# Trumps Calls With Foreign Leaders Embarrasing, Bullying, Uninformed and Disasterous **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730 "2020-06-30T03:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/62 "2020-07-01T20:25:24Z")
This is why we should have bought some real estate halfway across the Atlantic…like Greenland! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/63 "2020-07-01T20:35:16Z")
A lot of people are saying that these icebergs were created in the lab in Iceland. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/64 "2020-07-01T20:40:40Z")
Did you know only the tip of the iceberg is above water? Few people know this. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/65 "2020-07-01T21:24:42Z")
Hillary would probably have hit a bigger iceberg. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/66 "2020-07-01T21:27:59Z")
Obama didn’t have the guts to hit an iceberg! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/67 "2020-07-01T21:31:33Z")
That reminds me of the French military who were afraid to report the results of the disastrous Battle of Sluys to the King so eventually the court jester said “The English didn’t even have the guts to jump in the water like our brave Frenchmen.” ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/68 "2020-07-01T21:31:58Z")
I believe these have serious meme potential. I’m not at all a social media person, and have no idea how to promote this angle. ---
**Author:** ![The.Undeposable.Hand](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the.undeposable.hand/32/5594_2.png) [@The.Undeposable.Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The.Undeposable.Hand)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/69 "2020-07-01T21:36:12Z")
I think this is the sickest burn by CNN “The sources did cite some instances in which they said Trump acted responsibly and in the national interest during telephone discussions with some foreign leaders.” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/70 "2020-07-01T21:48:22Z")
> [@The.Undeposable.Hand](#): > > I think this is the sickest burn by CNN > > “The sources did cite some instances in which they said Trump acted responsibly and in the national interest during telephone discussions with some foreign leaders.” Reminiscent of Trumps, “and some I assume are good people” when talking about the hoards of drug crazed rapists going over our southern border. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/71 "2020-07-01T21:52:45Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > There are plenty of life boats. > Anyone who wants a life boat can have a life boat. …but if there _is_ a lack of lifeboats, it’s the fault of the previous administration. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/72 "2020-07-01T21:59:16Z")
If people want to wear life jackets then they can choose to do that - I don’t need to because I walk on water ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/73 "2020-07-01T22:05:49Z")
Wearing life jackets is liberal virtue signaling, and insults the captain. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/74 "2020-07-01T23:30:47Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > The more icebergs you look for, the more you’re going to find, so it’s better not to look It is a wonderful thing that you say! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/75 "2020-07-02T05:51:06Z")
There is so much less water in the hold than there was under the previous captain. Before I came on board the ship was at the bottom of the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/76 "2020-07-02T08:45:36Z")
"Maybe I should have been a doctor captain. Many people, important people ask me how I know so much about the coronavirus captaining. I get captain science from my super genius uncle at MIT. Many people, other captains have called me and told me, “Sir, you are huge captain.” #Trumpster-Fire #adultdiaperonhead #frontotemporaldementia ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/77 "2020-07-02T11:59:00Z")
Well put. Geography is part of it — Wisconsin is thousands of miles from any country but Canada, while Switzerland (say) is only hundreds of miles from several countries. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/78 "2020-07-02T12:18:23Z")
“The response and recovery effort probably has never been seen for something like this. This was a boat surrounded by water, big water, ocean water.” ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/79 "2020-07-02T12:32:34Z")
> [@solost](#): > > …but if there _is_ a lack of lifeboats, it’s the fault of the previous administration. Even though my team got rid of the lifeboat repair crew. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/80 "2020-07-02T12:51:38Z")
best analogy I’ve heard on this yet. I’m going to borrow this. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-embarrasing-bullying-uninformed-and-disasterous/913730/81 "2020-07-02T13:09:44Z")
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