Donald Trump's worldview was laid bare at the UN and it should worry anyone who understands history

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Donald Trump's worldview was laid bare at the UN -- and it should worry anyone who understands history

......The longer he spoke, the more portentous it became: "We will never surrender America's sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy. America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism. And we embrace the doctrine of patriotism."

And Trump made it clear he is happy to divide the world into nations he sees as his friends and those he sees as undeserving enemies: "We are taking a hard look at US foreign assistance ... whether the countries who receive our dollars and protection also have our interests at heart. Moving forward, we are only going to give foreign aid to those who respect us and, frankly, are our friends."

And when he gave a shout out to some of those friends, he gave yet more insight into the sort of nations he considers allies. Many former friends were missing -- indeed, erstwhile ally Germany even came in for criticism.

Somewhere near the top of the friends list this year -- an astonishing turnaround from being the leader Trump criticized so readily from this very platform last year -- was North Korea.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/25/world/robertson-trump-un-worldview/index.html

[icaria]

1. Defensive and insular

This is what America in decline looks like. And of course it could get worse.

[lunatica]

2. We knew this was coming

We just needed him to say it.

The other countries knew it too and they’re already working on moving on without us. As they should.

Trump is a fool and the entire world laughed at him today.

This November will be the fork in the road.

[world wide wally]

3. He doesn't speak for me!

[sheshe2]

4. United we stand. Divided we fall.

We are divided here. We are divided throughout the world.

We fall.

[RainCaster]

5. What a jackass

When it comes right down to it, he doesn't want anyone outside his home owners association to have any influence over his world. Much less NYC, NY State, the US government, or the UN. This guys mind is so very small, just like his hands.

[malaise]

6. He's an ignorant monster

That's it.

[Cha]

7. It should get Dems and sane people to the fucking

polls in Nov, too.

[JI7]

8. he doesn't have a worldview. Stephen Miller, Putin and others wrote that for him