Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed

[Will B Good]

48 minutes ago, mzanzi said:

Believe me , coming from a third world country we observed the beginning of the end with Biden and his idiotic behaviour and the adminastration trying to cover it up , we also observed Trump in the background with his bully boy antics and thought you should rather change the old adage to GOD HELP AMERICA , however , we in the third world are most grateful for sensible leadership coming from China and Russia , we will continue to watch the collective west wallow in their faeces

 

"however, we in the third world are most grateful for sensible leadership coming from China and Russia"

 

Now that was the tonic I needed to start the day.....a really good laugh.

[simple1]

3 hours ago, john donson said:

 

a senile old man did enough damage and was the laughing stock of the world for 4 years

 

Biden engaged with world leaders and re-established American diplomatic credibility as well as policies. Biden Admin has also stabilised the US economy. Trump administration will be handed a good stating point, have to wait and see to see if he stuff's it up with his nonsense rhetoric such as taking over the Panama Canal. Seems to me trump only knows one starting point for negotiations - - threats - I don't recall any significant diplomatic achievement during his last incumbency, except for Israel and the Abraham Accords, even that did not create any peace whatsoever except of enrichment for his extended family and $500 billion for the US taxpayer (forgiveness of debts).

[CallumWK]

3 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Biden engaged with world leaders and re-established American diplomatic credibility as well as policies. Biden Admin has also stabilised the US economy.

 

Biden has never been in charge, that should be obvious to blind Freddy, by reading the article of the WH staff interviews the other day

[simple1]

3 hours ago, Bruce1054 said:

Get help your <removed> is consuming you and boring us 

 

First of all you're not obliged to read my posts. You don't think all the MAGA posts deflection and denials when presented with facts are truly annoying. Accordingly why not give up your cult membership, alternately put me on ignore.

[simple1]

5 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Biden has never been in charge, that should be obvious to blind Freddy, by reading the article of the WH staff interviews the other day

 

Staff cannot act on the international stage without Biden's authorisation

[jerrymahoney]

33 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Yesterday, Trump threatened Panama threatening to invade a sovereign nation and seize a canal that is not the USA's

Trump threatens to retake control of Panama Canal

December 23, 202411:20 AM GMT+7Updated 11 min ago

 

The United States largely built the canal and administered territory surrounding the passage for decades. But the United States and Panama signed a pair of accords in 1977 that paved the way for the canal's return to full Panamanian control. The United States handed over control of the passage in 1999 after a period of joint administration.

"Every square meter of the Panama Canal and the surrounding area belongs to Panama and will continue belonging (to Panama)," Mulino said in his statement, which was released on X.

Trump then responded to Mulino: "We'll see about that!"

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-he-might-demand-panama-hand-over-canal-2024-12-22/

[Will B Good]

18 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Trump threatens to retake control of Panama Canal

December 23, 202411:20 AM GMT+7Updated 11 min ago

 

The United States largely built the canal and administered territory surrounding the passage for decades. But the United States and Panama signed a pair of accords in 1977 that paved the way for the canal's return to full Panamanian control. The United States handed over control of the passage in 1999 after a period of joint administration.

"Every square meter of the Panama Canal and the surrounding area belongs to Panama and will continue belonging (to Panama)," Mulino said in his statement, which was released on X.

Trump then responded to Mulino: "We'll see about that!"

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-he-might-demand-panama-hand-over-canal-2024-12-22/

 

 

The MAGA gang will be salivating over this......even after all their claims of "Trump the peacemaker".

 

One thing minions love is seeing their dictator in bully-mode.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

You can keep your fine wine and snobby restaurants, I'm ok with KFC and a Pepsi!

Let's just go ahead and refer to your reply as the "Best Avoidance Of a topic Of the day".

 

He's offended by my politics, and blinded by his, so he insults my lifestyle. Wow. Big man stuff right there, utter Tarzan power.

Such a display of strength. 

We wait with baited breath for your continued articulation. 

[Captain Flack]

An off topic deflection post has been removed. Discuss the topic not other posters.

[illisdean]

53 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Yesterday, Trump threatened Panama threatening to invade a sovereign nation and seize a canal that is not the USA's That's the ignorant mindset of his collective.

Oh well....cry some more big crocodile tears and go tell someone who cares.

 

 

[Will B Good]

1 minute ago, illisdean said:

Oh well....cry some more big crocodile tears and go tell someone who cares.

 

 

 

 

Just had to check the definition of puerile first.....I was correct.

 

 

[illisdean]

2 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Where Biden failed to be laught at on the world stage, Trump succeeded;

Everyone likes to have a good laugh except when they don't. How about Nov 5, 6, ....2024....did you laugh when President Trump LANDSLIDED Kamala and the feckless democrats or did you cry?  Be honest.

 

Link NY sun / archive

[transam]

4 minutes ago, illisdean said:

Everyone likes to have a good laugh except when they don't. How about Nov 5, 6, ....2024....did you laugh when President Trump LANDSLIDED Kamala and the feckless democrats or did you cry?  Be honest.

 

Link NY sun / archive

No, I laughed, why, because it was daft............🤣

[Will B Good]

11 minutes ago, transam said:

No, I laughed, why, because it was daft............🤣

 

They were laughing because he said his administration had achieved more in two years than any other in history.

[Lancelot01]

On 12/22/2024 at 12:01 PM, impulse said:

Trump made it clear that he's not interested in business as usual, the one sided trade and defense agreements that have the US paying for so much and getting so little in return.  That's what you get when you send "seasoned diplomats" that have never held a real job in the real world.

 

I wanna see some junkyard dogs negotiating on my behalf.  Tom Homan is a great example, though on the domestic front...

 

Unsackable career politicians with large salaries and golden pensions listening to similar lobbyists = same old same.

[paddypower]

On 12/22/2024 at 11:07 AM, novacova said:

You’re not qualified to make this assessment.

& neither is this liberal rag

 

too many big words and no pictures for you to follow?  try to stick with Tucker '' I'm back here in Moscow, to report on the likely start of WW3'' ..................

[thaibeachlovers]

On 12/23/2024 at 5:37 PM, simple1 said:

 

Staff cannot act on the international stage without Biden's authorisation

The evidence seems to say that they have been doing so.

Alternatively, one told him to authorise it and he did. It's just a signature after all. He didn't have to understand it.

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The evidence seems to say that they have been doing so.

Alternatively, one told him to authorise it and he did. It's just a signature after all. He didn't have to understand it.

What evidence?

[thaibeachlovers]

On 12/28/2024 at 4:53 PM, stevenl said:

What evidence?

The evidence of your own eyes, or did you close them every time Biden appeared on tv?

[stevenl]

15 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The evidence of your own eyes, or did you close them every time Biden appeared on tv?

So i can see on TV the evidence that 'Staff can act on the international stage without Biden's authorisation'. You claimed "The evidence seems to say that they have been doing so.".

 

You're not making sense at all.

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I think critics are being very unfair to Trump. Perhaps, his goal is to unite most of the world including those that historically up to the presently have been at odds with each other. This would be no small achievement. Of course, he'll be uniting them against the United States

[thaibeachlovers]

On 12/29/2024 at 7:55 PM, stevenl said:

So i can see on TV the evidence that 'Staff can act on the international stage without Biden's authorisation'. You claimed "The evidence seems to say that they have been doing so.".

 

You're not making sense at all.

Given that Biden was so incompetent that he had to be removed by his own party from the POTUS campaign, are you claiming that he is actually competent to still be in charge?

You can't have it both ways. Either he's incompetent, in which case he isn't making decisions, or he is competent and should have been the candidate in the election.

 

The evidence I saw supports the first. Perhaps you were looking at something different.

[stevenl]

24 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Given that Biden was so incompetent that he had to be removed by his own party from the POTUS campaign, are you claiming that he is actually competent to still be in charge?

You can't have it both ways. Either he's incompetent, in which case he isn't making decisions, or he is competent and should have been the candidate in the election.

 

The evidence I saw supports the first. Perhaps you were looking at something different.

So nothing to support your claim his staff is acting on the international stage without his authorisation.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 1/1/2025 at 3:01 PM, stevenl said:

So nothing to support your claim his staff is acting on the international stage without his authorisation.

Do you understand what "seems" means? Yawn.

 

On 12/29/2024 at 7:55 PM, stevenl said:

"The evidence seems to say that they have been doing so.".