by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
For the past several weeks our glorious leader, Donald John Trump, has been a traveling fool - he has traveled and, at each and every stop, he has played the fool. Last month he attended the G-7 meeting in Canada where he spent two days parading his petulance before other world leaders whose countries have strategic economic alliances with the United States, signed an accord with the group, and then left the meeting and headed for a summit with Kim Jong-Un, the despotic little tyrant who runs North Korea.
While Air Force One was in the air headed to the meeting with Kim Jong-Un in Singapore, Trump threw one of his famous tantrums and withdrew his approval from the G-7 accord. He smiled for the cameras with Kim in Singapore, and then returned to the U.S. boasting that he had struck a deal with North Korea for them to denuclearize. It now appears that the "agreement" was only a figment of Trump's imagination and all that he actually accomplished by visiting with the wily North Korean was to add some legitimacy to Kim's desire and claim to be a significant world leader - something U.S. Presidents before Trump had sought to avoid.
From Quebec to Singapore, Trump's foray onto the world stage was an abysmal failure.
Now, barely a month later, he is at it again.
Over the past week Trump has attended the NATO summit in Brussels where he managed to attack one of our prominent allies, Germany, over a fuel supply agreement that it has with Russia. It looked as though Trump might be trying to destabilize the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
There were also indications that Trump's ultimate aim might be to destabilize, and maybe even destroy, NATO, something that would play very well in Russia, but in the end he just harangued other members over what he perceived to be their shortcomings in financially supporting the defense alliance.
Trump also appeared to be fomenting a political rebellion when he arrived in Great Britain after the NATO summit. He made news when he gave an interview to a London newspaper in which he was highly critical of Prime Minister Theresa May, telling the newspaper in essence that he had told her how to do her job but that she had not listened to his sage advice. He also made news with the size of the protest crowds that followed him during his time Great Britain. Trafalgar Square, according to some estimates, had more than a quarter-of-a-million people gathered to protest Trump's visit, the largest British protest ever of a visit by a foreign head of state - and the mayor of London seemed to encouraging and enjoying the demonstrations.
And then he and Melania took tea with the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Trump, who has already insulted two world leaders, both female, on his current tour, showed his oafishness by walking, almost staggering, in front of Queen Elizabeth, and blocking her path. No one expected him to bow before the British monarch, but most felt that he might have at least walked beside, or even offered an arm to, the ninety-two-year-old monarch. But not our Donald John. He stepped right in front of the elderly lady because that's the way he rolls.
(Remember the footage several months ago of Donald and Melania boarding Air Force One during a rain shower? He marched smartly up the stairs to the big plane holding an umbrella - over himself - and Melania dutifully followed along behind in the rain - with no umbrella.)
Today Trump is in Glasgow, Scotland, playing golf at one of his properties. Thousands of Scots are in the streets protesting his visit. Tomorrow - or the next day - he will meet with Russian Premier Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland - even though the Justice Department issued indictments against twelve Russian citizens yesterday for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. They were allegedly working at the behest of the Russian government - and for the benefit of Donald Trump.
Trump won't be walking in front of Putin, or bad-mouthing him to the press, or telling him how to run his country. No he won't. You betcha he won't.
He owes Putin - bigly.
Citizen Journalist
For the past several weeks our glorious leader, Donald John Trump, has been a traveling fool - he has traveled and, at each and every stop, he has played the fool. Last month he attended the G-7 meeting in Canada where he spent two days parading his petulance before other world leaders whose countries have strategic economic alliances with the United States, signed an accord with the group, and then left the meeting and headed for a summit with Kim Jong-Un, the despotic little tyrant who runs North Korea.
While Air Force One was in the air headed to the meeting with Kim Jong-Un in Singapore, Trump threw one of his famous tantrums and withdrew his approval from the G-7 accord. He smiled for the cameras with Kim in Singapore, and then returned to the U.S. boasting that he had struck a deal with North Korea for them to denuclearize. It now appears that the "agreement" was only a figment of Trump's imagination and all that he actually accomplished by visiting with the wily North Korean was to add some legitimacy to Kim's desire and claim to be a significant world leader - something U.S. Presidents before Trump had sought to avoid.
From Quebec to Singapore, Trump's foray onto the world stage was an abysmal failure.
Now, barely a month later, he is at it again.
Over the past week Trump has attended the NATO summit in Brussels where he managed to attack one of our prominent allies, Germany, over a fuel supply agreement that it has with Russia. It looked as though Trump might be trying to destabilize the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
There were also indications that Trump's ultimate aim might be to destabilize, and maybe even destroy, NATO, something that would play very well in Russia, but in the end he just harangued other members over what he perceived to be their shortcomings in financially supporting the defense alliance.
Trump also appeared to be fomenting a political rebellion when he arrived in Great Britain after the NATO summit. He made news when he gave an interview to a London newspaper in which he was highly critical of Prime Minister Theresa May, telling the newspaper in essence that he had told her how to do her job but that she had not listened to his sage advice. He also made news with the size of the protest crowds that followed him during his time Great Britain. Trafalgar Square, according to some estimates, had more than a quarter-of-a-million people gathered to protest Trump's visit, the largest British protest ever of a visit by a foreign head of state - and the mayor of London seemed to encouraging and enjoying the demonstrations.
And then he and Melania took tea with the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Trump, who has already insulted two world leaders, both female, on his current tour, showed his oafishness by walking, almost staggering, in front of Queen Elizabeth, and blocking her path. No one expected him to bow before the British monarch, but most felt that he might have at least walked beside, or even offered an arm to, the ninety-two-year-old monarch. But not our Donald John. He stepped right in front of the elderly lady because that's the way he rolls.
(Remember the footage several months ago of Donald and Melania boarding Air Force One during a rain shower? He marched smartly up the stairs to the big plane holding an umbrella - over himself - and Melania dutifully followed along behind in the rain - with no umbrella.)
Today Trump is in Glasgow, Scotland, playing golf at one of his properties. Thousands of Scots are in the streets protesting his visit. Tomorrow - or the next day - he will meet with Russian Premier Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland - even though the Justice Department issued indictments against twelve Russian citizens yesterday for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. They were allegedly working at the behest of the Russian government - and for the benefit of Donald Trump.
Trump won't be walking in front of Putin, or bad-mouthing him to the press, or telling him how to run his country. No he won't. You betcha he won't.
He owes Putin - bigly.
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