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| The worst thing about Trump's outbursts on Brexit and Nato |
| 2018-07-14 |
| h/t Instapundit It is appropriate that the 45th President of the United States has come to Britain this week on a working visit rather than the state visit that was originally intended by Theresa May. Donald Trump’s habit of expressing his frank and impolite thoughts through early morning tweets is undiplomatic and demeaning to his office. It is hard to imagine another leader of a western democracy taking the opportunity to undermine a Prime Minister shortly before arriving in Britain, as Trump did this week by describing the country as being ’in turmoil’. He then appeared to take sides with Boris Johnson just after the former foreign secretary had resigned in protest at Mrs May’s attempt to unite the cabinet on a shared vision of Brexit. Yet for all his bluster and offensiveness, Trump often has a point. Take, for example, what he tweeted on Tuesday, shortly before arriving at the Nato summit in Brussels: ’The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe (US has a $151 billion trade deficit), and then they want us to happily defend them through Nato, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!’ |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 ‘The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe (US has a $151 billion trade deficit), and then they want us to happily defend them through Nato, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!’ Got to agree with Trump. So what if he offends someone's notions? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-07-14 19:00 |
| #3 So this is what the hippies meant by "speaking truth to power". I kind of like it. |
| Posted by: Matt 2018-07-14 13:27 |
| #2 It's a time of universal deceit. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-07-14 12:43 |
| #1 Yet for all his bluster and offensiveness, Trump often has a point. Definitely said through gritted teeth. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-07-14 12:40 |