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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 08:33 AM May 2017

'Painful to watch': Andrea Mitchell torches Trump's 'scolding' of NATO allies




“This was, by all accounts, watching it, just painful to watch,” she said. “This was his debut at NATO and they were really angry.”

NBC News reporter Kelly O’Donnell noted that stark contrast between how graciously Trump behaved during his stay in Saudi Arabia versus how he behaved while in Brussels.

“When we were in Saudi Arabia… the president was very clear in saying that America’s job is not to lecture the world,” she pointed out. “And yet here, in this setting, President Trump really scolded the member nations that have not paid the proportion that they have agreed to.”

Mitchell also noted that NATO’s Article 5 has only been invoked once — when all NATO nations came together to help the United States retaliate after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/painful-to-watch-andrea-mitchell-and-kelly-odonnell-torch-trumps-scolding-of-nato-allies/
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'Painful to watch': Andrea Mitchell torches Trump's 'scolding' of NATO allies (Original Post) kpete May 2017 OP
Well, if our NATO allies would just coddle and flatter him and give him gold bling, tanyev May 2017 #1
The thing is, cyclonefence May 2017 #2
no class! ginnyinWI May 2017 #3
Putins words..... dawnie51 May 2017 #4
I don't know why it would be "painfull" for Mitchell to watch? She did her damndest, along still_one May 2017 #5
Nato should post..... Historic NY May 2017 #6
As well as friendly fire incidents. avebury May 2017 #8
Trump is a Toxic Cancer Cell which must be Excised tomhagen May 2017 #7
marked for later .... Lil Missy May 2017 #9

tanyev

(42,568 posts)
1. Well, if our NATO allies would just coddle and flatter him and give him gold bling,
Fri May 26, 2017, 08:36 AM
May 2017

he'd be very gracious to them too.


cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
2. The thing is,
Fri May 26, 2017, 08:45 AM
May 2017

how much the other NATO members pay really has no effect on the American taxpayer. Does anyone really believe that the US budget would reflect increased NATO participation? Is Trump saying that we would decrease our military budget if only those other countries would pony up? More misleading--hell, lying--to his ignorant base, who eat this shit up like Rice Krispies.

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
3. no class!
Fri May 26, 2017, 08:53 AM
May 2017

And talk about the pot calling the kettle black: he's the guy who would routinely refuse to pay his employees, contractors, and other bills, just because he didn't feel like it!

Ugh, such a disgrace.

And I also think it was really mean to not let Spicer meet the Pope.

dawnie51

(959 posts)
4. Putins words.....
Fri May 26, 2017, 08:57 AM
May 2017

coming out of dolt's mouth. He is merely a delivery method for Putin, and he never disappoints his master. He is a despicable traitorous bastard.

still_one

(92,219 posts)
5. I don't know why it would be "painfull" for Mitchell to watch? She did her damndest, along
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:05 AM
May 2017

with most of the news media to get trump elected in the first place


Historic NY

(37,451 posts)
6. Nato should post.....
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:53 AM
May 2017

all the member countries deaths & wounded from joining US ventures in Iraq & Afghanistan.

avebury

(10,952 posts)
8. As well as friendly fire incidents.
Fri May 26, 2017, 12:55 PM
May 2017

I remember back in the first Iraq War, I was in the UK and heard a common remark by the Brits:

What is the difference between the Americans and the Taliban? Americans bomb their friends.

This was, I believe, after we were involved in a friendly fire incident where we killed some Brits.

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