This is the best part of that interview. He’s explaining how awesome missiles are as if Xi doesn’t know anything about them and will be impressed:
And I said, “Mr. President, let me explain something to you.” This was during dessert. ‘We’ve just fired 59 missiles,’ —all of which hit, by the way. Unbelievable, from, you know, hundreds of miles away. All of which hit. Amazing."
And then this part:
"It’s so incredible. It’s brilliant. It’s genius. Our technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of technology, nobody can even come close to competing.
Now we’re going to start getting it, because, you know, the military has been cut back and depleted so badly by the past administration and by the war in Iraq, which was another disaster.
So what happens is I said we’ve just launched 59 missiles heading to Iraq and I wanted you to know this. And he was eating his cake. And he was silent."
I’m pretty sure he was silent because he couldn’t believe that he had to sit there and listen to this idiot.
The other big players must just be scratching their heads at the moment. How do you deal with a complete moron in charge of the USA? Not all the previous Presidents have been stellar geo-political statesmen, but this one doesn’t even have a competent team around him.
It must be an intriguing mix of sense of opportunity and unease.
I had very little faith in Trump as president more than a year ago. I have to say that I couldn’t have imagined just how bad it would actually be. It’s like a sitcom written by Stephen King when he was addicted to drugs.
The dollar dropped 0.7%, a major move, after Trump told the Wall Street Journal that the dollar is “getting too strong.”
“I think our dollar is getting too strong, and partially that’s my fault because people have confidence in me,” Trump said. “But that’s hurting – that will hurt ultimately.”
Except the next White House Correspondents Dinner is going to be attended only by the cast of Fox and Friends, staffers from Breitbart.com “news”, and the openly neoNazi Andrew Anglin from Daily Stormer. I don’t think they’re too big on satire even if they do have a marked affection (affliction?) for Vladimir Putin, who is actually a performance artist at the height of dry Russian humor.
Just wait until the Spicer briefing where he does the John Oliver schtick about how you didn’t even realize that the nation highlighted on the map is not actually the country he has been talking about for the last five minutes…except it will turn out to actually be the country he is discussing, and he shouts down the correspondents who contradict him.
“Look, it doesn’t matter, we’re going to nuke the entire region into radioactive glass shortly, so national borders are going to be irrelevant.”
For some reason this is making me think of the Onion piece from Our Dumb Century where Mohandas Gandhi breaks a hunger strike by ingesting an entire German chocolate cake.
Is chocolate cake a “thing” in the East? Did anyone offer Xi a choice, like some fresh Florida fruit, which he would have appreciated?
I assume Trump just ordered for the both of them, off the Applebee’s-style menu Trump restaurants favor. They probably had the Home-style Meat Loaf.
According to the Miami Herald, Trump might be poisoning all those dignitaries and foreign leaders by making them eat food from the Mar-a-Lago kitchens. Cool!