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So. Ummmm. NATO summit is going well then.

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Trump simply does not know how to behave around grow-up's that are similarly positioned as democratically elected heads of state. His insecurities come out in full bloom in such situations and confirm what our allies already knew all too well about him.

In effect, all he knows how to do is pick fights with our allies and exchange love letters with our enemies.
 
This would be an interesting subject to touch on if trump debates his presidential rival next year. I'd imagine he would have a meltdown if asked why major world leaders / our closest allies were mocking him. Then really jab him and say he was such a week person he had to throw a tantrum and leave early.
 
zzyzxroad said:
This would be an interesting subject to touch on if trump debates his presidential rival next year. I'd imagine he would have a meltdown if asked why major world leaders / our closest allies were mocking him. Then really jab him and say he was such a week person he had to throw a tantrum and leave early.
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I say no debates with that scum. His partisans will lap up his insults, and no useful information will be gained. They can claim chicken shit all they want.
 
Ajay said:
What does it matter, somehow, his base will love him for standing up to those European globalists.
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How Trump's base perceives this and how Trump perceives this are likely QUITE different.

Trump lusted after the acceptance and approval of the top echelon real estate families in NYC for decades and never received it. This kind of rejection is strikingly similar.
 
Cry baby Trumpman cries and goes home.

I'm actually feeling bad for everyone else with how they have to deal with this know-nothing oafish creep showing up to these events, bubble-headed daughter in tow, and listen to him praddle on with Russian conspiracy theories, childish boasts, crude insults and outright lies, all the while trying to play nice because he is somehow in charge of the most powerful country on the planet.

He's like that idiot boss or older relative that just rattles on about stupid shit, but you bite your tongue until you can vent in private.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1200153609847156736
 
Bitek said:
Cry baby Trumpman cries and goes home.

I'm actually feeling bad for everyone else with how they have to deal with this know-nothing oafish creep showing up to these events, bubble-headed daughter in tow, and listen to him praddle on with Russian conspiracy theories, childish boasts, crude insults and outright lies, all the while trying to play nice because he is somehow in charge of the most powerful country on the planet.

He's like that idiot boss or older relative that just rattles on about stupid shit, but you bite your tongue until you can vent in private.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1200153609847156736
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lol. So this is the point we're at now.

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pmv said:
Recently I've been catching up on all the articles comparing Trump to the notoriously thin-skinned and diplomatically-inept Kaiser Wilhelm II. Probably old news to many, but somehow I'd missed them (I saw one reference to the idea, and googled, and discovered it's been a recurrent theme for a long time).

Funny thing is the one article I found sniffily disputing the comparison was (a) not very convincing, and (b) primarily concerned with defending the reputation of the Kaiser.

Just one example of someone making the comparison, for anyone who is as late to this party as I am


www.newyorker.com

What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

Donald Trump is reminiscent of Kaiser Wilhelm II, during whose reign the upper echelons of the German government began to unravel into a free-for-all.
www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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I read this same article a few weeks back and the similarities are remarkable. Trump really embodies the phrase "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it". His tweets alone that can regularly be used to criticize him when he was failingly trying to criticize others are another great example.
 
thraashman said:
I read this same article a few weeks back and the similarities are remarkable. Trump really embodies the phrase "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it". His tweets alone that can regularly be used to criticize him when he was failingly trying to criticize others are another great example.
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The funny thing is that the results of Googling suggests that many people came to the same comparison independently (unless it all began with one commentor who everyone plagiarised!). Poor Kaiser Bill never had much of a chance, though - his upbringing and circumstances make it hard to imagine how he could ever have turned out differently.

Hereditary rule is a terrible idea. You have a human car-crash heading inexorably to absolute power, every-one can see what a disaster he is likely to be...but it's just unthinkable to do anything to stop it.

Even the most flawed democratic system is preferable.

The one contrary article was by someone from a Nixon-founded thinktank (which I would presume pushes the Kissenger right-wing-realist approach to 'statecraft') and it was mostly trying to argue that Kaiser Bill wasn't solely responsible for WW1, rather than saying anything favourable about Trump.
 
I was thinking, an odd thing about the NATO farago, is that I don't like Macron or Trudeau either, still less Johnson. Two slick, over-privileged metrosexual upper-middle class guys (including Mr Blackface himself) and a ruthlessly self-serving born-to-rule opportunist.

The fact is I could imagine getting provoked by those three into ineffectual rage myself. But then, I'm not born-rich and in charge of a super-power. It's very strange how someone as privileged as Trump can have such vast reserves of resentment and insecurity. It's a strange psychological spectacle. I suppose he shares that with many of his voters, even if it's not from the same source, he can tap into it to connect with them.
 
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