He takes it personally
Trump is doing another Shove the Diplomats Out of the Way move. He says he won’t let a single one of them sit next to him at lunch if they don’t do what he tells them.
Donald Trump has threatened to withhold “billions” of dollars of US aid from countries which vote in favour of a United Nations resolution rejecting the US president’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
His comments came after the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, wrote to about 180 of 193 member states warning that she will be “taking names” of countries that vote for a general assembly resolution on Thursday critical of the announcement which overturned decades of US foreign policy.
They have to say they like us and we’re awesome or she’ll tell on them.
Trump was in a cabinet meeting today pretending to be a grownup, so he expanded on Haley’s scary “I’m telling.”
“Let them vote against us,” he said.
“We’ll save a lot. We don’t care. But this isn’t like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. “We’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer.”
Let them. We don’t care. We don’t want to go to the stinky old prom anyway.
The emergency UN general assembly meeting was called for Thursday to protest against the US veto at Monday’s security council meeting on a resolution the Jerusalem issue – which was supported by all other 14 members.
The security council resolution demanded that all countries comply with pre-existing UN security council resolutions on Jerusalem, dating back to 1967, including requirements that the city’s final status be decided in direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
What?? What’s it got to do with them? Especially the Palestinians?! It’s for the US to decide, because the US is the boss of everything.
Critics point out [that] Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem – as well as the US veto – are both in opposition to numerous security council resolutions.
Trump’s extraordinary intervention marked the latest escalation of diplomatic tensions over a decision that has seen the US widely criticised and isolated. It came after a day of high drama.
In a letter to UN ambassadors, Haley told countries – including European delegations – that she will report back to the US president with the names of those who support a draft resolution rejecting the US move at the UN general assembly on Thursday, adding that Trump took the issue personally.
Oh for god’s sake. Who cares? Trump takes everything personally, because he’s a narcissistic childish shit. The UN isn’t a sandbox, it’s the UN. This is embarrassing as well as disgusting.
The resolution reaffirms 10 security council resolutions on Jerusalem, dating back to 1967, including requirements that the city’s final status must be decided in direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Referring to Haley’s letter, which was disclosed by the Guardian and other media organisations on Wednesday morning, Trump said: “I like the message that Nikki sent yesterday at the United Nations.
“Our great citizens who love this country are tired of this country being taken advantage of – we’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer.”
Baby talk, again. He’s losing vocabulary so fast he’ll be reduced to mama dada baba in a few weeks.
In her letter, Haley wrote: “As you consider your vote, I encourage you to know the president and the US take this vote personally.
“The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those who voted against us,” she continued.
Oh grow up.
Patrick Chappatte
The New York Times
If you’re not willing to work with people you lose any power to influence them, which is to say, you no longer have any power.
There is absolutely no way the US citizens are being taken advantage of in the decision to allow the final question of the capital to be settled in negotiations between the two groups involved. It isn’t our capital. It isn’t our country. It isn’t our decision.
But there are some in the US who feel everybody in the world should do things the way we want them to (and never mind that not all of us want them to do the same thing, because we are 324 million different people with numerous different points of view on all sorts of things). Next, are we going to tell them what to eat? What to wear? What movies they can watch? No, of course not. But we feel it is our place to interfere in other country’s business, making it more difficult for those countries to solve their own problems, and then we loudly throw a temper tantrum when they are not willing to just sit down and shut up. We (not the we here on this site, obviously, but the we of the Donald Trump supporters, and all too many US citizens who are not Trump supporters) call it being taken advantage of when other people say, no, we really don’t think this is your business.
No wonder he’s able to sell so many people here his brand of snake oil. They haven’t figured out that the world does not belong to us, and that the other 95% of the world’s population might like to have a say in things, too.
Excellent, iknklast!
Trump now thinks he’s president of the whole world.
This should go well, considering he’s not even really the President of the United States:
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/videos/vl.565490096984401/1754664874546101/?type=1
(link is to a Robert Reich video called “A year Without a President.”
He’s president of the universe!
“Nikki Haley, wrote to about 180 of 193 member states warning that she will be “taking names” of countries that vote for a general assembly resolution on Thursday critical of the announcement which overturned decades of US foreign policy.”
Perhaps one should be helpful and point out it would be easier to remember the countries that vote against and then cross them off a list of all countries.
If you want a single sentence that expresses just how unfit he is for leadership, “He takes it personally” is a pretty strong contender. That puts him squarely in tinpot dictator territory, and his own staff acknowledge it without concern.
Israel and WHICH Palestinians? Hamas and PA are almost at war with each other. And the Israelis have Greater Israel crazies all over their feeble coalition government. The idea that a foreign state can make some positive difference by a sweeping, empty, gesture over embassy location is insane.