World Leaders Huddle Up To Mock Trump At NATO

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A cluster of world leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron, were caught on tape seemingly making fun of President Donald Trump.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1266317
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Trump makes me so proud to be an American…:frowning_face:

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previously

‘yep’

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International news with the international embarrassment. This will really make him mad and he’ll probably put trade tariffs on all these countries to get even.
On the other hand, these leaders are probably going to wish they hadn’t been talking about him in this setting.
Yikes, nothing like good relations with our allies.

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I’d love to know what Princess Anne contributed to this. It looked like she moved forward to say something to Macron, Macron responded.

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To be fair, they could be talking about any one of the gathered world leaders who typically do rambling 40-minute press conferences and say things that leave the team’s jaws on the floor.

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Where was Ivanka?

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I think this was a private setting in Buckingham Palace - and the reason that they can talk about him like that is because he never bothers to show up to these informal get togethers.

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Donald Trump, menace to the world and the future of humanity…hysterically funny…

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He said that the world laughed at us. Who knew he would be so good at predicting the future?

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He’s already warring against the EU.

Maybe, but it’s nothing new at this point and Trump can’t afford to lose any like minded souls (BoJo).

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True dat. Because there are so damned many of them who yabber on about their brain farts… :smirk:

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Didn’t Trump say the World wasn’t laughing at America anymore? He’s right, it’s true. They’re pitying America now while laughing at Trump.

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For once I am with the mean girls.
He is such an insufferable prick they need to do it right to his face

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Just wait 'til he reads the headlines on this. :scream:

Hope they got the guy carrying the football somewhere safe and out of Cheatolini’s sightline.

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Re: BoJo/ previously

There was a happy ending though.

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According to FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump repeated a slew of false claims to an international audience at the annual NATO summit:

  • The overwhelming majority of captured Islamic State fighters are from Iraq and Syria. They are not, as Trump claimed, “mostly from Europe.”
  • Although about half of the territory once held by the Islamic State was regained under President Barack Obama, Trump again wrongly claimed that, “When I came in, it was virtually 100%. And I knocked it down to zero.”
  • The U.S. trade deficit with the European Union has gone up under Trump, contrary to his suggestion that he had reduced it “fairly rapidly.” And as he has done many times, he inflated the amount of that trade deficit.
  • The president wrongly claimed that other NATO member countries’ spending on defense was “heading down” three years ago. That spending went up in 2015 and 2016. And he claimed countries that spent a low percentage of their GDP on defense were “delinquent.” They don’t owe NATO, or other countries, any money.
  • Trump said the U.S. “never used to win” World Trade Organization cases “before me,” which is not so. The U.S. has historically won most of the cases it has brought to the WTO against other nations.
  • He falsely claimed that South Korea was only paying “$500 million a year” under a cost-sharing deal that helps fund U.S. military forces stationed there. South Korea was already paying over $800 million a year when it agreed earlier this year to increase its contribution by 8.2%.
  • A June 2018 joint statement from Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un didn’t say Kim “will denuclearize,” as Trump claimed.
  • Japan pays $1.7 billion to $2.1 billion per year toward the cost of having U.S. troops stationed in the country, while the U.S. spends $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion. But Trump falsely implied that Japan isn’t sharing the cost of the U.S. military presence.
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Odds on Trump nuking France before Christmas?

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trump’s hair looks to be on sideways.

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He was in attendance for at least one Buckingham event. Princess Anne refused to join the receiving line to where she would have shook his hand. She literally shrugged off the Queen’s gesture for her to join the line.

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