He’s done a lot of things
Evil puke praises murderous Mohammed bin Salman to his face:
Donald Trump has praised Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying he was doing a “spectacular job” as the pair met on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
“You have done a spectacular job,” Trump told the powerful crown prince on Saturday, calling him “a friend of mine”.
Like Kim, and Putin, and Bolsonaro.
Trump also said he appreciated Saudi Arabia’s purchase of US military equipment, praising the crown prince for working to open up the country with economic reforms.
Trump praised the crown prince, who has moved to loosen some social restrictions in the kingdom but also cracked down on activists, including women pressing for the right to drive.
“It’s an honour to be with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia … a man who has really done things in the last five years in terms of opening up Saudi Arabia,” Trump said.
“It’s like a revolution in a very positive way.”
And who would know better than Donald Trump?
You can see his gruesome fawning for yourself if you have the appetite for it.
JUST IN: President Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman at G-20 in Japan, calls him "a friend of mine" and says that he's done "really a spectacular job" and that it's a "great honor" to meet with him. pic.twitter.com/cKvZ8qWFQc
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 29, 2019
In addition to vomiting, I’m wondering how it can be true that Saudi purchases of US weapons are responsible for a million jobs.
Trump seems to be under the strong impression that the way to make “deals” and perform “ diplomacy” is to flatter and praise heads of state. That way, they’ll want to please him.
It’s what parents do with children. “ Oh, you’re such a good boy, always so kind and helpful. Now do the dishes.” And Junior trots off obediently, eager to live up to the high opinion.
I wonder whether it works on Trump. Probably not — his opinion of himself is already so high he’d just nod in agreement and wash no dishes.
Don’t forget Duterte!
No thanks, I just ate.
Which happens with no kid that I have ever known. They mostly just roll their eyes and say “whatever” and head off to play Donkey Kong (Okay, so I’m old and my kid comes from the Donkey Kong era – substitute Fortnite or whatever it is by the time you read this).
A strange observation, possibly, but where are the Americans’ serviettes? The Saudis each have one on their plates. Is it an American thing to immediately spread the serviette across the lap on sitting down (the turtle-faced chap to Pwince Jawed’s left has his on his knee)? or are this greedy bunch just really keen to get stuck into some free toast and preserves?
Also, as I was listening to Trump’s monotonal fawning I started wondering; where on Earth is Sordy Arabia?
Reminds me of a scene from the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie.
@AoS #5:
I seem to recall being instructed to put our serviettes on our laps when I was a kid… but I’m not sure as to the timing…
“Saudi” is pronounced “saw-dee” an annoyingly large portion of the time. It goes along with “eye rack” and “Al Kay-duh”.
Re “Sordy”: An article in the Boston Globe years ago about the race car driver Teo Fabi gave guidance as to the pronunciation of his name: “Farby”, if I recall correctly. This makes sense in the non-rhotic Boston accent, but was quite off in the rhotic New York accent I used. I found the incongruity hilarious at the time.
Yes. I sometimes do that myself out of habit, but it soon must come out of my lap to be used for whatever a napkin needs to be used for.
I’m trying to remember what I do with mine on the rare occasions when I’m at a formal table like that…I think maybe I do drop it on my lap because those things (that we call napkins & UKnians call serviettes) are bulky. I don’t spread it out like a little apron, I just stash it out of the way. If I do; I don’t remember for sure.
Along with “eye-rack” we also say “eye-ran.” There are even people who say “eye-talian.”
“Sordy Arabia” – heehee. As Sackbut says – he didn’t say “Sordy Arabia.” He said Sawdy Arabia. He’s a Yank; to us the letter R is not just an indication of how the vowel is pronounced. (Mind you, he’s Noo Yawk, so some of his Rs do disappear.)
Wait. By “we” I mean we Americans – we as Americans. As if it’s a point of pride to pronounce other countries’ names incorrectly. I don’t mean we all do.
I had a student last year that enthused over my speech because I was one of the few people he knew that didn’t say “eye-talian” but pronounced it correctly.
Urk.
Yes, the midwest is the one place I actually heard people say it. Until then I’d thought it was a joke.