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dixiegrrrrl

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Fri Mar 17, 2017, 09:45 PM Mar 2017

It was not only Merkel, he did same to Irish PM today. [View all]

Donald Trump took the podium and not only mispronounced Fionnuala Kenny, the wife of Prime Minister Enda Kenney, he took his moment to read what he described as an old “Irish proverb”:
It was a short poem. by Nigerian poet Albashir Adam Alhassan.


The Irish Times describer their meeting in the Oval Office:
In the midst the madness sat a silent Donald Trump and a fairly silent Enda, who was desperately trying to make small talk. But Trump just sat there like a sulky child, leaning forward in his seat, hands steepled between his knees, looking into the distance. He seemed bored.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/17/1644511/-Trump-celebrates-St-Patrick-s-Day-by-reading-an-Irish-proverb-that-is-Nigerian-not-Irish?detail=facebook



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