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kpete

(71,964 posts)
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 09:14 AM Aug 2019

Trump is "The Empty Chair"

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The most striking photograph to emerge from the G7 summit meeting in Biarritz, France, is one of an empty chair.

It’s the seat that President Donald Trump was supposed to occupy during a meeting today where world leaders talked about climate trends that could render parts of the planet uninhabitable if left unchecked.

Trump skipped it.

The White House put out a statement that Trump was busy talking to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and couldn’t make it—though both of those leaders found time to show up for the session. No one waited for Trump; the leaders of the world’s most economically advanced democratic nations went ahead despite his absence.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/trump-g7/596875/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/trump-g7/596875/
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Trump is "The Empty Chair" (Original Post) kpete Aug 2019 OP
And this is how the US gives up the "leadership of the free world" dawg day Aug 2019 #1
Both of True Blue American Aug 2019 #2
What would you expect from BillyBobBrilliant Aug 2019 #3
The little sign says, "His Excellence, Mr. Donald Trump." ZZenith Aug 2019 #4
they just misspelled "Emptiness" Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #5

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. And this is how the US gives up the "leadership of the free world"
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 09:41 AM
Aug 2019

There is now a G6... they're just going to work around Trump, and goodness knows, that's the best we can hope for at this time.

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