Trump Is Intimidated By Merkel.....

[global1]

as he is by any strong willed and powerful women. Hillary comes to mind. Meryl Streep, etc. You get the drift.

He knows he's outmatched by women like these - so in order to compensate - he does things like not shake hands or mispronounce (in the case of Merkel) her first name. We all know how he treated Hillary. And with Meryl Streep - he had to call her 'over-rated' when she stood up to him.

He thinks he takes the upper hand when he does things like this. We all know - he is intimidated by them - so he has to 'bully' them.

This is just another way that Trump manifests his lack of self-confidence. He projects like he has a lot of confidence - but his inadequacy and incompetence shows through.

He's just a little man.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. like all bullies, he is probably really insecure...and can't stand himself.

So true intellect and class will drive him crazy.

He isn't a little man - he is a tiny man. As in subatomic.

[global1]

9. You Used The Word I Couldn't Come Up With When I Put The Post Together....

He is 'insecure'. It's his insecurity that drives every thing else about his personality. He over compensates every time. Doesn't know when to stop or pull back. Never apologizes. Always doubles down. And he continues to get himself in his own self-inflicted trouble. He'll never learn. Again - we're stuck with having to deal with that.

[leftstreet]

2. Mommy issues n/t

[llmart]

26. OMG!

I was just going to type that!

Yes, he does. Mommy sent him away to military school. It's all downhill from there.

Mommy issues = he hates and mistrusts women which is why he feels the need to treat them like he does. However, it also means he's afraid of strong women.

[workinclasszero]

3. Dump has mommy issues

[JHan]

44. daddy issues too - his father was cold and distant.

Donald would do outrageous things to prove his masculinity to his father.

[lunatica]

4. Hammer meets nail!

Every time he crosses paths with any of these kinds of women he acts the same way.

As a strong woman myself I find his behavior idiotic. It would take one sentence to rip his face off.

[global1]

11. That's How To Deal With Him....

One has to stand up to his being a 'bully'. Something that - it appears - that any one surrounding him - never does.

We've maybe seen a couple of examples of press standing up to him. His response to that is to always blame someone else. He needs a foil to take the fall for him.

Now that we've had over 50 days of this - I think people are beginning to realize how to deal with him. Ultimately I think he'll crumble. And when he does - it will be a big meltdown.

[lunatica]

12. Yeah, we're definitely getting a crash course in Trump

It won't be long before most of the world has figured him out and can counterpunch him. Hopefully in the solar plexus or the balls.

[Amaryllis]

15. Merkel is a Nasty Woman! The best kind.

[Xipe Totec]

5. He's afraid to get cooties. nt

[IADEMO2004]

6. "He's just a little man" Needed repeating

[MFM008]

31. Tiny dick

Syndrome.......

[caroldansen]

7. I think he's on some kind of medication. He looked like he was out of it.

[stopbush]

8. More than anything, he is a boor.

That's a word that should have much wider circulation when speaking about conservatives in general.

[spanone]

10. he's way out of his league with her.

[Cha]

25. Flashback..

Link to tweet

https://theobamadiary.com/2017/03/17/the-good-good-times/

spanone

[dalton99a]

13. Merkel was like "Do I have to talk world affairs with this useless real estate developer?"

[Corgigal]

14. He sees her as a friend of Obama

And since Obama is his rival, she's on the wrong team. This is a very simple thinking man.

[SCVDem]

27. Man?

[world wide wally]

16. Can we still get into Mexico?

[ffr]

17. He's a weak pathetic one at that. I say show his taxes and bear him naked to the world.

Show him for who he really is. A grifting con man.

[lpbk2713]

18. I'd like to see Trump in the same room with Gloria Steinem.

He would wet his pants.

[madokie]

19. He's just a little turd of a jackass

I just can't type the (m) word when relating to this cretin

[StarryNite]

20. He didn't want her to feel how tiny

his little hands and fingers are.

[TNNurse]

21. Do you remember the Rev. Faith Timmons Green?

She took him down very nicely in her Detroit church during the campaign. He cowered after she spoke to him.

[Moostache]

22. I hope she made a comment about the size of his hands...

THAT would send the idiot clown over the moon in a New York Minute.

Please karma, nature, lightning, alien hordes from outer space....won't anything rid us of the meddlesome hateful clown???

[Cha]

23. Flashback.. the Good Good Times..

Link to tweet

https://theobamadiary.com/2017/03/17/the-good-good-times/

[FairWinds]

24. Normally I'm a social democrat all the way . .

In Germany that would be the SPD . .

But one just about has to admire Merkel - she knows
the political cost of supporting refugees, but does it
anyway.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. ROSIE comes to mind

[NastyRiffraff]

29. How much effort does it take

to be gracious to a foreign leader in front of the cameras? Even W managed that, most of the time (Merkel was a noted exception). Dump looked like a sulking spoiled brat.

[moondust]

30. She may be a little bit more "relaxed"

and confident after the Dutch election.

[TheCynic56]

32. She has the upper hand (probably bigger too)

WOW! tRump looks pissed and won't even look at Merkel. Merkel looks a little surprised as she looks at him and awkwardly smiles. This clearly is a photo op tRump doesn't want to be at. I love the fact that she didn't try to rescue the moment. Instead, she allowed the world to see this American president at his best!

[gopiscrap]

35. welcome to DU

[TheCynic56]

43. Thank You!

[Maru Kitteh]

39. It was a beautiful thing to behold. Welcome to DU!

[TheCynic56]

46. Thank you! Happy to be here!

[pangaia]

33. Inadequate, incompetent, ignorant, incontinent, impotent, intimidated,.....

[Sienna86]

34. She's a woman.

In power. Must intimidate the hell out of him.

[Fritz Walter]

36. Honestly, I almost wish he'd tried his aggressive handshake maneuver with her

I could just see her reflexively kneeing him in the crotch!


Yes, I know: she's way too refined to respond in-kind, but I can still imagine that reaction!

[TexasTowelie]

38. Okay, I realize that I might get blasted for this,

but when we discussed etiquette in high school I was taught that a man should not extend his hand to a woman for a handshake (this was from a female teacher). It is the initiation of physical contact and it puts the woman in the awkward position of either accepting that contact when it is not desired or appearing to be ungracious by not shaking hands.

As much as I despise Trump, I have to give Trump a pass for not initiating a handshake. However, the other actions such as initiating eye contact and the rest of his behavior are fair game for discussion.

[Maru Kitteh]

40. Except Merkel actually asked him to shake hands and he refused.

Also, I'll bet they don't teach etiquette in high school anymore. I think they started phasing things like that out shortly after I was in high school, about half a million years ago.

If they do, I assume, since women and men are to be regarded as equal, I don't think any distinction (except for maybe some cultural sensitivities) would be made.

[TexasTowelie]

41. Well, it was about 35 years ago and the subject of etiquette was brought up

in my English class during my senior year. It wasn't anything that was sanctioned by the school district and it was only one or two days long. The teacher was in her late 20's so it was mostly basics like gentlemen opening car doors, the order of utensils in a place setting and gentlemen should never eat at the table without wearing a shirt.

I guess that last one might be a more interesting item for discussion now that women and men are regarded to be as equal.

[annabanana]

42. sounds like a handbook from the 30's

The 1830's

[LanternWaste]

45. I don't think his failure to shake her hand was predicated on etiquette or graciousness

I don't think his failure to shake her hand was predicated on etiquette or graciousness in any way.

[pansypoo53219]

37. squeezing his balls w/ her mind.