Trump's ambassador to the Netherlands doubles down on embarrassing the US

Politics & Elections
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Pete Hoekstra, former Congressman (Tea Party), now ambassador to the Netherlands is asked to comment on his previous claims that there are No-Go zones in the Netherlands.

PH: I didn’t say that. That is actually an incorrect statement. Yeah, we would call it fake news.

Is shown footage of his clear statement about the horrible state of the Netherlands in 2015, including “And yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands.”

PH: I didn’t call that fake news, I didn’t use those words [garbled] today.

Journalist looks exasperated towards the camera.

PH: I don’t think I did. chuckle

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Well, dam.

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Yet another of our West Michigan trophies doing us proud in the Trump admin.

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I sea what you did there.

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How do you know he’s lying? His tulips are moving.

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Just another example of this administration’s diplomatic malpractice.

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This administration doesn’t want diplomacy. It’s intentionally destroying relations with allies and exacerbating disagreements with foes. The Diplomacy of Marshall, Rusk, Acheson, and Dulles? Dead. Gone. Replaced with Commodore Matthew Perry.

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Perry was competent.

This sort of thing is, if you think about it, exactly what Vladimir Putin would want. How about that, huh?

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Putin is playing the Republican regime like a violin.

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We’re not going to let you skate around the thread topic like that.

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I found it somewhat amusing that this news item came out the same day as this one:

I’m curious who is responsible for the good work in this case. Nikki Haley?

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I hope the people in the Netherlands know how sorry we, the American people, are about what happened in 2016. We are embarrassed beyond description.
We are more embarrassed than we were that time Bush puked in the Japanese Prim minister’s lap.

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There’s been a lot of bad puns in this thread, but this one is a bridge too far.

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Now you’re just tilting at windmills.

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Quit Haaging all the bad puns.

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Quit clogging the boards with Dutch puns.

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Gogh away!

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He’s just practicing Brinkermanship on behalf of his boss (who has small Hans).

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Gouda one! Though I bet he don’t give Edam.

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Gouda 'nuff.