From Japan to Ireland, Trump is repackaging allied visits into soft-focus legitimacy videos designed to launder vanity, grievance, and global embarrassment into presidential grandeur.
Unless and until those with influence stop kissing Trump’s ring he will continue to feel invincible. Trump might be the most vilified person on the planet but he is buoyantly drunk on the power others give him. Cowards and enablers are also culpable for the disaster of this regime. The leaders of Ireland and Japan fall in this category.
Neville Chamberlain, the most vilified appeaser of modern history, is looking like a honest statesman compared to those who prop up or sit next to "America's HItler*".
Both those meetings made me throw up in my mouth. Pearl Harbor? She should have retorted, "Well, you didn't tell us about Hiroshima either." I applaud ANY foreign dignitary that stands up to Trump. The sooner the better for us all. Push him down until he can't get up. Reveal him for the sniveling bully he is.
That was also my reaction. He generally makes my skin crawl and stomach churn, but the thought of the selective promotional videos (which I will not watch) are vomit-inducing and I don’t need that in my life! I can’t wait for the day when we never hear from him again, something he promised but, as usual lied about, if he lost the 2020 election.
That phrase: "We have something in common..." is lifted right out of the Epstein birthday letter. Pedophiles and other lowlifes need you to identify with them so you are culpable even if you have not sunk to their level, they make you feel like you have. They want you to be a part of their world if only to take equal blame or responsibility for their awful behavior, words and personality.
You know who was really good at that? John Wilkes Booth. He tried to enlist scores of others into his conspiracy to kidnap, then kill the president. When one man demurred, JWB wrote a letter to him intimating that he was, in fact, on board. Jeffrey Epstein was expert at ensnaring others into his world thereby legitimizing his pathology and criminal actions.
Here's what I say to the king and all other world leaders: Run the other way as fast as you can. Let your diplomats ring with the excuse.
As a Brit who thinks the King's state visit should be cancelled, I agree with you entirely, Mary. Thank you for writing about this subject. You have given me more arrows to my bow!
I actually listen to the speeches and meetings (most of them). I feel it's necessary to witness. I wish everyone that voted for POTUS would listen to the entire videos, on the Whitehouse website. I can't imagine feeling good about him after that... But, I'm still in disbelief that he's in office...
Charles shouldn't come and he has the advantage of not really being "the government", so little to lose politically for the UK if he refused to visit. However, any little chipping away of Trump's narcissistic need for his own "Royal Family" pageantry, sounds good to me. Re: the picture of the Japanese prime minister and attache (?) looking at the picture of the autopen. Another example of how a picture can be twisted and used to look like they are laughing at the image, I'm sure, to Trump's glee. This would have been a good moment for her to turn and continue down the corridor, mumbling audibly "that is disgraceful..."
The one upside to Charley’s potential visit is the connection to Randy Andy Mountbatten-Windsor and the Trump-Epstein files. One upside to him cancelling (i.e., if it is already planned) is that, that too, can be linked to said files.
Yup. The link twixt Epstein/Twump and Andrew is clear and dear. Now Charles wants to step inside the web? Many men have learned that webs don't discriminate as they try to wriggle their way out and find it messy going. Come on in, Charles, you have never been what one would call a decisive or brilliant leader. Come to America and sit with Mr. Stinky in his golden palace. Get photographed with the most reviled man on the planet. Or, manifest Mr. Chamberlain and ask him how it feels to be in the dustbin of history for doing what he thought was soothing a savage beast.
I don’t support Charles visiting, for all the obvious reasons. I don’t imagine he wants to visit either. However, who knows who will be in the White House by then.
He ambushed Zelensky in a White House visit to begin withdrawing support from Ukraine. He and J.D scolded him as not being grateful enough for support by previous administration.
What I find really concerning about the polished propaganda pieces is that they will outlive not only his lifespan (and mine) but hanging to be resurrected by the next fascist wannabe as the epitome of how it works!!
I don't think Charles should go, but it is not his decision. It is a diplomatic issue, and as the King of Canada and Australia as well as Great Britain, a diplomatic argument can be made for a visit, especially as he is separate from active government. Calming the waters, for example, by driving a gentle wedge between governance and pomp would not be a bad thing, if it could be pulled off. For another, reaffirming forgiveness after a violent revolutionary war and its expulsions would be beneficial for all in these heated times. So would changing the rhetoric around aristocracy and helping to soften images, currently increasing in strength, of the anti-aristocratic nature of the US role in the world (or even internally.) I still don't think Charles should go, but these and other considerations are not diplomatically negligible and will ultimately be made by his parliaments. Because Trump is rewriting diplomacy as propaganda does not mean he is the only diplomat in the room or that there is only one role for diplomacy.
I might be weak , especially because I have I have a close family. I often wish I’d have a deadly heart attack so I wouldn’t have to experience this travesty. No worries, I’m too strong to just stop my heart.
Unless and until those with influence stop kissing Trump’s ring he will continue to feel invincible. Trump might be the most vilified person on the planet but he is buoyantly drunk on the power others give him. Cowards and enablers are also culpable for the disaster of this regime. The leaders of Ireland and Japan fall in this category.
Neville Chamberlain, the most vilified appeaser of modern history, is looking like a honest statesman compared to those who prop up or sit next to "America's HItler*".
* Commander Judy Vance
Both those meetings made me throw up in my mouth. Pearl Harbor? She should have retorted, "Well, you didn't tell us about Hiroshima either." I applaud ANY foreign dignitary that stands up to Trump. The sooner the better for us all. Push him down until he can't get up. Reveal him for the sniveling bully he is.
That was also my reaction. He generally makes my skin crawl and stomach churn, but the thought of the selective promotional videos (which I will not watch) are vomit-inducing and I don’t need that in my life! I can’t wait for the day when we never hear from him again, something he promised but, as usual lied about, if he lost the 2020 election.
That phrase: "We have something in common..." is lifted right out of the Epstein birthday letter. Pedophiles and other lowlifes need you to identify with them so you are culpable even if you have not sunk to their level, they make you feel like you have. They want you to be a part of their world if only to take equal blame or responsibility for their awful behavior, words and personality.
You know who was really good at that? John Wilkes Booth. He tried to enlist scores of others into his conspiracy to kidnap, then kill the president. When one man demurred, JWB wrote a letter to him intimating that he was, in fact, on board. Jeffrey Epstein was expert at ensnaring others into his world thereby legitimizing his pathology and criminal actions.
Here's what I say to the king and all other world leaders: Run the other way as fast as you can. Let your diplomats ring with the excuse.
As a Brit who thinks the King's state visit should be cancelled, I agree with you entirely, Mary. Thank you for writing about this subject. You have given me more arrows to my bow!
So very many cringe-worthy talking points... And this is THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA, elected twice.
One of my favorites is, "We're good friends" when talking about leaders of other countries, "he/she likes me". What a tool.
I miss the days of debating policy, as opposed to navigating obsurdity.
Fortunately, the only people who visit the White House website are journalists and members of the choir.
I actually listen to the speeches and meetings (most of them). I feel it's necessary to witness. I wish everyone that voted for POTUS would listen to the entire videos, on the Whitehouse website. I can't imagine feeling good about him after that... But, I'm still in disbelief that he's in office...
I didn't realize they posted his speeches and meetings on there. I would still find them hard to watch.
Charles shouldn't come and he has the advantage of not really being "the government", so little to lose politically for the UK if he refused to visit. However, any little chipping away of Trump's narcissistic need for his own "Royal Family" pageantry, sounds good to me. Re: the picture of the Japanese prime minister and attache (?) looking at the picture of the autopen. Another example of how a picture can be twisted and used to look like they are laughing at the image, I'm sure, to Trump's glee. This would have been a good moment for her to turn and continue down the corridor, mumbling audibly "that is disgraceful..."
I'll never uderstand why these legitmate world leaders keep parading through the White House.
The one upside to Charley’s potential visit is the connection to Randy Andy Mountbatten-Windsor and the Trump-Epstein files. One upside to him cancelling (i.e., if it is already planned) is that, that too, can be linked to said files.
Yup. The link twixt Epstein/Twump and Andrew is clear and dear. Now Charles wants to step inside the web? Many men have learned that webs don't discriminate as they try to wriggle their way out and find it messy going. Come on in, Charles, you have never been what one would call a decisive or brilliant leader. Come to America and sit with Mr. Stinky in his golden palace. Get photographed with the most reviled man on the planet. Or, manifest Mr. Chamberlain and ask him how it feels to be in the dustbin of history for doing what he thought was soothing a savage beast.
I don’t support Charles visiting, for all the obvious reasons. I don’t imagine he wants to visit either. However, who knows who will be in the White House by then.
He ambushed Zelensky in a White House visit to begin withdrawing support from Ukraine. He and J.D scolded him as not being grateful enough for support by previous administration.
Thank you, Mary. Reading this almost made me gag, especially the line, "Only you, Donald..." Oops, I just gagged!
What I find really concerning about the polished propaganda pieces is that they will outlive not only his lifespan (and mine) but hanging to be resurrected by the next fascist wannabe as the epitome of how it works!!
I don't think Charles should go, but it is not his decision. It is a diplomatic issue, and as the King of Canada and Australia as well as Great Britain, a diplomatic argument can be made for a visit, especially as he is separate from active government. Calming the waters, for example, by driving a gentle wedge between governance and pomp would not be a bad thing, if it could be pulled off. For another, reaffirming forgiveness after a violent revolutionary war and its expulsions would be beneficial for all in these heated times. So would changing the rhetoric around aristocracy and helping to soften images, currently increasing in strength, of the anti-aristocratic nature of the US role in the world (or even internally.) I still don't think Charles should go, but these and other considerations are not diplomatically negligible and will ultimately be made by his parliaments. Because Trump is rewriting diplomacy as propaganda does not mean he is the only diplomat in the room or that there is only one role for diplomacy.
I might be weak , especially because I have I have a close family. I often wish I’d have a deadly heart attack so I wouldn’t have to experience this travesty. No worries, I’m too strong to just stop my heart.
Please stop telling your subconscious that.