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spanone

(135,844 posts)
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 01:30 AM Jun 2018

What A Chickenshit: Trump is skipping part of the G7 summit after a spat with the French President

Trump to skip climate portion of G7 after Twitter spat with Macron and Trudeau

(CNN)President Donald Trump plans to depart from this weekend's Group of 7 summit in Canada several hours early, the White House announced Thursday, punctuating an explosion of acrimony between Trump and his foreign counterparts on the eve of the talks.

The White House said Trump would depart mid-morning on Saturday, skipping sessions on climate change and the environment. An aide will take his place, the White House said.

The announcement came as Trump engaged in a bitter back-and-forth with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over Twitter, both of whom he'll meet face-to-face on Friday.

Trump is expecting a knock-down, drag-out fight with top US allies over trade during his time at the conference, held in remote Quebec. It's a battle he believes he can win, but which he's unenthusiastic about waging in person, people familiar with his thinking say.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/politics/trump-g7-canada/index.html
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What A Chickenshit: Trump is skipping part of the G7 summit after a spat with the French President (Original Post) spanone Jun 2018 OP
G6 Iliyah Jun 2018 #1
A battle....which he's unenthusiastic about waging in person dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #2
Right.. Fraud hides behind his twitter cell. Cha Jun 2018 #12
Dotard was probably looking for any flimsy excuse to skip it. nt greyl Jun 2018 #3
He's a sniveling coward. Laffy Kat Jun 2018 #4
He's slinking out 4 hours early with his tail between his legs. herding cats Jun 2018 #5
What a pathetic little coward. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #6
Before we Kick your A$$$$$$$ OUT! Cha Jun 2018 #13
The poor little snowflake Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 #7
Frightened little bunny leaves trail of shit-pellets scattered behind him as he runs away. NBachers Jun 2018 #8
Coward. Internet bully who fears face to face. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #9
He can act the big man when it comes to Twitter insults, but can't face his adversaries Doodley Jun 2018 #10
More dandruff sweeping ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #11
He knows he'll be treated like a pariah so he's doing the usual pre-emptive strike onetexan Jun 2018 #14
No doubt he doesn't understand half of what's being discussed and that includes policy and suffragette Jun 2018 #15
chickenshit coward xxqqqzme Jun 2018 #16
trumps intent is to walk out to show the world how tough he is...and Putin will be cheering as Putin beachbum bob Jun 2018 #17
Alternate framing: Trump is bored and cranky, and it's Friday... Orsino Jun 2018 #18
The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is a super weenie Achilleaze Jun 2018 #19

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. A battle....which he's unenthusiastic about waging in person
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 01:40 AM
Jun 2018


polite language for chicken shit He's always the kid on the schoolyard who eggs on others to actually do the fighting.

herding cats

(19,565 posts)
5. He's slinking out 4 hours early with his tail between his legs.
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 02:04 AM
Jun 2018

He can't handle the fact that his ineptitude is on display for the world to point and laugh at, so like any coward he's cutting and running.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
6. What a pathetic little coward.
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 02:08 AM
Jun 2018

He is just a hopeless excuse of a human being and has no business leading a nation. Resign motherfucker!

Doodley

(9,094 posts)
10. He can act the big man when it comes to Twitter insults, but can't face his adversaries
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 03:13 AM
Jun 2018

like a real man. He has never once been asked to explain the science behind his view that climate change is a hoax.

onetexan

(13,043 posts)
14. He knows he'll be treated like a pariah so he's doing the usual pre-emptive strike
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 03:28 AM
Jun 2018

Behave like a grown demented child

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
15. No doubt he doesn't understand half of what's being discussed and that includes policy and
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 04:32 AM
Jun 2018

vocabulary.

Due to his ego, there is no way he would ask for explanation. He’d just fume in frustration, then use any excuse to exit.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
17. trumps intent is to walk out to show the world how tough he is...and Putin will be cheering as Putin
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 06:49 AM
Jun 2018

win streak continues in the dismantling of America's power and influence is going way beyond his expectations of getting trump elected

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
18. Alternate framing: Trump is bored and cranky, and it's Friday...
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 07:56 AM
Jun 2018

...and time for his weekly vacation.

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