World leaders laughed at Trump.
It puts America at risk.
The world saw it in full exposure. There are no limits to his need for adoration.
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| Cringing as they laugh at him. |
See for yourself: Click: 30 seconds
"In two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any other administration in the history of our country."
There was a pause. The audience considered what he had just said. And laughed.
It was so preposterous, so grandiloquent, so self aggrandizing, they had to laugh.
Trump just demonstrated that there is no limit whatever on his narcissism and self deception. The problem for Americans is not that we have a president who will think or say anything. Actually, there is some value in that. Foreign leaders see that Trump has no common sense boundaries, which makes him unpredictable and therefore especially dangerous. He isn't rational. He might do anything. Having an unpredictable leader is sometimes good strategy.
The problem for America is that Trump revealed, once again, his "tell". Trump wants desperately to be liked and admired. The world is re-affirmed the lesson people saw when Trump blushed at being called "brilliant" by Putin, when France gave him a military parade, when Kim Jung-Un appeared to show respect, and when his cabinet went around the table telling Trump he was great. Flatter Trump. Lay it on. Tell him how wonderful he is.
America has interests but Trump wants and admirers. And that is what is dangerous. America has economic and security interests that exist independent of whether you tell Trump he is the most extraordinary president in history, done more than Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, anybody.
Won't Trump have West Wing staff, plus State Department and Pentagon and others who will warn him that he is being played?Apparently not. This was no campaign speech in front of his base supporters. This was a staffed out scripted speech, and it included that section.
Apparently there are no grownups in the room who could say, "Mr. President, this sounds maybe a little overdone. I suggest we tone this down.' If they are there, Trump overruled them.
Certainly there are Americans who will watch the 30 second clip above and think that Trump is simply telling it like it is. That Trump is, in fact, wonderful. And maybe they will consider the astonishment of the audience as a good thing. After all those were foreign leaders. What do we care what foreigners think?
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But they were not laughing because they disagree with Trump. They were laughing because they thought what he was saying was preposterous.
If that 30 second clip is heartbreaking, then this post has a remedy.
This video clip below will make you happy to be an American, indeed, happy to be alive and living in a country that can produce such children.
Really. Take a moment. Click on the video. You will feel better about everything.
Click Here. 2 minutes
3 comments:
A peek inside the bubble.
Trump is punked by his staff. I'll bet back at the West Wing they were rolling in the aisles. The "resistance" at work. This speech was one of their best efforts to date.
"America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism."
This particular bit of nonsense reeks of Miller, Trump's Goebbels, Patriotism is not a doctrine. This twisting of language and the implicit racism of the term "Americans" in juxtaposition with "globalism" lays bare the fundamental ignorance driving the policies of a Regressive administration whose ultimate aim is implicit ethnic cleansing.
Yes, the UN laughs, but it's a dark comedy.
They didn't laugh at Trump when he talked about his having done so much to advance America, they laughed when he made the comment "that's not the reaction I expected". that's when they laughed. You have taken that totally out of context.
I did not take it out of context. There were two laughs.
The first was a laugh-gasp of astonishment at the grandiosity of the remark. It was a nervous laugh of "Oh, my God did you hear that?!)
Trump heard it and tried to laugh it off with the comment that this isn't what he expected.
Then there was a relief-laugh, the relaxation that comes from realizing that everyone is in on the joke, i.e. that Trump, too, realized he was ridiculous, that everyone in the room realized it.
I wish that what "Unknown" said were true. It would be better for America. But we are stuck with the simple dismaying truth. Trump was ridiculous and the world saw it and knows it.
Peter Sage
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