Trump Isolated Among Allies

[left-of-center2012]

Last edited Mon Nov 12, 2018, 12:21 AM - Edit history (1)

For U.S. President Donald Trump, attending a French-run ceremony to commemorate World War I was never going to be easy. By the time he flew home on Sunday he appeared isolated and, by some, scorned.

The weekend exposed tensions with U.S. allies in Europe over Trump’s decision to pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, which has kept the continent free of theater-range nuclear missiles for more than 30 years.

It also underlined growing concerns over the reliability of U.S. security guarantees under Trump, and his wider commitment to a postwar international order the U.S. was largely responsible for building and has benefited from.
In Asia, Trump’s decision not to attend a pair of annual Asia summits this month -- the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Papua New Guinea and East Asia meeting in Singapore -- is set to heighten concerns over U.S. reliability among allies there.

French President Emmanuel Macron convened a “Paris Peace Forum” as part of the weekend’s ceremonies, drawing together international organizations and non-profits to discuss how to strengthen global governance.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a fellow champion of liberal internationalist ideas, addressed the forum.
Sixty other leaders including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan were in the audience to hear Merkel.

Trump didn’t attend, and left Paris on Air Force One shortly after the forum began.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-11/trump-leaves-world-war-one-commemorations-isolated-among-allies?srnd=premium


President Trump attends the American Commemoration Ceremony on Sunday.Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg

[Haggis for Breakfast]

1. Wow. A picture really does speak a thousand words, doesn't it ?

[Glamrock]

2. Yep

"If these people don't start kissing my ass, I'm going home!"

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. THAT's what I think is behind some of his no-shows while over there.

You hit it right on the head, Glamrock. If he's not squarely the center of attention, he's not happy. If he can't manipulate the entire scene, he doesn't want to play.

I still remember that time he pushed the President of Montenegro out of his way to get to the front of the group. Then, when the President of Lithuania chastised him, he snapped at her and assumed that posture of his - head up, chin jutting out.

[riversedge]

5. The umbrella included in great!

[C_U_L8R]

3. He really does look pathetic.

Pouty McPoutFace

[LakeArenal]

4. He's a one man nuclear meltdown.

Willing wipe out everyone.

[riversedge]

6. That photograph in the OP is real...

It has a photographer. I thought at first that someone had conjured it up to fit the article.




President Trump attends the American Commemoration Ceremony on Sunday.
Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg

[left-of-center2012]

9. Thanks for the reminder

I added the credit now to my opening post.

"President Trump attends the American Commemoration Ceremony on Sunday.Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg"

[Quemado]

7. He looks constipated

Maybe he can't wait until he can get home for some KFC and a couple of Big Macs.

[3catwoman3]

10. He looks like a pouting 2 yr old...

...who is waiting for his time out to be over.

[world wide wally]

11. Face it, Donnie... Nobody likes you

NOBODY

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Looks perfectly happy, for a sociopath.

That's not a pout. That's a smirk. He's as happy as a clam, as the saying goes. Make no mistake about it, his day is going well.

[rsdsharp]

13. You know Trumpy.

He has to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and on the toilet with every chair he sits on.

[machoneman]

14. Wow, whatta pic! Thought it was faked. Contrast with his smile for Pootie-Poot!

What a dick!