Trump gets foreign policy lashing at U.N. meeting

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico

The verbal slams were predictable: There is widespread unease at the U.N. with President Donald Trump’s “America first” outlook, and in particular his aggressive stance on Iran. | Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images

The president sat stone-faced as international leaders criticized his foreign policy both overtly and obliquely.

By NAHAL TOOSI 09/26/2018 12:42 PM EDT

As President Donald Trump sat stone-faced at the head of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, the criticisms of his foreign policy rolled in overtly and obliquely.

France warned that dealing with Iran couldn’t just be about “sanctions and containment,” a clear rebuke of Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in favor of an attempt to isolate the country through new economic penalties.

Equatorial Guinea said nations too wedded to “sovereignty” could undermine the welfare of the international community, a likely reference to Trump’s sovereignty-focused speech Wednesday before the entire U.N. body. And then there was Bolivia, which brought up the U.S. role in Iran’s 1953 coup at the start of fusillade of criticisms that painted an America as too quick to turn to war instead of diplomacy. “The United States could not care less about human rights or justice," Bolivian President Evo Morales said, just steps away from the U.S. president.

The verbal slams were predictable: There is widespread unease at the U.N. with Trump’s “America first” outlook, and in particular his aggressive stance on Iran.


Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/trump-un-foreign-policy-843110

[Solly Mack]

1. He already looks like a Madame Tussaud creation.

[dhill926]

7. man...you nailed it....

not a truly living thing about him...

[Solly Mack]

10. As fake and phony outside as he is inside.

The caricature come to life.

[MBS]

12. Bingo. n/t

[dhill926]

17. looks uncannily like Alec Baldwin there...

[Solly Mack]

18. He does. lol

[BumRushDaShow]

14. OMG they actually DO have one though

[Solly Mack]

15. And no difference. All wax all the time.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. !!!

[Mad-in-Mo]

19. Makes me queasy. YUCK

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Seems spot on though.

[Mad-in-Mo]

21. Yes. I will admit that.

[MotorCityMan]

23. Nope... obvious fake

The tie is not hanging down nearly long enough to be the real shit gibbon.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. You gotta sit & take it, ya big baby

That expression...'you're gettin' nuked, you're gettin nuked...'

[forgotmylogin]

6. TRMP should be forced to sit and listen to criticism more often.

He doesn't like it.

Oh yeah, and man that cotton candy softswirl hair. He doesn't get to control the lighting in the UN either.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. ROFL!

[Scurrilous]

3. ...

[Arkansas Granny]

4. That looks like the same expressions he had at the White House Correspondents dinner where

Obama roasted him.

[riversedge]

5. ha ha. guite the pic of pounting Trump!!

[Scarsdale]

8. He seems to be

the only one not wearing a translator earpiece. Is it because what others say is of no consequence to him? He is doing Putin's bidding, what others think or say means nothing to him.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. OMG, that photo! He looks like a mad man.

[lark]

11. Wait for it -

will his next move of distraction be threats to pull out of UN? It would totally be in character for this stupid beyond belief asshole.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. Dissed by Equatorial Guinea? Jeez, Obiang Nguema is Trump's kind of dictator

and even he thinks Trump is crap.

Mr Obiang Nguema is Africa's longest serving leader and has been described by rights organisations as one Africa's most brutal dictators.

He seized power in 1979.

According to Human Rights Watch, the ''dictatorship under President Obiang has used an oil boom to entrench and enrich itself further at the expense of the country's people''.

He has been pursued in French courts for allegedly plundering state coffers to buy luxury homes and cars in France.

His son and vice-president, Teodoro 'Teodorin' Nguema Obiang, has been resisting attempts by the US administration to seize his assets, denying charges that they were obtained with allegedly corrupt funds taken from his country.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13317174

[pampango]

24. Trump, like many conservatives, wants the US out of the UN. This experience may hasten

action to promote that policy. Donald does not like to be lectured to. He likes people who agree with him and do what he says.

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[procon]

26. That's the same exaggerated angry face my grandson uses when he doesn't get

his way, and he's 4.