# The world laughs at Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930 "2018-09-26T05:43:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/1 "2018-09-26T05:43:21Z")
Well, maybe not the whole world but certainly the UN: [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/people-actually-laughed-at-a-president-at-un-speech-trump-suffers-the-fate-he-always-feared/2018/09/25/990b1d52-c0eb-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204\_story.html](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/people-actually-laughed-at-a-president-at-un-speech-trump-suffers-the-fate-he-always-feared/2018/09/25/990b1d52-c0eb-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204_story.html) ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/2 "2018-09-26T05:57:31Z")
Just wait. He’ll throw a temper tantrum and say that it’s a “fake” United Nations with low ratings. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/3 "2018-09-26T06:00:13Z")
Right now he’s already trying to claim “I meant to do that”. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/4 "2018-09-26T06:07:27Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Right now he’s already trying to claim “I meant to do that”. Ho. Lee. Shit! You weren’t kidding: > **[Trump says he meant to make world leaders laugh during UN speech when he...](https://amp.businessinsider.com/trump-unga-un-speech-laughter-reaction-2018-9)** > > President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon claimed that he meant to make world leaders laugh during his address to the United Nations earlier in the day, but he initially said he "didn't expect that reaction." Despite the fact that he actually said after getting laughed at, ‘that’s not what I was expecting’. Unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/5 "2018-09-26T06:25:18Z")
That was the best thing I’ve ever seen on my morning news in Australia. Well, maybe not the best, but a pretty close runner up. Gave me a goodly belly-chuckle all the same. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/6 "2018-09-26T07:09:40Z")
Saw it live. I have to say, not sure if it was a line meant to get a laugh by the speechwriter and Trump did not realise it, since it seems pretty tounge in cheek. Hell I could see Obama saying it with a twinkle in his eye. There was another part in the speech, when he spoke about Germany, and the camera panned to the German delegation laughing their heads off. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/7 "2018-09-26T07:32:54Z")
Old-fashioned kings got nicknames - The Great, The Short, The Wise, The Bald… Trump is getting his nickname - The Fuck-Up. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/8 "2018-09-26T08:08:38Z")
Nah, he already got it way back: Trumpus I, the Orange. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/9 "2018-09-26T08:10:46Z")
I really hate to see him speech-ify. He looks like a smarmy used car salesman. Oily as hell. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/10 "2018-09-26T12:23:11Z")
The world wasn’t laughing at America, it was laughing with America… at Trump ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/11 "2018-09-26T13:14:05Z")
One of the several things about this speech that I find remarkable is that he and someone on his staff who can write in complete sentences thought that this brag was suitable for the first few sentences of a speech to the general assembly of the United Nations. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/12 "2018-09-26T13:19:10Z")
Heard Fox news edited so their viewers wouldn’t see the part where world leaders laughed out loud at Trump. In defense of Trump, he did manage this time to address the international forum without goading any nuclear powers into a war. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/13 "2018-09-26T13:20:59Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > One of the several things about this speech that I find remarkable is that he and someone on his staff who can write in complete sentences thought that this brag was suitable for the first few sentences of a speech to the general assembly of the United Nations. And I see this as some speechwriter including these lines with full knowledge that our Punchline-in-Chief would love them and knowing how the assembly would react to them. To this noble patriot, I offer a golf clap and promise to buy your book when you publish it. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/14 "2018-09-26T14:16:26Z")
You don’t understand. The speech was delivered at the UN, but the intended audience was Trump’s base. How many Trump voters are there at the UN. The fact that he was laughed at will only inflame them. He doesn’t play deep games; he’s as shallow as the puddle in my driveway. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/15 "2018-09-26T14:41:40Z")
This is what happens when you only give speeches to your base, who eat up your BS like pigs at a trough. When you have to give a speech in “the real world”, people are going to laugh at your obvious BS rather than applaud it. While he appeared to shrug off the laughter, you could tell it was just eating him up inside. I wouldn’t be surprised if he threw a tantrum in private later on. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/16 "2018-09-26T14:46:19Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Ho. Lee. Shit! You weren’t kidding: > > [Trump claims he was trying to make world leaders laugh at UNGA](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/trump-unga-un-speech-laughter-reaction-2018-9) > > Despite the fact that he actually said after getting laughed at, ‘that’s not what I was expecting’. > > Unbelievable. And yet, he has made the same claim many times with a straight face. Now… he’s laughing at himself? ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/17 "2018-09-26T14:54:48Z")
I can’t quite make out what he says right before the laugh. I hear: “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. America’s so true.” then the laughter. Did I hear the very last part of it correctly? It sounds like they’re laughing at the very end but were they just holding the laughter from the first part of the sentence? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/18 "2018-09-26T15:09:49Z")
He’s an embarrassment. But, wasn’t people laughing at him what got us here in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/19 "2018-09-26T15:11:49Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > This is what happens when you only give speeches to your base, who eat up your BS like pigs at a trough. This is really it. I believe he saw his base as the real world. He started to believe his ‘fake news’ hype/lies. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930/20 "2018-09-26T15:38:31Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > I can’t quite make out what he says right before the laugh. I hear: “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. America’s so true.” then the laughter. > > Did I hear the very last part of it correctly? It sounds like they’re laughing at the very end but were they just holding the laughter from the first part of the sentence? The way it was presented on the news this morning, the laughter was delayed because the real-time translators took about that long to translate Trump’s words from English into the various native languages of people in the audience who couldn’t speak English. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-world-laughs-at-trump/821930.md?page=2)