From tragedy to farce: How world leaders learned to laugh at Trump

[left-of-center2012]

It might be remembered as the moment when the world’s response to the Trump threat shifted from paralytic horror to dismissive laughter.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York Tuesday morning contained many of the elements that left the free world aghast in 2017: Promises to tear up crucial international climate, trade and nuclear-peace agreements; threats of war (against Iran this time, but not North Korea); kind words for strongmen and dictators with little but scorn for the democratic world.

This time, however, the response from many of the other 100-plus world leaders present was laughter and ridicule. Mr. Trump opened his address with a flourish of characteristically ludicrous braggadocio (“My administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country”), cut short by very audible peals of laughter from the heads of state and government gathered in the General Assembly.

What has changed, since Mr. Trump first articulated his pessimistic doctrine in 2017, is the world’s response. Aside from the laughter, much of the day was devoted to other major-country leaders outlining an alternative way of conducting international business – presumably without requiring U.S. involvement.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-from-tragedy-to-farce-how-world-leaders-learned-to-laugh-at-trump/

[BigmanPigman]

1. German representatives were the first group to laugh out loud.

The fucking moron will be pissed off...like he was after the W House Correspondents' Dinner when Obama poked fun at him over his Birtherism BS. How will The Donald get even with the UN member for this humiliation? WW3?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. the whole world is laughing

Lil Donnie is too old and has spent too much time tearing the US down. His only real avenue of revenge against the rest of the world would be to Make America Great Again. We all know he doesn't have a clue how to accomplish that; he just parrots what Fox channels from the real, not fake, rich people.

Poor little Donnie. The whole world is laughing. That includes all the women he failed to impress.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I was just remembering those "Thanks, Obama!" memes...

Interesting that we never see these about Trump, though we laugh at him all the time - it's that or cry...

[donkeypoofed]

4. He is most definitely not the leader of the Free World

The U.S Presidency does not hold that distinction anymore. The World has moved on without U.S. leadership, mostly because the orange dingbat pissed it awa . Nature always fills a void.