Trump's speech to Poland is a total joke.

[Atman]

He sounds like a fourth grader reading a chapter in his school history book for the first time. He is literally just reciting the history of Poland. I'm sure his people thought that it would make it sound as if he had some actually knowledge of world history, but occasionally he reads something that surprises him and ad libs something stupid. Like when he told the Polish people that once Germany and Russia both attacked them at the same time. "Oh, that was a tough one. Very bad." What a complete moron.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Hitler and Stalin were two very bad hombres

[Vinca]

5. OMG - tell me he didn't actually say that.

I can't watch and keep breakfast down, too.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Not watching either

Just playing off the OP.

[Sophiegirl]

2. I had to change the channel.

He disgusts and embarrasses me.

[iluvtennis]

45. Same here.

[kentuck]

3. Indeed.

He knows very little history. He has learned to read the teleprompter a little better.....that's about it.

[Hieronymus]

6. Yes, he's sticking to the teleprompter ..

but he has a pitiful speech writer.

[demmiblue]

10. I believe that Stephen Miller wrote the speech. n/t

[maddiemom]

16. Neidermeyer!

[smirkymonkey]

34. "Is that a pledge pin on your chest sir!"

He is Niedermeyer to a tee!

[CanonRay]

44. It's hard to write a speech

when you know a 4th grade mind is going to read it.

[tazkcmo]

4. Consistency.

An admirable trait in most humans although there are exceptions.

[MoonRiver]

8. Thanks for letting us know. I cannot watch that demented cretin!

[spiderpig]

9. I am watching in a perpetual state of cringe.

That bused-in crowd chant of "Donald Trump!" is about to send me over the edge, though.

[Atman]

11. Someone in the bused-in crowd is waving a Confederate flag

I guess the Polish people have a deep sympathy for the down trodden former slaves states of America. WTF?

[nikibatts]

15. This group was rounded up from Poland's alt-right, Trumps kind of people.

Still, they didn't very impressed to me. The media is spinning it as more than it actually was from what i saw.

[underpants]

27. Come on. Really?

[Atman]

32. Not kidding.

Where the hell did they get a Confederate flag in Poland?

[unblock]

38. the confederate flag is a disease that is spreading outside the u.s.:

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-is-the-confederate-flag-flown-outside-the-us-2015-6

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

52. The Internet, no doubt.

[iluvtennis]

46. Wow, waving a confederate flag...I'm speechless. #resistance

[demmiblue]

56. Pic:

[MFM008]

57. They didnt

Get their money's worth.....

[Brainstormy]

12. His speechwriters are idiots, too. n/t

[spiderpig]

13. He's rambling and even the paid flacks sound bored.

Painful. Embarrassing.

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. Poland is incredible. Incredible. So incredible.

And the Polish people are incredible. Just incredible. Thank you. This is a beautiful piece of land. So beautiful. Thank you. We will stand behind NATO, but they gotta pay up. Thank you. Poland is incredible. Thank you. And the nazis came from the west, and Russia came from the east, and you were just incredible. Thank you. This is a beautiful city. So beautiful. Thank you.

At least he didn't say "I am a polish sausage."

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. OMG!

[riverbendviewgal]

42. My grandparents were born in Poland.

I am of incredible stock and would never vote for Trump.

[3catwoman3]

49. Not listening, so I don't know if you are...

...actually quoting him, or just parodying what he could have said.

[whathehell]

17. He just got a standing ovation from the crowd..

I guess they liked it.

[pangaia]

37. There is a very rigjt wing faction in Poland, as here.

THAT is who you see-- brought in to make him feel good.

It's all lies.

[whathehell]

40. Yes, I just read that people were bussed in..

Good grief.

[Puzzler]

18. Trump has visibly deteriorated both mentally and physically ...

... since July 2016, IMO.

And he was appalling back then. But now, he really seems utterly lost. I dunno, but at this rate, his mental deterioration will be so obvious that...

... hold on, it'll never be fucking obvious to about 1/3 of the population will it? Gah!

-Puzzler

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. 1/3 of the population shares the same mental deterioration.

[Timmygoat]

19. What a performance

I wonder if the affluent Trump family housed any Polish refugees in WW2, I was born in England and I remember
many of the Polish refugees living in our area, I would make a guess that the Trumps would shut them out.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Well, haven't my people been through enough? Get the hell out of there Dipshit.

[Ilsa]

23. Yeah, and according to dft, ALL Polish Americans voted for him!

They gave him so much support! Did you know know you supported him, Laura? It's incredible, just incredible!

I'd write more, but I can't seem to dumb down my thoughts to his second grade level for consistency.

[CentralMass]

28. This Polish American didn't vote for the asshat.

[Ilsa]

31. I figured there were at least two! LOL

Donald will be disappointed, and would probably have your registration challenged if he could.

[WinkyDink]

21. I wish whoever had written it had included Mme Curie, Copernicus, and Lech Walesa.

[Tanuki]

30. I wonder what they thought of his recent gratuitous insults of famous Polish American

Mika Brzezinski?

[WinkyDink]

47. Ha! Good one!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

53. And Chopin.

[Lucky Luciano]

25. Did he tell any polish jokes? nt

[underpants]

26. Almost spit take

Growing up telling Polish jokes this has just been sitting there since I heard about this trip.

[underpants]

29. To his credit, he didn't forget Poland

[John1956PA]

33. The August 28, 1989, edition of "Time" magazine marked the 50-year anniversary of the invasion.

The photographs of some of the destruction and carnage have stuck with me since the edition's circulation.

[smirkymonkey]

35. What an embarrassment!

He continues to make an ass out of himself on the world stage. Can somebody please reign him in? He's an absolute disaster.

[Miles Archer]

36. I think the cheering crowds that were brought in by bus were told it's a Justin Bieber concert

I watched a few seconds of it. They are in a state of orgasmic bliss. I hope Trump brought five small fish and five small loaves of bread so he can divide them and feed everyone there...I'll bet they're hungry after all of that cheering.

[Initech]

39. I got 306 electoral votes! Look at me, I managed to beat Hillary Clinton in the primaries.

And no one is as smart and as great as I am! In fact I'm better than everyone in Poland. Together, we will MAGA!

[angrychair]

41. What is worse

Is the current Polish government is a totalitarian regime that has most notably taken wholesale control of their national press services and national court system. The current commentary coming from that government regarding how they feel about the US is unsettling to say the least. They committed to getting him to stop there by busing in crowds to cheer for him and playing to his vanity.

That is just scratching the surface and for trump to make his first stop in Europe is very disconcerting and no president, democrat or republican, would have ever committed to stopping there much less making it a first stop.
We are in dangerous territory, trump is increasingly more friendly to harsh and totalitarian regimes and it reflects on how he acts and his words. The way he talks about the press and the courts, you can be sure he is looking at Poland as an example, wondering how they did it.

[blue-wave]

50. Spot On

It's very perplexing that the racist alt right is looking to Eastern Europe for their hope. They consider someone like Putin a hero and savior for the white race. In their view, they look to Eastern Europe because it was not spoiled and destroyed by western decadence. Yeah, Putin the totalitarian, a hero? But the racist alt right love that kind of tyranny.

I have a theory about Trump's visit to Poland and with Putin. Poland and Russia are historical adversaries. I believe Trump is there to somehow unite them in alt right lock step. Across the former Iron Curtain countries, right wing governments and ideologies have been taking hold. The very thought is horrifying.

The perplexing part is the racist alt right, with their ideology embracing race theory, consider Eastern Europeans Untermenschen (inferior people). For Poland, Russia and the other Eastern European countries to embrace this ideology is mind boggling. These are the countries that fought the Nazis and this ideology in WWII suffering horrific loss. They are playing with fire and will likely get burned very badly.

[forgotmylogin]

43. I love how wherever 45 goes...

He seems to feel it necessary to explain the people's own history to them.

[oberliner]

48. He does not know what he is reading

He has never seen it before.

And yet, people in the media seem to get all excited about Teleprompter Trump and forget that it isn't really him.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

51. Trump himself is a total joke.

The whole world sees that he's an idiot. More's the pity for the US.

[Atman]

55. In his speech about NK, you can see him reading with his tiny fingers.

Just the way a child is trained to read. No TelePrompTer, he's reading off the podium...sloooowly...and you can see his hand scanning the page as he tries to figure out what he is reading. Pathetic.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

58. I'm wondering if part of his reading problem (other than that he's an ignorant ass)

could be that he can't see and is too vain to wear reading glasses. At 50 or thereabouts almost everybody has trouble with their close vision; SCROTUS is 71 and as far as I know he's never been observed wearing glasses. But he has been observed apparently having trouble reading. His extreme vanity compels him to dye and sculpt his hair to hide the gray and the bald spot; he uses some sort of fake-tan product that turns his face orange, presumably to look "healthy" (if you call orange a healthy color) and to hide the wrinkles, spots and blemishes you get as you age. I'm thinking his reading problem could have to do with the fact that he won't wear glasses.

[workinclasszero]

54. The mouth breathing pussy grabber in charge only knows history since twitter was invented

and can only speak and write in 140 bursts of idiocy at a time.