WTF was Il Douche doing? I understand that he has no use for the UN, but could he at least....

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3. I disagree it's bad. Their usual escalation of issues to phony crises

as a way of boosting viewership would not be a good thing for our nation or the rest of the planet. Not overfrightening populaces while world leaders mostly choose not to react and to blow off this blowhard, in effect descalating around him, seems like a very good idea. The leaders of the other 195 nations or so all know he won't be president long, including even if he somehow finished out his term.