Trump's Ugly American Tour

[bobabode]

“Chaos.”
“Circus.”
“Laughingstock.”

"Those were just a few of the comments I heard in Berlin this week from senior European officials trying to make sense of the meltdown in Washington at just the moment when a politically imploding President Trump embarks on what he called “my big foreign trip” in this morning’s kickoff tweet." Politico

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/19/trump-first-foreign-trip-europe-215163

If der Gropenfuhrer thought breaking into Manhattan high society was hard, he's in for a rude awaking in Belgium and Europe in general. ;)

[bobabode]

"Trump's First Presidential Trip Abroad: What Could Go Wrong?" The Atlantic

"On my first presidential overseas trip I got stranded outside a Russian checkpoint, frantically texting sleeping colleagues about whether I could allow security guards to scan my bag. Later, in a McMansion-style villa on the Gulf of Finland, I staffed congressional calls on the proposed U.S. response to the Syrian chemical-weapons attacks, listened to an electronic accordion band with my boss during a late-night dinner, checked in to my hotel room around 3 a.m., and returned to the summit site four hours later. I helped draft, lost due to shaky IT systems, and then redrafted a joint statement on some crisis of the day, warned colleagues not to use the helpful USB drive “gift,” and returned to my seat on Air Force One hoping to sleep and confronted by a 3-inch stack of paper requiring immediate attention faxed to me by helpful colleagues in DC.
That was a normal day on a normal presidential trip." Loren DeJonge Schulman

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/how-trumps-trip-might-go-awry/527496/

[Pio1980]

US president receives warm welcome by King Salman as he seeks to repair ties with Washington's closest Arab ally.
http://aje.io/y8gz

[HarmanKardon]

A love based on big business...

I hope that we German people will give him what he deserves when he puts his stinky feet on our Fatherland's soil.

[Pio1980]

A speech loaded with signature hyperbole and salted with fibbing is being delivered at this moment. I'm waiting for the rest of the package with self, self self.

[Pio1980]

I didn't hear him soil himself and us with self promotion and grievances, which was novel for him.

[Pio1980]

Arab-Islamic-American summit condemns perpetrators that commit terrorist acts in the name of religion.
http://aje.io/6hld

[MrPots]

So Ivanka gets a 100 million dollar donation to her "charity" in exchange for 110 billion in weapons of mass destruction which will make Trumps Ratheon stock soar.

Looks like a win win win for the trumps and another big "fuck you" to the american people.

[bobabode]

No wonder Trumpolina was curtsying to King Salman. A cool $100 million for Ivanka's slush fund.

[MrPots]

The 1% certainly knows how to help themselves while denying others the basics.

Let's see, the last stats, the 8 riches men have more wealth than the bottom 50% of the world population.

The top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 99% combined.

The biggest problem with healthcare is making sure billionaire investors get big returns on their investments, off the sick and poor.

[Pio1980]

US president promises to help broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, but avoids delving into details of the conflict.
http://aje.io/amgy

[Pio1980]

To the last point. Of course he didn't, that would be redundant.
Here's The Deal With That Glowing Orb — And Plenty Of Notes On What It Isn't http://n.pr/2rKiFly

[Pio1980]

As US President Donald Trump arrives in Israel, analysts say efforts to revive peace talks are a 'charade'.
http://aje.io/gac9

[MrPots]

US president promises to help broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, but avoids delving into details of the conflict.
http://aje.io/amgy

The same way he's going to make Mexico pay for the wall. LOL....even Netenyahoo believes his lies.....

[donquixote99]

I trust everyone has gotten to admire Meliana's simple but expressive body English? If not, hit the link and scroll down to the Haaretz slow-mo. They have it on a 5-second loop.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/05/22/melania-trump-appears-swat-presidents-hand-away/102012848/

[bobabode]

I trust everyone has gotten to admire Meliana's simple but expressive body English? If not, hit the link and scroll down to the Haaretz slow-mo. They have it on a 5-second loop.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/05/22/melania-trump-appears-swat-presidents-hand-away/102012848/

She doesn't know where that tiny little hand has been.

[Pio1980]

Iran's president fires back at Trump's funding 'terrorists' accusation, saying Americans don't know the region.
http://aje.io/9mfz

[MrPots]

I trust everyone has gotten to admire Meliana's simple but expressive body English? If not, hit the link and scroll down to the Haaretz slow-mo. They have it on a 5-second loop.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/05/22/melania-trump-appears-swat-presidents-hand-away/102012848/

I'm getting the impression she has nothing but contempt for the little asshole. when she comes clean with it I may cut her some slack.

[Pio1980]

Montenegro 'entered the West' through NATO
http://p.dw.com/p/2df0Y

[Chicks]

How the Saudis played Trump. The "great negotiator" is an ignorant fool, a fact which the Saudis used to their great advantage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/saudi-arabia-just-played-donald-trump/2017/05/25/d0932702-4184-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html

[Pio1980]

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/05/scarborough-trump-europe-looked-goon

[Pio1980]

Trump, home all alone

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/opinions/trump-home-all-alone-borger/index.html

[bobabode]

Trump, home all alone

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/opinions/trump-home-all-alone-borger/index.html

"These guys don't play chess," sighs a friend. "They play checkers."

Someone is mistaking Tiddly Winks for checkers.

[Pio1980]

Angela Merkel isn't trying to hurt you, Mr. President. Germany is our friend

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/opinions/trump-needs-to-stop-alienating-friends-opinion-andelman/index.html

[bobabode]

Four more Pinocchios for the 'Ugly American President' over his NATO claims.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/31/trump-on-nato-funding-still-misleading-after-months-of-fact-checks/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_factchecker-6a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.7134f58ae9d4

[Chicks]

Yeah, local NPR station had factcheck.org rep on this morning, re Trump's "millions of jobs, billions of dollars" claims resulting from the tour. Most of the $$$ come from deals already inked during the Obama administration. The jobs? Pure fabrication by Trump. Lies.