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Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
Tue May 30, 2017, 09:54 PM May 2017

Nordic prime ministers troll Trump's viral orb photograph

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/31/nordic-prime-ministers-troll-trumps-viral-orb-photograph
Nordic prime ministers troll Trump's viral orb photograph


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Reuters
Tuesday 30 May 2017 19.59 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 30 May 2017 20.25 EDT

World leaders don’t 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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ZOMG yay! shenmue May 2017 #1
K&R uppityperson May 2017 #2
Or as our Rethug friends refer to them: sandensea May 2017 #3
Laughed at around the world... HipChick May 2017 #4
Ugh Daxter May 2017 #5

Daxter

(103 posts)
5. Ugh
Wed May 31, 2017, 01:57 AM
May 2017

Trump is an embarrassment, I have family overseas and every time Trump is brought up they cannot stop laughing at him.

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