Ann Coulter, so it is alleged by some, triggered this. I seem to remember that after 9/11 she said that America should invade the muslim countries, kill their leaders and convert the populace to Christianity.
>>Sniff<< Little better than Whigs! >>sniff<<
Does he tip? :dubious:
I’d like to see Thump pull that MMA-type handshake with the Queen. I have a feeling she could drop him without breaking a sweat. She’s a tough cookie.
Donald Trump’s January visit to UK DROPPED amid Twitter spat with Theresa May
China knows the score. You want to know how to fuck over America during trade negotiations? Kiss Donald’s ass continuously and relentlessly. Make Trump feel like a special little boy, and nothing else matters, he’ll sign amything.
Trump thinks leaders in China adore him, and so all that tough talk about China you might have heard during the campaign goes right out the window. Leaders of authoritarian countries know how to deal with overgrown man-babies in positions of power, dazzle them with flattery and spectacle and you can rob them blind.
Trump is a rube, and sharp foreign leaders know how to treat rubes.
“Dropped”? That’s as bad as the passive voice–who canceled it?
That’s not the state visit that’s been dropped - just a working visit.
The state visit remains on the agenda. But no date has yet been set for it. I wouldn’t expect a date to be set any time soon.
Newpaper reports are saying that it was called off “by American diplomats”. Whether the motivation is to signal displeasure with the UK, or to avoid an occasion on which the President could do still further damage to the US’s reputation and its relationship with an ally, is not for me to say.
On his visit to Poland, where the right-wing prime minister, Beata Szydło has decried the “madness of the Brussels elite” who wanted to create a “utopia of open borders” it is well known that the PiS (ruling party) bussed in supporters from outside the capital. In a public Facebook event, Jerzy Wilk, MP for the northern city of Elbląg, invited his constituents for a “Great Patriotic Picnic, the first speech in Europe of the president of the United States … a fully paid bus will take you to the location”.
Anyway, it looks as if there are still some diplomats in the White House, who have enough sense to side-step the potential embarrassment of the current POTUS’s visit being compared to the last one’s. In pictures: US President Barack Obama in the UK - BBC News
Disagree. I think he’s loathed enough to bring hundreds of thousands out.
Plus the neo-nazis will help to snowball it i.e. the fact that some will be coming out to support Trump (obviously Britain First will, for example) will help to energize the anti-trump crowd.
Well it’s also because a lot of the tough talk was stupid, based on a number of misconceptions about how foreign trade works and what things like trade deficits are.
Like with the wall, it’s not so much Trump backing down, as many, many people all separately sighing and telling him “Mr President, it’s not actually that simple”.
I don’t watch FoxNews. Can you list some of the lame-stream media rumors that are NOT true?
It would seem to me that Brexit is an unforced error that requires the UK to remain friendly with the US even if it doesn’t necessarily want to be.
<quiet sobs>
Oh how the USA misses that man. 
Fortunately for us “the US” is a lot bigger than the whoever the current president happens to be.
Have you figured out yet that when you ask a Trumpnik a straight question regarding *anything *about his leader you will NEVER get a straight answer, or actually, *any *answer?
The vast majority of British people DO want to stay friends and allies with the people of the United States. This, in spite of the damage done by Blair/Bush in the Middle East and now by the present incumbent.
Those of us who remember the Cuban Missile Crisis are having similar concerns about the NK missile crisis. It’s not a good feeling to stand on the sidelines while two megalomaniacs hurl insults at each other.
Brexit was indeed an ‘unforced’ error, but we have to make the best of it now. Remember that a lot of what gets published is posturing for the home audience. I am confident that, in the back rooms, civil servants are getting on with the job of working out how best to deal with it.
Castro had the USSR behind him, Kim Jong-un has zilch. Even a megalomaniac realizes that the North Korean government would be blown away without having to use nuclear weapons. Although Trump would get off on using nukes.
I wonder what type of bunkers Kim has, and if we know where they are.
Barack has more class and intelligence in his little finger than Mr. gold plate would ever understand.
I would think that we do, and probably know where he is at any given moment.
I have noticed that. I’ve seen disconcerting replies from Trumpniks in the wild. Explain Obamacare to them and they answer: “You know more about healthcare than I. So what? God is Great! Trump is Great!!”
But I thought Trumpniks posting at SDMB might be more self-aware. Guess I was wrong about that.