World Leaders Were Really Freaked Out Over Their Weird Personal Encounters With Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

World leaders didn’t know what to make of President Trump during his chaotic tenure, which, among other more serious matters, included unwanted hand-holding, impromptu show and tell sessions, and odd phone calls.

This dynamic is explored in a new three-part BBC Two series, Trump Takes on the World. Documentarian Norma Percy explores the former president’s presence on the world stage and his relationship with the United States’ bemused allies. Interviews with Trump officials, heads of state, as well as ambassadors and civil servants still getting over their shock of the turbulent Trump era reportedly make up a bulk of the storytelling, which sounds ideal: Who better to spill the tea on just how much of a “strange creature” Trump was behind closed doors than the unfortunate foreign dignitaries forced to interact with the man.

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And then there’s this strange anecdote from former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who had an encounter with Trump at the 2017 G20 summit that sounds like it’s straight out of a stoner movie.

From the Guardian (emphasis ours):

Like May, Turnbull had important issues on his mind, in this case steel tariffs. Taking his chance, Turnbull collared Trump, who was obsessing about something else. “Donald said: ‘Malcolm, do you want to see my SCIF? It is so cool.’ I had no idea what he was talking about. I thought he was talking about a boat [a skiff]. We turned around a corner and there was this big steel box about the size of a shipping container.”

Trump pulled Turnbull into what turned out to be a “sensitive compartmented information facility”, an ultra-secure communications hub, with the new French president, Emmanuel Macron, also in tow.

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Sounds like "the cone of silence"

[Hekate]

1. Oh gawd. KnR

[DBoon]

2. You do NOT take non-citizens into a SCIF

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Never ever ever

Nobody without the appropriate clearance should be in a SCIF. Non-citizens almost by definition do not have that clearance.

[sop]

5. Imagine all the classified information Trump must have shared with his circle of scumbags.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Or anyone off the street.

He couldn't stop bragging about everything.

[lagomorph777]

18. Holy shit this is the nail in the coffin for any future classified briefings.

Trump needs to be locked up for our protection.

I've spent a lot of time in SCIFs. Even if I was a grifter, I don't think I'd subject anybody I want to impress, to that depressing experience.

[Blue_true]

26. I am sure that Putin can tell us it's exact dimensions, as well as the interior color. nt

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. Wish the Queen had pulled a taser out of her purse. That would've moved the swine.

[PatSeg]

4. This looks really good

I wonder if Trump will be watching!

[MoonchildCA]

6. I'd love to see this.

I wonder if there is anyway to watch it without cable TV.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Trump had no idea at all about what the job entailed.

None at all.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. They drag that thing to Germany? So he could make Putin calls I suppose. n/t

[Johnny2X2X]

10. This guy represented the US

SMH. Just so disturbing that the rest of the world thought this was the best we could do.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. You don't need to be a world leader to know a creep when you see one.

They just stand out some way.

[bdamomma]

19. 40 years

in the making, there's the puppet smiling at his owner.

[Leith]

12. He weirded out most Americans, too

It was an orange humiliation on a global scale.

[lindysalsagal]

13. What? Is there a problem, here?

[bdamomma]

23. idiot boy

walking in front of royalty,

[lindysalsagal]

25. Just mowing down and head of state, especially an elderly woman

Shows what an idiot he is.

[left-of-center2012]

14. Correctly or not ...

I heard or read that the first time Trump called the leaders of Mexico and Australia
he yelled at each of them and said:

"I'm now the president of the most powerful country in the world and you have to do what I say!"

[peggysue2]

15. They were freaked out?

They should have come to live with us for 4 years as we witnessed the ever-growing authoritarianism throughly saturate Trump's Administration. It was if one of Stephan Miller's early interviews had been totally digested:

Whatever Trump says is the rule of law. Trump's national security actions (Muslim ban) will not be questioned. Including judicial authority.

Thank God Miller got that one wrong. Because in the end, the judiciary held and saved the Nation.

[bdamomma]

22. Stephen Miller

should be arrested period, he was the mastermind behind the Zero Tolerance atrocity.

[smirkymonkey]

16. Oh, I can't WAIT to see this one!

Should be quite interesting. It will send him through the roof, though. He was under the delusion that the rest of the world loved him and thought he was doing a brilliant job. He will be totally humiliated when he finds out what they really thought of him.

[superpatriotman]

20. Well he's a fucking freak

Hopefully there will never be another.

[Demovictory9]

21. lol

[UTUSN]

24. Note to world leaders: Well, imagine how *WE* felt for five years!

[nolabear]

27. I cannot WAIT to see this. And I'm avoiding him these days.

I’m so sick of him I have an aversion to seeing him, though I must admit his “silence” lately makes me nervous. That said, I’m dying to know what the rest of the world has to say, because I’m betting it is delicious!

[CatWoman]

28. i just opened an account with them so I can watch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo

[tanyev]

29. If you can get past the psychopathy, all that's left is a childish weirdo.