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Related: About this forum'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 ODonnell 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 Americas 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 NATOs 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/
tanyev
(42,568 posts)he'd be very gracious to them too.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)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)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)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)with most of the news media to get trump elected in the first place
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)all the member countries deaths & wounded from joining US ventures in Iraq & Afghanistan.
avebury
(10,952 posts)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.
tomhagen
(3,604 posts)Impeach Already