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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNordic prime ministers troll Trump's viral orb photograph
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/31/nordic-prime-ministers-troll-trumps-viral-orb-photographNordic prime ministers troll Trump's viral orb photograph
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Tuesday 30 May 2017 19.59 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 30 May 2017 20.25 EDT
World leaders dont generally troll each other, but the prime ministers of the five Nordic countries are giving it a shot.
They just posted a photograph of themselves clasping a soccer ball - echoing a photo of US President Donald Trump, Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi holding a glowing orb that went viral last week.
That orb was an illuminated globe at the Global Centre for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh, the opening of which the three leaders were attending on 21 May. Eerie lighting gave the photo an aura of comic-book villains plotting world domination, an image that proved irresistible to the Twitterati .
And, apparently, it was just as irresistible to Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Juha Sipila, Bjarni Benediktsson, Erna Solberg and Stefan Lofven, the prime ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden respectively. SNIP
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Nordic prime ministers troll Trump's viral orb photograph (Original Post)
Ilsa
May 2017
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shenmue
(38,501 posts)1. ZOMG yay!
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)2. K&R
sandensea
(21,529 posts)3. Or as our Rethug friends refer to them:
The Axis of Evil.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)4. Laughed at around the world...
Trump is an embarrassment, I have family overseas and every time Trump is brought up they cannot stop laughing at him.