Belz...
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His ego is the only thing that matters to him.
Trump is an ass.
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His ego is the only thing that matters to him.
This is a man that insists he gets two scoops of ice cream with dessert while his guests get one.
phiwum
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Obviously, your notion that Trump jovially shoved a leader who is an acquaintance at best is really endearing, like lads hanging out on the playground after school.
But I'm curious why the prime minister's title is in scare quotes. Is he not really a PM? Or is Montenegro so unimportant that being PM doesn't count?
Upchurch
Papa Funkosophy
An excuse used by bullies since time immemorial.
Belz...
Fiend God
Thing is, there is such a thing as acts that may be interpreted as bullying but are meant as friendly physicality. However, actual bullies have tried to blur the line because they know bullying hasn't been very well regarded, so they don't want to appear to be bullies. They just want to be bullies.
Trump's shove wasn't one of those "friendly physical" acts.
Foolmewunz
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I don't take it as a bullying move. It's more a "You don't matter, I do" move. He's just so neurotic and so into All Things Me that the other guy doesn't exist and it's fine to push past him.
I see that behavior all over Asia. While we're renowned for our politeness and rituals, that's all for formal settings. In a traffic queue or at a 7/11, or in line to buy tickets to a movie, people will just cut in front of you, sometimes having to zig and zag to do so and even jostle you to get ahead. It's the self-centeredness all Asians are raised with..... YOU - the other person - just don't matter.
That's Trump's position. No one matters but Trump. Montenegro guy might as well have been a potted philodendron that he needed to move to get to his rightful place.
I see that behavior all over Asia. While we're renowned for our politeness and rituals, that's all for formal settings. In a traffic queue or at a 7/11, or in line to buy tickets to a movie, people will just cut in front of you, sometimes having to zig and zag to do so and even jostle you to get ahead. It's the self-centeredness all Asians are raised with..... YOU - the other person - just don't matter.
That's Trump's position. No one matters but Trump. Montenegro guy might as well have been a potted philodendron that he needed to move to get to his rightful place.
Upchurch
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I fail to see the difference. What is more at the heart of bullying than a belief that "I am more important than you" (and the fear that it isn't true)?
acbytesla
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Lol
My besties shove me all the time, has nothing to do with bullying. Maybe if you're around girls all the time it's not that common, but it is quite common around "men"
So Trump considers the Prime Minister of Montenegro a 'bestie'? A man he had never met before yesterday? Wow!
Its a club.
Are you going to render an opinion again on what you could not know?
I'm only basing my opinion on their faces, do they look offended to you?
Polaris
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Surely you're not suggesting Trump needs a short, yellow Air Force One.
Why not? Wouldn't be the first time he said he had a great friendship with an eastern European leader he also hadn't ever met.
quadraginta
Becoming Beth
FTFY.
I expect that Trump's father, fully aware of his son's temperament and potential, realized that there was no way he could ever make it on his own.
As opposed to Trump - who has them rolling in the aisles ?
But seriously, it's an interesting suggestion that foreign countries' leaders need to be afraid of the US in general and its President personally to come to engage diplomatically. History seems to suggest otherwise but as always YMMV
You beat me to your first line above!!! Well ninjaed!!!!!!!!!
I do wish I had said that!! So much truth in so few words!!!!!!!
Actually Trump is quite clearly an entire ass - indeed a whole ass!!!!!!!
But the man gives us so much material.
Admittedly he does nicely provide us freely with that. But he does not seem to realize that is what he is doing!!!!!!!
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Yes, of course, because he needs to be defended for having the unmitigated gall to move his way through a crowd.
skyeagle409
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Trump is an idiot and a liar who is currently ruining the United States, so it doesn't surprise me what that clown says.
Trebuchet
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Might a suggest a change in thread title, perhaps to "Trump is a Rump"? The current one is insulting to Equus africanus asinus.