That’s essentially the same argument used for EU membership. 
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Fucking hell 
Seems everyone is too frightened to stop Tango Man.
Although
Where’s this all going?
Fucking crazy.
That’s his style - no one has a clue what he will do next
Everyone is always on the back foot which, I guess , is a negotiating tactic
I don’t think even he knows what he’s going to think / do next tbf.
I think it is more choreographed that it appears - the people around him, these billionaire businessmen, don’t do anything without a clear goal.
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As I said
“I don’t think even he knows what he’s going to think / do next tbf.”
Fixed it for accuracy
The worst is his total disregard for democracy and checks and balances… with just enough folks in the US either knowing he’ll make them richer, or too fucking stupid not to see its not about America or its people, but simply about control of resources and wealth…. for the few at the top table. Too stupid to see that replacing one political elite always simply leads to another usually more extreme…
The fact they simply no longer care about anything except their own wealth regardless if what it costs, is the inevitable result of feeding the myth if the American dream - where the stupid and fucktarded have forgotten that it required not only hard work, but were too stupid to recognise that not everyone can be rich without exploiting someone… now they believe its a birthright and easy pickings for Trumps right wing hateful rhetoric and blaming everyone else for the ‘peoples’ plight… saying its because the wealth is controlled by so few in seen as ‘commie’ bullshit…
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Word for word description of the UK Government there…
Good grief
Nonsense
Something I read today, if Denmark do decide to sell Greenland, the UK has first right of refusal dating back to a 1917 treaty which is still in force
Now that would be funny as fuck if we did that
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And he’s throwing his toys out of his pram because countries are standing up to him
The irony being Columbia are ok if people are returned on commercial flight and treated humanely rather than on military hard man Trump flights.
It’s weird - or not actually weird - that Tump is saying Greenland locals want to join the USA. How does he know that or as is more typical it’s his usual gaslighting
His nipper went there.
For an hour
Oh yeah and gave the homeless a meal and a hat.
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Thought this was an interesting read
Columbia have backed off
Sorry this is so long but it’s the best analysis of Trump I’ve read:
Someone asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
- Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
- You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
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In the dark depths of time, before the Apprentice and any presidential ambitions, I seem to recall reading an article by a journo who interviewed him. I got the impression that he was polite and charming towards her (probably after a shag). My key take way (because it was odd) was that he was fastidious about washing his hands to an OCD level - he did something like 5 or 6 times during the interview in a sink he had installed in his office