His obsession and greatest fear has come true.
Republicans, you said “elections have consequences” — so own it. Trump is making America a laughing stock.
As your disgraced fellow Republican Duncan Hunter said, “He’s an asshole, but he’s our asshole.” RepublicansKnew
“We need a President who isn’t a laughing stock to the entire World,” Donald Trump tweeted in 2014. “We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. Respect!”
Indeed, having such a leader would provide many benefits to the United States. Instead, we get this:
President Trump, who has long demeaned his rivals for being laughed at around the world, found himself the scorned child on the global playground Wednesday as widely circulated video showed some of his foreign counterparts gossiping about and mocking him.
The video captured Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appearing to laugh Tuesday evening with French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and others about Trump’s performance during an earlier bilateral meeting and painted White House aides as agog at the president’s behavior.
And so it was Wednesday morning that Trump presented a sulking, brooding president as he engaged on the sidelines of the NATO summit at a secluded estate here outside London. Trump abruptly cancelled a planned news conference at the summit’s conclusion, arguing that he had already answered so many questions from reporters in other settings during his visit to England.
“Just try to imagine him watching that video of Trudeau, Macron and Johnson mocking him behind his back.”
When asked later about the video, he called Trudeau “two-faced.” If you’ve ever heard a teenager say “OMG, Madison is all nice to me in person but then she totally slams me behind my back, I hate her so much,” you probably have a good idea what he was thinking.
“It must have been particularly painful for Trump to see his friend Boris Johnson in on the ridicule. As The Post reports:”
While in London, Trump has found that the summit’s host, Johnson, has been avoiding public contact with him. Johnson faces an election on Dec. 12, and with Trump deeply unpopular in Britain, too much face time between the two populists could be politically toxic.
Just imagine Trump’s reaction when he saw photos of Melania kissing Trudeau. So humiliating. So Trumpian. #Karma 😂
Trump wanted the spotlight back on him — to make Melania jealous — so he went in for a kiss with Angela Merkel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
