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pepperbear

(5,648 posts)
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 07:37 PM Jan 2019

International Relations Expert Compares Trump's Rants To Those Of An Ailing Dictator Under Siege

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"This is the kind of speech you give in Spanish in the early 1950s into a tinny microphone with the crackle and static of a fading kerosene generator and the sound of shouting and gunfire in the background approaching the presidential palace."

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https://www.newsweek.com/international-relations-expert-compares-trump-rants-those-ailing-dictator-1289138?amp=1

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International Relations Expert Compares Trump's Rants To Those Of An Ailing Dictator Under Siege (Original Post) pepperbear Jan 2019 OP
Hitler's bunker comes readily to mind. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2019 #1

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
1. Hitler's bunker comes readily to mind.
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 08:04 PM
Jan 2019

Trump is isolating, there is nothing on his agenda day after day except for that photo op at the border, he is not going to davos, not meeting with any significant people, and is ranting like a loon on Twitter in increasing splutters of babble.
Meanwhile, the exodus from the WH picks up speed and now he is unable to fill the vacancies.
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