I’m so old I remember when the right used to get soooo angry when a president would go overseas and “apologize” for America failing to live up to its ideals. Trump’s innovation is that he’s apologizing for America having ideals in the first place. Republicans seem to like that much better.
I must confess that I didn’t expect to see a GOP president cozying up to a former al Qaeda leader quite this soon but here we are:
I would say this is Trump’s “Nixon goes to China” move except that he is actually an admirer of suit wearing terrorists:
He calls his terrorist resume a “strong past” and admires him for being a ‘fighter.” I’m also so old I remember when he used say he was going to torture terrorists to death. But, of course, he never really cared. It was just a way to demonstrate his sadism, always a big selling point on the right.
He really likes the looks of these Middle Eastern leaders which I do find a little odd. I guess they’re all his type?