Trade Chief Dumbs Down Contract Term After Donald Trump Doesn’t Get It
SNL can just do this word for word and not have to use sketch writers.
On more than one occasion Trump has said that the world’s been laughing at us. I didn’t believe it was true. I now stand corrected.
More like facepalming. And he claims the world was laughing at y’all before his election and that he and his wall will put things to right, when actually it was his election which started The Facepalm That Never Ends.
The trade chief tries to gracefully get them both out of the embarrassing situation, and iDJiT says, “Good!” like he won the argument.
And this is something that a great deal-maker, a great negotiator, doesn’t know? Good grief. Vice Premier Liu was probably laughing at how right President Xi was. No doubt the conversation afterward went this way:
A great deal-maker, a great negotiator, with a business degree. If that’s what Wharton produces, I’d rather my kids go to Potatoville Biznes Skul.
Brilliant! (Did they know you had a bug planted in the room?)
Bingo. He was serious.
I hate to defend Trump, but the term Memorandum of Understanding means something totally different in private business than it does in foreign relations / international politics .
Just one of the many ways that running a business is different than running a country. Only idiots think it takes the same skill set,
And was this event private business or foreign relations?
Remember, the term showers means something totally different in weather than it does in a Russian hotel room with two hookers.
To me, it’s much more about the person Trump is than skill sets. Trump is an idiot who thinks he’s not. He continues to make a fool of himself, and he has no intent to ever try and get better. I did love the chuckle from the envoy and the quick response of the trade chief. Made me smile.
Trumps got that covered.
Which is exactly why Howard Schultz should go FOAD.
And if he actually read his State Department briefing papers instead of watching Fox News and tweeting whatever popped into his aging little mind, he might know that!
So what? The United States Trade Representative (a Trump appointee) was right there telling him what it meant in the present context.
Maybe the various advisors should carry fake chyrons so they look like they’re on Fox.
That feels like the perfect job for an intern…
I can see their next job interview:
“White House? That’s pretty prestigious. So, what did you do there?”
“I was part of the briefing team. I printed out the bullet points on large pieces of paper and ran them back an forth in front of the senior staff while they were giving briefings. Like live chyrons. If you have a big printer here, I know exactly how to get those to work. Multiple colors even.”
Here’s The Washington Post on the six essential cons that define Trump’s success to date. I got more and more angry as I read this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/22/essential-cons-that-define-trumps-success/?utm_term=.9dbf9c234d4c
Wow, if the age was right I’d think they’d interviewed my grandmother. :eek:
I read that yesterday and it made me sick. For those who don’t like to follow links (each one is described in depth):