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Old 26th May 2017, 06:06 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by Resume View Post
This was a dick move; the twelve-year old budging line to get another slice of ice cream cake. Trump was probably still all sheepish from Melania slapping him down publically, and trying to show all hard.
His ego is the only thing that matters to him.
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Old 26th May 2017, 06:07 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by Argumemnon View Post
That's the best part of the video, yes. I wonder if Trump realises how stupid he's being. Does he care?
We'll not care for him.
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Old 26th May 2017, 06:10 AM   #83
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Originally Posted by Argumemnon View Post
His ego is the only thing that matters to him.
This is a man that insists he gets two scoops of ice cream with dessert while his guests get one.
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Old 26th May 2017, 07:29 AM   #84
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Originally Posted by logger View Post
Lol
******* unbelievable!

Its clear some you don't know what a jovial shove is?
The "prime minister" clearly had a smile and so did Trump.

Some of you clearly don't get out much!
Obviously, your notion that Trump jovially shoved a leader who is an acquaintance at best is really endearing, like lads hanging out on the playground after school.

But I'm curious why the prime minister's title is in scare quotes. Is he not really a PM? Or is Montenegro so unimportant that being PM doesn't count?
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Old 26th May 2017, 07:33 AM   #85
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Originally Posted by logger View Post
Its clear some you don't know what a jovial shove is?
An excuse used by bullies since time immemorial.
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Old 26th May 2017, 07:51 AM   #86
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Originally Posted by Upchurch View Post
An excuse used by bullies since time immemorial.
Thing is, there is such a thing as acts that may be interpreted as bullying but are meant as friendly physicality. However, actual bullies have tried to blur the line because they know bullying hasn't been very well regarded, so they don't want to appear to be bullies. They just want to be bullies.

Trump's shove wasn't one of those "friendly physical" acts.
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Old 26th May 2017, 08:50 AM   #87
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I don't take it as a bullying move. It's more a "You don't matter, I do" move. He's just so neurotic and so into All Things Me that the other guy doesn't exist and it's fine to push past him.

I see that behavior all over Asia. While we're renowned for our politeness and rituals, that's all for formal settings. In a traffic queue or at a 7/11, or in line to buy tickets to a movie, people will just cut in front of you, sometimes having to zig and zag to do so and even jostle you to get ahead. It's the self-centeredness all Asians are raised with..... YOU - the other person - just don't matter.

That's Trump's position. No one matters but Trump. Montenegro guy might as well have been a potted philodendron that he needed to move to get to his rightful place.
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Old 26th May 2017, 08:53 AM   #88
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Originally Posted by Foolmewunz View Post
I don't take it as a bullying move. It's more a "You don't matter, I do" move.
I fail to see the difference. What is more at the heart of bullying than a belief that "I am more important than you" (and the fear that it isn't true)?
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Old 26th May 2017, 10:53 AM   #89
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Originally Posted by logger View Post
Lol

My besties shove me all the time, has nothing to do with bullying. Maybe if you're around girls all the time it's not that common, but it is quite common around "men"
So Trump considers the Prime Minister of Montenegro a 'bestie'? A man he had never met before yesterday? Wow!
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Old 26th May 2017, 11:00 AM   #90
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Originally Posted by acbytesla View Post
So Trump considers the Prime Minister of Montenegro a 'bestie'? A man he had never met before yesterday? Wow!
Its a club.
Are you going to render an opinion again on what you could not know?
I'm only basing my opinion on their faces, do they look offended to you?
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Old 26th May 2017, 11:20 AM   #91
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Originally Posted by CapelDodger View Post
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-defence-bills

Apart from the 7-year old's vocabulary we have Trump's belief that nobody ever met Frankie da Pope before, or at least not as splendidly as Trump did.

(I've revised my estimate of Trump's vocabulary down from 600-800 to around 500, aka "special needs" level.)
Surely you're not suggesting Trump needs a short, yellow Air Force One.

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So Trump considers the Prime Minister of Montenegro a 'bestie'? A man he had never met before yesterday? Wow!
Why not? Wouldn't be the first time he said he had a great friendship with an eastern European leader he also hadn't ever met.
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Old 26th May 2017, 11:26 AM   #92
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Originally Posted by Craig4 View Post
Our president isn't even a person. It's a wet spot on the sheets with some pubic hair stuck to it that stood up one day and got into the was handed a real estate business.

FTFY.

I expect that Trump's father, fully aware of his son's temperament and potential, realized that there was no way he could ever make it on his own.
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Old 26th May 2017, 11:44 AM   #93
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Originally Posted by skyeagle409 View Post
However, Trump's mentality requires him to wear a dunce cap while sitting in a corner.
And, even more, his constant and consistent bad behavior!!!!!
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Old 26th May 2017, 11:45 AM   #94
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Originally Posted by The Don View Post
As opposed to Trump - who has them rolling in the aisles ?

But seriously, it's an interesting suggestion that foreign countries' leaders need to be afraid of the US in general and its President personally to come to engage diplomatically. History seems to suggest otherwise but as always YMMV
You beat me to your first line above!!! Well ninjaed!!!!!!!!!
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Old 26th May 2017, 11:47 AM   #95
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Originally Posted by Craig4 View Post
Our president isn't even a person. It's a wet spot on the sheets with some pubic hair stuck to it that stood up one day and got into the real estate business.
I do wish I had said that!! So much truth in so few words!!!!!!!
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Old 26th May 2017, 11:51 AM   #96
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Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza View Post
Bringing an example of how Trump is being an ass to a major ally and trading partner in a thread about how Trump is an ass is confusing to you?
Better take a rest.
Actually Trump is quite clearly an entire ass - indeed a whole ass!!!!!!!
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Old 26th May 2017, 11:52 AM   #97
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Originally Posted by acbytesla View Post
But the man gives us so much material.
Admittedly he does nicely provide us freely with that. But he does not seem to realize that is what he is doing!!!!!!!
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Old 26th May 2017, 12:28 PM   #98
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Originally Posted by dudalb View Post
Deflect.Deflect.Deflect. The standard GOP defense when it comes to defending the latest idiocy of Donald Trump.
Yes, of course, because he needs to be defended for having the unmitigated gall to move his way through a crowd.
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Old 26th May 2017, 12:45 PM   #99
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So Trump considers the Prime Minister of Montenegro a 'bestie'? A man he had never met before yesterday? Wow!

Trump is an idiot and a liar who is currently ruining the United States, so it doesn't surprise me what that clown says.
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Old 26th May 2017, 12:50 PM   #100
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Might a suggest a change in thread title, perhaps to "Trump is a Rump"? The current one is insulting to Equus africanus asinus.
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Old 26th May 2017, 01:23 PM   #101
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Trump trying to undermind NATO over Article 5. Perhaps, Putin is the person pulling Trump's strings.

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Trump’s NATO Article 5 problem

President Trump is the only American president since NATO’s founding who has not explicitly endorsed Article 5.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order...cle-5-problem/
Time for Trump to resign
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Old 26th May 2017, 01:27 PM   #102
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Yes, of course, because he needs to be defended for having the unmitigated gall to move his way through a crowd.
Through a crowd?
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Old 26th May 2017, 07:17 PM   #103
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Jovial shove? Surely that's taking it too far.

How about a "cordial collision" or a "jocular jostle" instead?

I'd even accept a "benign bump" or a "spontaneous gerrymander."
It was clearly not serious, if it had been the PM would have grabbed Trump by the throat and body slammed him, then punched him a few times for good measure, after all that is how politicians of things these days.
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It was clearly not serious, if it had been the PM would have grabbed Trump by the throat and body slammed him, then punched him a few times for good measure, after all that is how politicians of things these days.
Ah, but Trump cannot be grappled. He exudes slime from specialized cells on his scalp.
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Old 27th May 2017, 02:19 AM   #106
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Originally Posted by logger View Post
Its a club.
Are you going to render an opinion again on what you could not know?
I'm only basing my opinion on their faces, do they look offended to you?
They look disbelieving, that half smile you give when you are thinking to yourself "did I REALLY just see that???" No-one half civilized or with an ounce of manners would behave like Trump did there, so that would seem the best understanding of their reaction.
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They look disbelieving, that half smile you give when you are thinking to yourself "did I REALLY just see that???" No-one half civilized or with an ounce of manners would behave like Trump did there, so that would seem the best understanding of their reaction.
They acted like statesmen in the face of buffoonery.
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Might a suggest a change in thread title, perhaps to "Trump is a Rump"? The current one is insulting to Equus africanus asinus.
I think the OP is referring to wild ass.

Asses of the world unite, and protest against this outrage!

This calls for my stock picture of wild ass Equus africanus somaliensis.

Asses don't shove people aside. "Not my President".
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An ambiguity that would be solved by adoption of the UK English "arse."
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I do wish I had said that!! So much truth in so few words!!!!!!!
Thanks, you can use it if you want. I won't even ask for attribution.
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Originally Posted by skyeagle409 View Post
Trump trying to undermind NATO over Article 5. Perhaps, Putin is the person pulling Trump's strings.



Time for Trump to resign
That's kind of a dick move since the only Article 5 has been invoked was on 9/11 to protect us.
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