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Just a quick comment about the president's European trip, specifically to the UK, France and Ireland.
When you start insulting the host city's mayor before you even get off Air Force One, and you know it's going to be a rough trip, for all of us. With a window seat on that bandwagon, Mr. Trump brought his entire family to Buckingham Palace, which makes it fair to ask who exactly paid for all that? The president waded right into the UK internal politics, which may not seem like a big deal to people in the U.S., however if all the leaders of the Five Eyes at a television press conference and collectively said that they were in favor of a particular U.S. candidate that wasn't Trump, how do you think Americans should feel?
The president said that he only saw but a few protesting him in London and many many people cheering for him, despite the thousands gathered in Trafalgar Square and having those images blasted all over the media. Images like this one...
right now," seemingly justifying his deferrals from Vietnam on medical reasons because now that he's president he's giving a lot of money to the military.
Here's the full context, if you must.
And we would be remiss if we didn't say something the fact that Mr. Trump had a 90-minute meeting with Prince Charles, in which he tried to explain the causes and effects of climate change. Mr. Trump wasn't having any of it. In the above chip, Mr. Trump explained that it used to be called 'global warming' and then 'climate change,' but now it's 'extreme weather,' and that can go both ways. Where even to start with that? This column couldn't tell you but it would end something like this: Yes, global warming [from human activity, e.g. carbon emissions] is causing the world's climate to change manifesting itself in extreme weather events.
In France, we'll give it to the president that he said the right things in his speech to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history, in Normandy, France. The president stuck to the script and the transcript, not deviating from the prepared speech, as presidents should. Mr. Trump clearly understood the magnitude and historical significance of the event. Then an interview with Laura Ingraham and the president airs, in which Mr. Trump is bad mouthing the U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives on foreign soil in front of the graves of the 9,388 tombs of U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in the Normandy invasion.
Then after a long day, the president flew to his golf course in Ireland to spend the night, which again you have to think about for a second. American tax payers float the bill for the president and his adult family to stay at the president's golf course that he still owns, essentially the president enriching himself off taxpayer money. Nothing revelatory there, but it speaks to the point why the Irish Prime Minister did not want to meet at Mr. Trump's Doonbeg resort because he wasn't going to contribute to that. Insisting that the Irish Prime Minister go to your resort in his own country and enriching even more in the process is a good look to say the least, for the Irish Prime Minister. So they met at the airport instead.
We're not really sure... How do you think it went?
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