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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 02:46 PM Apr 2017

Former Australian PM Calls Trump The Most Psychologically Ill-equipped President In US History

Former Australian foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump and urged Australia to reduce its dependence on the US alliance and accept China as a legitimate "global rule maker".

Mr Evans labelled Mr Trump as "manifestly the most ill-informed, under-prepared, ethically challenged and psychologically ill-equipped president in US history".

The former senior member of the Hawke and Keating Labor governments also called on the government to put "more bucks" into defence spending, to be more self-reliant.

"Less United States does not mean walking away from the alliance, from which we, of course, profoundly benefit in terms of access to intelligence and high-end armaments," Mr Evans, now Australian National University chancellor, said in the speech to the National Press Club on Thursday.

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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-most-illinformed-underprepared-and-psychologically-illequipped-president-in-us-history-20170412-gvk1tf.html

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Former Australian PM Calls Trump The Most Psychologically Ill-equipped President In US History (Original Post) kpete Apr 2017 OP
He also just described Eliot Rosewater Apr 2017 #1
At this point he's being polite. Throck Apr 2017 #2
Title and article state different offices canetoad Apr 2017 #3
Concisely, exquisitely said: UTUSN Apr 2017 #4

canetoad

(17,168 posts)
3. Title and article state different offices
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 02:51 PM
Apr 2017

To clarify, Gareth Evans was Foreign Minister, not Prime Minister (PM).

UTUSN

(70,710 posts)
4. Concisely, exquisitely said:
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 03:08 PM
Apr 2017

[font size=5]"manifestly the most ill-informed, under-prepared, ethically challenged and psychologically ill-equipped president in US history". [/font]

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