Posted on 02/08/2017 11:59:11 PM PST by Pinkbell
President Donald Trump spent much of a recent phone call with French President Francois Hollande veering off into rants about the U.S. getting shaken down by other countries, according to a senior official with knowledge of the call, creating an awkward interaction with a critical U.S. ally.
While the Hollande call Jan. 28 did touch on pressing matters between the two countries — namely the fight against the Islamic State — Trump also used the exchange to vent about his personal fixations, including his belief that the United States is being taken advantage of by China and international bodies like NATO, the official said.
At one point, Trump declared that the French can continue protecting NATO, but that the U.S. “wants our money back,” the official said, adding that Trump seemed to be “obsessing over money.”
“It was a difficult conversation, because he talks like he’s speaking publicly,” the official said. “It’s not the usual way heads of state speak to each other. He speaks with slogans, and the conversation was not completely organized.”
The revelations about the unconventional call are only the latest in a series of leaked accounts of Trump’s calls with foreign leaders that are generating increasing doubts about the new president’s style of diplomacy at a time of global uncertainty. Diplomats and politicians across the spectrum and around the world are worried that Trump’s seemingly unstructured and personality-driven approach to dealing with foreign leaders risks alienating traditional allies and emboldening foes.
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http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/nato_countries.htm
Has it ever occurred that the leaking is on the other side of the call? Assuming you believe the leak, which could be just more fake news.
Well the article last week or so circulating about his phone call with anther world leader (am too tired to remember the name sorry)included a picture of him at his desk on the phone while about 6 staffers were sitting right in front of him and to the side
The lying MSM have publicised many many declarations of Hollande (the current calamitous French president!) denigrating Trump, publicly, at TV primetimes.
So for them hinting of “Trump’s faux-pas” in a private and secret conversation is rich.
Just fake news to try to shoot Trump.
I thought it interesting that in the phone call to Mexico and the one to Australia that they were hand wringing over, FOX said the leaker was from the state department.
I wondered the same thing. Does the state department record or listen in on calls? Is this standard?
We had no Sec of State yet, so I was wondering if it was just a few yahoo’s who were insisting they need to listen in to give advice to Trump or something like that.
I don’t know how all this works, but I wouldn’t be allowing a dozen people to listen in on my calls.
And if I did have a leaker, I’d set them up. Get some Rich Little like guy on the phone to pretend he was Putin, then make some outrageous claims and see who let the information go in some sort of sting.
Then I say “well that would be easy” unless of course there are hundreds of people listening in on these phone calls.
Boggles my mind.
My take-away is this;
President Trump is no different than candidate Trump who is no different than businessman Trump who is no different than American citizen Trump .... they are all the same.
President Trump is not allowing (assuming this phone call actually happened as "leaked") anyone to divert him from his goal.
President Trump does not pick up nor make a phone call thinking, "How can I align myself with this guy and not look like I'm violating the Trust the American People have in me?"
I have every confidence if there is a true leak, it will be plugged pronto.
This is the guy that campaigned in part on, "No .... no, I will not tell you what I'm going to do .... we have made the mistake over and over again of telegraphing our intentions months in advance losing the element of surprise"
A man of that caliber does not allow leaks.
I would suspect State also. I hope he will plant a fake call to determine what’s happening.
Mr. niteowl77
Nice having a haggler negotiating for us for a change. We’re going to get a good deal!
You’re right, 2ndDiv !
Who was also in the room when President Trump was on the phone ?
Both this time & with the Mexico and Australia calls?
If it was trusted folks in person, that means the leaker was the French president.
Or the msm is making stuff up again.
This person said “what really bothers you about this administration is they don’t care about the experts and what we’ve done here for decades. I don’t think they trust us for anything.”
And there it is. The Deep State doesn’t want change and lashes out with selected and slanted leaks in an attempt to undermine Trump. It’s not going to work. The Deep State is being burnt to the ground.
Tillerson needs to crack some heads if this leaked out of State. It might have leaked out of France as others here have observed.
Or it may be entirely be made up by Politiduh. Which wouldn’t surprise anybody.
They must have joined it relatively recently. DeGaulle, Mitterand, & Chirac all refused. Bush must have whispered sweet nothings in Sarkozy’s ear.
Just wondering why my thread was pulled regarding Trump’s call with Putin? The purpose was (just like in this thread) to illustrate the leaks going on which must be stopped! The Reuters article, I thought, pointed to some potential suspects.
The other day, I had a thread about the British Parliament not allowing Trump to speak, and while it was covered elsewhere, my thread was not only taken out of Breaking News (which it was at the time), but it was taken out of News altogether and put in “Cheese, Moose, Sister.”
My bad! Thanks! :)
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