The Madness of King Trump on Full Display at the G7

[spanone]

The Group of Seven is a club that is supposed to represent shared values. But, um, Trump doesn’t share any of them. No wonder he wanted his buddy Putin back in.

PARIS—British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson thought he was speaking off the record about the bull rampaging through the china shop of the fragile international order.

“I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump,” Johnson told a closed meeting with fellow Tories a few days ago, unaware his remarks would be recorded and leaked. “I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.”

Johnson, who’s been known for his own farcical antics and rhetorical bombshells, wondered aloud what would happen if Trump was running the Brexit negotiations with the European Union: “He’d go in bloody hard… There’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he’d gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought.”

Almost 17 months into the Trump presidency, even among world leaders once appalled by his pathological narcissism and aggressive ignorance, a certain level of acceptance has taken hold. To be sure, they once hoped the madness could be managed, but those days clearly are over. The “adults” in the Trump administration have mostly been expelled. Those who remain are letting Trump be Trump. And he’s having a ball. So the questions that are posed in the wider world are about isolating his craziness, enduring it, or like Boris Johnson embracing the madness as if it were just a game, a shrewd negotiating ploy.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-madness-of-king-trump-on-full-display-at-the-g7?ref=home

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. THIS.IS.NOT.NORMAL!

That has to be repeated every day. Over centuries the world has developed methods that serve it's overall goals -- such as diplomacy -- and to have an insane person who is so self-absorbed he can't be bothered with getting his wife more than a card for her birthday (if he did even that) is normalizing abnormal and unacceptable behavior.

It's as if the world was Thanksgiving dinner and Trump is the drunken Uncle Donnie. He shows up late, makes a mess of the dining room table including vomiting on the turkey, insults everyone, tells the same self-aggrandizing stories he's told a hundred times before, then gets angry that not everyone believes his bullshit and stomps out of the house, muttering under his breath that he'll "get them." He vows never to return but everyone knows he'll be at the next family gathering to do the same thing.

The only problem is -- in our version of the story, Uncle Donnie has the ability to launch nuclear weapons.

[FirstLight]

3. +1000!

His disgusting behavior needs to be called out every time!

[malaise]

4. +1,000

I can't believe this madness. He has to be stopped.
Lock him up!