Landing today in Biarritz, France for the G7 meeting, neo-fascist demagogue and bungler Donald "The Chosen One" Trump will try to bully his counterparts and paper over his economic failures resulting from his trade policies and his disastrous tax giveaway to billionaires which produced no boost to the economy. After several past meetings of the G7, these leaders see Trump as a reckless, unstable buffoon, whose word cannot be trusted.
In order to get a "win" for himself out of the summit, Trump has arranged for a session on the "global economy" where he is expected to hold forth on his "America First" agenda and compare economic records to Europe's (leaving aside the fact that he inherited a good, growing economy from President Obama). The Washington Post's Greg Sargent explains:
"With President Trump set to attend the Group of Seven this weekend, it’s already emerging that he has 'shaken up' the schedule. Trump has called for a special meeting focused on the global economy, where he’ll tout his message about jobs and trade, while contrasting the stupendous Trump economy with Europe’s economic struggles."Of course, Trump's regime is in panic mode over the growing signs of a recession at home caused by his reckless and ill-timed trade wars:
"This juxtaposition, between Trump’s planned public display at the G-7 and his advisers’ private economic terrors, is striking. It shows that Trump’s appearance will in reality demonstrate that the very nationalist agenda he will be touting is, thus far, a record of deep fraudulence and failure, covered up with lies. It’s important to appreciate just how heavily Trump’s political mystique relies on the constant middle finger he gives to allies and international leaders. It’s central to the story he told in 2016 and the one he’ll tell in 2020." (our emphasis)Legendary for his laziness and refusal to read even the simplest briefing papers, Trump will plod through the G7 sessions, bored and drifting as in the past. He'll rail against imaginary slights by his counterpart countries and magnify petty grievances when he's not slipping away to tweet about them. Despite our allies' mighty efforts to cater to his sociopathy, he'll succeed at embarrassing the U.S. and in further damaging our relations, much to the delight of his handler in Moscow whom Trump wishes were at the summit to commiserate with.
Trump is the unwelcome uncle at the family Thanksgiving dinner. You know, bossy, rude, piggish. He's the death of the party, bullying your sister and belching while dribbling gravy down his shirt. He'll make everyone uncomfortable and some will leave the table to avoid being targeted for his hateful attacks. He'll stir up trouble and eat more than his share, then leave the table with a dirty, rumpled napkin on the chair, leaving the mess for everyone else to clean up.
ReplyDeleteTrump, sadly, represents our country, but he actually only represents a tiny fraction of it. He's going to leave a permanent stain on the good tablecloth, and I hope our next president can bleach it out so we can start over and be invited back to the table next year.
yup!
ReplyDeleteevery kind of stupidity and ineptness is on the table.
can anyone imagine what the other leaders are thinking when they see this buffoon in person?
donnah -- You said it perfectly. By now, the world -- both adversaries and allies -- see Trump's deep flaws and sociopathy. They know what to avoid (direct criticism) and what to use (pomp and circumstance, over-the-top flattery).
ReplyDeleteThe next President will have a lot of repairing to do with our allies, and a lot of resoluteness to our adversaries.
One Fly -- They see the worse in America on full display: stupidity, greed, narcissism, entitlement, etc. They, perhaps as much as we, are counting the days until the 2020 elections.
All I can think of is how hard the next president is going to work to rebuild everything trump destroyed. Also, hate to say it but if trump is defeated in 2020, I sort of see Putin pulling some drastic action to cement his and Russia's position in the world. Putin wants revenge for what he sees as the US involvement in the breakup of the Soviet Union. Which most likely invading Ukraine or the Baltic states, which are members of NATO.
ReplyDeleteBeach Bum -- You make good points. Putin's eager to make the U.S. pay for its perceived role in the Soviet Union's demise. He may test Trump's Dem successor early with a provocative move, and he needs to be warned that it would be catastrophic for Russia to engage in further aggression against its neighbors.
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