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At NATO Summit, Trump Indulges His Weird Obsessions

Donald Trump is a volatile personality with a penchant for creating chaos and uncertainty. His impulsive, irascible nature often makes it appear that the only logic to his presidency is whatever event or TV clip happens to grab his attention.

But it would be a mistake to regard his presidency as a disorganized mess. It’s an organized mess that follows a trio of consistent themes.

The first is protectionism. The second is racial and religious bigotry. The third is appeasement of Russia. Almost everything significant he does stems from one of more of these impulses. Mercurial though he is, he rarely deviates from them.

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‘Child’ Trump ripped to shreds for storming out of NATO summit after video shows world leaders mocking him

AlterNet logoOn Wednesday, President Donald Trump abruptly exited the NATO summit after canceling his meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and blasting him as “two-faced,” in front of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, following the release of a video showing world leaders mocking the president.

In short order, commenters on social media laid into Trump for his cowardly decision to insult a major ally and run from the world stage:

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Trump’s Behavior at the NATO Summit

Here are a few lowlights from Trump’s shameful antics at the NATO summit:

He didn’t exactly start the summit off on the right foot. Embarrassingly, Trump arrived half an hour late to the summit and missed his first couple of scheduled meetings with world leaders.

The president misleading claimed that our NATO partners have been delinquent on defense spending and accused Germany of being “captive to Russia” before official discussions even had a chance to begin.

Trump even reportedly threatened to abandon our NATO allies, forcing them to call an emergency session.

Trump claimed that NATO allies had agreed to raise their defense spending beyond agreed upon targets, but other NATO leaders had to clean up after the president and refute his claims. Continue reading “Trump’s Behavior at the NATO Summit”