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People Here Think Trump Is a LaughingstockChaos.
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 mornings kickoff tweet.
For months, the American president has raised unprecedented questions about the future of the American-led alliance that has persisted since the end of World War II. He has slagged off NATO, evinced skepticism about the European Union, cheered for like-minded right-wing populists, boosted antidemocratic strongmen like Russias Vladimir Putin and vowed to rip up free trade dealsand Europes political class has been outraged, confused and even terrified.
Trumps tumultuous last two weeksfrom firing his FBI director to allegedly sharing highly classified information with Russian officials even as a formidable special counsel was being named to investigate his campaign teams possible collusion with the Kremlinhas them still confused about his foreign policy. But now they are more appalled than afraid of the man with whom they have no choice but to partner.
Many I spoke with said they had made a fundamental mistake of viewing Trump primarily as an ideologue with whom they disagreed rather than what he increasingly appears to be: an ill-prepared newcomer to the world stage, with uninformed views and a largely untested team that will now be sorely tried by a 9-day, 5-stop world tour that would be wildly ambitious even for a seasoned global leader.
People are less worried than they were six weeks ago, less afraid, a senior German government official with extensive experience in the United States told me. Now they see the clownish nature. Or, as another German said on the sidelines of a meeting here devoted to taking stock of 70 years of U.S.-German relations, People here think Trump is a laughingstock.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/19/trump-middle-east-trip-saudi-arabia-215163
manicraven
(901 posts)Asking everyone to leave the room, including Sessions and Pence, in order to lean on the FBI director regarding the investigation shows tRump knew that what he was about to do was wrong.
chillfactor
(7,575 posts)as the laughing baboon that he is!
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Yes! Me, too.
If I *EVER* doubted, now I KNOW..
WE gone be aw right, Y'all..
Keep the Faith, keep Your Heart in the Right place..
KARMA is happening..BELIEVE IT.💖
EVER'thang gonna be all right!
gordianot
(15,237 posts)Like the dead cow my neighbor left in his field for two weeks.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)and he heard the U.S being called a lot of things and smart was not one of them. He was mostly in Frankfurt but also went to Berlin and other places and it is the same everywhere. They comment on us not learning from their stupid mistake with Hitler as they see trump is just like him.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Gerrymandering, election interference, treason.