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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell, they're child-proofing Europe & the Middle East. Maybe things'll be OK.
Even if the hairbucket in-chief shows up giving a big "Thumbs UP!!!" gesture to cultures that read a big "FU" into it. EVEN if he's flanked by 2 armed people. One holding a passel of handout laminated electoral maps. The other there for photo ops: she's there to hastily arrange his hair and undo his undie-wedgies for him. Even if he expresses disgust at the steak he's been given and spends the rest of dinner staring it down. Silently.
They've ALL been given explicit instructions as to how to endure him. That was kind, maybe. Wasn't it? Maybe the man in life isn't really as tough as all that. He must be fascinating to stare at, like a horror movie in-person. He must be a little horrifying to those who are not forced to identify him as their own "representative". What man or woman, in his presence, hasn't wondered how quickly they could take this one to the floor and please GOD shut him up. I wonder how much a periphery he needs to have, physically & personally controlled, around him.
Anyway, do these foreign professionals really, really mean to adhere to that? Aren't you pretty much allowed to insult a visitor (whether or not you mean to) on your own soil, because it's YOUR Country? We do it all the time here! That would be very classy of them to read these "handler's" rules, then to try and put themselves somehow in Trump's shoes. Maybe give him the benefit of the doubt and decide he's "eccentric". But, it would also be classy if they thought he could benefit from a few lessons in culture, and just do things the way they would, as if a grownup has come to visit them.
I have no doubt that whatever will be, will happen, God help us all.
SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)What a position that would be to be in. Decide to humor the baby & pad everything so he feels all nurtured, or when the child gives you the finger (a thumbs-up) you send it to bed without dinner.
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Normal LEADERS, staring at trump, in disbelief.
Maybe he'll learn something.
Yeah, I know.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)It's like, they're expecting an adult, one they've heard is far inferior to any other US president. But, you know, an adult.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)country & they mentioned Trump by name several times on each page else he lose interest in reading it all. Narcissistic-based ADD?
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)How much patience and decorum will each person in his presence have to bear? And, afterward, fake? I say it's beyond human capacity, confronted with that guy. God, I'm just embarrassed for everybody today.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)gotten worse.
CrispyQ
(36,567 posts)Are they taking bets on this anywhere?
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)mid flight. I'd be in if they were taking bets. I'd say 3 days tops. He'll probably feel "surrounded" very quickly, given his (halfway-legit) paranoia. 4 days if there's someone there carrying his golf clubs around cause they make him feel safe.
CrispyQ
(36,567 posts)Here's his itinerary. They put all the hard stuff up front, although there's plenty of opportunity for him to mess up.
https://www.axios.com/president-trumps-first-overseas-trip-2413224404.html
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Whatever righteous smackdown the pope gives him, Trump will be tweeting "Oh, pope. The Pope, Great guy! Really great guy!!! I think he likes me". Come to think of it, neither one of them has a really good idea of what to expect.
MFM008
(19,837 posts)Someone would go off script. ....
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Somebody, merely saying something they say or do something they always do.
Aristus
(66,530 posts)That's the funniest thing I've read all day...
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)I'm telling you, I lean on DU to make me laugh these days, and it works.
Good to see you!
Aristus
(66,530 posts)It's been a while...
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)I'm hoping for a much smaller space with iron bars for safety and someone to watch him 24/7.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Maybe the other occupants will teach him how to behave himself. They could call him "Easy D". My assumption is also that he's never been forced to eat & do everything else on a schedule. That's always such an engaging thought for me!
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)That would be a bad nickname for him to have in prison!
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)"Hey, Easy D. Hey, sporto. Are you going to eat BOTH of those Twix?"
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)he'd be better at laundering.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Get together and discuss how to deal with a situation of their child so that they are on the same page to let the child know they are both in it together. Sad that our so called president is like a spoiled child....OK, he is not a child but he is spoiled.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Maybe that's giving him too much credit. Your description made me think of scenes; meetings in the principal's office, low talk at the table when junior's just thrown a bowl of oatmeal at the wall. And that whole, "How do we get the baby to shut up?" scene! I wonder how any rational adult person could play into that & come out feeling like they don't suddenly need a shower.
Leith
(7,816 posts)The shitgibbon is going to fuck up bigly. At least once in every country.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)He'll do it, fuck things up at every step. His need to control absolutely everything is going to have consequences.
On the other hand, I can see him cancelling numerous obligations, and having a lie-down for the rest of the week. Destroying as much as possible beforehand, so he can "chill out" after.
redwitch
(14,954 posts)Please God, no international incidents!
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Painful, acute embarrassment is inevitable, but we may be able to live with that. redwitch!!!!
Different Drummer
(7,681 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Different Drummer
(7,681 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)and Trump's making NEW demands that people start dragging Obama into it as if to compare Trump "favorably". I can't fathom how such a request would even be asked! How does one begin to ask/demand something like that? "Say.." "You know Don's and eccentric man..." "We have to ask you to..." "If..."
Good to see you, trof! Thanks for that.
trof
(54,256 posts)They can't just ignore him.
They have to put on some kind of show that pretends he's really a world leader.
It's funny and sad.
America is SO fucked up.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Everyone will be telling him how great he is when he wakes up in the White House, and he will be told he just had a bad dream.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)I can actually see that happening. on a grand scale.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,217 posts)God Forbid they forget his favorite blankie and his binkie. There WILL be hell to pay.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)He may NEED a serious lie-down after monkey-wrenching all the US's foreign relations. We, ourselves can't afford any "down time", sadly.
littlemissmartypants
(22,868 posts)Those dirty, little, tinyhands. Trying to open... anything.
Imagery and imagination. At this point, greatest nation in the world, imagination. Dare we hope his feeble, little mind, explodes?
Thanks for the post, Sugar Smack.
♡lmsp
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)It doesn't take much to envision that clod yanking some dignitary's arm practically out of its socket, and then "owning" that arm by the elbow- grabbing it with his other little hand. And the dignitary's "understanding" that Trump simply can't control his behavior. Things like this keep surprising me, every time, because nobody in this country has ever laid eyes on SUCH a disastrous "presidential" spectacle. No one knows how to process this.
Thanks, lilmissmartypants!