No, Trump can't get through a trip without creating chaos

[DonViejo]

By Jennifer Rubin May 25 at 2:50 PM

Aside from throwing human rights overboard in Saudi Arabia and making clear in Israel that he had given out Israel’s code-word intelligence (but did not actually say “Israel”!), President Trump was functioning fairly well on the international stage. Until today.

The Post reports:

< President Trump, speaking at a ceremony Thursday to dedicate a memorial to NATO’s resolve in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, publicly chastised his fellow alliance leaders for not being “fair” to U.S. taxpayers.

Trump used the occasion of his maiden summit with NATO leaders in Brussels, where he was invited to dedicate the September 2001 memorial, to remind the alliance that “23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they are supposed to be paying,” and that they owe “massive amounts” from past years.

European leaders who gathered from across the alliance gazed at Trump without expression and offered modest applause at the end of a speech that he began by asking for a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of Monday’s terrorist attack in Manchester, England, that killed 22 and wounded many more. >

He did not explicitly confirm our obligations under Article V, something he seemed to question in the campaign.

The telltale sign that Trump messed up was a clarification later from a “senior administration official” that Trump didn’t mean to cast doubt on the United States’ steadfast support for NATO. So who are allies supposed to believe — the president or his advisers? For months now, Trump’s vice president, secretary of state, defense secretary and national security adviser have bent over backward trying to confirm our commitment to NATO. In just one appearance, Trump undid months of work and handed Russia’s Vladimir Putin a symbolic victory.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Looks like Donnie Dumb Stick just started a trade war.

The Guy just made our Nation a Paria.

[toddwv]

2. I was kind of hoping that he'd find Saudi Arabia more to his liking... and stay there.