This WaPo comment deserves it's own OP

[octoberlib]

From ProfKate
So thin skinned. So conceited. So disrespectful and rude.
Trump undermines our PM, insults our popular mayor of London, hints falsely that stabbings in London were perpetrated by immigrants, (and remember, our murder rate is one sixth of yours), says that terrorism is caused by the London Mayor rather than our proximity to the Middle East, encourages right-wing politicians to stage a coup against the elected PM, and threatens the UK with access to trade if we don't do exactly as he says. And that is just Day One.
All of this while he is a guest in our country. Imagine the offence you would feel if a European politician behaved like that during a state visit to the US.
A Guardian/ICM poll shows that Britons had an overwhelmingly negative view of Donald Trump, even before this visit. Only 17% of us DID'NT think he was a danger to world peace.
It is totally arrogant for Trump to then suggest that our right to free speech should have been curtailed because he is too important to offend!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/i-think-they-like-me-a-lot-in-the-uk-trump-says-as-he-faces-mass-protests-in-britain/2018/07/12/d88c3118-7f01-11e8-a63f-7b5d2aba7ac5_story.html

[Mike Nelson]

1. If...

… PM May opened the news conference by saying, "Mr. Trump, get out of my country," then walked off the stage, she would suddenly become one of the UK's most popular politicians.

[octoberlib]

2. She just met him at Chequers and

is smiling and posing for pictures like nothings wrong.

[Mike Nelson]

3. Yuck...

… never liked her... a crisis (and she's in one) is when politicians show us who they are.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. She's in a tough spot for sticking w Brexit. UK needs trade agreements badly now. . . . nt

[Wwcd]

10. Yet he treats her like he treats all women.

[FSogol]

18. It is very nice she held his hand so he could go up the big boy steps safely.

[AwakeAtLast]

20. .

[Dave Starsky]

23. Good Lord. Is this picture for real?

What am I saying? Of course it is!

[BHDem53]

24. Her hands are bigger than his.

" Just a couple more steps. There you go".

[heaven05]

29. she's a trump kiss ass

and a dangerous conservative also. What can be expected of her?

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Maybe UK does need trade agreements but not at the expense of what the UK stands for, w/ ...

regards to human rights, w/ regards to doing what's right for its people and not kissing DT's ass in the meantime. Remember, being on DT's good side doesn't mean anything, nothing was signed, and DT has the bad habit of agreeing and gee whizzing about everything, and then totally denying it later.

[octoberlib]

6. Another WaPo commenter pointed out

that any trade agreement would be extremely one-sided because in Trump’s world there are only winners and losers.

[JI7]

7. why doesn't anyone bring up the shootings and especially mass shootings by americans in the US

anytime he wants to talk about crime in other places or blame immigrnats ?

[octoberlib]

8. That's what needs to happen.

[AwakeAtLast]

21. This!

[octoberlib]

9. What Trump needs is to get his ass kicked

at least verbally. It’s the only thing he understands.

[kag]

11. Welcome to our world.

And WE have to live with the moronic racists who elected him!

[C_U_L8R]

12. And we here have to put up with this jerk every day.

Truth is, Trump is a global menace and it may take a global effort to bring him to justice. For caging babies alone, he belongs in the dock of Den Hague.

[Lonestarblue]

13. Trump is a walking disaster.

He is setting us back decades, and we’ll have an enormous rebuilding job when he is finally out of office—starting with our allies and kicking Russia out of our country (where they will be well entrenched by thenif Trump has his way). That said, I get so angry and frustrated everytime somene like Trump talks about Europe’s immigrant problem because the U.S. did its fair share (and maybe the lion’s share in some cases) to create the migrant crisis. We are the ones who bombed Iraq for no reason and allowed the formation of ISIS, which then sent thousands fleeing for their lives. We are the ones helping to destroy Syria and sending hundreds of thousands fleeing for their lives. We are the ones bombing and helping Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen with impunity and sending thousands fleeing for their lives. We are the ones who engineered the overthrow of a democratically elected gvernment in Iran and established a dictator who sent thousands fleeing when he was finally kicked out, we are the ones who destabilized South American governments to protect the profits of U.S. business (google United Fruit Company and its banana republics and Reagan’s support of the Contras in Nicaraugua who committed heinous war crimes against their own people). The U.S. gvernment has supported for decades the predatory practices of our large corporations throughout less developed areas of the world, especially in South America, often with violence and intolerable living conditions following. Then, when the people trying to escape for their lives and their children’s lives show up on our doorstep, we shove them back and say “Go home and die. We don’t care.” Why does no one in the media ever point out the real reasons so many people are fleeing their homes and the role the U.S. has played?

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. A Not So Great Country after all, are we.

[John Fante]

26. Not even a little bit.

If we're honest with ourselves, we've been one of the chief villains of the post-war era.

[erronis]

28. Agree with you and SammyWinstonJack

But our "greatness" never was, except in the broadsides and marketing material trying to lure suckers to emigrate to the "land of milk and honey."

As ordinary humans most Americans (USans) are as good and as bad as most of the rest of the world. We have our needs/greeds/faults and sometimes charity and love for one another.

As a country we have been one of the most rapacious and cruel in modern times. Genocide is one of our heritages alongside many other Western and Eastern empires. Our (US) history books don't emphasize postmortem (death) analysis, and until now we as victors get to write our own history books.

[azureblue]

27. Trump is the acme

or decades of GOP corruption. He IS the GOP, from his cons to his childishness and ignorance, his hate and racism. It is my hope that America will finally say enough is enough and end the rule of our country by big business and teh super rich. I just hope it will be a complete housecleaning. The indictments today go deep into GOP corruption, and I hope this will be the tipping point.

[heaven05]

30. true this nt

[left-of-center2012]

15. "The ego has landed," said the Daily Mirror

[Xipe Totec]

16. I'm surprised he didn't take his shoe off and start banging on the dinner table. nt

[Wounded Bear]

17. Actually, we kind of know what you're feeling...

Since Netanyahu basically did it to us a few years back. With the backing of the Repubs, of course.

P

[FiveGoodMen]

22. Beat me to it.

I had the same thought.

[NoMoreRepugs]

19. Every day he makes me despise Repuke voters more n more.

[BadgerMom]

25. Netanyahu's speech to Congress helps me imagine.

All of this while he is a guest in our country. Imagine the offence you would feel if a European politician behaved like that during a state visit to the US.

Trump in London-or anywhere, really-and Netanyahu disrespecting my President and my party both have been brought to us by the Republicans.

[dae]

31. I want to see the Guardians poll after Trump's Brrexit.

[Cha]

32. That's Killer Dead ON,

octoberlib!

[malaise]

33. Great post

Rec