth of our current President. He brings nothing but shame on the United States of America. I look forward to the next election in 843 days. Keep the faith, this too shall pass!
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Of course I know what you mean, and I sympathize, but the next election is in 116 days. And there is likely a local or state election in '19. All these elections count. I now live in a "blue" state with a "red" state legislature. Voters unaware or apathetic about these in between elections open the door for the radical right.
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And we trust this man with anything coming out of his mouth with the truth? Why?
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"Trump, on His Best Behavior." Stop with the asinine headlines.
There are two behavior-modes from Donald Trump: Full-throttle in-the-moment idiocy and Pending idiocy.
Possibly getting a good night's sleep and still adjusting to a different time-zone isn't cause for a celebratory headline.
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"Donald Trump is a serial liar."
See NY Times, that wasn't so hard, was it?
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Let's refer to the POTUS as "two faced". A real slam in the 'hood. But he is, and he is proud of it. Part of the deal.
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Imagine for a moment if the opposite had taken place; that is, if May had come for visit and criticized the US president in an interview, suggesting that Hillary would have made a better president. Some people (mostly Republicans) would be quite upset.
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Especially now, after his pathetic trip to NATO/UK, it must take an incredible amount of effort for Trump's supporters to see him as anything but (take your pick:)
-a blatant, shameless liar
-a stunningly rude boor who can't control his bad manners
-a man who literally can't speak clearly and usually sounds like he's drunk
-a person who is driven by his insecurities to act "macho" but instead comes off as weak and pathetic
-a tacky person, seeking a misguided version of "class", who is despised by well-brought up people all over the world
-a faker who is incapable of understanding complex problems
-a loser who is terrified of women who are smarter than he is
That's just a partial list. This awful man-child is everything Putin hoped for and more. Undereducated, gullible, spiteful and fearful voters in the US have allowed Russia and China to ultimately win the Cold War.
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I disagree. Cognitive dissonance requires no effort at all. Trump supporters are like addicts who will never be willing to admit that they have a problem.
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"He said he would ask Mr. Putin about Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, but he said he did not expect his Russian counterpart to acknowledge his role."
If Trump does, indeed, ask this of Putin it will be with a wink, wink, nod, nod. Putin will say he had nothing to do with the elections and Trump will use this as proof that he was elected legitimately and Putin had no role in the 2016 elections--and will move on to other discussions of inconsequence. Of course, we will never know since there will be no other people in the meeting to record or corroborate what is discussed.
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Don't ignore the rôle of Trump's little trumpkins in all of this, along with Fox News that transmits Trump's bloviation. Putin has planted the seeds of U.S. destruction and they have grown.
If Putin controls Trump, then he controls the U.S. heartland. It's brilliant.
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Trump just proved that he's incapable of being a courteous guest. He tears down the prime minister who invited him. He then gets completely incoherent in an attempt to take back what he said about her by acting as if every one else is lying. If this was a criminal trial Trump would be answering a lot of very interesting questions or he would be being impeached with his previous testimony.
To all of Great Britain, I'm sorry that this man is our president and even sorrier that he thought he was qualified to say who should be your prime minister.
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“He first tried to deny he had criticized the prime minister and blamed the embarrassing episode on the news media. When that rang hollow, he then tried to compensate by lavishing Mrs. May with compliments and, in the end, claimed that the slights were so insignificant that she had waved off his attempts at an apology.”
Typical behavior of stable geniuses.
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Trump thinks he can rake anyone over the coals in an interview and then cozy up to them publicly with compliments and smiles and nobody will care.
But they do, Mr. Trump. Your disgraceful behavior has gone from being seen as immature and ignorant to hateful and repugnant, as have you, sir.
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A part of Trump unspoken agenda at NATO is to drive US arm sales, coming off a globe leading and record 2017 when $76 billion in sales were booked. Sales take place under the Arms Export Control Act, and many contracts are subsidized by US taxpayers to 95%. The US is the global leader in arms sales and Trump's Defense Department is expanding the market.
Overall, Trump's balance sheet approach is a still life, it ignores the flow of trade in the global supply chain and the economies of scale that make markets efficient and reliable. Compared to Obama, name any service or product achievement of Trump's matching Obama's removal of lifetime limits and protection of pre-conditions in healthcare.
Obama also focused on the number one global market trend: middle class growth doubling by 2028. (Trump has no plans/for the mega-trend.)
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What's to do but despair when you present recorded evidence that Trump is telling us that up is down, black is white, air is water, left is right and 40% of the voting public jumps uncritically on-board.
Democracy is not failing us; we are failing democracy. We don't deserve the peace and prosperity that democratic self-rule has given us for 250 years.
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If British and other Eropeans we're not already aware of the outrageousness and frequency of Trump lies, they certainly should be now. He gets away with it primarily due to "state media" and the fecklessness of Republicans politicians.
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What we are seeing here is what happens when a fractured personality that constantly requires admiration intersects with a Twitter account with 53 million followers.
In short - the president and his base do not care what he says or does, as long it is both outrageous and involves tearing something down.
Centuries from now, psychologists and historians will be discussing what we are seeing today.
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"I better walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk it back
Walk it back, walk it back"
From the 2007 song "Walk it Back" by the group called National.
Soon to be our new National anthem.
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The only world leader Trump won't undermine in order to get a more right-wing populist negotiating partner is the one who put him in office.
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“highest level of special”? Are you kidding me?
That’s awesome!
W. Bush brought us the brilliant “misunderestimate”. Until now, I thought the best Trump could do would be “bigly”. But let’s face it, “highest level of special” is simply an instant classic.
I’ve already told my friend, my wife, and my dog that they are the highest level of special. I’ll be able to use this one every day, and twice on Sunday.
It take intelligence to appropriately use a phrase in the right context at the right time. But it takes pure genius to make something like this up out of thin air.
Just another reason to thank President Trump.
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There's only one explanation for this guy: two Trumps, and they don't talk with each other. Not about Europe, not about NATO, not about North Korea.
Oh, sure, the two Trumps share the same views, but each one blames the other when they realize their last statement was a mistake. Never take the blame; deny, deny, deny!
Two Trumps. It's the only way to make sense of this chaos.
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Who is Trump kidding? The Founder and Glorious Leader of Trumpistan has one ally, Russia. England and the EU are the enemies of Trumpistan. Trumpistan wants nothing to do with the free world, instead attempting to enter the club of autocrats. We all know this. Why pretend otherwise anymore?
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As Mayor Ed Koch said back in the '80s, You couldn't trust anything Donald Trump said even if his lip were notarized.
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The American joke-president is merely trying to get back on script.
As widely presumed, Trump is helping to divide Europe, for fundamental favor for Russia. In this case, he 'supports' Brexit, in order to weaken the EU. On land in England, Trump went off-script & tried to establish his dominance over Britain and Theresa May in his standard rude, uncouth manner.
Then someone shoved his script back to him. So now he loves May and England, 'because they are the best ever'.
This my friends, is the American president. The product of a very questionable election and election process.
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no, no, no! It is the "Highest Level Of Special"
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The empty headed Trump is so quick to criticize...but has he ever proposed a solution to the Brexit?
As usual, he has not. He supported the lies of the leave campaign, but has never acknowledged that this lies tipped the election.
Odd how Trump, Boreis, and Nigel have no solutions.
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How many lies has President Trump told since he took office? The NY Times & WAPO need to update the Trump lie counter both published in the past.
Is there any way to even know what's a lie and what's true or do we need to assume that everything he says is a lie until proven otherwise?
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Trump has finally managed to galvanise a bigger crowd than any previous US president visiting the UK. Sadly for him he’s managed to attract an enormous crowd protesting against him, accompanied by the now famous Trump blimp - well worth searching for an image!
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Trump is doing the same thing in England that he regularly does in the US. Will the British media play the fools the way the US media does so often -- including the NY Times which refuses to just call out his lies as lies.
Trump denied making any negative remarks about May despite the newspaper having the recording. He lied.
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"“I didn’t criticize the prime minister; I have a lot of respect for the prime minister,” Mr. Trump told reporters during an outdoor news conference after he and Mrs. May had met for talks. He blamed “fake news,” falsely claiming the report — in a right-wing, pro-Brexit, Murdoch-owned tabloid — had omitted any praise of Mrs. May."
That's from the 4th graf. "Falsely claiming" sounds like calling him a liar from where I sit.
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Oh dear, to our US friends I offer my deepest condolences. I am so sorry that Mr Donald Trump is such an embarrassment for you. Don't worry though, such prattish behaviour by Trump is shrugged off by us. The US public, except for his supporters of course, continue to be held in high esteem.
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His modus operandi we know since Republican primary days. He degraded all his opponents and then hired many. trump’s getting old already. Where’s Mueller to finish him off?
The definitive Ugly American is now president. See their is no god.
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Does anyone else feel caught up in a playground battle between the class bully and the rest of the student body. This man-child seriously needs to grow up and act like an adult. Wishful thinking, I know.
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DJT is a man in serious mental decline. He has no filters and he cannot stop what falls out of his mouth. His brain is a constant jumbled mess of confusion. He can't remember what he has said and gets belligerent when confronted. He has absolutely no clear train of thought, hence he just rambles incoherently jumping from one subject to another. This sounds a lot like dementia folks.
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A close family relative who has narcissistic personality disorder and dementia presented in a very similar manner. He now has no memory at all. But before that happened, he caused a lot of damage. So I think you are on to something JM.
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Trump has had to retract his published and taped idiotic utterances so many times, walking backwards should be added as an olympic sport.
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Hey! Dr. Ronnie assured us the Trump was the sanest person in the entire world!
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I am disgusted, infuriated and embarrassed - no more can be said except that I am no longer ready to treat with respect the opinions of the enablers who voted for, and support this evil travesty of a president.
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Those with narcissistic personality disorder cycle between three channels: Charm. Rage. Self-pity.
It is textbook behavior.
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As Obama continues to monitor your dangerous situation.
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This man has absolutely no class!
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It will be interesting to see if Trump, the misogynist, who has been especially rude to Prime Minister May and Chancellor Merkel, will instruct Putin on how to run his country.
How much is this destructive trip costing us taxpayers??
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The Sun is the lowest of the worst British tabloids, full of scandal, innuendo and personal attacks on anyone considered "elitist" (i.e. educated). I think it also still carries pictures of semi-nude young women in every issue. That's in addition to its profoundly reactionary, xenophobic political stance. While it's also Murdoch-owned, it's way worse than Fox News. What on earth is the President of the United States, on an official visit to the UK, doing giving an interview to this publication? If he wanted a conservative paper, there's the Times (center-right) and the Telegraph (a bit further to the right, but a respectable publication). This is a disgrace. I realize that Trump himself has no discretion snd no understanding of the situation, but didn't he have any staff who could have warned him?
Not that it would have made much difference. Think of the warning not to call Putin to congratulate him on his re-election.
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All this hot and cold in the same breath. His children had to have had the most confusing upbringings.
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He did not participate in their upbringing.
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Yeah, I'm sure that PM May can't read Trump's interview with The Sun which he's now calling "fake news." Since The Sun is a rag owned by Rupert Murdoch and he also owns Fox News, is Fox News also fake news? Just asking. LOL
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Mr. Trump. Don't worry about returning. Just stay with your buddy, Mr. Putin. For you to make the statements you did today after being brief by Mr. Rosenstein about the impending indictment of Russian military officials is outrageous. We now know where your loyalties lie. They are with Mr. Putin and the Russians. If you like them so much, don't bother coming back. Thank you. True Americans.
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No thanks. That would mean we'd be stuck with him here in Finland.
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This behavior is emblematic of an emotionally immature and sociopathic personality.
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Among the many troublesome aspects of Donald J. Trump is that he believes other world leaders are fools. Some brave aide should just advise him that he has zero credibility as to any words he utters and be done with it.
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Trump and his little trumpkins are an uneducated mob. They love his absolutely meaningless statements:
“He’s been saying very nice things about me as president,” Mr. Trump said. “He thinks I’m doing a great job. I am doing a great job, that I can tell you, just in case you haven’t noticed. Boris Johnson, I think, would be a great prime minister.”
“I also said this incredible woman right here is doing a fantastic job,” Mr. Trump said, turning to Mrs. May. “A great job, and I mean that.”
What an embarrassment Republicans have put in office.
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The republicans had a lot of help from vlad.
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The days of flattery, assuaging and appeasement are over. There's only one way to take on a bully and that isn't sitting down.
Stand up to him. -- thegamesmenplay.com
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May is just the latest target of Trump's mouth.
Trump reminds of one of those mindless, self-propelled vacuum cleaners that, when they bump into walls or furniture, they just go off in another direction, only to bump into another obstruction and so on. Until the battery wears out.
This man Trump has been playing it by ear since the day he took the oath of office. His problem is himself: he's a petulent, uneducated, overindulged, overindulging person whose money has gotten him out of more trouble than anyone on the planet.
At the end of the day, politics and diplomacy are art forms and Trump has neither the interest nor the makeup to learn how to do either. He carries a baseball bat to swat flies and world leaders are learning to just isolate him as best they can in doing the work of nations. Even his authoritarian buddies in China and Russia look on Trump as a loose cannon on the gun deck. Everyone knows that when he opens his mouth butterflies come out.
My hope is that our friends in Europe, South America and Asia understand that Trump is not America. Trump is Trump: an accident of history and the Electoral College.
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Trump's domestic and international track record is one of exaggeration, lies, and empty blowhard bragging. I doubt he has any credibility with anyone, allies or enemies.
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Maybe the president should pause a moment before he shoots his mouth off.Words have consequences Mr. President, you should have already learned that but I doubt that you really care anyway.
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Seriously, MI6 didn't profile or tip off May and company about the chaos that Trump likes to create? Did May think the highest level of special would change the fact the guy is fighting with Canada and NATO? Did she and the UK government forget about Trump leaking info about the terrorists attacks last year? Highest level of special gives you nothing with Trump. Best of British to you.
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How many times has this happened? Trump makes statements to the press, the press publishes the statements, the world is shocked by what they read, Trump denies he made the statements, he blames the press for "fake news", he then makes conflicting statements . There is a very simple explanation for this: Trump is a liar.
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With no offense intended to the police:
Terrible cop, bad cop. Terrible cop, terrible cop, bad cop.
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I was sitting in a doctors office watching the press conference with my wife. The guy next to me was talking loudly to his father about how the US pays 90%of NATO'S budget. He said Trump will fix it.
I leaned over to my wife and said loud enough for everyone to hear that the US pays 21% of NATO budget and FOX news people are to dumb to see through the lies.
Then I said Trump is lying about not talking trash about The Prime minister because she is standing next to him and he is such a coward he can't face her.
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Good for you! Thank you for speaking up.
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You actually point out something very important about contemporary American life:
One cannot go anywhere these days in the U.S. without being bombarded with huge TV screens blaring FOX news right-wing propaganda. It's almost impossible to escape the constant drumbeat in the background.
Is it any wonder that Americans have lost the ability to think for themselves?
It seems plausible that Mr. Trump doesn't believe in accountability since everything is a sales pitch...at worst..a con job. He either does not think carefully when he speaks and then actually forgets his own blather or his denial of taped statements is based on his firm belief that you can say anything- and if printed - it will stand as equal to factual evidence.
In some sense this is the definition of sociopathy.
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Dear Sara,
He says whatever comes to his mind at the moment and believes that everyone else has as short a memory as he does.
However, if he says something that everybody hates or is embarrassed about ...and it gets a lot of air time, like a little kid, he tries to make nice. It would be amusing if he were not the President of the United States of America.
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Dear Geof Rayns,
Thank you for your patience with our toddler in chief. He often opens his mouth so wide that his head disappears. Even if there was something resembling a brain inside, it would be completely constricted by the extremities to which he pushes his mandibles, and that does not account for all his lies. Separate problem.
G. Pickard
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His famous "Have your cake and eat it too" strategy. How clever of him. :-)
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As Obama clearly said, "Trump is unfit for the office".
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Another major embarrassment from Dear Leader. Ho Hum. His base must exist in a perpetually stressful world, having to constantly channel Orwellian double think to deny the empirical reality of Trump's lies and stupidity. I don't feel sorry for them, but I do hope some of them eventually realize the enormity of their mistake in backing a certifiable doofus. To the 40% of my fellow citizens out there who excuse Trump anything: Please wake up before it's too late.
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He says one thing to pal Rupert’s audience and another to everyone else. The question is: how/when will it catch up with him?
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He's not trying to repair the damage. He's trying to get people to say nice things about him, because like a 4 year old, his world consists solely of who said what about me in the last ten minutes. I've never seen someone so insecure. It's actually quite sad.
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Dear Allies,
I know you can't simply "ignore" this ignoramus president.
But please remember that the majority of Americans are horrified by his infantile and petty behavior to our Allies, and we are scared to death of his destruction of our relationships with you, his willingness hold the door open for Putin to destroy our democracy, his corrupt and greedy family that treats their gov. positions as a lottery ticket, and his corrupt cabinet that is bent on dismantling our institutions.
Our negligence allowed a small minority of corrupt, racist, bigoted people to hijack our government.
We will never be able to apologize enough.
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How low have things sunk when a news headline has to specify that a president was on "his best behavior?" Why, in a sane world, would anyone assume that our highest leader would go abroad and not be on his best behavior?
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General Charles De Gaulle, made the most undiplomatic statement in the history of Canada. In July 1967, De Gualle, President of France, visited Montreal.
In 1967, Canada celebrated 100 years of Confederation. One would expect that France's President De Gaulle would recall the great contribution of Canadian soldiers who have one of the largest grave-yards and monuments in France representing Canadian war dead from two world wars.
Long story short, President De Gaulle asks the Mayor of Montreal if he could briefly address the French-Canadians who were chanting for him to speak. De Gualle enters the balcony of City Hall to loud cheers. He then uttters the most famous insult to Canadians than anyone, including today's insults from President Trump toward Justin Trudeau, that rings to this day. De Gaulle stirred the pot of the separatist movement by dramatically voicing a nuanced statement loaded with political animosity that French-Canadiand held against the minority English-Canadians in Quebec:
"Vive le Quebec ... libre"
In other words, he stimulated the separatist movement of Quebecers who preferred to succeed from Canada and form a nation. It would be comparable to Queen Victoria visiting the U.S. South in 1860 and encouraging the Southern states to succeed from the U.S.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/de-gaulle-and-vive-le-...
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Trump's interview was mindbogglingly reckless and destructive. There's no way of repairing that. His claim that he never said his recorded words is one more in a long series of reasons that he is the single greatest threat to or nation.
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There is no doubt in my mind that Trump is a Russian asset aided by a complicit republican congress, RNC and NRA. The only question is how deep does the engagement with Russia go in our federal government? Does it ensnare the federalist society or the heritage foundation, the club for growth, AIPAC? Who else is actually engaged and for how long has this been going on?
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all of them and for a very long time.
Once again, displaying the First Rule Of Trump. Everyone and Everything he touches, he destroys. Intentionally OR not. It's his Superpower.
Thanks, GOP. See you in November. Bigly.
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Clearly, the Prez is not just unfocused and off-the-cuff, he is quite unstable and self-centered to the point of needing a thorough psychiatric exam. When will the GOP straighten out this mess?
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“He first tried to deny he had criticized the prime minister and blamed the embarrassing episode on the news media. When that rang hollow, he then tried to compensate by lavishing Mrs. May with compliments...”
You can just hear Trump’s thoughts: “Strange, it works all the time in America…”
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This is exactly what one would expect when voters vote from a place of fear, ideology and anxiety.
Trump fed them red meat, fake as it was, and now his utter incompetence is on display for the entire world to see – as well as any aliens watching from afar.
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:-)
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Sad, sad, man. To be so needy even if the most reprehensible people on the planet. Brexit was a con just as the Wall, the tariffs and the tax bill are cons. We treat asylum seekers worse than animals. Unwashed, starved, and sick herded under conditions worse than maximum security inmates. A few nights in Victorville prison for Trump May be just what he needs - a jolt of reality,
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The spectacle of America's fall from world leadership and respect continues.
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I am in England now visiting. I have done nothing but apologize for Trump's actions. I really wish he would remember that when he denigrates other world leaders he is representing all Americans. And most of us were brought up to show respect to others.
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I was in Ireland recently. I had the same experience. I was in Canada in December, and a cab driver asked me if I voted for Trump before letting me in. I said no, so he said he would take me to my hotel. He said the trip would take twice as long and cost twice as much if I had.
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Trump is a con man. His criticism of the British Prime Minister and intervention into a critical British domestic issue is an outrage. Imagine how he would be reacting if a foreign head of state had made critical comments about him while visiting the US. Of course he lies about saying it and blames the media for reporting what he said - his standard evasive approach.
The people of the US apologize to the British people. We are contually embarrassed by this oaf occupying the office of the President.
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Totally agree. But a foreign head of state DID come here and make critical comments . . . . in an address to Congress. Good old Bibi Netanyahu.
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We're just shaking our head in disbelief. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion.
Terrifying and baffling that anyone with such a loose grip on reality and non-existent diplomacy skills has the nuclear codes. But that's democracy for you. (Our Brexit mess is another great example of its limits.) As Churchill said, it's the worst form of government – except for all the others.
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Oh please. Whining about fake news. Denying saying what he clearly said. Stop giving him credibility. Stop normalizing this. It's all a big joke to him, but unfortunately, the joke is on us and the rest of the free world, for as long as it lasts.
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The schizophrenic actions of DJT are leading to a mountain of future trouble for the U.S. and it's longtime allies. One can only assume that the majority of his" superlative" statements are simply lies masking his long- stated beliefs. It's terrifying.
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Schizophrenia is a terrible disease— don’t make it any worse by linking it to DJT.
:) Maybe Trump can blame his comments yesterday to watching old Roseanne episodes.
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Can't believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
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I think he’s got an advanced state of Foot In Mouth Disease, probably caught from a cheeseburger.
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What? Trump says one thing one day and the opposite the next day? How odd.
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Seriously, "the highest level of special". This in the land where the English language was developed? He is our own Minister of Silly Talks. He should walk around with that balloon because he has the vocabulary of a, not very bright, 7 year old. I couldn't be more embarrassed for my country.
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my seven year old sounds like a harvard professor next to the trump
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Wait, there's a whole lot more to come.
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I'm not so convinced about your "vast majority".
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Trump behavior is that of a typical abuser - bully then praise. But this dynamic will not cow Prime Minister May.
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So Trump tries to make up for his total lack of loyalty and honesty by lying at a prodigious rate. If Trump hasn't destroyed America's relationship with Britain yet, then I wonder what's wrong with the British that they believe his ridiculous lies.
I really can't comprehend how this hasn't sunk in for people in the past awful months of Trump. He lies all the time. He cannot be trusted. He cheated on all three wives so far, and everyone knows it. He is nearly completely incompetent and ignorant.
And yet everyone acts surprised when he goes to Britain and immediately starts thrashing around like a bull in Buckingham palace. Everyone is baffled that he says the most obnoxious, fact-free things, and lies about his lies. Why is this at all surprising? He's a horrible person in every conceivable way, just accept it and call it what it is.
The headline should have been more like, "Trump Attacks British Prime Minister and Then Lies About It." Trump's never going to be honest, but we should be honest about how awful he is.
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I agree with you. The headline should read: Donald Trump Lies Except When He’s Yawning
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The only brits supporting trump are those made in his image, the craven cowards who attack behind your back then deny they did so, the racist, the misogynistic, the anti intellectual, the right wing fear mongers. The rest of us are horrified, and aghast. How did this happen? How did a man so clearly and completely unfit for high office get to be president? Yes, he was helped by Russia, yes he lied and cheated so how long is this travesty going to go on?
What in God's name is going on in your government? Why are the decent people in America putting up with this?
Today hundreds of thousands of brits protested against his hateful rhetoric and vile agenda. America the GOP are in league with Russia and so is your president, you need to fight for your lives because if there isn't a blue wave in November we are all doomed.
The democratic party needs to take the gloves off, your president and a big chunk of the GOP are compromised, traitors, and you're watching it run away from you. Proud of my country today, embarassed and ashamed for you. Ps he kept the queen waiting, she's 92 and he made her wait 15 minutes stood in the heat. He's disgusting period.
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You say "I wonder what's wrong with the British that they believe his ridiculous lies". Nothing to wonder about here, as, in the main, Britons know him for what he is - an ignoramus who cannot differentiate 'alternate facts' from the plain truth.
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The constantly changing rhetoric from Mr. Trump is unpredictable, unnerving and strange to the point of being pathological.
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It IS pathological. It's called gaslighting.
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Wrecking ball. Destroyer who knows only how to hate and tear things down. Compare and contrast to President Obama who tried to love all and actively tried to build better relationships and makes thing better for all.
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A long time ago, I had a brash manner and harsh delivery. It was nowhere near as bad as Trump, but people made me aware of it in a variety of ways and I changed. Trump is too old and too wealthy to be naive about this -- he's doing this on purpose, and his family and half the country are supporting it. We should not. It is destroying civility in this country, it's giving unstable people the green light to call the police on black people minding their own business (or worse), to laugh at desperate children, to demonize the innocent. This is a sickness, it needs to be stopped.
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I give you a lot of credit for admitting to a fault and especially for changing your behavior, not an easy thing to do.
People like you make me feel a little better about the world.
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What people miss about Trump, despite his almost autistic inability to actually socialize, is he's tremendously sensitive to criticism. His brashness is his defense of his own sensitivity. He's hurt, and insecure, so he lashes out critically at people. He's a man with a personality disorder who got elected President of the United States. He's also a control freak and the picture of him and the British Prime Minister shows it perfectly. Pushing, guiding, cajoling, demanding obsequious behaviors. While Theresa May must have been civil and respectful to Trump, she certainly wasn't feeding his narcissism to the extent his personality demands. The solution? He will never fix himself, he will never change. He must be impeached and thrown out for the good of the country, and all of us that love it.
After yesterday, nothing about this is in any way shape or form credible. Please do not try to suggest otherwise.
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Trump: 'Damage? What damage? I just said words. Nothing to be taken seriously. Just words I say that come out of my mouth. Everything is great now. Because I just said so. Those words
I just said. '
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Thousands and thousands of people, OF ANOTHER COUNTRY, are marching against Trump right now...
While we sit here, letting this criminal seal the course of justice in this country, for the next 50 years.
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Thousands and thousand are not that many when you consider the millions that live in London! What criminal? He hasn't committed a crime!
You are so right, why are we not marching? We are outraged while we sit in our armchairs.
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I go to a protest almost every month, sometimes twice a month.
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“I said, ‘I want to apologize, because I said such good things about you,’ ” Mr. Trump said"
What? I need a trip to my optometrist ASAP. There's no way Trump apologized to anyone for anything what so ever.
Clearly the worst example of "fake news" I've ever seen. Please do better next time, NYT.
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Duh. Thats' what Trump does. It's so stupidly obvious. He interviews with right-wing publications, puts on his sour puss face and abuses heads of countries (except Putin) to satisfy his ignorant base. Then he meets with the leaders, says nice things, and blames "fake news" for the ugly things he says for his deplorables.
Why is the news acting so gullible? Really tired of this.
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Trump even calls Murdoch properties fake when they tell the truth about him. Fortunately, he was recorded.
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President Inconsistent again. If only we could have President Sincere Ike or President Silver Tongue Obama again. Oh well! This too shall pass, hopefully without tragedy for us or the world. I am 87 this year and I hope to vote this fall and in 2020 to help correct our horrorible mistake in 2016. My vote for HC just did not work out as I had hoped.
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“They’re going to call me Mr. Brexit.” -Donald Trump
Congratulations, Mr. President. Fait accompli. Exeunt.
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"Mr. Exit" would work for me.
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A fool and OUR friends are soon parted. Thanks, GOP.
November. Seriously.
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This guy is just plain incapable of controlling himself. He’s been lying for so many years about so many things I doubt that he even knows when he’s lying anymore.
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Interesting picture. Trump is holding May's arm the way a blind person holds a sighted person's arm. A hard pinch above the elbow, for direction and available emergency support.
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He's as bad at back-pedaling as he is at forward-pedaling.
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Stunningly appropriate interpretation, sir. Having served in the role of assisting a blind relative, I can attest to the precision of your observation.
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'Mr. Trump also said that he stood by his praise of Mr. Johnson.
“He’s been saying very nice things about me as president,” Mr. Trump said. “He thinks I’m doing a great job. I am doing a great job, that I can tell you, just in case you haven’t noticed. Boris Johnson, I think, would be a great prime minister.”'
This passage from the article accurately portrays Trump's thought process and expectations. You praise me, I'll praise you. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. You do me wrong, I will do you wrong.
It seems likely that this type of behavior will escalate, from a man such as himself.
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Usually such egotistical outbursts are reserved for people like Kanye West. This behavior is deranged for a President.
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And more important, the most important qualification for a high level job is saying nice things about him.
“I know words, I have the best words. I have the best...."
Example: "The highest level of special."
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And the Republicans do nothing to rein him in...
Would that make Republicans complicit in the harm Trump has done and continues to do to the US?
I think so.
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Yes the Republicans are deeply complicit, enablers of the highest order, for a president who obviously has a character disorder.
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Absolutely Republicans are complicit in the evil wreaked by Trump. Not sure it is because they are just stupid or evil themselves. I vote for the latter.
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What a phony The Con Don is.
His cult followers on fox so-called news are brain washed. Fortunately the vast majority of Americans are not.
WE THE PEOPLE will throw The Con Don and his Robber Baron brethren OUT of OUR governments at every level this November and in every election in the foreseeable future.
No WW3. No deserting OUR allies.
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I’m sorry to say this, but Trump is the rest of the world’s impression of the worst of Americans–and the worst of humanity–personified. He’s the president that much of the rest of the world thinks you deserve.
A sizable percentage of the US–mainly in regions that lead developed nations in terms of poverty, adult illiteracy, violence, and gun deaths–voted him in, and despite the incalculable harm he’s caused nationally and internationally since taking office, the same people still think he’s an effective leader who’s making America great again. In fact, the more he embraces bigotry, racism, hatred, ignorance, division, and lies, the higher his approval rating.
Americans who didn't vote for him are rightfully sickened and worried. The greatest threat to the US isn’t ISIS, or the Middle East, or Israel, or North Korea, or obesity, or the daily murders of each other with guns. It's Republicans. You’re the country that elected George W. Bush twice, and you may well elect Trump twice, thus repeating the tragedy of a Republican presidency.
You’ve entrusted your entire political and legal establishment to someone who’s greatest achievement is getting almost half of the voters in your country to believe he’s not coordinating with Russia, even though the heads of the top six American intelligence agencies have unanimously affirmed Russian interference. Yet there are no protests, no marches, no demonstrations. Do you still feel like the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
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Sadly, I'm ashamed of my country and fear for its future. The hopelessness I feel can be overwhelming. The last vestiges of hope are the next election and Robert Mueller. But as I read and watch the complicit GOP aid and abet the demise of our democracy and all regard for its people, as well as others, I mostly feel hopeless.
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Reviewing the photos of protesters taking to the streets in London gives me hope. The posters (and that blimp) are spot on.
Your comments are a call to action, but I disagree with your blanket assertion that there are ". . .no protests, no marches, no demonstrations." There are, just not on the scale needed to bring about change (yet).
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London Calling - Although I agree with your criticisms of Trump, the majority of US voters (3M more) voted for the well-qualified and far superior candidate, Hillary Clinton.
And we do need a more educated and engaged public. A good first step would be reinstating fairness standards for radio and TV media on matters of compelling public interest. This would prevent damaging propaganda and outright lies being promulgated by Murdoch-owned enterprises and others.
But from the American perspective, I can also question the wisdom of electing Chamberlain, Eden, Callaghan, Thatcher, and Blair. Although well spoken and more knowledgeable than Trump to be sure, the UK has not exactly a had stellar group of leaders over the last 80 years. Some have been more damaging to British and world interests than the bafoonery from Trump so far.
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