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Obama Braces for Donald Trump Questions From World Leaders
NY Times ^
| May 22, 2016
| GARDINER HARRIS
Posted on 05/22/2016 8:13:21 PM PDT by Innovative
Officially, the top world leaders who gather Thursday at the Group of 7 summit meeting will talk about shared concerns, like global trade or the Islamic State. But their private discussions are likely to cover a topic that is not on the agenda: Donald J. Trump.
President Obama now hears questions in his meetings with world leaders about whether Mr. Trump has a realistic shot at becoming president.
For months, Mr. Obama has answered those questions with an emphatic no.
But this weeks summit meeting in Japan is the first among major allies since Mr. Trump moved decisively toward securing the Republican nomination, and Mr. Obamas counterparts are likely to want more detail in his explanations of an election that has prompted fascination and apprehension overseas.
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To: comebacknewt
And those were the questions they shoukd have been asking !
To: Innovative
if world “leaders” want to know what Donald Trump might do, they should speak to the organ grinder, not the monkey.
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05/23/2016 3:25:07 AM PDT
by
Reverend Wright
(UK out of the EU; UN out of the USA !)
To: Innovative
I hope this spoils Bammy’s fun.
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posted on
05/23/2016 4:34:30 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: Innovative
So, Comrade Obama, does this mean America will get off her knees?
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posted on
05/23/2016 5:10:27 AM PDT
by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
To: Innovative
Wait! He has to ask Valerie what to say!
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posted on
05/23/2016 5:31:07 AM PDT
by
jch10
(Hillary in the Big House, not the White House .)
To: Innovative
I guess Trump isn’t going to bow to them, trouble in tin pot tyrant paradise.
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posted on
05/23/2016 5:43:22 AM PDT
by
Fitzy_888
("ownership society")
To: jch10
Yes...Valerie and the Shiite’s have won out, Huma and the Sunni’s lost.
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posted on
05/23/2016 5:48:50 AM PDT
by
Fitzy_888
("ownership society")
To: Innovative; flaglady47; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner
Hah, it's gonna slay Barky that his private discussions with the leaders plus public speculation will be all about Trump and not him !
Leni
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posted on
05/23/2016 5:53:29 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
( GO, TRUMP, GO !!!)
To: Innovative
BHO will use every opportunity to turn the world against Trump. It will be another of his smear America world campaigns. I just hope Trump remembers to put this Marxist faggot in his place.
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posted on
05/23/2016 7:05:25 AM PDT
by
Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarme)
To: Innovative
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posted on
05/23/2016 7:09:41 AM PDT
by
ecomcon
To: mikey_hates_everything
It'd be great if one of them asked Obama about Trump's taco bowl and how to get one. I think you mean Bush's Guacamole Bowl. I believe it's still available!
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posted on
05/23/2016 8:06:58 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
To: Innovative
Man, I hope they don’t ask about that ousted bust of Winston Churchill!
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posted on
05/23/2016 10:19:48 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(Enough is enough!)
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