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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Cheeto bragged and abruptly ended call with Australian Leader
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-gday-mate-on-call-with-australian-pm-trump-badgers-and-brags/2017/02/01/88a3bfb0-e8bf-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?pushid=breaking-news_1486013170&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.5056bad303b4It should have been one of the most congenial calls for the new commander in chief a conversation with the leader of Australia, one of Americas staunchest allies, at the end of a triumphant week.
Instead, President Trump blasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a refugee agreement and boasted about the magnitude of his electoral college win, according to senior U.S. officials briefed on the Saturday exchange. Then, 25 minutes into what was expected to be an hour-long call, Trump abruptly ended it.
At one point Trump informed Turnbull that he had spoken with four other world leaders that day including Russian President Vladimir Putin and that This was the worst call by far.
Trumps behavior suggests that he is capable of subjecting world leaders, including close allies, to a version of the vitriol he frequently employs against political adversaries and news organizations in speeches and on Twitter.
global1
(25,242 posts)MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)underpants
(182,788 posts)He heard they were down under.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)True Dough
(17,303 posts)soon stop taking his calls. What an embarrassment Drumpf is! Obnoxious clown!
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)underpants
(182,788 posts)Can she call you back?
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)True Dough
(17,303 posts)She quickly sized up Trump as an ignoramus. I hope she gets another term and isn't replaced later this year by someone more to the right.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)They will go down too, nobody will be left untouched after Trump is exposed as an agent for Mother Russia.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Takket
(21,563 posts)Putin's plan is being executed perfectly by Trump. Putin wants these long standing alliances destroyed so he can make his influence global and cripple America. Trump is a traitor and Putin lackey.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Gothmog
(145,168 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)I bet he does not know or care that Australia supported the US in every war.
Way to go numbnuts
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)a VERY VERY difficult job.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)That doesn't count.
Beartracks
(12,809 posts)He only knows, "Are you praising me, or not? Are you kissing my ass, or not? Are you giving me money, or not?" And if you're not doing any of these things, he gets mad or bored.
Forget un-Presidential; this is un-adult-like.
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Doodley
(9,088 posts)Solly Mack
(90,763 posts)So he thinks he can insult, ridicule, and bully other world leaders. He thinks they should bow to his will.
That other nations are sovereign and can manage just fine without him escapes his ego.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Solly Mack
(90,763 posts)He's being an idiot and fucking up royally.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Solly Mack
(90,763 posts)He is fucking the country and the people.
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)Only Trump would claim that his EV total, ranking at the 20% percentile of all contests, was something to boast about.
His EV was ranked 46 out of 58 electoral college victories.
#MathIsHard
Further proof that he's dumb and lives in an alternate universe.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/18/us/elections/donald-trump-electoral-college-popular-vote.html
Cha
(297,181 posts)MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Doodley
(9,088 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)neverforget
(9,436 posts)get subjugated to the ravings of a madman.