In his first European visit as U.S. President, Trump’s arrogance towards his global counterparts has confirmed his international reputation as a buffoon. Alan Austin reports from France.
THROUGHOUT his first visit to the Middle East and Europe since becoming U.S. President, Donald Trump displayed rudeness, disregard, arrogance and aggression towards his global counterparts.
When he wasn’t being crass and insensitive, he was comical and foolish. The European media – and through them the watching world – responded with disbelief, dismay and ridicule.
An early blunder was Trump’s unprompted revelation that he had not dobbed in Israel during a recent meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in which he allegedly shared secrets drawn from Israeli intelligence. But in so saying, Trump then clearly did implicate Israel.
The Times of Israel dealt with this folly deftly by quoting at length, with links, the hilarious mockery Trump received from U.S. late-night comedians.
Read the full article by Alan Austin at Independent Australia.