Posted on 10/02/2019 2:58:40 PM PDT by RummyChick
President Sauli Niinistö of Finland played a passive-aggressive game with Donald Trump on Wednesday at the White House, peppering a joint press conference with jabs subtle enough to fly under his radar.
Trump, preoccupied with spitting nails over House Democrats' latest impeachment development, hardly seemed to notice.
Niinistö described his time browsing Washington's sprawling museums, noting the Smithsonian Institution's traditionalist American history collection and a ceremony he witnessed at Arlington National Cemetary.
He also heaped praise on the National Museum of the American Indian and the still new-ish National Museum of African American History and Culture, spotlighting racial diversity and minority communities that typically oppose Trump.
'Mr. President, you have here a great democracy,' he said, looking to his left at the president. And then, dead-panning straight ahead to reporters in the East Room of the White House: 'Keep it going on.'
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Sounds like spin to me. The same people who interpret Trump’s call to the Ukrainian president as a quid pro quo are interpreting the Finnish leader’s comments as a troll.
This was not subtle trolling. It was not any kind of trolling. What utter nonsense from the Daily Mail.
Apparently “Keep it going on” is now code for “Trump, you’re an unstable war criminal”, or something to that effect. Did Adam Schiff write this article? He’s good at this sort of thing.
Read the comments on DM...handful of Americans fight back.
Seems to be the Finnish guy was being a prick. There is always sort of a game play that goes on to make the leader look good at home but this guy pushed it
He didn’t scold him. It was a polite give and take between the two. That’s the way it appeared to me.
Finland matters! It’s economy is almost as big as New Hampshire!!
What I want to see is all these leaders look into the camera and say:
I understand what President trump means now, you are the fakest, most dishonest media on the planet.
I agree. He was not taking any kind of dig at Trump. The reporter was.
“”” ‘Mr. President, you have here a great democracy,’ he said, looking to his left at the president. And then, dead-panning straight ahead to reporters in the East Room of the White House: ‘Keep it going on.’ “”””
I just watched it. He was looking at the nasty activist reporter. telling HIM to “Keep it going”.
He’s not stupid. He’s sees the coup, RESIST, revolution going on the the dems/MSM.
Finland is a little country full of little men — brain drain is a real thing.
What a puny man.
What a backwater country.
I imagine Trump rolling his eyes on the inside when people like this Finnish guy lecture him on the climate
Finland was a Soviet satellite country (Communist mentality)
If you remove all the reindeer’s from Finland, there is little mammal life left.
Whatever he meant, no one is including in his answer the reference to the last 200 years, which he then said “keep it going”.
Also saying the reference to an African American museum is a jab at Trump, is preposterous.
Quote of the day
Partisan Media Shills update.
/bingo
Tell ya what Finny, you don’t like it? Don’t conduct any trade with the USA
The MSM are a bunch of mean, gossipy, rebellious teenagers.
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