Sunday, May 28, 2017

After Trump visit Chancellor Angela Merkel laments the loss of America as a reliable ally.

Courtesy of the New York Times: 

In the aftermath of a contentious Group of 7 meeting in Taormina, Sicily, where leaders failed to persuade President Trump to back the Paris climate accord, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said on Sunday that tried and tested global alliances were no longer as reliable as they once were, citing her experience “in recent days.” 

Ms. Merkel, who is campaigning for a fourth term in the September elections, did not name the country or leader she had in mind. 

It seemed clear, however, that she was referring mainly to the United States and Mr. Trump, who refused to commit to the goals of the 195-nation climate agreement hammered out in 2015. He has said it would be bad for the United States economy.

“The times in which we could rely fully on others, they are somewhat over,” she said, according to German news media. “This is what I experienced in the last few days.”

And just like that decades of friendship between the United States and Germany come to a close.

I guess this what the White House meant by a "successful" trip.

Here was an observation by former Bush speechwriter David Frum:
This presidency is now officially an international crisis.

How much longer can it be before even the Republicans in Washington realize that everything that America has fought and stood for is now hanging in the balance?

63 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:52 PM

    Trump's obsession over Russia probe deepens

    But the president's senior aides say he has yet to decide on a strategy for confronting the crises.

    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/28/trump-russia-advice-238911

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    1. We know his strategy. Bully, threaten, terminate. So far that last is only to be fired. I have no doubt before he is forced from office it may progress to assassination.

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    2. Anonymous4:33 AM

      And, if all else fails, Mialuppa, invade a country.
      Beaglemom

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    3. Anonymous5:55 AM

      or stage a huge attack on his own people.

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    4. Anonymous7:17 AM

      Looks like his strategy is: Start a war with N. Korea

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    5. Starting a war with North Korea will be his undoing. Even the Republicans won't overlook, condone or defend that. He'll be impeached for sure.

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  2. Anonymous4:55 PM

    Showdown: U.S. Moving 3rd Carrier Strike Group Near N. Korea

    After a show of force like this it may be hard to back down if Kim Jong Un calls Trump’s bluff.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/28/showdown-us-moving-3rd-carrier-strike-group-near-n-korea

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    1. Anonymous6:10 PM

      May God and all the spirits help us!

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    2. Anonymous4:32 AM

      Is this something that Trump tweeted? I don't think the Navy likes having details of its movements made public.
      Beaglemom

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    3. Anonymous7:09 AM

      little donnie already blabbed where our two nuclear subs are in the area, so why not tell them about the carriers also.

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    4. I hope China talks to Kim Jong Un and explains what a nutjob Trump is, the political ramifications and not to call his bluff. Trump will never make the first move. He is trying to goad Un and then justify an attack as retaliation. The Chinese know this.

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  3. Anonymous4:57 PM

    President Trump Turned International Diplomacy Into A Fistfight—And Lost

    President Trump’s performance in the last leg of his first international trip has European leaders fuming—and American diplomats likening him to a ‘drunk tourist.’

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/28/president-trump-turned-international-diplomacy-into-a-fistfightand-lost

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  4. Anonymous5:03 PM

    I know "xtians" who voted for Don'T. I know Vietnam Vets who voted for Don'T. And I am appalled that valor, honor, loyalty, discretion and patriotism have been compromised by greed, usurped by 'fake news' and branded with "Make America Great Again".

    GeorgiaPeach

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    1. Anonymous7:43 PM

      Hey! Hi Five Georgia Peach! But here's a thought: Don't foget the 40 year plan of a number of Charismatic / Pentacostal Christians - 40 years (generation upon generation) of home schooling, raising as many kids as possible - aim - to capture the Seven Mountains for God (so that Jesus can return in the flesh to earth). Grow up to join the local government, then state government, then Federal Government be a Republican U.S. Senator. Trump is the shiny object - we all focus on getting rid of the shiny object (T) and Rince becomes the Messiahtin place to returnt the earth to God. It's a 40 year plan about to succeed. (Think Sarah P who nearly made it into then White House and her breeding kids). It CAN happen. Unless we catch on.

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    2. Anonymous5:59 AM

      I've caught on. I've tried to explain it to people. Ive sent them links as well. They look at me like I'm crazy lol....Several years ago, I believe it was on Letterman, there was this precocious kid who was being home schooled, wore a suit and tie...stating he was going to be president someday. Wish I had paid better attention to his name. The homeschooler 7 mountainers may have a whole Brazil Boy thing going for the next president.

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    3. Anonymous7:18 AM

      BINGO BINGO BINGO!!!
      +this
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

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  5. Anonymous5:03 PM

    Press and other world leaders now are calling her the "Leader of the Free World" a title she has certainly earned and carries with a sense of grace and aplomb that are absent in our miserable excuse for a President.

    This memorial day, at least in our family, we are celebrating, in memoriam, the once great country that we lost nearly 6 months ago.

    All good things come to an end but somehow I didn't think it would be like this.

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    1. Anonymous7:58 PM

      If only Hillary had won the EC.

      Can you just imagine what those two intelligent, compassionate, experienced, feisty women could have accomplished together?

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  6. Anonymous5:10 PM

    Can Angela be POTUS instead of the orange tinted asshole?

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    1. Anonymous7:56 PM

      France tried to steal President Obama. It's only fair that we get Angela in return.

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  7. Anonymous5:20 PM

    Trump has committed treason and should be hung!

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    1. Oh,yeah. He wishes he were hung.

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    2. Anonymous6:11 PM

      +++

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    3. Hanging's too good.

      Leavenworth.

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  8. Anonymous6:12 PM

    "How much longer can it be before even the Republicans in Washington realize that everything that America has fought and stood for is now hanging in the balance?"

    Answer: Too long! Because many of them are in cahoots with Russia and Putin.

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  9. Anonymous6:27 PM

    Jared Kushner seems to think that the spotlight on his potential crimes will go away if he goes back home to New York.

    The New York Times reported, “Still, there are signs that he is tiring of the nonstop combat and the damage to his reputation. He has told friends that he and his wife, Ivanka Trump, have made no long-term commitment to remain by Mr. Trump’s side, saying they would review every six months whether to return to private life in New York.”

    The bad news for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump is that they aren’t going to be able to walk back into their old lives and escape their part in working for Daddy Dearest.

    It is like these people are on a different planet and remain completely clueless about what they have gotten themselves in the middle of. Kushner is not going to be able to escape his potentially illegal acts by running back to New York.

    At best, Jared Kushner has gotten himself involved in lying on his security clearance form multiple times. At worst, Kushner may have committed crimes against the United States of America. These are not simple problems that will go away if one decides to resign their post as a White House Senior Adviser and go back home to the Big Apple.

    http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/28/jared-kushner-york-escape-potential-russia-crimes.html

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    1. Anonymous7:30 PM

      Does this mean he will broker MiddleEast peace, solve the opiod problem and fix the economy all between now and June?

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    2. Anonymous7:40 PM

      I am constantly stunned and amazed that people who are in the public eye, think they have any privacy and when their 'business' becomes all of our 'business' act all aggrieved about their lack of privacy . It's a tossup.....are they that arrogant or that stupid? They need way better intelligence.

      GeorgiaPeach

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    3. Anonymous4:29 AM

      Let's face it, Jared is not very smart. He's rich and he's an aspiring con artist but that's about all.
      Beaglemom

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  10. Anonymous6:37 PM

    European Union considering its own nuclear weapons program over fears it cannot rely on Trump’s America

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/european-union-considering-its-own-nuclear-weapons-program-over-fears-it-cannot-rely-on-trumps-america/

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  11. Anonymous6:38 PM

    ‘He has no intention of going away’: Trump biographers warn he’d ‘like to be president for life’

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/he-has-no-intention-of-going-away-trump-biographers-warn-hed-like-to-be-president-for-life/

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    1. Anonymous7:11 PM

      He will not have a choice. He will be removed.

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    2. Anonymous7:54 PM

      He was exhausted 2 days into his first international trip and had to send Ivanka to interviews in his place. He had to wait for a golf cart to carry his corpulent posterior 700 yards in Italy where the rest of the world leaders walked.

      At the rate he's going, the failure of his long-abused body will remove him from office before any legal or political process has a chance to do so.

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    3. Anonymous4:28 AM

      I don't want a fancy funeral for Trump. He has disgraced this country enough.
      Beaglemom

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    4. Hopefully he will be President for life. He'll die in office, the sooner the better.

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  12. Anonymous6:41 PM

    ‘You sound like a snowflake’: Internet blasts ‘poor baby’ Trump for Sunday night meltdown

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/you-sound-like-a-snowflake-internet-blasts-poor-baby-trump-for-sunday-night-meltdown/

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  13. Anonymous6:43 PM

    France’s President Confirms He Intentionally Humiliated Trump With That Handshake (VIDEO)

    ...In a follow-up interview, Macron said he grasped onto Trump’s hand with an iron grip with the intention of showing Trump he wasn’t about to be made a fool of.

    “My handshake with him, it wasn’t innocent.”

    He added: “One must show that you won’t make small concessions, even symbolic ones, but also not over-publicise things, either.”

    Macron’s office confirmed the veracity of the president’s comments in Le Journal du Dimanche.

    He described the handshake seen ’round the world as a “moment of truth” for Trump. The Republican president had come to bully his European allies — instead they, to a person, stood up to him. The handshake was a symbol of that defiance.

    Macron might turn into the go-to guy for how to subvert Trump’s outsized ego. In a later moment of pure trolling, he subtly put Trump in his place with this brutal greeting.

    http://addictinginfo.com/2017/05/28/frances-president-confirms-he-intentionally-humiliated-trump-with-that-handshake-video/

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    1. Anonymous4:27 AM

      Bravo, Macron.
      Beaglemom

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  14. Anonymous6:48 PM

    I wish one of the NATO members stood up to Trump after his bitch session and said, Mr. Trump, you are a hypocrite for calling us out when you are known world wide for not paying your bills and stiffing your contractors. All it takes is one to fuck him up.

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    1. A shout out of "You Lie!" would have been nice, but only Congress is that rude.

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  15. Anonymous7:27 PM

    Donald Trump goes off the Twitter deep end, begins blocking people who make fun of his tweets

    At the end of a week which saw him humiliate himself on the world stage and his scandals deepen to include members of his own family, Donald Trump doesn’t appear to be handling the pressure well. On Sunday evening, shortly after complaining about how his tweets are portrayed, Trump began blocking people on Twitter who were making fun of his tweets.

    http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/block-twitter-trump/3132/

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    1. Anonymous7:47 PM

      I heard that a lot of those he (actually, supposedly one of his new lawyers) blocked are actually lawyers, and they congratulated each other and sent each other virtual flowers. They also said they would be back tomorrow...

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    2. Anonymous9:46 PM

      If there were any justice in this world there'd be a way to block pictures of him on Twitter...

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  16. Anonymous7:29 PM

    Senate Intel Committee likely already has the Russia documents it just asked Donald Trump campaign for

    ...I’ve spoken with current and former attorneys who have experience with these matters in general, and they’ve all told me the same thing: this kind of tactic is often used when copies of the documents being asked for are already in hand. The point of the request is essentially to dare the individuals in question to not turn over their own copies, or even to destroy their copies. In a civil action, that would demonstrate bad faith intent on their part. In a criminal matter such as this one, it means they’ve committed obstruction.

    http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/has-documents-senate-trump/3131/

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    1. Anonymous7:48 PM

      +++

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    2. Anonymous9:06 PM

      I think sometimes the Palmer Report is kind of shaky but I hope like hell this is true. It certainly makes sense!

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    3. Anonymous10:10 PM

      Palmer report is out in front of them all. Others have complained about it publicly and then days or weeks later they learn Palmer report was right - just ahead of the pack. I do not know his sources but betting against him can make you wish you hadn't.

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    4. 9:06:

      Look at the URL. Notice it says OPINION.

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  17. Anonymous7:31 PM

    One day after Kremlin says it’s sick of Trump-Russia stories, Donald Trump attacks U.S. media for it

    ...Yesterday afternoon, John Aravosis from AMERICAblog shared the following: “CNN reporter in Moscow says Russia is “frustrated” with all the American talk of Trump complicity. And they ‘warned’ US media to stop it” (link). Russian media is largely controlled by the Kremlin, so this warning essentially came from Putin. It was unclear what weight this kind of warning was supposed to have carried, as American media doesn’t bow to pressure from the Kremlin. But it turns out someone else in America does in fact bow to that pressure.

    This morning Donald Trump used a series of angry tweets to post the following rant: “It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media. Whenever you see the words ‘sources say’ in the fake news media, and they don’t mention names it is very possible that those sources don’t exist but are made up by fake news writers. #FakeNews is the enemy!”

    Donald Trump’s sudden return to angry Twitter ranting, after having largely shied away from it for more than a week, seemed to have been timed a little too well with yesterday’s complaint from Russia. Did Russia use backchannels to ask Trump to openly attack the American media for covering the Trump-Russia scandal?

    http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/one-day-kremlin-trump/3122/

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    1. Anonymous4:25 AM

      I don't think Trump was allowed to tweet while he was abroad.
      Beaglemom

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  18. Anonymous7:31 PM

    Look at that puffed up orange bloated "f" . A power hungry freak and a stupid one at that.

    This is our President people.He has taken what was once a respected country in less than six months and turned it into Trump the reality show. I am beyond pissed. Think about this we have a President who spends his time on twitter bitching about "fake" news on Memorial weekend. Mr. bone spurs draft dodger is all butt hurt tweeting as he sits on the toilet at 4:30 am. wondering why he is not worshiped except by Ivanka and Jared.

    Stay away from the Wall MR. so called President.Stand back for the real family's that have sacrificed so much.They don't need your coward lazy shit to appear in a golf cart puffing up your chest like you actually care. You piss on our allies. Read some history you pansy ass old fart.And no that long tie you wear does not make you look slimmer. That macho handshake? Macron called you out and it was glorious.

    All the other world leaders walked while you rode in a golfcart. Well we all know you would have prefferd a gold chariot or hoisted in the air by litter bearears like a king of ancient Rome or Egypt.

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  19. Anonymous8:01 PM

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/28/trump_reportedly_told_close_associates_u_s_will_leave_paris_climate_agreement.html

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  20. Anonymous8:03 PM

    Trumps staff: Mr. President you need to do something for Memorial Day.

    Trump: "Okay like what? I was planning a barbeque. Hey can we film that? You know me and a big plate of chicken and well done steak that's all American right? I will have Melania wear her sexy red dress and we will hold hands and wave a flag people like flags ok. It's like look i have a flag! I feel your pain ok. Maybe we should do some fireworks like the bombs bursting in air or something.

    Ah, Mr. President that is the Fourth Of July.

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  21. Anonymous8:35 PM

    So why is Ivanka Trump meeting with her father’s personal Russia scandal attorney, and why is she doing so with such haste that it had to take place during a holiday weekend, immediately after she got home from the overseas trip? Is she now handling her father’s personal affairs in such thorough fashion that it includes meeting with his attorney to discuss strategy?

    http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/ivanka-attorney-jared/3135/

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    1. Anonymous4:24 AM

      She's probably worried about her clothing line.
      Beaglemom

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    2. Anonymous5:45 AM

      Yeah, that too. He is a demenria patient she has to.
      She also wondering about prison, who will get her children.

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  22. Anonymous10:11 PM

    The Politico headline reads: "Trump expresses 'total confidence' in Kushner"..

    What a shame this isn't the usual Trump kiss of death.

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  23. Anonymous10:12 PM

    Notice To Our Former NATO Allies

    If you are attacked by Comrade Putin, you are on your own

    If you attack the Mother Land, aka Russia, you are on your own

    No more one for all, all for one.

    That is all.
    - United States of Trump

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  24. Anonymous3:04 AM

    Like rats on a sinking ship of fools.

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  25. "How much longer can it be before even the Republicans in Washington realize that everything that America has fought and stood for is now hanging in the balance?"
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    The republicans will never notice because all they have ever fought for is more power and wealth for themselves at the expense of the people. If trump brings them this, they don't and won't care what happens to the country. They will be willing kremlin stooges as long as their pockets keep being lined.

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    1. As along as the orange doofus signs whatever they put in front of him and their stock dividends are making money they really don't give a shit.

      The market has been tanking however so I think they'll be abandoning Trump a few at a time and then it will snowball. Some have already opposed him on the new healthcare bills. This last trip didn't earn him any points.

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  26. Anonymous7:27 AM

    David Frum? He's the one who wrote all those fapp-over-GW-articles, and was one of the main cheerleaders to get us into war with Afghanistan and Iraq?

    Why YES he is.

    Why in the HELL would you give this man ANY attention? Is your memory that poor?! Or do you not know one person who lost their life overseas in these bullshit, brutal corporate wars? Or one veteran who committed suicide after discharge? Jesus Christ!!!!

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  27. Anonymous4:10 PM

    Well somebody is going to be getting a nasty phone call or insulting tweet !!

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