something I just posted on Facebook regarding the Trump-Merz press conference - [View all]

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If you voted for Trump, I'd like you to do two things:

1. Watch the press conference he held with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. It's on Youtube.

2. Defend Trump's behavior.

I'm not asking you to defend any of the positions Trump expressed - though he did lie about stopping Nordstream 2. I'm asking you to defend the way he carried himself in front of the leader of one of our closest allies.

There were two heads of state in that press conference. One of them acted like a dignified and intelligent diplomat. The other was Donald Trump.

I'm serious about this. He rambled. He veered from subject to subject like a slowly meandering stream, and much of what he talked about had nothing to do with US relations with Germany, Europe, or NATO. He talked about himself - a lot. And he rarely gave Chancellor Merz the opportunity to say anything.

Chancellor Merz is a guest in our country, and the leader of an economic and scientific power, and he was treated like a tourist looking for a photo op. His treatment was disrespectful and condescending. It revealed Trump to be someone lacking class, grace, courtesy, a working understanding of global geopolitics, literacy, and the ability to speak in coherent sentences.

Watch that press conference, and tell me with a straight face that this is how a world leader should act.

(I will also tell you this - any response that points to Biden's age will be deleted as irrelevant. Biden is not the president right now. Biden was not on the ballot in November. And however much Biden's age was showing toward the end of his term, he never - ever - embarrassed the country in front of a foreign head of state like this. So focus on Trump and Trump alone.)

If you actually think this is how you want your country represented on the world stage, you need to do some self-reflection.