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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Trump tried to show his cultists that he could play badass with that Muslim mayor of London
and it backfired. Not only did he get smacked down with disdain by the mayor's office and Londoners, ABC just reported that there were calls to disinvite him from his upcoming visit. He postponed his visit...err, ride in the gold carriage.
malaise
(269,004 posts)Rec - too good. He's not going near London - fugging draft dodging coward
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)I am all for him riding in the open carriage. Londoners could show their "love" for the fat, orange creep.
malaise
(269,004 posts)Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)That world leaders are not small contractors that Trump can bully and threaten into getting his way because they aren't as rich and powerful as he is and they are much more sophisticated than he will ever be.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)pink
(497 posts)I always thought that Ted Cruz looked more like Eddie Munster. Maybe they're all related.
tblue37
(65,357 posts)BTW, the actor, Al Lewis, was a liberal, so don't blame him for the resemblance!
Baitball Blogger
(46,711 posts)The sake of the carriage since it will get the brunt of the tomato and eggs...and shoes, maybe.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)They'd probably have to lift him into the carriage, like Harry VIII.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)It weighs 4 tons and needs eight horses to pull it. He probably couldn't fit in any other.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)He is so reviled there.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)sheshe2
(83,770 posts)Boo Hoo!
catbyte
(34,386 posts)I'm sure they're whooping it up in Freeperville because "he really told 'em" or some such idiocy. He's playing to his base now because that's really all he's got. He needs his base desperately to ensure that his pathetic little Nuremberg-Lite Klan Meetings/Hatefests are well-attended so he can convince himself he's loved & adored.
It's gone way beyond pathetic; it's pathological.
Most of them won't pay attention to the response from the brown foreigner. And, while Trump has gone over the top with the hateful rhetoric, W also played to his base most of the time as well. He usually couched it in better language, though.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)lovemydogs
(575 posts)cab67
(2,993 posts)peggysue2
(10,828 posts)Simply an Ass of the first order. The man's backfiring score is about the only impressive quality he possesses. Because everything is about him and the latest quote he's heard on Fox News.
Ugh!
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Men here will be familiar with the dumb machismo the president continually tries to pull. Don't worry, women - most men hate this stuff too.
Macron used that dumb machismo against him, easily out-pulling him on the handshake and turning away from him and to Merkel for the first greeting.
This thread from TPM is exactly right:
Link to tweet
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)I think it won't take much.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)MFM008
(19,814 posts)No ride in the pumpkin.......
George II
(67,782 posts)...it's used sparingly and he was upset.
When Obama visited, he said he didn't want to put the British government to the trouble of supplying security, he used his usual bullet-proof car.
Hekate
(90,690 posts)...message that people despise him, and there might be a spot of unpleasantness with the citizens throwing eggs and tomatos at him?
Whatever, I'd just as soon the big baby stayed home and didn't go out in public until he learns to stop throwing tantrums in the aisles of grocery stores or even State banquets.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)He's probably scared he might run into a brown or black person somewhere.
Hekate
(90,690 posts)A few years ago I had the unexpected opportunity to visit London on a tour (a friend's husband couldn't make it at the last minute and she offered to spot me the deposit if I bought the rest of his ticket). My only regret is that it was only a week. One play we saw starred Helen Mirren; another starred Judy Dench.
Gotta say it would be entirely wasted on Donald. He really should stay home where he's the star of his own show.
flying-skeleton
(696 posts)England SHOULD invite him and parade him throughout town so he can be booed mercilessly !!
spanone
(135,833 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)They think acting like a douche bag is acting tough.
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)He claims that no one is calling for knife control since they used knives.
He took over 3 days to respond when the terrorist stabbed Americans to death in Portland and just didn't care about the people shot in Kansas by a terrorist.
Initech
(100,076 posts)Time to let the adults lead again, kids. You've had your fun.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Dumberica made its greatest mistake in the modern era. I didn't think it was even remotely possible for American voters to commit an even greater colossal bed-shitting than Bewsh, but DAMNED if they didn't pull it off.
billh58
(6,635 posts)so well with Kathy Griffin. But then again, the only thing that the London mayor did was his job -- unlike President numb-nuts.
Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)"You don't exist to us, asshole"