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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,900 posts)
Sat May 27, 2017, 08:50 PM May 2017

German news magazine rips Trump, calling him 'unfit' and 'a danger to the world'

Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper is pulling no punches after covering Donald Trump’s disastrous trip to Europe. In a brutal op-ed, they lay out the case that Donald Trump is simply "unfit to be President of the United States":

[Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tasks associated with it. He doesn't read. He doesn't bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has identified as his priorities. His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees.

He is a man free of morals. As has been demonstrated hundreds of times, he is a liar, a racist and a cheat. I feel ashamed to use these words, as sharp and loud as they are. But if they apply to anyone, they apply to Trump. And one of the media's tasks is to continue telling things as they are: Trump has to be removed from the White House. Quickly. He is a danger to the world.]

They say Trump simply has to be removed and break down how the Americans can and should make it happen. Even they know Republicans are spineless and do not respect the rule of law:

[The first is Trump's resignation, which won't happen. The second is that Republicans in the House and Senate support impeachment, which would be justified by the president's proven obstruction of justice, but won't happen because of the Republicans' thirst for power, which they won't willingly give up. The third possible solution is the invocation of the 25th Amendment, which would require the cabinet to declare Trump unfit to discharge the powers of the presidency. That isn't particularly likely either. Fourth: The Democrats get ready to fight and win back majorities in the House and Senate in midterm elections, which are 18 months away, before they then pursue option two, impeachment. Fifth: the international community wakes up and finds a way to circumvent the White House and free itself of its dependence on the U.S. Unlike the preceding four options, the fifth doesn't directly solve the Trump problem, but it is nevertheless necessary - and possible.]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/26/1666273/-German-newspaper-rips-Trump-calling-him-unfit-and-a-danger-to-the-world


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German news magazine rips Trump, calling him 'unfit' and 'a danger to the world' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 OP
'Trump has to be removed from the White House. Quickly.' leftstreet May 2017 #1
Funny (NOT) how our media ignores this from Der Spiegel! triron May 2017 #2
DS Nailed the Con malaise May 2017 #3
It was reposted from Der Spiegel even before I posted it here: Ilsa May 2017 #4
We know he has to be removed blueinredohio May 2017 #5
His supporters don't like foreigners. They'll love Trump for "straight talk" to foreign leaders. Hoyt May 2017 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Hoyt May 2017 #7
The emperor has no clue! nt Xipe Totec May 2017 #8
The fact that this is from a German Magazine blue-wave May 2017 #9
Maybe he is really a "Boy from Brazil"! Kleveland May 2017 #10
The same sentiment was just expressed in a commentary on German TV last night DFW May 2017 #12
Ah come on mdillen May 2017 #11
And what do you really think? Do you not agree? elias7 May 2017 #13

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
4. It was reposted from Der Spiegel even before I posted it here:
Sat May 27, 2017, 09:15 PM
May 2017
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029117085

Dailykos is behind in their reading.

Sorry, got called away... didn't mean to be so snarky. I hope a few more saw it today.
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
6. His supporters don't like foreigners. They'll love Trump for "straight talk" to foreign leaders.
Sat May 27, 2017, 10:35 PM
May 2017

I thought bush was an embarrassment.

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

blue-wave

(4,351 posts)
9. The fact that this is from a German Magazine
Sat May 27, 2017, 11:02 PM
May 2017

will really get Donald's goat! I saw a clip (wish I could find it) in which he expresses pride in having German heritage. Twitter burning up in 3, 2, 1.....

DFW

(54,341 posts)
12. The same sentiment was just expressed in a commentary on German TV last night
Sat May 27, 2017, 11:59 PM
May 2017

My wife and I caught it when the news was on (several German channels are available from our hotel here in Croatia). The channel we were watching was not a commercial cable channel, but one of the two government-financed channels.

For a government-sponsored TV channel to read an editorial saying the leader of ANY country, let alone the USA, is unfit to lead--that is something I have never seen here, not even about Idi Amin or Saddam Hussein. My wife's mouth just went agape, as her country's government-sponsored media NEVER takes an extreme position that openly.

A friend of ours was station chief for Western German News Radio in Moscow for 5 years. I can't wait to get his reaction when we get home later today. Our flight to Düsseldorf leaves at 9:25 this morning (it is now 6 AM) and takes a little over 2 hours.

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