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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is "The Empty Chair"
?mod=1566857990The most striking photograph to emerge from the G7 summit meeting in Biarritz, France, is one of an empty chair.
Its the seat that President Donald Trump was supposed to occupy during a meeting today where world leaders talked about climate trends that could render parts of the planet uninhabitable if left unchecked.
Trump skipped it.
The White House put out a statement that Trump was busy talking to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and couldnt make itthough both of those leaders found time to show up for the session. No one waited for Trump; the leaders of the worlds most economically advanced democratic nations went ahead despite his absence.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/trump-g7/596875/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/trump-g7/596875/
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Trump is "The Empty Chair" (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2019
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dawg day
(7,947 posts)1. And this is how the US gives up the "leadership of the free world"
There is now a G6... they're just going to work around Trump, and goodness knows, that's the best we can hope for at this time.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)2. Both of
Those Leaders were in the meeting. I guess Trump was getting his, hair styled!
BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)3. What would you expect from
an empty suit?
ZZenith
(4,126 posts)4. The little sign says, "His Excellence, Mr. Donald Trump."
How ironic.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,415 posts)5. they just misspelled "Emptiness"