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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMark your calendars. May 25, 2017 is the day the US destroyed its relations with its European allies
1. Trump decides a dedication ceremony for the 9-11 memorial at NATO headquarters is the perfect time to lecture and shake down fellow NATO members for more money. Because he's got such a history of paying his bills in full.
2. Trump is caught on camera literally shoving fellow NATO members around.
3. Der Speigel quotes Trump as saying "The Germans are evil, very evil" for.....selling cars.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,151 posts)The GOP are the only ones who can legally deal with this, and they wont.
I dont know what to do.
samnsara
(17,667 posts)Freethinker65
(10,117 posts)leftstreet
(36,119 posts)I just twittered it
He really did say Germans were bad, bad or evil, evil for selling cars in the US
What a total fucking moron
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,234 posts)FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)This isn't the end of our alliance with Germany, over one asshole acting like an asshole.
They know he's an asshole, and they're going to wait him out. He won't be around that long.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)DFW
(54,518 posts)I was reading this with my German wife this evening, and she just said the German equivalent of "oh, gimme a fuckin' break!"
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)or post-coup - did NOT do this.
I heard things would get worse before they got better - check. I heard that the scope and depth of this coup would peoples' blow minds - check.
Keep breathing, is all I know to say here. In through the nose, out through the mouth.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)FlightRN
(194 posts)Calls those responsible for the Manchester attack "losers" but the German people are "evil." JC, I cannot stand the embarrassment.
leftstreet
(36,119 posts)Hadn't even thought of that
DFW
(54,518 posts)I have to work with Europeans every day of the week! Not to mention that I'm still married to one.
Turbineguy
(37,420 posts)They knew who he was to begin with. It's his voters who ignored the warnings.
This is a temporary situation.