Biff Tannen’s great adventure
by digby
Kudlow on Trudeau: “He really kind of stabbed us in the back. He really, actually, you know: he did a great disservice to the whole G-7. He betrayed.”— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 10, 2018
Trump adviser Peter Navarro tells Fox News this morning: "There's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with Donald J Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door."— Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) June 10, 2018
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau “went rogue” at the G7 summit and is “pouring collateral damage on this whole Korean trip,” says White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow #CNNSOTU https://t.co/aTWIJsWtqS https://t.co/RMKSXPFWIC— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 10, 2018
It’s genuinely unclear what Trump and Kudlow are complaining about. Trump left the G-7 and did a news conference bashing Canada on trade. Then Trudeau did a news conference in which he said the same things about the steel/aluminum tariffs he’s been saying for a week.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 10, 2018
Trump told the world leaders not to retaliate AND HE MEANT IT.
Trump is the Emperor of the world (well, maybe except for Vlad) and these other leaders had better learn to kiss the ring. He WILL be obeyed.
Actually, he’s a dumb bully who can dish it out but he can’t take it.
And his chief economic adviser needs to lay off the Molson or the Nyquil or whatever he’s on.
Kudlow also says this was about the North Korea summit and Trump not wanting to get criticized before the meeting with Kim: “Kim must not see American weakness.”— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 10, 2018
If what he’s trying to do is create an impression that Trump is tough, whining like a little baby on TV about how our own neighbor didn’t play along with the ruse isn’t gettying the job done. Does he think the North Koreans can’t hear what he’s saying?
Apparently, Trump thinks this is all a reality show in which the “script” calls for America’s allies to take his shit in public so that Kim Jong Un will be impressed by his big, beautiful hands. He doesn’t seem to realize that other world leaders have their own audiences and they don’t especially enjoy watching their leaders treated like shit by a dotard.
What a mess.
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