Donald Trump is ... ?

[rah]

... a president who, to date, has spent more than 21% of his time as president in golf clubs

Technically not correct. Donald has played golf on 21% of his DAYS in office. Not the same thing, it just sounds worse.
Not that I want to defend him, since he's not worth it, but we do want to be accurate because there is so much accurate crap that we can make fun of him for without having to stretch the truth.

[Proteus_MST]

True ... seems like Trump already has dragged me own to his niveau, with regards to inaccurate sensationalistic speech

[rah]

Ah, but the only important part of that is that when someone pointed it out to you, you corrected yourself. Something which the Dumpster never has.

[Aeson]

If teh Donald spent 100% of his time golfing he would be a better President and person.

[Proteus_MST]

Donald Trump was gravely insulted by the First Lady of Poland ... she dared to greet Melania before greeting Donald

https://twitter.com/Exen/status/882955916185874432

[rah]

I guess I would gravely insult him too since I would prefer greeting her first.

[BeBMan]

I was just reading an article putting up questions about Trump's health, namely whether he might suffering from dementia. There wasn't any hard proof for this, his simplified (and sometimes incoherent) speech, and him giving contradicting messages were mentioned as signs (and compared to him using way less simple sentences in the 1990ies).

Long story short, it was mostly media speculation, but otoh there's not much in relation to Trump that would surprise me. Dementia is not something I wish on anybody, certainly.

[Proteus_MST]

Not to forget the one time where he was to publicly sign an EO ...
arrived at his desk ... gave a short speech to the people assembled ... and then went out again, without signing the EO



It would be fascinating and at least a little bit of Karma, if Trump suffered from something like this.
Especially considering that it was Trump who always boasted with his perfect health (and had his perrsonal docor make a statement that Trumps health was so tremendous good as he would rarely see it in someone of his age) and always tried to claim that Hillary, due to her health would be unfit for the job as president.
And, of course also not forget, considering the way he mocked this disabled journalist

[pchang]

The ultimate irony would be for Trump to have to rely on Medicare just as his health plan starts to gut funding for it.

[Bereta_Eder]

I can see there's a lot of trump bashing ingermany (also taken from bebro and proteus' posts) but i'd take it with a grain of salt.


germany and US have very serious divergent interests (so eloquently presented) in critical areas and "mocking" the trump should be seen from this POV


in the rest of the world trump is neutral more or less because the US is irrelevent. oh, also trump doesn't have the reigns of his country or its foreign policy as much as he thinks

[BlackCat]

He might be a bit miffed about the new EU-Japan free trade agreement

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/business/economy/japan-eu-trade-agreement.html

Which the brits of course won't be part of, but at least it looks like the will get rid of some of that pesky euro trash - Deutsche Bank looks like they will move from London to Frankfurt :

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-latest-news-deutsche-bank-london-frankfurt-uk-leave-eu-switch-a7826361.html

[Bereta_Eder]

Denmark OTOH... a true US ally. (trump is coincidental to all of this)


Tiny but with balls like THAT

[Bereta_Eder]

Really. Very impressive.
Basically taking the whole region on itself

[Bereta_Eder]

there is an collaborational axis of berlin - moscow and it is very VERY potent.

denmark and baltics and poland are against. Denmark is the only one with a relatively healthy institutional framework capable of providing restistance and it is doing that.

greece is widely neutral although some decisions and courses decided will affect her but has wide luxury of moves


americans seem to bemoving to the european/greek reality of vieing things, that has a strong degree of practicality in it


americans have a beef with ukraine though

a big one


russia is their enemy #1

germany doesn't give a freck

[Uncle Sparky]

Apparently [strike]Evita[/strike] Ivanka Trump attended several meetings and spoke for the Americans... the Argentine delegation was impressed!