Trump loves despots: He couldnt shake Angela Merkels hand, but falls hard for Egypts strongman

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Sense a pattern?

by Heather Digby Parton at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/04/trump-and-the-despots-he-couldnt-shake-angela-merkels-hand-but-falls-hard-for-egypts-strongman-sense-a-pattern/

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Roger Cohen of The New York Times spoke with members of Merkel’s delegation and was told that Trump “raged about the financial killing China was making from last year’s Paris climate accord and kept ‘frequently and brutally changing the subject when not interested, which was the case with the European Union.’”

According to Cohen’s sources:

Trump knew nothing of the proposed European-American deal known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, little about Russian aggression in Ukraine or the Minsk agreements, and was so scatterbrained that German officials concluded that the president’s daughter Ivanka, who had no formal reason to be there, was the more prepared and helpful.

Judging by the awkward dual press conference and the mortifying photo op when he refused to shake her hand, one cannot help but suspect that Trump doesn’t think Merkel “looks like a president,” as he used to say often about his female rivals Carly Fiorina and Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign. His behavior toward one of America’s most important allies was obnoxiously dismissive.

In stark contrast, his meeting with Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Monday was a veritable lovefest. This was undoubtedly a welcome departure for the Egyptian president, who had not been invited to the White House before since he had seized office in a coup d’état, jailed journalists and political rivals and even ordered the killing of about 800 people on one day in August 2013.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. even fat fascist 45 needs a mentor in dictatorship and Putin isn't putin out

[applegrove]

2. Maybe Trump was afraid of her. If you think of it, Trump has never been around a woman over 50.

[spanone]

3. assad, putin, el-sissi...he's jealous

[Alice11111]

4. He's too fucking insecure to shake a powerful smart woman's

Hand. He only knows how to grab P, kinda like a rude untrained humping dog, and she definitely doesn't fall into that category of bimbo model, who becomes his victim (no insult intended to DTs bimbo models).

The world knows who Assad is (except for maybe Gary Johnson), and that Putin was propping up Assad, when he claimed to be fighting ISIS. Merkel won't toletate his ignorance...he knows she sees right through him.

[Cha]

5. MF is as transparent as a

glass window.