"Good Fighters" and "Great Negotiators": Donald Trump Is Weirdly Full of Praise for the Taliban

[dalton99a]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/donald-trump-taliban-good-fighters-great-negotiators

“Good Fighters” and “Great Negotiators”: Donald Trump Is Weirdly Full of Praise for the Taliban
He also declared the organization very “smart.”
By Bess Levin
August 18, 2021

In April 2020, as the coronavirus was engulfing the U.S., then president Donald Trump declared at his then daily coronavirus briefing, “This is a very brilliant enemy. You know, it’s a brilliant enemy. They develop drugs like the antibiotics. You see it. Antibiotics used to solve every problem. Now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can’t keep up with it. And they’re constantly trying to come up with a new—people go to a hospital and they catch—they go for a heart operation—that’s no problem, but they end up dying from, from problems. You know the problems I’m talking about. There’s a whole genius to it.” The remarks were bizarre not just because, as the name suggests, the coronavirus is not a bacterial infection but a virus, and therefore immune to antibiotics, but because Trump was describing a disease that had by then killed more than 20,000 people in the U.S. in the sort of glowing terms he typically only reserved for himself. Brilliant! Genius! Sure, it was highly contagious and extremely lethal but damn if Trump didn’t admire it for those very reasons because, as you’d probably figured out by that point, there is something very wrong with him.

Anyway, we were reminded of the ex-president’s high regard of COVID-19 on Tuesday night when he appeared on Fox News to talk about how great the Taliban is.

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Hundreds of Afghans who lacked any papers or promises of flights also congregated at the airport, adding to the chaos. It didn’t help that many of the Taliban fighters were illiterate, and cannot read the documents.

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-joe-biden-travel-evacuations-taliban-1d4c7430378888b22cff056c7ad40f7c

[tonedevil]

1. They are his kind of folks. /nt

[PortTack]

2. I don't find it weird..this is who he is. He identifies with oppressive leaders he wants to emulate

[Rhiannon12866]

3. "Great people on both sides" again??

[Rhiannon12866]

4. "Great people on both sides" again??

[captain queeg]

5. Great negotiators. This means they flattered him a little and he gave them

Everything they asked for. Then they tell him what a tough negotiator he is and laugh as they leave.

[RockRaven]

6. "I wasn't bamboozled and I didn't give everything away for a headline" says the self-appointed

best deal maker in the world, very defensively.



Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight..........

[duforsure]

7. His siding with terrorist is nothing new

He's sided with putin, kim jung un, neo nazi's, kkk, and many others, so his giving the taliban everything they wanted shouldn't be a surprise. The real question is who's he working for , and who is really behind the peace deal that led to this now. He is a terrorist too.