Posted on 03/19/2017 2:00:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Following a recent foreign policy dust-up between the White House and Britain over unfounded allegations of spying, the liberal media took it upon themselves to speculate the future of the long standing relationship. And during ABC’s This Week the network’s chief foreign correspondent, Terry Morgan mocked the Trump administration and argued that all of Europe was laughing at the expense of the United States.
“He got an agenda in the world which is disruptive, like his agenda at home. They want to come to terms with it,” Moran stated, as he noted that Trump was sent by the American people, “And they're ready to do business with him… Instead, it's like Yik-Yak, that high school social media app where people say: ‘I heard somebody said something about him, about her.’”
“And they're lost in the weeds of the adolescence out of Washington,” Moran then chided as Roland Martin declared “That’s right!” Speaking for European leaders, Moran went on to claimed that “Their primary feeling is not ‘we don’t like the President’s agenda. He’s president of the American people. We can't deal with this guy!’”
Republican strategist Sara Fagan countered by reminding the rest of the panel that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin managed to work with U.S.’ G-20 partners, and made a deal on a joint statement regarding protectionism. “The reality is, for all the noise around his comments and his tweets, the Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin is at a G-20 meeting and gets concessions from other countries in terms of the statement,” she said.
She also made it clear that other countries still had some respect for America’s place in the world. But Martin didn’t agree with her sentiment, forcefully saying:
But people want to respect us. And when -- and I was raised to respect the presidency. It would be nice if Donald Trump can respect the presidency. We want the president to be trustful and people to go, “I trust what he says.” We can't trust him.
Fagan recalled that Martin’s claim was used against George W. Bush by Democrats and by Republicans against Obama. “But the polls in Germany, in Britain are demonstrating that the sentiment is flipped,” Moran said, dismissing her analogy, “And that in fact, the White House is a laughingstock in the capitals of Europe.”
Where was this harsh criticism when Obama's failed "reset" with Russia allowed for the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea? What about Obama's infamous "red-line" in the Syria civil war? There no question from the liberal media about Obama's trustworthiness after the White House lied and claimed the Benghazi attack was caused by a YouTube video.
Transcript below:
ABC
This Week
March 19, 2017
9:52:27 AM Eastern
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Meantime, you know Angela Merkel, Theresa May in Britain want to get beyond this.
TERRY MORAN: Totally. He got an agenda in the world which is disruptive, like his agenda at home. They want to come to terms with it. He's been sent by the American people to change things. Right? And they're ready to do business with him. Theresa May in particular. She's kind of on that side of the ledger. Instead, it's like Yik-Yak, that high school social media app where people say: “I heard somebody said something about him, about her.” And they're lost in the weeds of the adolescence out of Washington.
ROLAN MARTIN: That’s right!
MORAN: Their primary feeling is not “we don’t like the President’s agenda. He’s president of the American people. We can't deal with this guy!”
SARA FAGAN: I don't -- I mean, I think -- we'll see. I mean, the reality is, for all the noise around his comments and his tweets, the Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin is at a G-20 meeting and gets concessions from other countries in terms of the statement. It wasn't a big concession.
STEPHANOPOULOS: On protectionism.
FAGAN: Yeah, on protectionism. He had protectionism language pulled from the communication by the G-20. At a minimum, people still recognize that the United States is the most powerful country in the world. Most financially successful. And most importantly has the biggest military.
[Crosstalk]
MARTIN: But people want to respect us. And when -- and I was raised to respect the presidency. It would be nice if Donald Trump can respect the presidency. We want the president to be trustful and people to go, “I trust what he says.” We can't trust him.
FAGAN: I agree the President needs to be truthful. However, having lived through a White House where people said: “George W. Bush makes the world -- the world doesn't respect the United States under George W. Bush.” And the Republicans said it under Obama. People from the opposite party always say that.
[Crosstalk]
MORAN: But the polls in Germany, in Britain are demonstrating that the sentiment is flipped. And that in fact, the White House is a laughingstock—
MARTIN: That’s right!
MORAN: --in the capitals of Europe.
MAGGIE HABERMAN: This is the risk, is that other countries, our allies, -- even non-allies—people aren’t, to your point, aren’t going to want to deal with us. That’s the phrase that I’ve heard repeatedly, “deal with the US.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: Even though that have too.
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The fact that society will in essence collapse to a third world level doesn't matter because Brussels will be well funded and quite capable of enforcing the rules it makes.
It's the wave of the future. The post industrial, post petroleum, age when societies no longer rely on the debt slaves with decent jobs but can transition to the clean, green, slavery of drugs both old and new.
Aren’t these the same people who have let Islamists overrun a lot of their countries? Europe is done. It does not care, or approve apparently, of their own culture, so they have decided to import a large, violent, 3rd world culture to take over their countries. They have a lot of nerve dissing us. Clean up your own mess.
They already know first hand what the impact is.
That war will be brutal, and short. North America / South America / APAC will stand on the sidelines and breathe a sigh of relief.
The battle of good vs. evil is eternal
Ironically, importing the Continent’s bad ideas is exactly what America’s philosophy professors did late 1800’s-1900’s. The German philosophy that led to Weimar and the Holocaust has led us to the precipice.
From John Locke and Individual Rights to Immanuel Kant and self-sacrifice for the collective in two centuries.
he’s confusing “laughingstock” with pure joy, after all the weeping and moaning they did under o’zero’s leadership
they’re clearly traumatized after the last eight years
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. Mahatma Gandhi
LOL, Americans have long since got over any feelings of inferiority or inadequacy over negative feelings from Euroweenies.
Having freed them from the tyranny of their own neighbors by force of arms will do that for you, then having given them huge sums of money to rebuild and get back on their feet will do that for you.
They’ll soon be squealing like pigs to have us come and rescue them from islam.
Terry Morgan may be another "Baghdad Bob" with his nonsensical mocking. Our alphabet channels are the laughing stock of Europe.
Does Terry even know that the reporting of the alphabet channels tends to be shallow, biased, and boring?
First off who gives a damn? Next you have to ask are they laughing while they are gathered together hiding in a basement so their Muslim pals can’t find them and kill them?
Liberals are always starry-eyed about Europe and being like the Europeans. Please explain to me why you’d want to trade places with a Frenchman or a Swede right now?
Yeah, since 0bama was so adult like and all.
They sure are
Your description of where civilization is heading is magnificent. I think of HG Wells TIME MACHINE. It does not end well for those who isolate themselves from the subservience they create.
Someone swat the fly on his nose his eyes are disturbing
Now they know what the problems we have had for 50 years with our underclass are really about.
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Speaking of the underclass I highly recommend reading the book by the British psychiatrist Theodore Dalymple entitled Life At The Bottom, and also his book entitled Our Culture - What’s Left Of It. What he writes is based on many years of experience working to salvage what’s left of the extremely destructive, self-destructive, and violent people at the very bottom of the social ladder. Horrible but endlessly fascinating account.
Terry Moran...wasn’t he the troll “motp” here years ago?
Now, they report on jOkeass.
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