Petulant President doesn’t want to be lectured to his face
by digby
President Trump is planning to fly to Canada on Friday. He is not exactly happy about it.
The president has vented privately about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as their trade tensions have spilled into public view. He has mused about finding new ways to punish the United States’ northern neighbor in recent days, frustrated with the country’s retaliatory trade moves.
And Trump has complained to aides about spending two days in Canada for a summit of world leaders, believing the trip is a distraction from his upcoming Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to three people familiar with Trump’s views.
In particular, the president said Tuesday to several advisers that he fears attending the Group of Seven summit in rural Charlevoix, Quebec, may not be a good use of his time because he is diametrically opposed on many key issues with his counterparts — and does not want to be lectured by them.
Here’s how he spent his valuable time today:
And this:
This is the same man who said he'd only need 1.5 hours of preparation to negotiate a nuclear disarmament agreement with the USSR in 1984. https://t.co/dbRgfSnQg2— Gennady Rudkevich (@grudkev) June 7, 2018
God help us.
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