by digby
When asked at the G7 about whether world leaders have said anything about the upcoming election:
“I think it’s fair to say that they are surprised by the Republican nominee. They are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements, but they’re rattled by him, and for good reason. Because a lot of the proposals that he’s made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what it is that is required to keep America safe and secure and prosperous and what is required to keep the world on an even keel.”
“The United States, as I said before, is at the heart of the international order,” he said.
Even countries that didn’t like the U.S., he explained, knew that the world was in trouble if Americans were not providing stability in the world.
“The world pays attention to U.S. elections. They pay more attention to our elections sometimes than we pay to theirs,” he said.
Trump’s response?
“He’s a president who has allowed many of these countries to totally take advantage of him — and us.”
And people keep assuring me that Trump is some kind of an isolationist or a peacenik because he lied and said he didn’t support the Iraq war and has been on both sides of the Libya question. This macho moron is supposedly more likely to keep America out of wars even though he says every single day “I will ISIS so hard and so fast that they won’t know what happened”. And then he’ll “take the oil” because they deserve it.
I have said it before, but the day after the election of Donald Trump to the most powerful job in the world, everything will change. This is not business as usual. The US will be seen by much of the planet as a rogue superpower with a madman at the helm.
But be my guest and chatter on about emails. It’s not as if there’s much at stake.
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