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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's disinfectant comments lead to 'stifled giggles' abroad
The world is laughing at trump
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The Irish Times' Fintan O'Toole had a rather brutal column over the weekend on Donald Trump's presidency and its impact on global perceptions of the United States. "Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger," O'Toole wrote. "But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity."
The award-winning columnist added that it's easy to "feel sorry for Americans" because we're struggling during crisis conditions "with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful."
O'Toole's indictment of the American president came the day after the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ran this similarly unfortunate report.
The video of the exchange is online, and it was hard not to cringe while watching it. A journalist quite fairly summarized Donald Trump's comments about possible research into treating the virus with ultraviolet light on disinfectant injections, and asked, "Given that this is coming from the president of the United States -- an influential person -- is there any scientific basis to either of these propositions?"
The award-winning columnist added that it's easy to "feel sorry for Americans" because we're struggling during crisis conditions "with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful."
O'Toole's indictment of the American president came the day after the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ran this similarly unfortunate report.
Usually straitlaced and solemn in his delivery of up-to-the-minute health advice, Australia's Chief Medical Officer stifled giggles when asked about US President Donald Trump's latest suggested treatments for coronavirus.
The video of the exchange is online, and it was hard not to cringe while watching it. A journalist quite fairly summarized Donald Trump's comments about possible research into treating the virus with ultraviolet light on disinfectant injections, and asked, "Given that this is coming from the president of the United States -- an influential person -- is there any scientific basis to either of these propositions?"
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Trump's disinfectant comments lead to 'stifled giggles' abroad (Original Post)
Gothmog
Apr 2020
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WVreaper
(618 posts)1. When Irish eyes aren't smiling.........
MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)2. "There you go again....."
as "Raygun" said in his debate..........
Yet another example of how IQ45 has really done a fine job of MAGA!!!!!
procon
(15,805 posts)3. He's a laughing stock. That's probably the one thing
that Trump fears the most, that people would laugh at him and he would become a joke once the world discovered that he was nothing but a charlatan, a fraud, a snake oil salesman, a con man and huckster.
The curtain has been pulled back, the smoke has cleared and all the mirrors are shattered. The only thing left for the world to see is the cowering, terrified fat old man who is unqualified for the job he scammed and cheated to steal from his opponent.