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Post by jdredd on Mar 17, 2020 23:23:50 GMT -5
Up to this point Trumpty the Clown has had it pretty easy, no real crises. Now we will see how he handles C-19. I feel sorry for all the food servers and travel industry people who are becoming unemployed road kill of panicking politicians telling everyone to stay home. I don't feel that sorry for the investors losing their shirts in the stock market though. Who didn't know it was Las Vegas wine in a Wall Street bottle?
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Post by jdredd on Mar 21, 2020 12:45:58 GMT -5
I'm sure there are people criticizing Trump for his handling of this pox, but I have not seen anything yet that President Hillary might have done better. I suspect this whole thing is above a President's pay grade.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 3, 2020 17:14:05 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/world/europe/trump-merkel-allies.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"BRUSSELS — With American cities burning and the coronavirus still raging, killing more people than in any other country, President Trump also has growing problems overseas. He has never before been so isolated and ignored, even mocked. In Europe, after years of snubs and American unilateralism , America’s traditional allies have stopped looking to him for leadership, no longer trust that this president will offer them much, and are turning their backs on him.That was evidenced most obviously this week by the decision of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, not to attend the Group of 7 meeting Mr. Trump wanted so badly in Washington this month to show that the virus was behind him and the world was returning to normal. Ms. Merkel cited the lingering threat of the virus, but a senior German official who spoke on the condition of anonymity made clear that she had other reasons to decline: She believed that proper diplomatic preparations had not been made; she did not want to be part of an anti-China display; she opposed Mr. Trump’s idea of inviting the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin; she did not want to be seen as interfering in American domestic politics." Some world leaders are starting to show a little spine in the face of Trump's buffoonery.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 17, 2020 1:48:44 GMT -5
Even packed with his cronies, Trump was shut down by SCOTUS yesterday. They upheld the right of cities to tell ICE to shove it, and not turn police into involuntary immigration enforcers. Righties should like that. Couldn't local law enforcers then refuse to enforce federal gun laws? And the court exposed the ludicrousness of not being able to discriminate by biological sex but being able to discriminate by sexual identity. So much for the genital police. Trump loses again. I think I want him to be reelected just to see how many more times he loses in court.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 19, 2020 17:28:42 GMT -5
So John Bolton has gone from being right-wing hero to villain. I hate to say I told you so but I always thought the guy was a flake. I haven't read the book but the rumor is he doesn't think Trump is tuff enough on China. No doubt lots of money to be made bashing China on cable news for years to come.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 21, 2020 1:19:41 GMT -5
John Bolton: He has always been a lying POS, so why should anyone believe him now?
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Post by jdredd on Jul 25, 2020 16:15:35 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/world/europe/mike-pompeo-boris-johnson-china.html?searchResultPosition=1"LONDON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday cheered the hardening British posture toward China and appealed for a global coalition against the country, blaming the Chinese Communist Party for what he described as exploitation of the coronavirus pandemic “to further its own interests.” Mr. Pompeo made the remarks on a visit to Britain, which in itself was something of a victory lap for the Trump administration. It had previously indicated that Britain had to choose whether to side with Beijing or Washington on matters like China’s role in telecommunications infrastructure. The secretary of state heaped praise on Dominic Raab, Britain’s foreign secretary, for his government’s decision last week to ban equipment supplied by the Chinese technology giant Huawei from the country’s high-speed wireless network, among other things. “I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the British government for its principled responses to these challenges,” Mr. Pompeo said. “Well done.” It's been a learning experience to see how many foreign nations have responded positively to Trump's clown nationalism.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 8, 2020 1:42:56 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/wisconsin-biden-harris-trump-pence.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"Defending himself for a fifth straight day following a report in The Atlantic that he ridiculed America’s war dead, Mr. Trump suggested the accusations came from Pentagon leaders, whom he described as war profiteers. “They want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs, that make the planes, that make everything else, stay happy,” Mr. Trump said of the officers he commands, making no mention of his own choice for defense secretary, Mark T. Esper, who was an executive at the defense contractor Raytheon." Even Trump gets it right sometimes.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 26, 2020 0:46:31 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/world/asia/trump-united-states.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"The diminution of the United States’ global image began before the pandemic, as Trump administration officials snubbed international accords and embraced an America First policy. Now, though, its reputation seems to be in free-fall. A Pew Research Center poll of 13 countries found that over the past year, nations including Canada, Japan, Australia and Germany have been viewing the United States in its most negative light in years. In every country surveyed, the vast majority of respondents thought the United States was doing a bad job with the pandemic. Such global disapproval historically has applied to countries with less open political systems and strongmen in charge. But people from just the kind of developing countries that Mr. Trump has mocked say the signs coming from the United States are ominous: a disease unchecked, mass protests over racial and social inequality, and a president who seems unwilling to pledge support for the tenets of electoral democracy." Not that Americans give a s**t about what the world thinks of them.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 29, 2020 15:22:57 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/opinion/trump-foreign-policy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"No one, not even Mr. Trump, can say with confidence what American foreign policy is on any given issue these days. Such uncertainty is a source of stress and friction, leaving American military personnel, diplomats and intelligence officers not only out of the loop but also out of step with each other and with allies. After almost four years of this uncertainty, foreign government representatives simply shortcut the system and look for a White House back channel to figure out if the United States will zig when it’s supposed to zag. Even worse, the uncertainty means that Americans themselves cannot know, or trust, all the deals being made in their name. Although Mr. Trump will spend the remaining weeks of the campaign talking about some deals and denying others, the true extent of his corruption of American foreign policy will not be known for many years. As Americans go to the polls, they may not understand what each of Mr. Trump’s deals includes. But they should know how and why he’s making them. If Mr. Trump manages to stay in the White House, he’ll believe he has a mandate for more of this kind of deal-making. Re-election will remove the last remaining guardrail against the corruption of American foreign policy and drive anyone who seeks to avert disaster underground or out of government. It’s impossible to predict the damage to America’s interests, power, credibility, relationships and reputation. But there is one thing to trust: Over four more years, there is little Mr. Trump won’t deal away." So here is what I would call the view from the American Foreign Policy establishment. While Trump has been a disaster in domestic politics, I don't think he is being any worse on foreign policy than Hillary would of been, or Obama was (except maybe for his destructive trade war with China and scrapping a perfectly good deal with Iran because that's what Israel wanted). How could he corrupt a foreign policy that was already corrupt?
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Post by jdredd on Dec 15, 2020 0:47:22 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/politics/trump-turkey-missile-defense-sanctions.html"WASHINGTON — The Trump administration issued sanctions against Turkey’s military acquisitions agency on Monday to punish the NATO ally more than three years after it bought a missile defense system from Russia. The economic and travel penalties against Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries and four of its top officials were as much a warning to other nations — including India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia — that are considering buying arms and other military equipment from Moscow. The announcement of the sanctions, in President Trump’s final weeks in office, also displayed American officials’ eagerness to push past his affinity for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and hold the country to account for potentially allowing Russia to infiltrate Western defense technology." Trumpy Bear only has a month left to finish putting his stamp on American foreign policy. Not that Biden has any tricks under his decrepit sleeves.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 31, 2020 21:59:18 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/newsfront/peter-navarro-european-union-trade-deal-beijing/2020/12/31/id/1003789/The approval of a long-sought agreement between the European Union and China that will open China's markets further to EU investors is a "bad deal" because Beijing will not abide by it on their end, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Thursday. "Whenever you enter a deal with Communist China, the presumption is they are going to abide by it on their end and they never do," Navarro said on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria." "This is going to be a real challenge geopolitically. From our point of view, the geopolitical complications are the bigger problems that we may face with this as Communist China tries to align with Europe." What? Europe is not going along with our self-serving belligerence toward China? But Navarro is another Trumpite I will be happy to see hit the road.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 11, 2021 18:32:45 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/world/europe/kosovo-trump-lake-serbs-albanians.html"ZUBIN POTOK, Kosovo — Ljiljana Trifonovic, an ethnic Serb living in a waterside hamlet in northern Kosovo, never cared for American politicians — “they are all against us,” she said — but she took a shine to Donald J. Trump when he was in the White House. “He is a bit crazy like we are and has the same hair color I do,” Ms. Trifonovic, 58, said, patting her orangey-blond mane. All the same, it came as a rude surprise late last year when a huge banner suddenly appeared next to the reservoir outside her home declaring the water “Trump Lake.” Another big banner went up at the same time on a bridge down the road announcing that it would now be called “Trump Bridge.” “We already have our own name for the lake. Why Trump?” Ms. Trifonovic asked, mystified and also annoyed by the abrupt renaming of the first thing she sees every morning when she looks out her window." Yes, I think the fallout from the nutty Trump presidency will continue...
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Post by jdredd on Feb 12, 2024 13:48:27 GMT -5
This thread, which is about Trump’ foreign policies as President, has been on hiatus since 2021, of course. It could make a return in 2025. If I’m still here. 2024 promises to be a rough year.
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Post by jdredd on May 13, 2024 10:32:03 GMT -5
In the NYT today (is it moving farther right?) “ What Trump Could Do in Foreign Policy Might Surprise the World” by some hack from The American Conservative claiming Trump’s second term could be awesome in its foreign policy. Well, he was lucky in his first with no real foreign crisis. Was it because of him or just circumstance? We can never know. Let’s hope his luck does not run out.
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