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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 10:54 AM Jan 2018

Trump shocked Brits by ordering Theresa May to make people stop protesting against him: report

Source: RawStory



BRAD REED
24 JAN 2018 AT 09:44 ET

President Donald Trump last year ranted about nonexistent “no go” zones in London to U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May — and she was forced to tell him that he was mistaken.

In a big Bloomberg article on Trump’s relationship with May, former May strategy director Chris Wilkins says that “Trump turned to May and told her he believed there were parts of London that were effectively ‘no-go areas’ due to the number of Islamic extremists” during a meeting between the two world leaders in 2017. Wilkins claims that May didn’t let Trump’s bogus talking point stand, however, and spoke up to “correct him” and inform him that London did not have any “no-go zones.”

Elsewhere in the story, Bloomberg reports that Trump berated May for the unfair treatment that he received in the U.K. press and refused to set foot in the country until she could guarantee that he would not be greeted with mass protests.

“May responded to say such treatment was simply the way the British press operate, and there wasn’t much she could do,” Bloomberg writes. “In the secure bunker underneath the prime minister’s office, her advisers listened in to the call in astonishment at Trump’s demand.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-shocked-brits-ordering-theresa-may-make-people-stop-protesting/



Inside the Dysfunctional Relationship of Donald Trump and Theresa May

Forget closer transatlantic ties and a state visit to London, it’s been a year of public clashes.

By Tim Ross and Margaret Talev
January 24, 2018, 5:34 AM EST

When Theresa May returned to the grandeur of the British Embassy on Washington’s Massachusetts Avenue in January last year, her aides had no idea how spectacularly awry her visit to Donald Trump’s White House had gone.

Debriefing her advisers, the U.K. prime minister remembered something: “Oh, yes,” she said. “He did hold my hand at one point.” Already fearful of the political fallout at home from getting too close to Trump, the astonished officials asked if the incident had been captured on camera. “Yes, I think so,” May replied, according to people present.

The resulting image, splashed on British front pages, came to define her visit, the first by a foreign leader after Trump’s inauguration. What May’s entourage couldn’t have predicted is that the gaffe would also turn out to be the high point in the first year of the latest incarnation of the “special relationship” between the U.S. and the U.K.

Just under 12 months later, the two are due to meet in Davos at the World Economic Forum on Thursday, and there’s unlikely to be any hand-holding. In that time, the alliance first coined by Winston Churchill and famously nurtured by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s has become increasingly dysfunctional and at its least cordial in decades.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-24/inside-the-dysfunctional-relationship-of-donald-trump-and-theresa-may
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Trump shocked Brits by ordering Theresa May to make people stop protesting against him: report (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2018 OP
In true tin-pot dictator fashion dalton99a Jan 2018 #1
Delusional tin-pot dictator. lkinwi Jan 2018 #5
He actually makes tin pot dictatators look good..... marble falls Jan 2018 #9
Angry baby BeyondGeography Jan 2018 #2
image from Vigeland park in Oslo - rather fitting?! salin Jan 2018 #11
Seeing as that's his favorite country... BeyondGeography Jan 2018 #20
What did he expect when he said "I won't step foot in your country until you guarantee..." Neema Jan 2018 #3
It's probably our Secret Service guys FakeNoose Jan 2018 #4
The whole UK is a no go zone for twitler. Mc Mike Jan 2018 #14
drumpf onlyo loves dictators. lark Jan 2018 #6
I guess he knows about the show for the shithole plans L. Coyote Jan 2018 #7
Oh, that's SOOOOO Delicious packman Jan 2018 #15
The fascist Fox Fake News and Conspiracies Channel is playing in Shitler's brain. Fred Sanders Jan 2018 #8
"....listened in to the call in astonishment..." BobTheSubgenius Jan 2018 #10
People are continually astonished that he can go any lower... malthaussen Jan 2018 #22
President Snowflake. Initech Jan 2018 #12
he is such an ASS Kali Jan 2018 #13
Hey, folks, cut the dotard some slack not fooled Jan 2018 #16
IT saidsimplesimon Jan 2018 #17
Don't get the idea that Theresa May is any kind of benevolent... pink-o Jan 2018 #18
Trump is not going to the UK anytime soon Gothmog Jan 2018 #19
To paraphrase Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao: Gore1FL Jan 2018 #21
He must have thought that she was the Prime Minister of ashling Jan 2018 #23

marble falls

(57,106 posts)
9. He actually makes tin pot dictatators look good.....
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 11:47 AM
Jan 2018

a real gutsy tin pot dictator would go there and revel in a protest, come out to his window and give the protesters the finger(like Reagan did) and come back home and rail on about those commies over there that no one has the ability to control.

Trump is just an everyday garden variety coward.

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
20. Seeing as that's his favorite country...
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:39 PM
Jan 2018

That park is so cool. Tough place to get to but ca vaut le voyage.

Neema

(1,151 posts)
3. What did he expect when he said "I won't step foot in your country until you guarantee..."
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 11:02 AM
Jan 2018

How she kept herself from responding "is that a threat or a promise?" is beyond me.

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
4. It's probably our Secret Service guys
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 11:04 AM
Jan 2018

... that are telling Trump where he can't go. Theresa May doesn't tell him because it's not her job to protect him. But the SS guys are his bodygaurds, and they're the ones who have to know where it's safe or not. As per usual, Trump completely misunderstood everything.

Just sayin'

lark

(23,105 posts)
6. drumpf onlyo loves dictators.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 11:25 AM
Jan 2018

he hates truly democratic elected officials because they are against everything he's for - take over of the world economy by russia & oligarchs and the destruction of liberal democracy world wide.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
7. I guess he knows about the show for the shithole plans
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 11:37 AM
Jan 2018

#Britons and #Scots are hoping to make him the Most Mooned Man On Earth
What an unparalleled distinction, less welcomed than Julius Ceasar.



BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
10. "....listened in to the call in astonishment..."
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:19 PM
Jan 2018

Uhhh...what now? Had they not paid ANY attention to this malevolent buffoon before that moment? How could his bluster and massive ego not have been as plain as that mess on his head?

malthaussen

(17,204 posts)
22. People are continually astonished that he can go any lower...
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 06:14 PM
Jan 2018

... they've never seen anything like it, and certainly never conceived anything like it.

-- Mal

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
16. Hey, folks, cut the dotard some slack
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:07 PM
Jan 2018

After all, he just got majorly snubbed by the British Royal family, who from QE II to Prince Harry have made it clear they want nothing to do with the short-fingered vulgarian. And, to add insult to injury, have a good relationship with the Obamas.

What's a frustrated toddler to do? He's taking it out on PM May.


saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
17. IT
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:10 PM
Jan 2018

will be among what he called "his people". They know IT will dance to the music of money, power and more young women. IT will be played. It's so easy.

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pink-o

(4,056 posts)
18. Don't get the idea that Theresa May is any kind of benevolent...
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:36 PM
Jan 2018

Compared to Trump, she looks like a statesman, but she is horrible. A Maggie Thatcher wannabe. Every time she opens her mouth and speaks in that fake posh public school headmistress voice, I just wanna punch the telly.

I long for the day when Britain and America have rational leaders again at the helm.

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