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By Eric Levitz
May 26, 2017
2:12 pm
On his first foreign trip as president, Donald Trump touched a glowing orb with the leader of an Islamist autocracy that hed accused of orchestrating 9/11; suggested Israel is not a part of the Middle East; signed a Holocaust Museums Book of Remembrance as though it were a middle-school yearbook; accidentally admitted that he had leaked highly classified Israeli intelligence to an ally of Iran; shoved the prime minister of Montenegro; said that Germany is very evil; turned a handshake with the French president into a naked struggle for dominance; and, somehow saved millions of jobs in the process.
Link to tweet
Heres how an anonymous White House official justified Trumps claim to the Washington Post:
<Trump was not talking just about the Saudi deals but benefits to trade from the entire trip from Saudi Arabia to the G7. He noted that any improvement on trade would save many jobs. Stopping even one bad trade deal can save millions. Changing the infrastructure of global trade to tilt it back toward the U.S. would save and create millions.>
No old trade deals were canceled or new ones announced during Trumps trip.
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angstlessk
(11,862 posts)he can just lie without explanation
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)to learn how much trade the US actually did with the EU. He's an Ass and who gave him back his phone so he could tweet.
Turbineguy
(37,338 posts)it was billions of jobs. But he was being modest.
onethatcares
(16,169 posts)were at his coronation
Turbineguy
(37,338 posts)It really was billions!
onethatcares
(16,169 posts)the bestest of the mostest . Only he could see them.
Initech
(100,080 posts)BootinUp
(47,162 posts)moondust
(19,991 posts)As long as yer pullin' whoppers outta yer ass ya might as well go big!
HipChick
(25,485 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)Jobs since he became president
Oh really I must have slept through that report. Hope he stays over seas for a few yrs
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Pope took me to meet God. God let me be God for ten minutes, and I solved world hunger, cancer, etc. Why couldn't God have done this? God is a big loser. Sad!