Posted on 06/01/2017 12:56:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
Top leaders of five Nordic countries are rejecting claims that they "trolled" President Donald Trump by posing for a photo that is drawing comparisons to the US leader's now-infamous moment with a glowing orb during his trip to Saudi Arabia.
The photo, which was first reported by The Hill, shows the prime ministers of Norway, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark all placing their hands on a European soccer ball -- an image that would most likely have been viewed as benign had it not surfaced just days after one of the most memorable moments from Trump's first foreign trip to the Middle East and a NATO summit in Brussels...
"This time Twitter has jumped to conclusions that aren't correct," said Mary Gestrin, a spokesperson for the Nordic Council of Ministers. "There was no intentional reference to the picture with President Trump and therefore there is absolutely no intended parody either." ...
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Gee, I don't know, CNN. If I were you, I would dedicate unlimited time and resources to getting to the bottom of this. And then, if you have couple of bucks left over and a janitor or two looking to make a little extra on the side, maybe you could look into the Seth Rich murder.
These guys look like the only thing they lead is a Remax outlet.
This is being covered by other media outlets too.
The one in the middle ATE THE ORB!
I don’t even know what the issue was supposed to be in the first place.
In the words of today’s teenagers:
Wait, what?
The orb photo was “infamous”
Nope. No bias there.
Try reading the article.
She ate more than one
And so what if they did ‘troll’ Trump?
He has a sense of humor. The original photo was very unusual.
We laugh at some of the Nordic countries because of their liberal ways. Not a big deal.
Bunch of nobodies.
Other countries get their cues from our Media. Is anyone surprised by this? Trump’s European/Middle East trip was a success. They could see and hear Trump without the filter of our Media.....his esteem rose there. These people just look stupid.
Who cares? The orb thing was/is weird.
This is sooooo stupid, embarrassingly so actually. This _might_ be a troll, of this type of picture, the pose with hands on the ball, wasn’t so freakin common. OMG, what are they gonna say, that all the pictures like this in the past were pre-trollin trump? So mind numbingly stupid.....
Sucked in by fake news, they attempt to contact President Trump, but have mistaken their soccer ball for a palantir!
fibbers - they didn’t troll Trump, they trolled Saudi tsk tsk
No. Because the Trump orb photo also included King Salman of Saudi Arabia. And they suck up to Saudi Arabia so much that they’d never troll a photo with him in it.
I think it is kind of funny. No slam, just having fun. Get a life, CNN.
I think it is kind of funny. No slam, just having fun. Get a life, CNN.
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