http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/now-they...ock-trump/

Quote:‘Now they see the clownish nature’: Europeans brace for visit from ‘laughingstock’ Trump

Quote:Weeks ago, many U.S. allies in Europe were living in fear of what newly-elected President Donald Trump would do with regards to the stability and safety of Europe.
Now, however, after Trump’s inept, scandal plagued first months in office, people who spoke with Germany-based Politico correspondent Susan B. Glasser said, “The dominant reaction to Trump right now is mockery.”
“People are less worried than they were six weeks ago, less afraid,” said one German government official to Glasser. “Now they see the clownish nature.”
“People here think Trump is a laughingstock,” another German national confided to Glasser in Berlin.

"People here think Trump is a laughingstock."

People there are correct. Pity that so much of our electorate don't see it.

Of course we do. Doesn't everyone at this point?

If I cringed any harder, I'd be having a full-blown seizure. From the article:

“The president of the United States has a 12-second attention span,” said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to a “former senior official” after an April meeting with Trump in the Oval Office. Furthermore, Stoltenberg said, the president seemed unprepared and ill-informed during the meeting, attempting to steer the conversation with NATO representatives to North Korea, which is not a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s charter, since it is not located in the North Atlantic.

“Some of the reported preparations for the NATO session in Brussels this week suggest just how much the volatile-clown theory of the American president has now taken hold,” wrote Glasser.
•NATO has downsized what was to be a full summit meeting to just a dinner on May 25 “to minimize the chance of a Trump eruption.”
•Leaders have been told to keep their remarks under four minutes or they’ll lose Trump’s attention.
•Leaders have also been advised to present something to Trump that looks like a deal —
what diplomatic parlance calls a “deliverable” — some tangible, if meaningless, offer to make the president feel like he’s accomplished something special."

The so-called leader of the free world is being prepared for as if a bunch of adults with important shit to do have to make plans for how to keep an unruly child distracted and entertained so the grown-ups can talk. Fuck me! I already feel nauseated thinking of Trump's inevitable word salad of delusional, self-congratulatory bullshit and petulant whining that will follow.


Dear rest of the world,

I'm so fucking sorry about all of this. I didn't vote for him, but that hardly matters now. He's disgraced all of us in the U.S. and we have to answer for that. I don't know what else to say . . . other than please keep him.

With love and deep regret,
Crossless1

It is a bit of an emotional turmoil. On one side its laughable, on the other side is crying as the most powerfull nation on earth, elected... that..

There is nothing we can do.

I heard on the news here he is on saudi arabia strenghthening the bonds with muslim nations. Good luck with that, but I also heard he is strucking a deal of 90 bils over weapons.

I... have no words to describe the fuckwittery here.

Melania, Ivanka, and at least one female translator are scarfless and yet Allah is not flinging lightning bolts (or machetes) around the fucking kingdom.

Hmmmm . . . . .

On the plus side, maybe he'll be so jet-lagged he'll be too tired to tweet...one can hope.

-Teresa

(May 20, 2017 at 8:20 am)Alex K Wrote: Of course we do. Doesn't everyone at this point?

If only.  There are too many people whose only response to evidence that they've made a bad choice is to deny and double down .. pretty much like the goofus in office.

(May 20, 2017 at 12:03 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: On the plus side, maybe he'll be so jet-lagged he'll be too tired to tweet...one can hope.

-Teresa

Shit, his 3am tweets are the way Trump incriminates himself. We need those tweets to continue!