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Barack_America

(28,876 posts) Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:24 AM Jan 2017

How humiliated must Theresa May be...

...to be the first foreign leader willing to be photographed with Trump, only to have him turn around and do one of the most reprehensible things an American president has ever done.

Theresa, how many times did you wash that hand after yesterday's handshake?

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How humiliated must Theresa May be... (Original Post) Barack_America Jan 2017 OP

She is just as xenophobic and isolationist as Trump so I doubt she feels that badly. randome Jan 2017 #1

She cares about her own image. And the optics of this are horrible. Barack_America Jan 2017 #3

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan must be spinning in their graves to be compared to those two* DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #2

She did what her people said needed doing--get in there early and get a sense of the asshole. MADem Jan 2017 #4

What she must have been thinking: yallerdawg Jan 2017 #5

Good malaise Jan 2017 #6

randome

(34,845 posts)

1. She is just as xenophobic and isolationist as Trump so I doubt she feels that badly.

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:25 AM

Jan 2017

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
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Barack_America

(28,876 posts)

3. She cares about her own image. And the optics of this are horrible.

Reply to randome (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:27 AM

Jan 2017

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

2. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan must be spinning in their graves to be compared to those two*

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:27 AM

Jan 2017

*I opposed Thatcherism and Reaganism with every fiber of my being but both were better representatives of their respective nations.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

4. She did what her people said needed doing--get in there early and get a sense of the asshole.

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:28 AM

Jan 2017

She'll probably share her knowledge with her counterparts, BREXIT notwithstanding.

Her normal sized hand looked like a catcher's mitt next to Trump's tiny digits.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

5. What she must have been thinking:

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:29 AM

Jan 2017

malaise

(269,004 posts)

6. Good

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 11:38 AM

Jan 2017

She's a scumbag who came crawling for crumbs

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