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(32,091 posts)This latest insult to the G7 allies is just about his most disgusting behavior yet. It needs to be called out!
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)The base wants someone who pisses off the people the base is jealous of/hates. The more he does what he did in Canada, the more his base loves him.
Not sure publishing this prior to the election would have helped.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)We wayyy outnumber them. Do you think we need not listen to the madness? If they get angry walk away. When we engage them, it takes time away from dislodging them. Is it time yet to stop talking about them? seems like our energy would be best spent not getting trained that this is normal. I dunno though. Who knows?
Maraya1969
(22,505 posts)to disarm. I really think these people believe he is going to make some miracle happen with k.j.un and peace will reign down over North Korea for the first time ever.
I really want to see what they have to say after the next flop for IQ45
I do agree that we far outnumber them though.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)He will say he brought peace to Korea, that the 70 year old war is finally over and he did it.
N Korea will no give up the nukes but Trump will say it doesn't matter, or they will at a later date. And Trump will promise them enough money that they will go along with the ruse.
Win win. The media can say what it wants but he will just say they are lying.
Who know what, if anything, will get through to his base.
And I agree. Fuck his base. they do not deserve anything. Certainly not civility. Walk away is the best answer.
Manastash
(36 posts)We need to doeak truth an his base will crumble.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)are totally immune to the truth. Maybe 'allergic' would be a better word. Anyway, no amount of truth has put a dent in their obnoxious stubbornness to see Trump as he actually is, and I doubt it ever will. They are totally invested in Trump, his racism, xenophobia and hate. It's a cult, and you can never persuade cult members that their messiah is a total sham.
Welcome to Democratic Underground, Manastash! This is a great place to learn the truth about power, and to add your two cents to the conversation whenever the mood strikes you.
mcar
(42,376 posts)Y'know, for balance. OH, yeah, there's the Dowd column.
Credit where it's due. NYT
Beacool
(30,253 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)We liberals know all about his proclivities. We don't hold him to a different standard. We all know that what he did with Monica was wrong for many reasons.
Oh, well, I guess a girl has to make a living somehow...
mcar
(42,376 posts)And her and Barack Obama
I sense a pattern.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Cha
(297,720 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)So ugly. POSOTUS
Cha
(297,720 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Aloha! How are you?? Have you been safe?
Cha
(297,720 posts)Poor Big Islanders with all their Volcano turmoil.
We're on Kauai!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Good, glad youre all ok! 💗🌌
Kotya
(235 posts)He's the only one sitting down.
Kotya
(235 posts)...While Trump looks like he's telling her to get bent.
I'm really surprised the NYT ran this picture on the front page.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)...him look strong (though entitled) and Merkel look desperate.
I thought I was the only one who viewed it in a positive way for trump
Nitram
(22,890 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Merkel looks to me as if she's confronting him and the others mostly look bewildered. He looks like a spoiled child.
Cha
(297,720 posts)The_REAL_Ecumenist
(729 posts)He DOES NOT look strong. He looks like a toddler being told that "NO! You CANNOT have more Ice Cream!"
Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)If Mr. Rockwell were in the middle of a REALLY BAD acid trip.
Cha
(297,720 posts)She looks like she knows she is talking to an idiot. His crossed arms express disdain and make him look weak and foolish. Perhaps I am just projecting my hatred of him, but he looks like a spoiled 4th grader trying to look tough.
Kotya
(235 posts)Its the supplicants who are standing, pleading.
Anyone who thinks this photo wont play well in Trumpland hasnt been paying attention.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Nitram
(22,890 posts)Capperdan
(492 posts)If there is such a place, full boycotts should happen
barbtries
(28,811 posts)he looks like a pouty brat while a group of adults try to reason with him.
come to think of it, that's exactly what's happening here.
treestar
(82,383 posts)recalcitrant two-year-old.
Chickensoup
(650 posts)The Allies are trying to knock some sense into an idiot who is destroying our unity. Our joint economic prosperity. Our
place as a world leader.
We are all losers the only winner is Putin.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He has to sit. Fucking fat ass.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)He appears the petulant schoolboy receiving admonishment from the rational adults.
But I get it... you need to perceive only it in a way which best validates your narrative.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)Science is Unwelcome. So is Advice."
"A Barrage of Insults Upsets Global Pact" and then that incredible photo. This is how history will remember the Trump administration. A thin skinned, willful man-child who throws tantrums, whenever he doesn't get his way.
This is my favorite picture of Angela Merkel. Trump is about to be sent to detention!
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Poor liddle president got his hand squeezed by a real man. Such a weak loser president!
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)That one is priceless. Considering all the aggressive yank and pull handshakes this oaf has given, he deserved what he got and more. Maybe if he would act like a civilized person, people wouldn't want to cause him pain and embarrassment.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Weakness is the one thing his base can't stand. They're all about pwning the libruls! But a weak loser can't own the librals. A weak loser GETS owned by the librals.
So making him look like the weak loser he is effectively weakens his base.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)Appearing weak would be the final straw for much of his base, though their idea of strength is pretty pathetic.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)and i'd like to. i'm always happy to see images of trump making looking exactly like the ass he is.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)He's in the principle's office getting his ass chewed out.
As I remember the principle's office, the bratty kid always sat while the principle loomed over you...er, me.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)And Principal Merkel does not look like anyone you want to piss off.
Mopar151
(9,999 posts)His evaluation says no writing sentences on the board for this one - he's definitely coded, and writing complete sentences is a tantrum trigger.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)Especially if it includes a word that is more than three syllables or isn't self congratulatory!
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)in standing up (or sitting down) for 'Muricans.
MattP
(3,304 posts)Glorfindel
(9,736 posts)and Abe has his right arm on top. What disgusts me is that Bolton-thing lurking behind tRump. Looks like he's trying to bare his fangs and attack someone.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Goo goo g'joob"
Glorfindel
(9,736 posts)Best thing I've seen today.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Every time I see him, I always imagine him w/ huge walrus tusks.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)This would have been nice in 2016.
Also it would be nice if they would run a few corruption headlines:
Trump receiving bribes at his hotel
Jared was bribed by Qatar
Ivanka was bribed with trademarks
Trump and Pruitt stealing our tax dollars for golfing and errands
And ps Chris cilizza is the worst of the bothsideist savvy journalists.
https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/chris-cillizza-cnn-politics.php
pangaia
(24,324 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 10, 2018, 11:32 AM - Edit history (1)
Humor is good to keep us sane.
But in truth,there is nothing funny or even outrageous about trump or his behavior.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)Trump win. It is disgusting. I try not to normalize trumps awful behavior.
DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts). . .as if she has to explain manners to a 5-year-old.
Which she is.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)Donald in action.
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)barbtries
(28,811 posts)it's too good.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)I think I got it off DU.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)i totally did right after i posted. now it's on fb too
seen also on twitter
BarbD
(1,193 posts)Perfect!
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts)spanone
(135,884 posts)just the ego massage trump loves
Backwoodsrider
(764 posts)I think it shows his idiocy but some of his followers are a crazy lot and I am concerned they will twist it around and say he is defiant. At least NY Times is not trying to make excuses for Trump this time....
Ohiogal
(32,091 posts)They will love it that Dumpy looks like he is telling them all to "stick it".
It's appalling, but that's how they will take it.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)riversedge
(70,310 posts)John1956PA
(2,657 posts)I will post this on my Facebook page.
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)riversedge
(70,310 posts)magicarpet
(14,175 posts)Angela:
Mr. trDump did you poop yourself again. It smells like shit around your immediate proximity. Can Pence please change your diaper so the entire room does not reek of your feces and urine ?
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)President Trump arrives as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, looks up while they attend a G7 and Gender Equality Advisory Council meeting as part of the summit in Canada on June 9, 2018. Yves HermanReuters
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)I'm sure he thought everyone would delay the breakfast until he swaned in.
He doesn't understand that these are world leaders not a bunch of his sycophants operating on his schedule.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)people and our entire nation.
Oh, yeah, he got us a REALLY good deal, didn't he?
riversedge
(70,310 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,171 posts)And the people facing him are very serious. I would love to know who they are and what was happening.
ChrisTee
(63 posts)LuckyLib
(6,820 posts)What a colossal asshole he is!
dhill926
(16,364 posts)the entire world will have to rise up and say... enough!!!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and further weakening America. Some sick shit going down.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)For human rights abuses and other crimes and misdemeanors. the world needs to place sanctions on America.
Ambassadors need to be expelled along with high tariffs and embargoes placed on our goods.
This has to hurt until we get some republicans with a spine to stop this madness!
BootinUp
(47,196 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)BootinUp
(47,196 posts)An attempt at humor.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Response to kpete (Original post)
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Bayard
(22,163 posts)BootinUp
(47,196 posts)Acomplishes one fing thing that helps.
bluevoter4life
(788 posts)FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)Get lost. You know the way out!
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)TRUMP's base love that he's a bully. They love that he pisses off the rest of the world because #MAGA. They love that he sticks his thumb in every world leader's eye except for Kim and Putin, which they conveniently ignore.
Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)Apparently, some portion of the populace equates temper tantrums with strength
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And remember, the Republican-controlled Congress could act to end this any day. Every day, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy get up and affirmatively choose to do nothing. Every. Day.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Checks and balances don't work when a party like the GOP turn traitor.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)I'm out of patience with these asshole "journalists" who promoted a fraud on the American people by ignoring most Trump's massively illegal, unethical behaviors while harping on Hillary's email server.
Now they're all distraught that Trump is being Trump.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)I still think we're underestimating what's happening and how litle time w have.
calimary
(81,507 posts)Thats all Ive got at this point.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)aikoaiko
(34,184 posts)What we see and what they see are so very different.
benld74
(9,910 posts)Anyone behind a table
Is using that table as a
Barrier
Protection
From things unwanted
Not words, cause he cant string them together coherently
Hes scared
And it shows up
In the pic
BarbD
(1,193 posts)Outrage! Disbelief! Disgust! The damage he is doing to this country is frightening.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Who had parents that failed miserably.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)red dog 1
(27,866 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)The most physically fit president ever, according to him. And yet he can't stand for any length of time.
Xolodno
(6,401 posts)...that picture will define his chapter in the history books.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)......Röttgen, the Bundestag's foreign affairs committee chairman, said they have learned to anticipate his outbursts and U-turns, and should respond to them accordingly. He criticized Merkels team for releasing the much-discussed photo.
[The G-7, summed up in one photo]
By portraying him as the naughty boy in the room, he will stick even more to his behavior and it will get worse, said Röttgen, who is a member of Merkels center-right Christian Democratic Union. We have to ignore his behavior and concentrate on what is left of the substance of the transatlantic relationship.
Just how much is left is a matter of debate. Bolton, Trumps national security adviser, wrote in his tweet of the photo that it was Just another #G7 where other countries expect America will always be their bank. The President made it clear today. No more.
Others used the image to mock Trump: Just tell us what Vladimir has on you, European Parliament member Guy Verhofstadt imagined Merkel saying. Maybe we can help. .............................
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/european-leaders-are-outraged-by-trump-over-g-7-statement-but-theyre-not-surprised/2018/06/10/e7f54887-9022-4adb-9fb1-092c33cb3e91_story.html?utm_term=.dec6c292e954
VOX
(22,976 posts)I never knew I could loathe a person as much as I do this man. He is literally killing people with his bigoted ignorance and hair-trigger temper.