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BERLIN It was an image that, in its Rockwellian presentation and characters, seemed to capture an emerging era.
European leaders stood arrayed on one side of a narrow conference room table, leaning in. On the other side: President Trump, seated alone, his arms folded.
The photo, released Saturday on German Chancellor Angela Merkels Instagram account and later tweeted by Trump national security advisor John Bolton, fast became a Rorschach test for an increasingly troubled relationship.
Trump was clearly isolated. But was he making an overdue stand against an expiring global order? Or was he just the odd man out in the worlds most powerful club?
The enchantingly unreadable facial expressions make it impossible to know.
On the day after the Group of Seven summit blew up in spectacular fashion, with Trump using idle time on an airport runway to insult his host and repudiate an agreement he had made with allied leaders only hours earlier, emotions were far easier to divine.
Allies were indignant. They were defiant. Yet they were hardly shocked by the outcome of a critical global gathering that had gone worse than any that longtime foreign policy players had seen.
It was not a surprise, said Norbert Röttgen, chair of the foreign affairs committee in Germanys parliament, the Bundestag. The president acted and reacted in the childish way he could be expected to.
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JHB
(37,166 posts)Link to tweet
Michael D. Shear
?Verified account @shearm
The thing is, I was at the @JustinTrudeau news conference, and he went out of his way to try to downplay tensions. He didnt attack @realDonaldTrump in any way, other than restate Canada would retaliate for tariffs. Not sure what @larry_kudlow means re: stabbed US in the back
10:34 AM - 10 Jun 2018 from Dorval, Québec
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)For the United States
CrispyQ
(36,574 posts)I do not understand how any reasonable adult with even a dose of common sense, can continue to support this child-man & not see the danger he poses to the entire world.
lame54
(35,359 posts)He just needed a scapegoat
Then he sent out his flying monkey's to propagate this ridiculous premise
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)gop. You have outdone yourselves this time. Worst president EVER. Are there no quality people in the gop to represent this country? They settle for any sub-par, low intelligence goon to show up. Why didn't they just endorse Vlad Putin, he would cause as much destruction as tRump. Also, they could openly take the money, rather than trying to launder it through contacts.