French President Emmanuel Macron arrived at the White House ready to present a strong and unified case for Europe, especially regarding support for Ukraine.
This is how everyone should handle trump and his ilk at every opportunity. Talk over him, call him out on obvious lies, chuckle at him when he says idiotic things. Just generally treat him with disdain and derision. He has this hero status with his followers that could be chipped away at if he's the subject of serious, casual ridicule. Not the stupid, desperate, "mango mussolini" "lord cheeto" junk, but the stuff that makes him feel self-conscious and lash out like a stupid, bumbling old man. This has been the most successful rhetorical/propaganda strategy whenever people have employed it.
He's also not fast enough or coherent enough to respond to it anymore. I think you can cow him. Because I imagine that's what his handlers do every day. He's used to submitting.
He's never been fast or coherent enough to respond to any statement with factual evidence. But the unfortunate this is that his followers don't give a fuck if it's all made up
I'm curious if this is going to be the way leaders treat Trump going forward. And by curious I mean hopeful. Because that debacle in the Oval Office when Elon Musk completely owned him I think has made it clear that powerful people can dominate this man fairly easily. The guy who used to terrorize people in 2016 on the debate stage is gone. He's a dotering old man who doesn't even know where he is half the time. Interviews like this with other world leaders should be able to dominate the conversation fairly easily.
There is zero chance. I think the only thing that would happen would be he would just shut down all in person meetings in front of a camera. Just like he does with news organizations or press people he doesn't like... He just cries "they treat me badly" and bans them from the White House
If something makes him look or feel bad he just shuts it down.
I mean it was pretty well known that in his first term Trump was really awkward in meetings with foreign leaders. His schtick is very much catered toward Americans, and he’s got that aspect down pat. He says shit that flusters and disorients American democrats but when he’s with foreign leaders it becomes much more apparent how much more intelligent literally everyone else in the room is than than him and how utterly out of his league they are, and they’ve always treated him like an idiot child spouting off and often even openly laugh at stuff he says in earnest much to his embarrassment and anger
Every time he says something off the wall. Someone needs to lean in, sock him, and say something like, "think before you speak." Including, and especially his secret service detail. I don't think he can learn to do otherwise, it's just a tangible acknowledgment if his inherent idiocy.
What does that fucking moron mean when he says "We'll get some land back"? It seems to me that he thinks his allies land actually belongs to him. I know America likes to portray itself as the big boss of the west but that's just make-believe, man... Like movies and shit.
Trump is 78 years old, has diaper plumbing problems and gets bored easily. Why doesn't he retire? He would be surrounded by his adoring fans and he could live off of all of his money for the rest of his days.
Don't forget he was on trial for federal crimes, some of which carried lengthy prison sentences, at the time of his second election win. Literally, his only options were 'become president of the united states' and 'spend the rest of his life in prison'.
I don’t think that Cheeto is capable of stringing together a coherent sentence that has any substance to it. It’s like he’s just trying to get through the interview with little meaningless fluff sentences.
Makes me wonder if he has some yet-to-be-properly-diagnosed aphasia.
It's clear that he's just a pawn of Musk's at this point. And Musk read Project 2025 and his Nazi brain went "fuck yeah let's do that, get that really dumb guy in office again so we can really do shit"
The annoying orange sure does look like a weak dipshit whenever he tries to spew out his bullshit in an environment where he can't control the narrative.