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Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)Their task is to preclude him from making an ass of himself. Why don't they brief him in advance?
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)I feel sorry for them. The State Department has all these protocol specialists, whose only job is to brief the President and others on the background information to the people he's meeting, and protocols on how to treat them.
But this lout refuses to be briefed, figuring that his brilliant PERSONALITY should be enough to carry him through any situation. Same thing in his 'negotiations' with Kim etc.
He's the first President to refuse his daily intelligence briefings. But most people were relieved by that, figuring the LESS he knows about what's happening THE BETTER. That's one thing. But this is different. This kind of thing is just humiliating for the whole country.
Both Reagan and Bush Jr. were morons, but at least they KNEW they were clueless, and took advice from people who WEREN'T clueless. What sets Trump apart is that he's a moron who THINKS he's a genius. The worst possible combination.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)He would have known all her family were murdered and how and by who. Its possible he would have known the names of her mother and brothers.
President Obama would have stood and showed respect and deference and he would have put an arm around her if protocol allowed it. He would have definitely known the protocol.
Its quite possible that his sympathy would have caused her to cry a little, and seeing that he would have teared up too.
Im so sorry she didnt have Obama there instead of Trump.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Cyrano
(15,035 posts)Actually, Burma is now called Myanmar, but what the hell. To Trump, it's just some "shithole country" someplace in the world outside of the White House, Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, and probably doesn't have any golf courses.
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)doesn't KNOW it's been called Myanmar since 1989. But if he was an actual advisor from the State Department, he probably figured the chances were zero that Trump would know where Myanmar is; and PRACTICALLY zero that he'll know where Burma is, too. But the only other option was to call it "that place where Alec Guinness built a bridge in 'Bridge on the River Kwai.'"
Larrybanal
(227 posts)the rohingha crisis is happening IN myanmar (ex burma) not next to it but really he doesn't care about any of their problems or stories...he just wants to know how she managed to take HIS nobel peace prize
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)More like Bronzo the Clown. He looks especially bronze in this photo. He could not be LESS interested listening to these people. When HE is not the center of attention, he loses focus. After all, isn't EVERYTHING about the great anus-looking mouthed Don the Con?
George II
(67,782 posts)Bayard
(22,073 posts)Especially people of color?
mtngirl47
(989 posts)HA! He was looking for pointers so he could up his game to get the Nobel!
What an idiot!
George II
(67,782 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hate him so much! He couldn't fake empathy if his life depended on it.
Botany
(70,504 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... not even knowing where Bangladesh is? Even after being told "right next to Burma", he still was clueless, but faking it.
If his "advisor" had said "Myanmar" instead of Burma, then Trump would have still been just as lost. Note that he had no response, other than "thank you", to the man's question asking what can be done to help.
Botany
(70,504 posts)Not only is he rude and disrespecting but he is having real lucidity problems and ongoing cognitive decline
too. And what is worse is that everyday we get more and more data points that Russia installed his ass
into the White House.