Posted on 05/31/2017 2:11:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ashamed. There is no other word for the feeling that washed over me when President Donald Trump hectored our NATO allies over something as small as money and dues paying on false grounds, by the way. He was the skunk at the garden party. The consequences may soon be very real.
The new French president, Emmanuel Macron, gave Trump a sign of Europe's disdain in a crushing handshake that made Trump's knuckles go white. "A moment of truth," the 39-year-old leader said.
Trump treated the distinguished NATO heads of state, literally our best friends in the world, with the same shocking disrespect that he displayed on the campaign trail toward Hillary Clinton, the woman who bested him in the popular vote, let us not let him forget.
In sharp contrast to presidential bonhomie, Trump seeks to humiliate, alienate and make others hate him. That is his job. Riding a wave of anger and vitriol is all he knows. He is "a very good hater," a phrase coined by the 18th century lexicographer Samuel Johnson. Fellow critics, let's pick our jaws off the floor and realize what a ruthless force we're dealing with....
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Another master of spin.
Another master of spin & lies.
Almost as “over the top” on actual analysis as the “over the top” joke by Kathy Griffin. Fantasyland and make believe only works at Disney and in Hollywood. But naturally, the bubble these petulant pukes live in never grows up and bursts either, no matter how much reality tries to wake them up. Griffin just created her own wake-up call and I’m sure the Macron handshake ruse will come home to haunt him as well.
Huh?
“There is no other word for the feeling that washed over me when President Donald Trump hectored our NATO allies over something as small as money and dues paying...”
The publishers can pay my share of this “insignificant” money.
Just another epistle of tripe where one must consider the article’s ‘source’ and ‘move on’...
News flash about globalism. We're there, we've done that. It ain't workin'. Unless you're in ISIS or one of those globalists.
The writer sounds just like macron, an insolent 13 year old upset that Daddy didn’t let them have their way. I can just see Jamie stomping up the stairs after being told she can’t go out dressed like a slut, and slamming her bedroom door as she screams “You hate me!”
“Trump hectored our allies over something as small as money and dues paying on false grounds, by the way”
— “experts” at hundreds of cocktail parties from DC to Boston
>>literally our best friends in the world
They are the nation version of “a friend with weed is a friend indeed”.
Trump just told them to buy their own. Whether they are real friends or not is up to them now.
Weren’t they a failed magazine from the 80s?
They hate the free enterprise system, but they love the money. Like President Trump said it is not fair to the American tax payer.
Try looking Jamie Stiehm up on the Internet to find out anything about her, such as when she was born. Nothing except a stream of her articles for various liberal rags. You cannot find out anything about her at all. I was trying to learn if she was even alive during Nixon’s term in office. Good luck with that. Google tries to turn her name into “Jamie Stream.”
Frankly, if everyone else is wrong, as the cowardly and immoral Europeans often are, then being a loner can be the right thing to do.
In every country he travelled to, he represented the American people and our interests first. In Europe he asked them to stop wasting the American taxpayer’s money. That is not shameful, it is what a president should do.
Does anyone else remember when US News & World Report was a conservative publication?
Who on earth is Jamie Stiehm to be ashamed?
Wasting the American taxpayer’s money........spoken in the elaborate, three times over budget, NATO headquarters building. I wonder how much of that boondoggle we American taxpayers paid and how many additional bureaucrats it can house.
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