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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's lonely signature at the top of a D-Day proclamation is making the rounds on social media aft
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-signature-dday-letter-europe-2019-6Trump's lonely signature at the top of a D-Day proclamation is making the rounds on social media after other world leaders signed at the bottom
Fifteen world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, signed the document in blue ink near the bottom of the text.
Trump, however, signed the document in the upper, left-hand corner:
CDerekGo
(507 posts)No Sharpies available?
no_hypocrisy
(46,088 posts)where signatures don't belong. In other words, by signing the top, he could claim that he never agreed to the terms of the document. You BET he's signed hundreds of documents and contracts. This is not ignorance or stupidity. He isn't agreeing to continue working with Europe in the name of peace.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)The location of the signature is legally irrelevant, absent an agreement between the parties to the contrary.
no_hypocrisy
(46,088 posts)that he could "get away with" getting out of the reaffirmation of the NATO alliance by signing somewhere else. Doesn't mean he's right.
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)But I tend to think it was just ego. His signature would be buried down below; putting it at the top makes him seem like the king of world.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)Skittles
(153,156 posts)just sayin'
33taw
(2,440 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)just HAD to make his signature stand out and be above everyone else. No way was he going to "blend in" with his inferiors below.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Had not heard that one. Dear randy Newman.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)They should of had him practice first.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Only a deranged, fucking psychopath. That's who. What an asshole!
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)
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babydollhead
(2,231 posts)would look like the proclamation is speaking directly to him.
!!! or !?!