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DonViejo

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Fri Jul 13, 2018, 08:22 AM Jul 2018

'Very stable' Trump? European leaders beg to differ

The president’s wild shifts in tone left many NATO allies concluding no hidden strategy lies behind his unpredictability.

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and JACOPO BARIGAZZI 07/12/2018 05:07 PM EDT

BRUSSELS — As a NATO summit he threw into chaos wrapped up Thursday, President Donald Trump cheekily declared himself a “very stable genius.”

The other world leaders present mostly begged to differ.

Trump’s wildly unpredictable performance over two days in Brussels left many European leaders convinced that there is little method to the American president’s rhetorical madness, and simply no way to anticipate what he might do next.

“Nobody knows when Trump is doing international diplomacy and when he is doing election campaigning in Montana,” Danish defense minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen said. “It is difficult to decode what policy the American president is promoting. There is a complete unpredictability in this, and one of the things you need in this alliance is predictability towards Russia."

Frederiksen said NATO allies now “live with the uncertainty” that Trump “plays in a completely different way than the rest of us.”

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/12/donald-trump-behavior-nato-summit-europe-716035

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CRAZY HE IS ROB-ROX Jul 2018 #1

ROB-ROX

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1. CRAZY HE IS
Fri Jul 13, 2018, 08:28 PM
Jul 2018

I think all normal adults realize that Two Scoops is far from responding in a NORMAL way with adults. He seems to be acting as if he is on DRUGS or a very limited MENTAL CAPACITY. Those who do not have a mental capacity to utilize critical thinking always find Two Scoops MENTALLY DAMAGED..........

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