In Private, It Turns Out That Trump Is Pretty Much the Same

[babylonsister]

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/private-it-turns-out-trump-pretty-much-same

In Private, It Turns Out That Trump Is Pretty Much the Same

Kevin Drum
Mar. 28, 2017 3:22 PM


Roger Cohen writes about the Trump-Merkel meeting a couple of weeks ago:

When Donald Trump met Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany earlier this month, he put on one of his most truculent and ignorant performances. He wanted money—piles of it—for Germany's defense, raged about the financial killing China was making from last year's Paris climate accord and kept "frequently and brutally changing the subject when not interested, which was the case with the European Union."

…Trump's preparedness was roughly that of a fourth grader…Trump knew nothing of the proposed European-American deal known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, little about Russian aggression in Ukraine or the Minsk agreements, and was so scatterbrained that German officials concluded that the president's daughter Ivanka, who had no formal reason to be there, was the more prepared and helpful.

Merkel is not one to fuss. But Trump's behavior appalled her entourage and reinforced a conclusion already reached about this presidency in several European capitals: It is possible to do business with Trump's national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, but these officials are flying blind because above them at the White House rages a whirlwind of incompetence and ignorance.

I'm sure glad that Republicans are restoring the respect for America that we lost after eight years of that empty suit Barack Obama.

[coco22]

1. I am so tired of hearing..

this bullshit about him being charming,all a part of the CON..

[rurallib]

6. he's about as charming as a guy who shits in the middle of your living room.

[Plucketeer]

7. Now, THAT "vision"

Made me laugh. Thanks, eh?

Yes, in NO ONES dictionary (Dicktionary maybe) can one find Trumps image even on the same PAGE as the words "intellectual" or "refined". He's worn a Chinese suit and tie so long, that he would convulse without them. He's just a decently dressed fraud.

[hibbing]

10. hehehehe

[irisblue]

2. time for the daily comment

F that guy.

[Docreed2003]

3. Can't be said enough...

[hay rick]

4. I thought he was well-informed and charming in private and was just a genius in...

hiding behind an ignorant and arrogant persona in his public appearances. Imagine my surprise.

[elmac]

5. he is a diabolical con man

and he conned his way into the office with the help of another con man, putin

[babylonsister]

8. Funny. I always thought

he was dumber than a box of rocks despite his 'successes'. The charm exhibited by 'grab them by the pussy' told me about all I needed to know.

[bdamomma]

9. That comment did it for me

or even before that...................He is a BS artist and a mobster..............I believe what goes around comes around. I just hope he keeps on eating unhealthy.............