Trump BAFFLED over foreign leaders encouraging him to eat their shorts, rather than begging to lick his boots

[Miles Archer]

'Humiliated' Trump has discovered 'world leaders are harder to bully': analyst

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-humiliated-world-leaders/

Donald Trump's wavering on tariffs and admission that he has not been able to bring the war in Ukraine to a halt is a sign he's finding out that world leaders are increasingly not taking him seriously.

According to an analysis by CNN's Stephen Collinson, bullying may work on Republican party lawmakers who fear he'll ruin their careers, but it is quite another thing to make demands of foreign diplomats in countries where Trump is considered either an irritant or a joke.

As Collinson wrote, Trump's inability to get anything done internationally is frustrating him and there is no relief in sight for the putative leader of the free world.

In large part Trump's growing problems stem with him "being ignored and humiliated" by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the Moscow media piling on and "portraying Trump as the tough talker who always blinks and never imposes consequences."

[republianmushroom]

1. They have figured the TACO don out.

[SheltieLover]

2. Absolutely!

[Ponietz]

15. The Taco will have no problem sending others to war

He wants a military parade because he fantasizes about being a military leader.

He no longer fears Russian kompromat. Epstein and pee hookers are old news.
Vlad is embarrassing him.
China is embarrassing him.
That MF traitor lives for revenge.

The U.S. will be at war before 2028.

[Bluetus]

38. Putin ALWAYS figured that out.

Putin knew he had a guy who, when Putin ordered him to blink, says "how high"?

When Putin orders Trump to chicken out, Trump says "how many egg, sir"?

Putin backed Trump because he knew Trump was easy to manipulate.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Foreign leaders know that trump is stupid

Link to tweet

[mdbl]

14. Anyone that didn't know he was stupid

Must be really stupid.

[tanyev]

4. "It's not fair! WHY are they ignoring me???"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Funny thing is, people & countries find other ways to do business rather than do business with lying bullies

It's why tRump consistently is reduced to hiring third-rate lawyers.

[William Seger]

6. I'm afraid this is a dangerous situation

I've posted a few times lately about RUMP suffering from power psychosis, a loss of contact with reality caused by too much unchecked power, characterized by grandiose delusions, hallucinations, distorted thinking, paranoia, and drastic mood swings. RUMP was already a vindictive sociopath given to narcissistic rage -- I'm seriously afraid that this mental illness makes it likely he will do something highly irrational as retribution to his perceived enemies.

[Shoeless Louis]

9. Stay in your shelter. We've got this.

But seriously, you’re afraid “he might do something irrational”!? Do you mean ‘again’? What’s your point? We should… not piss him off? Try and reason with him? Buy his crypto? Call his wife? Adopt a Positive Mental Attitude? Buy his forgiveness? Pray to Jesus?

[William Seger]

17. Welcome to DU

[Ponietz]

19. We haven't got shit and I don't like your tone

[Ponietz]

18. You're correct and post 9. is a cheap shot

He wants a military parade because he wants to use the military.
Snap


Whether in Greenland, Panama, Canada, or elsewhere. Kegsbreath talked about China yesterday.

I’m most concerned about his turning on Putin, sure that Lump resents being manipulated with kompromat. They’re mob bosses.

[Miles Archer]

20. I have this theory about breakdowns and such

In the mid 90s or so, I was driving in the fast lane on Highway 101 in Silicon Valley. Somewhat out of nowhere, I became a little disoriented, I was having trouble breathing, light-headed...

...I pulled the car to the shoulder of the road. There wasn't really any option as the next off-ramp was a couple of miles down the road and I was convinced that I was going to pass out. It wasn't the safest thing to do, but God Bless California's infrastructure. The shoulder was wide enough that I wouldn't want to set up a picnic there, but I could take a time out.

I'll cut to the chase. That was the day my doctor welcomed me to the world of Panic / Anxiety Attacks.

Symptoms are pretty close to a heart attack. But the INTERESTING THING is that (for me, anyway) they aren't triggered by an immediately identifiable event. An apt metaphor is a glass that is filled one drop of water at a time. Eventually, there will be one drop too many that causes the glass to spill. That's how anxiety attacks happen...residual stress and anxiety build up until you physically shut down.

Trump's pathology is such that let's say "TACO" runs its course in another month. A month after that, he could be sitting there. WITHOUT AN IMMEDIATE TRIGGER IN THE MOMENT, he could just find himself angered because he never punished America (and the world) for "TACO." And, he could do something dangerous.

Sometimes Trump telegraphs his punches. Sometimes, being a toddler with no "off" switch, he just does something dangerous and stupid. And we never know which Trump we're going to get on any day of the week.

[thought crime]

35. Please, let's not say TACO runs its course. TACO's Forever!

Pretty sure TACO will stick around because TACO.

[thought crime]

34. Is this sarcasm? I hope?

[Buddyzbuddy]

7. The whole world outside of the US knows we have an incompetent, cowardly, buffoon as our leader.

Except for the Republicans.

"Moscow media piling on and "portraying Trump as the tough talker who always blinks and never imposes consequences."

No, no, no, you don't understand. That's called "negotiating".

[Miles Archer]

21. ...and he has an entire ghost-written book on "Negotiating."

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One would assume a book called "Art of the Deal" would cover all the basics, SUCH AS NEGOTIATING, since...without it...there IS no "deal." But Trump...like a lot of authors, especially in the business / "success" field, repeat and recycle their most successful material with new titles and new, provocative covers.

And what we're seeing is basically every country he's tried to bully for any reason saying "Kiss OFF," which does not speak to his HAVING "negotiating skills," let alone being an "expert" at them.

[Buddyzbuddy]

30. His idea of negotiating is to break a sworn contract with

small businesses that can't afford to fight long drawn out court proceedings that eventually accept his pennies on the dollar settlement.
My curiosity is, who in the hell still does any business with anything tied to his name. Banks, contractors, lawyers, anybody. He had a hard time getting somebody to issue a bond on his behalf in the settlement with NYC. HE CAN'T BE TRUSTED. Just ask Melania.

[allegorical oracle]

28. At the marrow of every incompetent person is an inner-self that knows it's incompetent and

has to overcompensate. The more inept, the greater the incompetency, the more strident the overcompensation becomes. He's much worse now than he was in 2016.

[Buddyzbuddy]

29. All true.

[Picaro]

8. Quote feom an article in The Atlantic

“I run the country and I run the world”.

I’ll never read the article. But the moment I heard that I knew he is doomed.

Then he went to the Middle East and it was such a completely embarrassing clown show that there is no doubt that he runs nothing.

But he has brought the Age of America to an end amd our national pain is only beginning.

He’s ignorant and profoundly stupid. This will only get worse.

[Miles Archer]

22. Same here...saw the quote but didn't read the article

But yeah, "pride goeth before the fall." Hubris...it's a hell of a drug, especially when the person pounding their chest can't back it up with substance. I guess the Roberts "immunity" thing did this to him...that fake "Time cover" of himself as 'king"...a guy who has been mentally imbalanced and delusional for his entire life has all of his checks and balances removed and starts feeling like he's God, rather than a guy with six bankruptcies and three marriages, with one of the wives buried on his golf course for a tax break.

[calimary]

24. You'll very likely be running for cover before too long, donald.

[LoisB]

10. There are many of us in THIS country who share this opinion of IT.

[IronLionZion]

11. They know all about TACO!

[NBachers]

12. What an ordeal it must be for their Foreign Services to deal with the deluded jerks who come around, trying to boss them

[nowforever]

13. Clearly Putin has more than one tape

Trump has visited since 1987 and KGB knows what you like and they are great film makers.

[BlueTsunami2018]

23. I think it's pretty clear that tapes wouldn't move the needle a single bit.

No matter what was on them. Everything would stay the exact same as it is now.

[rampartd]

26. i'm sure there is komppromat

but the cult does npt care..

[NNadir]

16. You got a rec just for your post title.

[Miles Archer]

27. Thank you...I take great pride in capturing the essence with a soupon of sarcasm

It's been a thing of mine since I've been on DU. I make sure that what isn't said explicitly in the article gets explicitly said by me.

[Iggo]

25. Putin laughing spreads his wings.

[LearnedHand]

31. Dang even Moscow is calling him TACO

That's gonna leave a skidmark.

[BlueSpot]

32. This might be good

It's like when your neighbors know you're dealing with a senile uncle. They get it. They won't go along with him or his crazy shit and they know the madness will eventually end.

It could shorten the time it takes to recover from this administration.

[Cha]

33. Oh is it Rough having Putin as your Crooked Puppet

Master, you fucking Dangerous "joke" idiot?

".. begging to lick his boots.." like the techie Billionaires, Bezos et all are.. and the US Gaslit media, and the maga pols?

[Dorian Gray]

36. AKA the world

is leaving trump and the USA behind, making us look like weak little doofuses.

[moose65]

37. Yep

Other countries (and their leaders) don't have to put up with Trump's bullshit. They can openly call him a stupid moron without fear of political reprisal.

My favorite video from Trump's first term was when he was addressing the UN and they laughed at him. In that instant of time, he froze, because he is not used to that kind of reaction. It was marvelous!

[Evolve Dammit]

39. "People in time, may forget what you said, but never forget the way you made them feel." sounds right. nt

[Hugin]

40. Umbrellas baffle TACO Supreme. n/t

[Bev54]

41. Watching the devastation of Trump helped elections in Australia and Canada but I am

absolutely astounded that Poland went for the Trump nationalist. I just wonder how much Russian and Musk interference there. It is really worrying with them being so helpful to Ukraine and so close proximity and history with Russia,

[leftyladyfrommo]

42. He preyed on smaller businesses that

needed the work. Then he didn't pay what he owed and forced them into bankruptcy because they were too small to beat him in court.

Now he's up against governments that can and will fight back. Whole different ballgame.

That's just such an asshole thing to do.

[FirstLight]

43. The only problem with this is..

I fear he will have a real meltdown/tantrum and decide to launch some kind of attack. There's no guardrails in place and he's batshit crazy enough to decide to use a nuke on someone if they urt his ego enough

[AZ8theist]

44. Trump is BAFFLED why his chair smells after he gets up from it.....