Trump is the laughingstock of the world
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Promise made, promise kept.
“The world is laughing at us,” Donald Trump often said during the campaign.
The claim was not obviously true then, but Trump has made it so. The world is now laughing at us — specifically, at our president.
“In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” Trump boasted, in typical fashion, to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. “So true,” he added, as if addressing a campaign rally.
The world leaders chuckled at the braggart before them.
“Didn’t expect that reaction,” Trump acknowledged, “but that’s okay.”
In fairness to those who chortled, Trump’s speech was funny, in a way: a kind of rhetorical blitzkrieg. Trump spoke as though he had accepted a dare to see how much of the world he could offend in the span of a 35-minute address. It felt as though Triumph the Insult Comic Dog had been unleashed in the General Assembly.
Not only did Trump criticize the usual suspects — Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and particularly Iran — but he also attacked China, the 15-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the 164-nation World Trade Organization, the U.N. Human Rights Council, Germany, the International Criminal Court, socialist countries (what did the Scandinavians ever do to him?), and the United Nations’ two-month-old Global Compact on Migration. He threatened recipients of U.S. foreign aid — almost all of South America, Africa, Eastern Europe and South Asia — and reiterated his vow to cut payments for peacekeeping.
By the end of the barrage, he had taunted nations that are home to perhaps 90 percent of the world’s population. Billions of people dissed in half an hour? Even for Trump that’s huge.
“The United States will not be taken advantage of any longer,” proclaimed the leader of the richest nation on Earth. “America will never apologize for protecting its citizens,” he said of his protectionist trade policies.
Each time he used the word “global,” it was as an epithet, disparaging the very principle on which the world body was founded amid the ashes of World War II. America rejects “global governance, control and domination,” he said, and “we will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy,” and “we reject the ideology of globalism and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.”
He stuck to his teleprompter, squinting and using a sing-song delivery to read the words adviser Stephen Miller had written for him, adding occasional banal grace notes: “Far greater!” “Just can’t do it!” “Not good!” The foreign leaders in the room shook their heads, shrugged, smiled and whispered to each other. They applauded other leaders when introduced and during their addresses; Trump didn’t get any (except at the moment when they were laughing at him) until the polite ovation when he finished.
But this address was for domestic consumption, a campaign speech against the world to appeal to his nationalist base. Trump already alienated the world; Tuesday alone brought reports that Europe was devising ways around U.S. sanctions on Iran, Chinese state media was whipping up popular sentiment to fight the trade war Trump started, and the administration was about to miss the deadline for a trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. Trump’s speech did to the world what he does to domestic opponents: name-calling and humiliation.
OPEC: “We defend many of these nations for nothing and then they take advantage of us.”
Trade: “We will no longer tolerate such abuse.”
Mexico: “We’ve started the construction of a major border wall.” (Congress just sent him a spending bill without funds for the wall.)
The Human Rights Council: “a grave embarrassment.”
Germany: “will become totally dependent on Russian energy.”
The WTO: Member countries “rig the system in their favor.”
The ICC: “has no jurisdiction, no legitimacy and no authority.”
Socialism: “It has produced suffering, corruption and decay . . . incursion and oppression. All nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings to everyone.”
While trashing these and other institutions, Trump hailed the “courage” of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and praised the nationalist governments of Poland and Israel, both of which have made recent moves to restrict democracy. He offered no criticism, and barely a mention, of Russia.
Trump, rejecting the U.N. plan to address the migrant crisis, instead suggested that other nations embrace a familiar-sounding theme. “Make Their Countries Great Again,” he proposed.
MTCGA!
An American president, devoting half an hour before the world body to insulting friend and foe alike and trashing all efforts at international cooperation? Sad.
The same American president then suggesting that the solution to the world’s problems is for other nations to adopt his campaign slogan? Now that’s funny.
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He is so clueless it's sad.
The next time this clown speaks again, everyone should bring popcorn.
We need a drinking game for when he speaks. Like...every time he says something crazy or untrue everybody takes a drink.
I'll lay in an order for Advil right now
weed
all Drown
My liver couldn't take having a drink every time Trump lies.
Ok, for you, you can take a drink of water every other time
don't be tryin the BullShip with me caviar wayvose
It happened again late this afternoon during a press conference. Definitely popcorn worthy. It was so bad that Trump probably just killed his own nominee. Truly cringe-worthy.
I suffered through Trump's news conference. Nothing but the ramblings of a plainly unstable mind...
I loved the part where he said something to the effect of "I wasn't a big fan of Roy Moore but I wanted to endorse a Republican so I went with the pedophile. Plus I never saw him molest any kids."
Is it just me or are his speeches rambling and disjointed? He starts off talking about agricultural goods and the Chinese then ends up on some weird rant about the Chinese meddling in our elections. He reminds me of a visiting priest we had that did the same thing except Father John actually got back around to his original point. trmp never does that.
LOL. That synopsis reminds me of my daughters observations about GW's State of the Nation addresses.
For Social Studies she had to watch and report on them. Her first comment was "he sounds drunk. no really listen to him, he sounds drunk".
Kid you not.
That's what's funniest. (Or saddest...)
He really, truly expected the UN to enthusiastically accept his evaluation of himself.
The UN has heard dictators, criminals against humanity... and has listened without raising an eyebrow.
When Trump speaks... they laugh...
Do you mean when Kruschev banged his shoe on the UNGA lectern, or Arafat spoke to the UN wearing a gun like a cowboy? The UN has certainly had its moments.
Yes. And the General Assembly sat attentively through their tirades.
They laughed at Trump.
A tougher crowd than at his rallies.
I was surprised that he even heard the laughter. Usually, the only voice he hears is his own.
Forgive the derail, Hal, but where the hell have you been?
Was wondering the same thing, Sister.
I was doing hard time for collusion with mother Russia. Thank Don for the pardon.
Seriously though, I was boycotting this Mr. Rogers site. The politeness police here were too much to tolerate.
Trust me, I know exactly what you mean.
Glad you're back
From his hair to his tiny misshapen penis, trump is a national embarrassment. People in other country's are openly laughing at the orange idiot, and he STILL thinks they are laughing WITH him. Hey trump...they are laughing AT you.
There is always the possibility it was Trump setting the stage and displaying his masterful entertainment skills.
“Or maybe, Mr. Trump, as a show-business professional, cannily planned the interaction. The audience would predictably laugh at the absurd claim, not so much to mock him but because of the multiple and ironic meanings of "more" (good or ill?). They laughed to release some of the tension they were feeling, listening to an unpredictable leader of the most powerful nation on earth likely about to say many unpopular things. Mr. Trump doubles down on the claim by saying "so true" and the laughter seems to go up a notch. Anytime an audience laughs during a serious speech, that's a bit rude and creates tension with the speaker. Mr. Trump then deliberately breaks the building tension by forgiving the laughter and continuing with his speech. The audience applauds him in gratitude for the comic relief and perhaps also for appearing magnanimous. He has deftly established his dominance and control over the audience in 31 seconds flat.”
yeah, that's it.
And PeeWee told the kids who saw him crash the bike: "I meant to do that."
LOL. Or it could be that when Trump said: "I didn't expect that reaction" that he was honest, possibly for the very first time in his life.
Dean, they laughed at him, because he's a braggart and an idiot. Anyone and everyone with a functioning brain in their head can see this.
You had to be laughing hysterically when you typed that. Hilarious.
those are purely accidental
Riiiiiiggghhhhhhht . . . so why then did Rump say 'not the reaction I expected' I guess he forgot he was at the UN and not one of his 'rallies'
No big deal. During the 2016 Campaign the Trump said the World was laughing at Obama's idiocy and Clinton's ineptitudes. Well, they're gone and the World is still laughing? Gee, Trump. What does that mean?
I'm willing to hear criticism from any other superpowers... well?
You mean OTHER than their laughter AT lyin donny? I think it sums up nicely what other countries think of our idiot-in-chief.
Well, it's not ALL bad for him. If he were to lose all his money he could always do stand-up in the Catskills.
Trump is the laughingstock of the world
I do not believe it is He alone that they are chuckling over, it may be that they have to include to 300 plus million citizens that allowed this to happen, as the actual butt of the joke.
If our President is a laughing stock it only translates that we the people are as well.
Maybe so. Maybe what we do in November will determine that.
"The world leaders chuckled at the braggart before them."
Don't dismiss "Nervous" laughter as making fun of.
Those leaders know that Trump means business, and having a United States President telling them they need to "Pony Up" for a real change, would make any "Takers" a bit nervous !
Yes, I'm sure they are quaking in their boots. Oooohhhh scary orange man who thinks he's a dictator.
When money is involved....you bet they are quaking !
They've been around for thousands of years and are still trying to find themselves.
The U.S. of A....... not so long. But we seem to be the "go to" when the shit starts hitting the fan.
The "go to"? Not if Trump gets his way. Now days if you "go to" the USA you risk losing your children.
Democrats didn't want us to be the "Worlds Police" anymore during Bush either. Can you explain the sudden turn by Democrats.
Mr. Trump called on other NATO members to more than double their military spending in talks on Wednesday, the White House said, although he and other leaders signed a statement that largely reiterates existing principles and commitments.
“During the president’s remarks today at the NATO summit, he suggested that countries not only meet their commitment of 2 percent of their G.D.P. on defense spending, but that they increase it to 4 percent,” the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a statement.
“President Trump,” the statement said, “wants to see our allies share more of the burden and at a very minimum meet their already stated obligations.
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European leaders’ response to Mr. Trump’s comments was muted, but the reaction from top Democrats in Congress was emphatically not.
“President Trump’s brazen insults and denigration of one of America’s most steadfast allies, Germany, is an embarrassment,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California said in a joint statement.
Mr. Schumer and Ms. Pelosi said the president’s posture at the NATO gathering had raised their level of concern about his coming meeting with Mr. Putin. They took the opportunity to lay out their standards for what would constitute a positive meeting with the Russian leader — namely, a halt to the kind of interference that some Democrats say helped to elect Mr. Trump.
So you decided to reply with a bunch of crap that has nothing to do with my question.
Feel better now?
Get all that off your chest?
Care to address my question now?
Reading comprehension actually does work, and it answered your simple question quite nicely !
All you'll get from him is shuffling, side stepping, ducking, weaving, dodging, dipping, I call it the ItIsMe shuffle.
I get the sense that you're patting a 4-year old child on the head because she managed to color inside the lines.
Did you NOT ask why I thought the way I did ?
I didn't know "Actual Words" out of Actual Democrats mouths meant nothing to you.
Oh no, make no mistake, she wasn't even close to being inside the lines. But you have to be gentle with them.
The UN is slowly laughing itself into obscurity ..... and they are fiddling while their UN burns .....
They're certainly fiddling while thousands of acres of Israel's forests, orchards and crops are burning, and animals dying, lit on fire by the UN-protected EU-supported Hamas-incited terrorists. As for the destroyed crops and orchards, it would be justifiable if Israel were to DEDUCT a similar amount from the aid Israel permits to be trucked to Gaza.
Trump is mentally retarded so of course they are laughing.