Trump debuts in Europe as Obama returns to stir nostalgia for the old days
Source: guardian
Trump debuts in Europe as Obama returns to stir nostalgia for the old days
Coinciding visits, although unintentional, serve to highlight Europes radically different view of the incumbent president and his painfully missed predecessor
Jon Henley, Kate Connolly and Julian Borger
Last modified on Wednesday 24 May 2017 17.00 EDT
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While apparently unintentional, the coinciding visits serve to highlight Europes radically different view of the two men. A Pew Research Center survey last June found 77% of Europeans had confidence in Obama and 9% in the man who has now succeeded him.
The contrast will come into sharp focus on Thursday, when the current and former presidents have parallel public engagements in Europe, providing a split-screen comparison between their extreme differences.
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Obama will deliver a speech alongside German chancellor Angela Merkel at Berlins Brandenburg Gate. The Obama Foundation says the invitation from Merkel came before the US election, so the fact that he is in Europe as the same time as Trump is pure coincidence.
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Europeans are already wistful in anticipation. Pictures of Obama on holiday in Tuscany with his wife, Michelle relaxed and smiling in an open-buttoned shirt have only heightened the sense of longing for a president whose rationality, sophistication and emotional intelligence often contrast with his successor....................
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/24/trump-international-trip-barack-obama-europe-return
oh my. This will be interesting to see how the news covers these two tomorrow.
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Barack and Michelle Obama in Siena on Monday. Obama and Trump have not met or spoken since the inauguration, and that seems unlikely to change. Photograph: Fabio Di Pietro/EPA
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)"apparently unintentional"
MY President knows how to roll & troll.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)to piss trump off. I am sure he will tweet something nasty about Obama having a good meeting with Germany unlike him.
Cha
(295,904 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,207 posts)Rhett Cohen
(32 posts)And a small reminder for the racists