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For Shame: Donald Trump seems intent on turning America into a belligerent, bellicose loner.
US News & World Report ^ | May 30, 2017 | Jamie Stiehm

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: europe; germany; military; trump
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That's pretty much the Reader's Digest version of the media's feelings about his trip. Oh, and he didn't kneel to the Saudi King. If he had, we'd be seeing 1,000 articles about it.
1 posted on 05/31/2017 2:11:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Another master of spin.


2 posted on 05/31/2017 2:15:32 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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Another master of spin & lies.


3 posted on 05/31/2017 2:16:35 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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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.


4 posted on 05/31/2017 2:30:13 AM PDT by mazda77
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Emmanuel Macron, gave Trump a sign of Europe's disdain in a crushing handshake that made Trump's knuckles go white...

Huh?

5 posted on 05/31/2017 2:30:26 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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“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.


6 posted on 05/31/2017 2:49:27 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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Just another epistle of tripe where one must consider the article’s ‘source’ and ‘move on’...


7 posted on 05/31/2017 2:54:56 AM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003729602


8 posted on 05/31/2017 2:58:41 AM PDT by Bogie
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Yeah. We really should continue along the path of having the EU and their globalist partners make decisions that over-ride our sovereignty. And it's awful that Trump wants out of trade deals that abuse the financial well being of US workers. And whatever will we do without NATO deciding when and where we'll fight Germany's wars, and how much we'll pay to fund them? And how will the world survive without the US supporting every crazy UN endeavor?

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.

9 posted on 05/31/2017 2:59:45 AM PDT by grania (only a pawn in their game)
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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!”


10 posted on 05/31/2017 3:01:14 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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“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


11 posted on 05/31/2017 3:02:27 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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>>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.


12 posted on 05/31/2017 3:10:44 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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Weren’t they a failed magazine from the 80s?


13 posted on 05/31/2017 3:13:49 AM PDT by Fhios
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They hate the free enterprise system, but they love the money. Like President Trump said it is not fair to the American tax payer.


14 posted on 05/31/2017 3:15:59 AM PDT by just me (God bless President Trump and the USA)
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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.”


15 posted on 05/31/2017 3:16:32 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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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.


16 posted on 05/31/2017 3:17:55 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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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.


17 posted on 05/31/2017 3:20:03 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Does anyone else remember when US News & World Report was a conservative publication?


18 posted on 05/31/2017 3:25:17 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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Ashamed. There is no other word for the feeling that washed over me

Who on earth is Jamie Stiehm to be ashamed?

19 posted on 05/31/2017 3:29:06 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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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.


20 posted on 05/31/2017 3:31:17 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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