Problem child
So it all went very well, apparently.
NATO diplomats are dumbfounded by President Donald Trump’s barrage of acidic rhetoric at the annual summit in Brussels on Wednesday.
Trump came out brawling in his first public comments, accusing NATO ally Germany of being “a captive of Russia,” calling members of the alliance “delinquent” in their defense spending and insisting they increase it “immediately.”
“It’s like the world has gone crazy this morning,” one senior European diplomat told CNN. “Trump’s performance was beyond belief.”
Because he’s a genius and an original and a drainer of swamps.
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If we get into a new WW, can I THEN blame the pouty Bernie Bros?
From the NYT:
Why do other world leaders and diplomats pay that much attention to what he says?
I would treat the US’s seat at international summits at if it were accidentally temporarily vacant, and Trump as just a buffoon keeping it warm until an acutal grown-up can succeed him. Meanwhile, don’t take anything he says as binding (because he certainly won’t); rather, just make attentive sounding “uh-huh” noises while he’s bafflegabbing, and get the real work done elsewhere when he’s not around.
Problem Child by AC/DC
“What I want I take, what I don’t I break
And I don’t want you”
I’m sorry to sully the memory of Bon by association with this anti-fun anti-talent anti-art (etc.) man, but some of these lines are highly apt. And the song is just one of my faves.