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kpete

(72,010 posts)
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 06:43 PM Jan 2018

This went right over Trumps stable genius head

Trump, with business leaders in Davos: "By the way, when he says he works for Siemens, he's the *president* of Siemens, but that's okay. That's a good way of saying it, but go ahead."

Siemens president: "But don't you work for your country?"



Don't miss the facial/vocal cues when he says "yeah we work for our country". He clearly is being derisive & sarcastic when he says that. He no more believes that he works for this country than he believes he is ever wrong.


Disturbing Video:

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smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
1. He's such an embarrassment.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 06:47 PM
Jan 2018

I am longing for someone to humiliate him and for him to be laughed out of there by a huge crowd. I want him to know how much he is hated and disrespected.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
11. He cannot bear not to be the center of attention.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:03 PM
Jan 2018

I watched his body language. Trump does know cameras and how to be on one. He leaned into the Sieman's guy's space,
grabbed all the attention.
He also seemed to be in a good relaxed mood...strange.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
15. I really think he has no clue as to what a laughingstock he is.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:31 PM
Jan 2018

Aside from Russia and maybe a few other third-world dictatorships, every single first world country despises him and they are laughing at him. He is a joke and he is completely unaware of it. He really thinks that people are impressed by him. It's amazing how clueless his is.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Priceless. Foreign corporations and journalists are not cowed by Shitlerism. President of
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 06:48 PM
Jan 2018

Siemens needs to come to America to observe American corporate genuflection before Dear$$Leader.

madaboutharry

(40,217 posts)
3. The way Trump said "Yeah, we work for our country..."
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 06:57 PM
Jan 2018

made me think he couldn't care less about this country. Trump is working for Trump. It's all about the con.

Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts)
5. I'm not sure there's any other way to interpret it.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 07:07 PM
Jan 2018

He completely let his guard down, and it's disturbing as hell.

eleny

(46,166 posts)
6. The opposition ad is right there. And I mean for this year's elections
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 07:09 PM
Jan 2018

Tie them to Trump and run the clip as an ad. None of them work for us.

Ohiogal

(32,044 posts)
7. Was there laughter after Siemens president asked Dumpy that?
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 07:10 PM
Jan 2018

I hope there was a LOT of laughter over that. I'd love to see him be humiliated. He is such an embarrassment.

If he doesn't know how to talk about anything but himself, and doesn't want to interact with the rest of the world, then STAY HOME already and stop embarrassing us! Stay in your room and play with your phone all day. You are worthless, Dumpy.

Shaddox

(384 posts)
9. Trump doesnt understand humility when he sees it.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 07:32 PM
Jan 2018

He couldn’t believe a person would not introduce themselves without using superlatives or their full title (“If you’re the president of Siemens why wouldn’t you refer to yourself as the president?”) Fucking blowhard.

House of Roberts

(5,180 posts)
12. We don't pay him enough
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:06 PM
Jan 2018

by his standards. Therefore he is free to thumb his nose at his salary and do what suits him.

FakeNoose

(32,714 posts)
14. That's another campaign promise - he said he was gonna "donate" his salary
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:28 PM
Jan 2018

...in other words, Trump said he'd work for free. Yeah right, it never happened and he hasn't donated one penny.

Trump tried to sneer at the Siemens President because he doesn't realize that presidents of some companies work their butts off to make their companies profitable. Trump has never done so, and he therefore assumes that everyone else just is like him. The Siemens President is obviously not like Trump and he wanted to make the point while he had the chance.

BigmanPigman

(51,623 posts)
16. He has so much crap on his head and in his remaining hair
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:36 PM
Jan 2018

I am sure a lot goes over his head. It probably slides right off like a plane on an icy runway.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
17. I'm sure he needed Trump to tell him he could "go ahead" and finish talking.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:38 PM
Jan 2018

Notice how Trump avoids saying that HE works for the country? He says "we."

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