Trump to world leaders: Call me maybe _ on my cellphone

[Julian Englis]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and urging them to call him directly, an unusual invitation that breaks diplomatic protocol and is raising concerns about the security and secrecy of the U.S. commander in chief’s communications.

Trump has urged leaders of Canada and Mexico to reach him on his cellphone, according to former and current U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the practice. Of the two, only Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken advantage of the offer so far, the officials said.

Trump also exchanged numbers with French President Emmanuel Macron when the two spoke immediately following Macron’s victory earlier this month, according to a French official, who would not comment on whether Macron intended to use the line.

All the officials demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal the conversations. Neither the White House nor Trudeau’s office responded to requests for comment.

Read more: https://www.apnews.com/11a48fde81634789b1cc361696693b68

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Is he stupider than can be imagined or is it a Russian phone? Most likely it's both.

[Voltaire2]

1. That is stunningly stupid, even for Trump.

I'm beginning to think the dementia theory has merit.

[truthisfreedom]

2. His phone is a direct pipeline to the russians.

And he knows it. He's required by his russian handlers to use it as much as possible. He's truly the manchurian candidate.

[flibbitygiblets]

3. How long until the crank calls begin?

ring...ring...

Donald: "Hello?"
World Leaders: "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
Donald: "Who is this?"
World Leaders: "Just hand the phone to Vladimir..."

[Marie Marie]

4. I can already hear Macron and Trudeau laughing in the background

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Heh.

[PatrickforO]

5. This just keeps getting worse and worse. Well, this is the subject of tomorrow's calls to my US

Representative and Senators.

See my silent thread to which only four people replied: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029134943

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Not dementia. Simply further proof that he hasn't a clue

that being President of the United States is light-years different from running a family owned business. He thinks other world leaders are simply the heads of other businesses, and that he can do business with them the way he did business back before he became President. He also thinks that things like NATO are like the suppliers he stiffed in the past. And that the heads of European countries are people he can intimidate with his bluster.

Again, he doesn't have a clue how things really work at his level. So we're seeing amateur hour in everything he does.

Similarly, his tasking son-in-law Jared with so many things also proves he doesn't know how complex and time-consuming each and every one of those things are. It's not like buying the furnishings for a new hotel, or hiring a few more contractors to paint and tile. And Jared himself probably doesn't really get it either.

[Skittles]

7. I am surprised he did not ask them to tweet him

gawd, Trump is SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT

[Julian Englis]

8. The Hill already has a story about people trolling tRump over this.

Social media reacts to report Trump gave cell number to foreign leaders.

He's such an embarrassment--and a danger.

[Mr. Evil]

10. Dolt45 is quite possibly the stupidest person on the face of the Earth.

[SunSeeker]

11. Trump is so needy he is apparently willing to risk national security.

What a dumb fuck. Where is McMaster or any of "his generals" to tell the ignoramus how easy it is for our enemies to listen in on cell calls?

[ucrdem]

12. Uh-oh, someone didn't get a valentine

Not nice.

[Solly Mack]

13. If I was a world leader and he gave me the number, I'd hand it out so people could crank call Trump.

Which is why I'm not a world leader.

Well, one of the reasons.

[King_Klonopin]

14. This is the same guy who went apeshit during the campaign

about Hillary using a "public server" for State Dept. emails.

What a maroon, what a marauder...

[noneof_theabove]

15. Breaking News.....

45th taken out by 25th.

CongressCritters wake up and stop this idiot from destroying "our" country.

[Honeycombe8]

16. That's against protocol. LOCK HIM UP! nt

[frazzled]

17. Hello? Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

Let him out!

[cisco man]

18. You do realize...

That there is still a huge portion (albeit only about 30% or so) of the country that will back him up no matter what? This is astonishing to me, even as I admit the reality of the stupidity of the general electorate overall. This is just a another "thing" in a HUGE list of crap cascading over our country because of the dangerous republicans in power & their followers.