CNN: Donald Trump has left the world stage. Few will miss him

[kpete]

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN)As stage exits go Donald Trump's departure was something of a whimper, the US President leaving the top table of global G20 leaders to play golf.

Trump has been out of kilter with the global mood since he first took office preaching his "America first, fair, not free trade" brand of nationalist isolationist hubris.

Now, as his time in office draws to a close, despite his refusal to publicly accept the reality of the US election results, the combined unspoken message from the world's leaders is: don't let the door hit you on the way out.

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Evidence of the shifting attitude toward the outgoing US administration came from the lips of Saudi's Minister of Investment, Khalid al-Falih. "When the world needed leadership [to combat Covid-19] there was none," he said. The G20 had stepped up because some nations "turned inwards towards nationalism." Al-Falih didn't mention Trump by name. He didn't need to; his audience understood.


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https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/22/world/trump-g20-riyadh-robertson-analysis-intl/index.html

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Which is why Joe Biden is getting praise...

The World knows Joe, and he them.

[ret5hd]

2. Well, really he dragged the world onto his own petty personal stage...

and everyone that is sane is seeing that they don't want any part of his petty little play and are (sometimes quietly, sometimes loudly) walking off stage left or stage right, whichever is closer, as he mouths some (in his mind) grand closing monologue.

[Doodley]

3. He was never interested in being anything but a fake reality TV president.

[ecstatic]

4. Yeah. It's probably a good thing that tRump didn't show up to the virtual pandemic

conference. The United States, under tRump's criminally negligent and incompetent leadership, has been an utter failure with regard to controlling the spread of the virus.

Not to mention, it would have been very awkward for him to face the people he's been lying about with regard to death counts and the mysterious countries who have been begging for our help and resources.

It would have devolved into tRump accusing them of hiding their death counts, etc etc.