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From ProfKate
So thin skinned. So conceited. So disrespectful and rude.
Trump undermines our PM, insults our popular mayor of London, hints falsely that stabbings in London were perpetrated by immigrants, (and remember, our murder rate is one sixth of yours), says that terrorism is caused by the London Mayor rather than our proximity to the Middle East, encourages right-wing politicians to stage a coup against the elected PM, and threatens the UK with access to trade if we don't do exactly as he says. And that is just Day One.
All of this while he is a guest in our country. Imagine the offence you would feel if a European politician behaved like that during a state visit to the US.
A Guardian/ICM poll shows that Britons had an overwhelmingly negative view of Donald Trump, even before this visit. Only 17% of us DID'NT think he was a danger to world peace.
It is totally arrogant for Trump to then suggest that our right to free speech should have been curtailed because he is too important to offend!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/i-think-they-like-me-a-lot-in-the-uk-trump-says-as-he-faces-mass-protests-in-britain/2018/07/12/d88c3118-7f01-11e8-a63f-7b5d2aba7ac5_story.html
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)
PM May opened the news conference by saying, "Mr. Trump, get out of my country," then walked off the stage, she would suddenly become one of the UK's most popular politicians.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)is smiling and posing for pictures like nothings wrong.
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)
never liked her... a crisis (and she's in one) is when politicians show us who they are.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)FSogol
(45,360 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)What am I saying? Of course it is!
BHDem53
(1,059 posts)" Just a couple more steps. There you go".
heaven05
(18,124 posts)and a dangerous conservative also. What can be expected of her?
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)regards to human rights, w/ regards to doing what's right for its people and not kissing DT's ass in the meantime. Remember, being on DT's good side doesn't mean anything, nothing was signed, and DT has the bad habit of agreeing and gee whizzing about everything, and then totally denying it later.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)that any trade agreement would be extremely one-sided because in Trumps world there are only winners and losers.
JI7
(89,180 posts)anytime he wants to talk about crime in other places or blame immigrnats ?
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)at least verbally. Its the only thing he understands.
kag
(4,076 posts)And WE have to live with the moronic racists who elected him!
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)Truth is, Trump is a global menace and it may take a global effort to bring him to justice. For caging babies alone, he belongs in the dock of Den Hague.
Lonestarblue
(9,880 posts)He is setting us back decades, and well have an enormous rebuilding job when he is finally out of officestarting with our allies and kicking Russia out of our country (where they will be well entrenched by thenif Trump has his way). That said, I get so angry and frustrated everytime somene like Trump talks about Europes immigrant problem because the U.S. did its fair share (and maybe the lions share in some cases) to create the migrant crisis. We are the ones who bombed Iraq for no reason and allowed the formation of ISIS, which then sent thousands fleeing for their lives. We are the ones helping to destroy Syria and sending hundreds of thousands fleeing for their lives. We are the ones bombing and helping Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen with impunity and sending thousands fleeing for their lives. We are the ones who engineered the overthrow of a democratically elected gvernment in Iran and established a dictator who sent thousands fleeing when he was finally kicked out, we are the ones who destabilized South American governments to protect the profits of U.S. business (google United Fruit Company and its banana republics and Reagans support of the Contras in Nicaraugua who committed heinous war crimes against their own people). The U.S. gvernment has supported for decades the predatory practices of our large corporations throughout less developed areas of the world, especially in South America, often with violence and intolerable living conditions following. Then, when the people trying to escape for their lives and their childrens lives show up on our doorstep, we shove them back and say Go home and die. We dont care. Why does no one in the media ever point out the real reasons so many people are fleeing their homes and the role the U.S. has played?
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)If we're honest with ourselves, we've been one of the chief villains of the post-war era.
erronis
(14,955 posts)But our "greatness" never was, except in the broadsides and marketing material trying to lure suckers to emigrate to the "land of milk and honey."
As ordinary humans most Americans (USans) are as good and as bad as most of the rest of the world. We have our needs/greeds/faults and sometimes charity and love for one another.
As a country we have been one of the most rapacious and cruel in modern times. Genocide is one of our heritages alongside many other Western and Eastern empires. Our (US) history books don't emphasize postmortem (death) analysis, and until now we as victors get to write our own history books.
azureblue
(2,131 posts)or decades of GOP corruption. He IS the GOP, from his cons to his childishness and ignorance, his hate and racism. It is my hope that America will finally say enough is enough and end the rule of our country by big business and teh super rich. I just hope it will be a complete housecleaning. The indictments today go deep into GOP corruption, and I hope this will be the tipping point.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Since Netanyahu basically did it to us a few years back. With the backing of the Repubs, of course.
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FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)I had the same thought.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,260 posts)BadgerMom
(2,766 posts)All of this while he is a guest in our country. Imagine the offence you would feel if a European politician behaved like that during a state visit to the US.
Trump in London-or anywhere, really-and Netanyahu disrespecting my President and my party both have been brought to us by the Republicans.
dae
(3,396 posts)Cha
(295,925 posts)octoberlib!
malaise
(267,823 posts)Rec