Jesus Christ hes rambling along dissing Dems while Macron stands there.

[nolabear]

I am so damned sick of his simplistic, uninformed (he had to ask how the vote worked) bullshit and raving. He’s not a plain spoken man, he’s a bullshit artist who knows one thing, how to encourage people to hate one another and to use it for his benefit.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I thought Macron was a liberal or not a conservative, guess not. Otherwise why show up at all

Would FDR have flown to Germany in 1941 to visit Hitler?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Macron sees a vacuum in European relations with the US.

Spanky isn’t getting along well with May or Merkel, so Macron likely sees the possibility of increasing France’s influence by making nice with Trump. But I’m sure he’s smart enough to realize that Spanky can’t be trusted as far as he can throw a grand piano.

[0rganism]

5. above all he's an opportunist looking to get something for his country

i'm pretty sure FDR wouldn't have gone to Germany in 1941, but we're hardly in that position (yet). Macron's well within the bounds of traditional statecraft here, imho. he's going to work Trump like a borrowed plowhorse and cut all kinds of nifty advantage-France deals if he can, and i can't say i blame him. Americans elected a shiftless tyrannical moron so we should expect all the benefits that such stable genius leadership can provide, especially if it makes Russia look more attractive by comparison.

[DFW]

13. Macron is no fool

He ran on a "none-of-the-above" platform in France and blew the competition away. He is out to feel the pulse here, and tell Merkel and the rest of the Western EU what he see as being the real situation in the USA. What the EU can expect in the way of economic and military cooperation, and where they need to be prepared to go it alone (which, I can tell you, they increasingly are).

Macon knows what a "con fini" Trump is. He's looking to see if there are any signs of life elsewhere in our government.

[LanternWaste]

15. Or appointed a proponent of appeasement as Ambassador to Great Britain

"Would FDR have flown to Germany in 1941 to visit Hitler?"

Or appointed a proponent of appeasement as Ambassador to Great Britain who later went on to have close ties to McCarthy?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. There's something about Trump

that makes me feel like he doesn't represent me as an Democratic American. I just can't figure out what.

[nolabear]

3. Gee...me too. Could we be being used?

[jaxind]

6. An act

I think Macron is playing the act of being a friend to tRUMP so maybe he can influence him.

[nolabear]

8. That handshake wrestling match at the end!

[Iliyah]

7. I could be wrong but I think Macron is befriending t-rump

to stop WW3. He's trying to convince him to be a better person(????)

[nolabear]

9. He was certainly finessing the whole thing.

It must be exhausting trying to hold things together.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. He is not befriending Trump.

He’s using him. He’s playing him like a Stradivarius in order to get some advantage for France. He will not be able to persuade Trump to be a better person; that would be like trying to clean the Augean stables.

[Iliyah]

14. OK, I like your assessment better!

[EffieBlack]

10. Doesn't even know what a "present" vote is

But at least he asked this time - usually, he just pretends he knows and just spouts of all loud and wrong.

What an embarrassment. Can you imagine what President Macron and his wife say about him when they're out of earshot? It's probably all they can do to keep from bursting out laughing in his face.

[nolabear]

11. Right? Other countries must be trying as hard as we to survive him.

“Just get this over with. It won’t last forever. Just survive until he’s gone.”

I have never wanted to dance on anyone’s grave before but I SWEAR I’ll outlive him and celebrate. It’s nit my best feature.

[Corgigal]

16. I hope he's trying to talk to him

about the Iran deal. Someone from Europe has to try.