Holy smokes. Australian journalist provides one of the most brutal takedowns of Trump

[kpete]

Holy smokes. Australian journalist provides one of the most brutal takedowns of Trump I've heard in a while.
Political Editor, Chris Uhlmann at the G20 Hamburg.

"He was an uneasy, lonely, awkward figure at this gathering...
and some of the leaders are trying to find the best way to work around him."

Beyond climate change and trade, Donald Trump left behind confusion over North Korea and conflicting statements on whether Russia interfered in the US election. - @ABCaustralia


VIDEO is FANTASTIC:

Link to tweet

[Warpy]

1. Honestly, they will have to work around him completely

Anything that needs to be done will need to be done at State, if Tillerson doesn't fuck it up too badly.

What this summit has shown us (and them) very clearly is that the US has no president. We have a Russian plant who is utterly incapable of doing the job by both temperament and education.

[pirateshipdude]

2. Those are pretty powerful statements. Eom

[JI7]

3. Work with states

[Siwsan]

4. One thing that struck me was his position in the 'group photo'

I seem to always remember seeing POTUS standing front and center. He looked like someone who accidentally wandered into someone else's group shot.

[gratuitous]

15. I understand positions were set by seniority

That's why Trump and Macron were out on the fringe as the two newest kids.

[Historic NY]

5. Thanks Aussie's the eunuchs in the American press are more prone ...

to boot licking, than standing up to this 140 character moron.

[dalton99a]

6. Great piece

[FloridaBlues]

7. Posted this on tweeter and face book. Great evaluation

[UTUSN]

8. "claims to hold so dear" - the values of the West; women; etc.

[VOX]

9. It's a eulogy for the U.S. as a respected world power.

#45 and his nihilistic band of pirates have MURDERED the United States of America, even as an *idea*.

If I were younger, I'd get the hell out -- to Australia, New Zealand or Canada. It's going to take decades to resurrect this country to its former status. If 2018 doesn't shift the Senate, that'll probably signal the absolute end of this experiment in democracy.

[Duppers]

11. Well stated.

for our country.

[Johnny2X2X]

10. Work around?

Not even close. Other countries will find themselves having to warn against the US or risk being destroyed. The US should be feared.

[Hamlette]

12. this is spot on. Anyone know journalist's name? n/t

[writes3000]

14. Chris Uhlmann. Apparently, he's a conservative in Austrailia.

[politicaljunkie41910]

13. Wow!!!! Doesn't seem like it took that guy long to sum up the fact that the Emporer has

a few "scripted speeches" but no clothes. Thanks for noticing world. We're embarrassed too. Unfortunately, our great experiment in democracy has one flaw; it doesn't allow one party to impeach his dumb ass by ourselves, and the other party is scared shitless what would happen to them in the primary if they called their dumb-ass, know-nothing spade, a dumb-ass, know-nothing spade.

I hope the rest of the world keeps calling it like they see it. Hopefully, when the Repugnant Party realizes the head of their party is the laughing stock of the free world, they will decide that they've had enough embarrassment as well, and do the right thing. Impeach.

[Ilsa]

20. The scripted speeches are pablum as well. Nothing

noteworthy in them for inspiring future generations. They usually leave the listeners confused about his policies. Or as George W. Bush was reported to have said after Trump's inaguration speech, "That's some weird shit."

[grantcart]

16. kick

[gratuitous]

17. "A man who barks out bile at 140 characters"

He's pressed "fast forward" on the decline of the United States. Yikes. I'd like to see a little more of this kind of blunt analysis from the domestic press.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Wow.

I've been muttering for years that this country peaked somewhere right before Ronald Reagan was elected, and that we've been in a long, slow decline ever since. What Trump has done very effectively is to speed up that decline, so it doesn't play out over the next 30-50 years, but in no more than 4, his current term as President.

[Efilroft Sul]

21. I'd say it peaked early in the Johnson presidency, say 1964/1965.

That was before Vietnam and Watergate divided us, before the Powell Manifesto was drafted to support the rise of the right-wing corporate state under Reagan and perpetuated by every presidency since 1981, before wages stagnated and productivity skyrocketed, before the Democratic Party brushed aside the New Deal in 1988, before all the media mergers since 1996, and before the nativist/authoritarians seized almost all levers of power between 2009–2016.

Everything could've been so much different and better had Bobby Kennedy not been assassinated in 1968.

[Achilleaze]

19. The Republican draft Dodger diminishes America

Sad to watch the Republicans drag America down this way

[neeksgeek]

22. Anybody who has worked in a reasonably large group...

Has had a coworker they had to "work around." Someone toxic, who always makes things more difficult. You just find ways to do your job without involving the individual in question, if possible, and when you can't avoid them, you do your best to minimize contact.

That's our president.

[Tarheel_Dem]

23. This is so scary, and it's not just rhetorical. Obama feared this exact scenario, with Russia...

and China leading the 21st century. I don't know what it will take, but I think Republicans are the only ones who can save us from this madman.