The President is going to be attending, and then leaving early from, the G7 Summit in Canada. He plans to leave early before the talks on the Environment occur, for reasons that have become all too apparent to us over the past year+ of his Presidency. He really doesn't care about the environment. That, however, is secondary to the immediate subject we need to discuss.
Emmanuel Macron, President of France, stated that the nations other than the USA in the G7 need to remain polite and also stated that no leader is forever. He was clearly noting that Europe will not step aside and let the American President steamroll them. He went on to make the following statement:
"Maybe the American President doesn't care about being isolated today, but we don't mind being six, if need be," Macron told Reporters. "Because these six represent values, represent an economic market, and more than anything, represent a real force at the international level today."
Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has had many stern comments for President Trump as well lately, taking issue with the fact that the tariffs imposed on Canada were imposed under the idea that Canada somehow poses a National Security Risk to the United States, which is ridiculous on its face without even looking deeper into it. President Trump, in a conversation with Justin Trudeau, said to the Prime Minister, "Didn't you guys burn down the White House?" This was an obvious reference to the War of 1812, but unfortunately President Trump isn't as up on his history as he should be, considering it was the British who did the burning. Yes, the Canadian troops were not necessarily on the American side in that war, but to infer they burned the White House down is fairly uninformed and childish to say the least.
Now Trump has stated that he is going to leave the G7 Summit early, missing most of the talks on the environment, something he doesn't seem to care about. That is a big deal, however, because there really hasn't been a nation that has left the summit early for no good reason in modern history. Yes, countries have left when terrorist attacks occur or major events occur that require them to attend to the needs of their people, but for a President to just decide they aren't going stay for the whole summit, with no reason why, is kind of a slap in the face to every other country.
That, coupled with the upcoming talks with North Korea, about which the President said he doesn't need to really prepare for, is concerning. Trump has touted the great relationships he has built around the world with foreign leaders during his Presidency, but I think even he is realizing that those relationships he thought he built, are being destroyed through his rhetoric, his tariffs, and his isolationist attitude.
Trump is essentially isolating our country from the world stage, and that isn't good. We may be the largest economy on the planet, but the rest of the planet is pretty strong when they stand together against us. Trump's isolationist attitude, and his unfiltered mouth vomit that flows out during speeches and through his fingertips on Twitter, are doing nothing good for our country.
We are becoming the laughing stock of the world, and that is terrifying. If Trump loses in 2020, the next President is going to need an extremely strong team that will need to work tirelessly at mending the relationships that have been ruined. If Trump wins in 2020 and serves another 4 years, there may be damage done on the world scale that is much more difficult for a future President's Administration to repair.
This was funny on the Apprentice, but this is not the Apprentice. This is our life. Our life is being affected by a man who has no self-control, who cannot take criticism or accept defeat, who says and does things against the values of basic human decency, who refuses to ever apologize for anything, who wants to be an Autocrat, who is a narcissist at his core, who has definite racist tendencies, who has done and said many anti-women things, who refused to denounce members of the Nazi party, who has praised dictators, who has denigrated Gold Star Families (Minorities) and praised a Gold Star Family (White), who has made fun of people with disabilities, who currently has over a dozen allegations of sexual assault against him, who has made comments about how much power he has over women, who has lied to the faces of Americans thousands of times, who has supported candidates with sexual harassment claims against them, who has said horrible things and tweeted horrible things about many different people in politics, the media, and other professions, who has put his businesses in more profitable status by using the Presidency to make money in his private life, who has....god, I could go on so long this paragraph would become a full blog. That is the problem. There is so much Trump has said and done that would have had any previous US President ousted from office, but for some damn reason we live in an America today where people are accepting of this to the point it is allowed to go on and on without challenge.
Nations of the world are forming alliances without involving the United States at this point, because they know that with the current leadership of our country, they can't trust us. We are isolating ourselves from the world, becoming more politically divided in our country than at any other time in recent history, and we are just all sitting and watching it happen. Legislators are doing nothing, people are leaving government positions in droves to get away from this Administration and the disease it is spreading throughout Washington, and here we are, the forgotten citizens of this great nation watching it all go to hell, asking, "Why?"
On that happy note,
DUNK
Emmanuel Macron, President of France, stated that the nations other than the USA in the G7 need to remain polite and also stated that no leader is forever. He was clearly noting that Europe will not step aside and let the American President steamroll them. He went on to make the following statement:
"Maybe the American President doesn't care about being isolated today, but we don't mind being six, if need be," Macron told Reporters. "Because these six represent values, represent an economic market, and more than anything, represent a real force at the international level today."
Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has had many stern comments for President Trump as well lately, taking issue with the fact that the tariffs imposed on Canada were imposed under the idea that Canada somehow poses a National Security Risk to the United States, which is ridiculous on its face without even looking deeper into it. President Trump, in a conversation with Justin Trudeau, said to the Prime Minister, "Didn't you guys burn down the White House?" This was an obvious reference to the War of 1812, but unfortunately President Trump isn't as up on his history as he should be, considering it was the British who did the burning. Yes, the Canadian troops were not necessarily on the American side in that war, but to infer they burned the White House down is fairly uninformed and childish to say the least.
Now Trump has stated that he is going to leave the G7 Summit early, missing most of the talks on the environment, something he doesn't seem to care about. That is a big deal, however, because there really hasn't been a nation that has left the summit early for no good reason in modern history. Yes, countries have left when terrorist attacks occur or major events occur that require them to attend to the needs of their people, but for a President to just decide they aren't going stay for the whole summit, with no reason why, is kind of a slap in the face to every other country.
That, coupled with the upcoming talks with North Korea, about which the President said he doesn't need to really prepare for, is concerning. Trump has touted the great relationships he has built around the world with foreign leaders during his Presidency, but I think even he is realizing that those relationships he thought he built, are being destroyed through his rhetoric, his tariffs, and his isolationist attitude.
Trump is essentially isolating our country from the world stage, and that isn't good. We may be the largest economy on the planet, but the rest of the planet is pretty strong when they stand together against us. Trump's isolationist attitude, and his unfiltered mouth vomit that flows out during speeches and through his fingertips on Twitter, are doing nothing good for our country.
We are becoming the laughing stock of the world, and that is terrifying. If Trump loses in 2020, the next President is going to need an extremely strong team that will need to work tirelessly at mending the relationships that have been ruined. If Trump wins in 2020 and serves another 4 years, there may be damage done on the world scale that is much more difficult for a future President's Administration to repair.
This was funny on the Apprentice, but this is not the Apprentice. This is our life. Our life is being affected by a man who has no self-control, who cannot take criticism or accept defeat, who says and does things against the values of basic human decency, who refuses to ever apologize for anything, who wants to be an Autocrat, who is a narcissist at his core, who has definite racist tendencies, who has done and said many anti-women things, who refused to denounce members of the Nazi party, who has praised dictators, who has denigrated Gold Star Families (Minorities) and praised a Gold Star Family (White), who has made fun of people with disabilities, who currently has over a dozen allegations of sexual assault against him, who has made comments about how much power he has over women, who has lied to the faces of Americans thousands of times, who has supported candidates with sexual harassment claims against them, who has said horrible things and tweeted horrible things about many different people in politics, the media, and other professions, who has put his businesses in more profitable status by using the Presidency to make money in his private life, who has....god, I could go on so long this paragraph would become a full blog. That is the problem. There is so much Trump has said and done that would have had any previous US President ousted from office, but for some damn reason we live in an America today where people are accepting of this to the point it is allowed to go on and on without challenge.
Nations of the world are forming alliances without involving the United States at this point, because they know that with the current leadership of our country, they can't trust us. We are isolating ourselves from the world, becoming more politically divided in our country than at any other time in recent history, and we are just all sitting and watching it happen. Legislators are doing nothing, people are leaving government positions in droves to get away from this Administration and the disease it is spreading throughout Washington, and here we are, the forgotten citizens of this great nation watching it all go to hell, asking, "Why?"
On that happy note,
DUNK
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