It’s hard to accept that,
here in the 21st century; the United States has as its president,
the most ignorant, self-centered, and petulant being to ever attain high office,
but it’s what we actually have. Trump doesn’t understand how government works,
he doesn’t understand how international treaties work, he doesn’t know what an
autonomous body is, he thinks just flashing a large amount of cash around solves
anything, he is constantly astounded when people don’t take him seriously, and even
more frequently angered when people prove to be smarter than him. It has this effect on him...
Donald Trump abruptly canceled
a long-planned meeting with the government of Denmark and is now belittling as
“nasty” and holding a grudge against Mette Frederiksen the Danish Prime
Minister because she called his idea of buying Greenland from Denmark absurd. Never
mind that it can’t be done. Never mind that no one mentioned any of this to the
Danes or Greenlanders first. Never mind that the people of Greenland have their
own voices. Never mind that Trump can’t even take care of Puerto Rico, a much
smaller island. Never mind that Trump thinks in such simplistic terms. What he is
mad about is because she used a big word he didn’t know and he had to look it
up. He didn’t like the sound of the word but he didn’t know what it meant.
And that made him do something he hates, learn a fact. Trump prefers to just go
with whatever he thinks up so realizing someone used a word he was unfamiliar
with forced him to abandon his safe space to look up something new and different.
It’s work. And Trump hates work.
Because Ms. Fredericksen wouldn't just agree to whatever he wanted, Trump projected onto her
the biggest most derogatory word he could think of at a moment’s notice. It's a word Trump uses primarily when describing women who stand up to him and defy him. That word is nasty. She was describing Trump's idea as being absurd, not him. And at no time did she indicate the word applied to the United States. Yet Trump claimed she did and she can't call the country that. Trump conflates himself with the nation. Trump = America.
The whole situation, which Trump started, is absurd.
Actually, absurd is a president who is proudly ignorant, self-centered, gullible, incompetent, dishonest, and demonstrates to the world he thinks like a petulant five-year-old.
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