The worldwide conspiracy
The Times gives Trump credit for accomplishing something – uniting people in the UK in loathing of him.
One member of Parliament called him a “fascist.” Another described him as “stupid.” A third wondered aloud whether President Trump was “racist, incompetent or unthinking — or all three.”
The stream of criticism that began after Mr. Trump shared anti-Muslim videos from a far-right British group on Wednesday morning turned into a gusher on Thursday, after he rebuked Prime Minister Theresa May in a nighttime tweet, telling her: “Don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom.”
Mr. Trump’s one-two punch managed to generate rare unanimity in a Britain that is deeply divided over the contentious process of leaving the European Union.
Ya gotta admire that. He does do a remarkably thorough job of being awful – he’s awful in every possible way. There’s nothing to like about him at all, no matter how trivial.
Members of the opposition Labour Party had been among the first to pounce on Mr. Trump’s tweets, but they were joined on Thursday by several members of Mrs. May’s Conservative Party.
One of them, Peter Bone, called on Mrs. May to persuade Mr. Trump to delete his Twitter account. Another, Tim Loughton, urged Twitter to take down Mr. Trump’s account “as it would that of any other citizen of the world who peddled such hate.”
A third Conservative lawmaker, Paul Masterton, lamented: “Just because somebody stops using Twitter, it does not mean that they cease to be a twit.”
Theresa May has criticised Trump's retweeting of racist videos, the first time in living memory that a British Prime Minister has rebuked an American President.
Trump supporters will see this as further proof of the extent of the worldwide conspiracy to depict him as disgusting— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 30, 2017
The number one actor in the “worldwide conspiracy” to depict Trump as disgusting is – Trump himself.
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It is rare to find a human being with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Every dictator of the twentieth century from Hitler onwards had documentaries made to show how lovely they were to their families and pets.
Can anyone imagine a film crew following Trump for a week and finding anything heart-warming to share? He cannot spend five minutes with other people – even children – without turning the occasion into an opportunity to continue his vile vendetta against those ordinary men and women whom he’s decided are his enemies. Given his Twitter output, he’s exactly the same when the doors close. No wonder his current wife and youngest son have a hunted look whenever he’s around.
FFS, he’s making the dictator of North Korea look diplomatic and statesmanlike in comparison.
If he’d tweeted footage of the Bamiyan Buddhas, gay teenagers executed in Iran, beheadings in Saudi Arabia, New Years’ in Cologne…
It still wouldn’t have made him have any more of a point. But parroting loony anti-immigrant racists just underlines that whatever ‘threat’ IS real, he is never going to be able to answer it effectively.
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… and even against those very children he is with at the time, giving him another photo-op!
If he’d tweeted footage of the Bamiyan Buddhas, gay teenagers executed in Iran, beheadings in Saudi Arabia, New Years’ in Cologne…
… or the Manchester concert or The Bataclan Massacre or concrete bollards wrapped up as christmas presents ( Hershey’s Kisses!) at a german christmas market…
Naw… compared to Orange Cheeto, Merkel and May and Macron are all over this. Their clever handling and robust responses to these ( now endless) atrocities is sure to stem the rise of the Far Right.