Trump gets foreign policy lashing at U.N. meeting
Source: Politico
The verbal slams were predictable: There is widespread unease at the U.N. with President Donald Trumps America first outlook, and in particular his aggressive stance on Iran. | Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images
The president sat stone-faced as international leaders criticized his foreign policy both overtly and obliquely.
By NAHAL TOOSI 09/26/2018 12:42 PM EDT
As President Donald Trump sat stone-faced at the head of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, the criticisms of his foreign policy rolled in overtly and obliquely.
France warned that dealing with Iran couldnt just be about sanctions and containment, a clear rebuke of Trumps decision to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in favor of an attempt to isolate the country through new economic penalties.
Equatorial Guinea said nations too wedded to sovereignty could undermine the welfare of the international community, a likely reference to Trumps sovereignty-focused speech Wednesday before the entire U.N. body. And then there was Bolivia, which brought up the U.S. role in Irans 1953 coup at the start of fusillade of criticisms that painted an America as too quick to turn to war instead of diplomacy. The United States could not care less about human rights or justice," Bolivian President Evo Morales said, just steps away from the U.S. president.
The verbal slams were predictable: There is widespread unease at the U.N. with Trumps America first outlook, and in particular his aggressive stance on Iran.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/trump-un-foreign-policy-843110
Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)dhill926
(16,339 posts)not a truly living thing about him...
Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)The caricature come to life.
MBS
(9,688 posts)dhill926
(16,339 posts)Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Mad-in-Mo
(229 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Mad-in-Mo
(229 posts)MotorCityMan
(1,203 posts)The tie is not hanging down nearly long enough to be the real shit gibbon.
Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)That expression...'you're gettin' nuked, you're gettin nuked...'
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)He doesn't like it.
Oh yeah, and man that cotton candy softswirl hair. He doesn't get to control the lighting in the UN either.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,516 posts)Obama roasted him.
riversedge
(70,218 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)the only one not wearing a translator earpiece. Is it because what others say is of no consequence to him? He is doing Putin's bidding, what others think or say means nothing to him.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)lark
(23,099 posts)will his next move of distraction be threats to pull out of UN? It would totally be in character for this stupid beyond belief asshole.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)and even he thinks Trump is crap.
He seized power in 1979.
According to Human Rights Watch, the ''dictatorship under President Obiang has used an oil boom to entrench and enrich itself further at the expense of the country's people''.
He has been pursued in French courts for allegedly plundering state coffers to buy luxury homes and cars in France.
His son and vice-president, Teodoro 'Teodorin' Nguema Obiang, has been resisting attempts by the US administration to seize his assets, denying charges that they were obtained with allegedly corrupt funds taken from his country.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13317174
pampango
(24,692 posts)action to promote that policy. Donald does not like to be lectured to. He likes people who agree with him and do what he says.
procon
(15,805 posts)his way, and he's 4.