Trump the nationalist celebrates D-Day's triumph of internationalism

[DonViejo]

Analysis: The tension in the president —seemingly eager to buff his credentials as a bare-knuckled nationalist after rubbing elbows with royalty — reflects a deeper crisis.

June 5, 2019, 11:17 AM EDT
By Jonathan Allen

LONDON — Along the southern coast of England on Wednesday, President Donald Trump helped commemorate the 75th anniversary of the launch of the D-Day attack on Germany — the most celebrated maneuver in Western democratic military cooperation, and a turning point that led to the demise of the hyper-nationalist Nazi empire.

Back home, at the same time, the insider political news outlet Axios reported that his campaign planned to hit former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading Democratic presidential contender, as a "globalist."

The tension in Trump — seemingly eager to buff his credentials as a bare-knuckled nationalist after rubbing elbows with royalty and celebrating multilateralism — reflected the much deeper crisis confronting leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.

For many European officials, the new nationalism is that crisis.

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[Aristus]

1. I wonder if he is aware that the Americans didn't do it alone.

The British were there. And the Canadians. And the Free French. And the Polish. And on and on.

I ws talking to a friend once about Canada's contributions to success on D-Day, and he said: "Canada? I didn't even know they had an army!"

[KG]

2. guarantee he has only the vaguest idea of what d-day is.

[Solly Mack]

3. Trump doesn't care how it looks to thinking people.

The hobnobbing of wheat and chaff serves his ego and business interests/con jobs abroad.

The "I'm a nationalist" serves ego and political appeal/business interests/con jobs at home.

It's all about him - not how it looks or what the actual facts happen to be.

To a liar, words and actions only have the meaning and intent that serves the liar at the time of the lie.

Trump reading the noble words of others at a D-Day commemoration registers with him not at all.