Donald Trump has alienated all U.S. allies...

"Sold us out," is the way "Miles Taylor, who during Trump’s first term served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Department of Homeland Security and famously revealed the existence of a resistance group within the administration," explained how Donald Trump is "abandoning our friends," around the world. On AlterNet, Taylor is very specific in citing incidents in South Korea, switching to the Pacific and the dilemma of two aircraft carriers, then over to Europe, with, perhaps, the worst of the three, where Satellite imagery makes it clear...

"Russia is building a network of secret drone bases within striking distance of NATO, with storage for a thousand attack drones at a single site."

To start, it would appear that Dufus Rump's love affair with Kim Jong Un has been rekindled, but if Trump thinks Vladimir Putin is coming to the party, he needs to think again. Taylor reports a Russian drone, loaded with explosives, was found at the Leipzig airport. The White House maniac has been trying to dump NATO for some time now with this being our current position...

"Western planners are quietly admitting they have no real plan for NATO’s nightmare scenario, a coordinated Russian and Chinese strike on two fronts, at the very moment Trump has hollowed out the alliance that exists to prevent such a surprise attack.”

I have been writing about the fact that both China's Xi and Russia's Putin must be keeping

Xi - Trump -Putin

their eye on the fact that Donald Trump is exhausting the U.S. munitions supply on the Iran War, and now both are probably completely giddy that Trump is shunning the very allies that could help him defend the U.S. against aggression. You have to wonder what they are waiting on. Taylor says Trump is pissed at South Korea because they wouldn't support him in the Iran War, calling Kim and North Korea "unthreatening and respectful."

Then, the author reminds Trump of the possibility during his first term that North Korea might launch a nuclear attack on the continental United States because Kim Jong Un was so "respectful." In the old days under rational and levelheaded presidents, the U.S. could take out North Korea in a heart beat. Today, under Donald Trump, I wouldn't bet on the outcome. At any rate, Kim could probably woo the Oval Office lunatic into laying down our arms so Trump could play dictator with his North Korean counterpart.

Just to show you how unsure Donald Trump is of himself and his administration, the Pentagon, under the direction of, perhaps, Dufus' top moron, Pete Hegseth, sent all U.S. allies a questionnaire asking whether these countries are adhering to President Donald Trump’s vision for the transatlantic alliance. In an Al Jazeera exclusive...

"The questionnaire asks pointedly whether the allies have been 'publicly supportive of US foreign policy priorities.'”

They don't just have to support us, they also have to call all their friends and neighbors and tell them about the fact that they are supporting the U.S. Whose imbecilic idea was it to embark on a PR program right in the middle of a war that most of America's allies oppose?

GOP congressman Don Bacon: Pete Hegseth "Stupid as Hell"

And there is yet more stupidity, compliments of Hegseth...

"Another bullet point poses the query, “Has the country shown alignment with the US approach to [be] ‘strong, clear, and quiet?'” a reference to a phrase used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in May." 

And just last week, China's Xi, who is a major Iranian trading partner, flat rejected Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ threat where he vowed “tremendous economic consequences” against countries that continue to do business with Tehran. There's more...

Tehran also condemned the US president’s economic threat, with the Iranian Foreign Ministry warning that those who order or implement the levies “are liable to prosecution and punishment.” 

Tehran called the threat the "other side of the coin of war." And CNN analysts commented...

Several analysts told CNN they were skeptical that Trump’s claims would have the desired impact on an Iranian regime that has withstood oppressive economic sanctions from major world powers.

Let's take a quick look at the countries Donald Trump has alienated, and why...

• Canada over tariffs -
  
  
  
• France over the Iran War - 
• Italy over Iran War - 
• Germany over foreign policy - 
• Denmark over Trump Greenland threats - 
• So. Korea over removal military support -
• Japan over Trump's big mouth -
• Australia over tariffs -

When you look at the above list, it is obvious the United States has nowhere to turn for help in a state of emergency. Except to Trump's authoritarian friends whose assistance always comes with a catch. There is no free lunch, as the saying goes, and you can bet that Kim, Putin, Erdogan, Xi and all of Dufus Rump's other dictatorial cronies would extract every drop of blood available from the White House maniac before they finally cut him loose. He's an idiot, they know it, the world knows it, and that is the problem.

 

 

Donald Trump v. Xi Jinping...another failure...what's next after the mockery?

Donald Trump with Xi Jinping
looking confident but beaten

CNN's  Erin Burnett comes on strong with her "stunned" reaction due to uninhibited mockery China has been hurling at Trump during his visit. There is a report that Xi did not meet him at the airport, instead...

"Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to China David Perdue; Xi’s vice president, Han Zheng; China’s Ambassador to Washington Xie Feng; and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu.”

Xi did send a gang to welcome T-rump but did not do the honorable thing of appearing himself to greet Trump. This apparently really pissed off MAGA, resulting in a meltdown over the insult. What a way to start a summit with the second strongest country in the world, showing disrespect.' Erin Burnett said that even as Trump was scheduled to meet with Xi that evening, the meeting was being mocked across China, adding...

"Beijing's strict censors are letting the ridicule go viral, which is a statement in and of itself."

There's more,,,

"America has lost its swagger. They're nothing but a paper tiger," one of those viral posts read. "The U.S. economy is in bad shape. Trump has been blustering Iran for so long."

It is beyond me how the Republican Congress, dumb as they are, could allow Dufus Rump to try and negotiate with a country so important as China. With the way Chinese manufacturers are taking over the electric car business, they could literally demolish the EV trade in the United States. And, China has nearly erased the overall performance gap in artificial intelligence chips. Currently, Trump thinks the U.S. is substantially ahead in AI but has registered concern over the competition in electric cars.

Here's another take on Trump's China visit from his niece, Mary Trump...

“Xi couldn't be bothered to meet Donald at the airport because he understands as well as Donald does that humiliating your underlings is a great way to keep them in check.”

So, the Oval Office lunatic blundered through an orchestrated greeting designed to show that Xi was in complete control with Trump later adding his adoration for the Chinese leader while Xi maintained a firm response. Donald Trump loves dictators. Other than Xi Jinping, the is Kim in North Korea, Putin in Russia and Erdogan from Turkey. Trump obviously had a thing for Adolph Hitler, admitting he had a copy of Mein Kampf given to him by a friend that he read regularly. 

Donald Trump is being laughed at all over the world, as well as in his own country, the U.S. Republicans in Congress know this but justify what's happening by the power they hold and are afraid of losing this if they defy the White House maniac. Remember in 2007, when Mitch McConnell, then head of the Senate. exclaimed that "The Senate has no claim on greatness unless its power is put to great ends." The GOP has used this ideology since then to create a power base that has brough America to the point of disaster.

Chinese media mocks Donald Trumo

But more about the laughter and mockery by the Chinese media, both during and even before Trump's visit with Xi...

"Trump is about to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping tonight, a high-stakes meeting which is being mocked across China. Beijing's strict censors are letting the ridicule go viral, which is a statement in and of itself."

Here are some comments from the people of China...

"They will look up to us from now on," read a post that Burnett shared. "Trump came to China! We won the tariff war! 

"Trump, you're welcome to visit China and learn from us," the mockery continued.

"The U.S. is no longer a country that we look up to. We can now compete with them with confidence and strength," a Chinese social media user wrote."

Did you hear this kind of rhetoric when Joe Biden was President, Or Barack Obama, or even going back to Bill Clinton? First of all, neither of the three admired dictators, as does Donald Trump, and in each of those three Democratic administrations, they were strong against the Chinese government, yet, also open to working with the country. There's a big difference between this and fawning over adversaries like North Korea's Kim, Russia's Putin, and now China's Xi.

And, there are other negative ramifications to Trump's China trip than mockery and being ridiculed. Donald Trump, who is supposed to be the leader of the free world, presents the weakness of a poor slob coming to Xi Jinping with his hat in his hand. This, after military experts have just told Trump he "is leaving US dangerously vulnerable." Trump was

U.S. vulnerable after depleting arms
in Iran War

warned...

"Before U.S. President Donald Trump launched the war against Iran in late February, military experts were warning his administration that taking on the Iranian regime would be a very heavy lift — as Iran is a larger country than Iraq, where a war proved to be much more complicated than George W. Bush Administration officials said it would."

And then...

"The Iran war has depleted America's weapons stockpile, leaving Donald Trump vulnerable and constraining his ability to resume hostilities, military analysts say. The majority of Iran's missiles and launchers, meanwhile, are believed to remain intact."

Not only has Trump left us vulnerable against Iran, he has put us in the position of not being able to defend ourselves against China--should they decide our weakness prompts a move--and actually the entire world. Think of this when you vote in November. 

 

The dictator has ordered: block China-Is anyone listening?

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The tyrant raises his ugly head again  

Donald Trump-Xi Jinping-Who's winning?

The Oval Office lunatic didn't get his way with the China tariffs. Although the Asian nation seems to be hurting, its president, Xi, always calls Donald Trump's hand, and just raised him with $75 billion added to U.S. goods. It's hard to say whether T-rump is winning or losing this battle, but it is more about the way it is being played than anything else. The machinations of Trump so far would lead one to believe we have an ego maniac running this country. We do.

When US companies were ordered to stop doing business with China, well, you can probably imagine the flabbergasted looks on the faces of hundreds of CEOs. Here's the scenario...

"President Donald Trump claimed he has the 'absolute right' to 'order' US companies to stop doing business with China that would involve using his broad executive authority in a new and unprecedented way under a 1977 law."

Trump lies about Trade War with China...

On the way to the G7 summit in France, Trump told reporters, "I have the absolute right to do that," citing the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). He also threatened Mexico with the IEEPA but reneged in another of his buffoon bluffs. The law gives "broad authority to regulate a variety of economic transactions following a declaration of national emergency." But Trump must...

"consult with Congress before invoking his authority and, after declaring a national emergency, send a report to Congress explaining why."

Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas and a CNN legal analyst says, "The idea behind these authorities is that the President is better situated to make those kinds of determinations than Congress, especially when they're time-sensitive." He added, "I very much doubt this kind of exercise of the authority conferred by the statute is what Congress had in mind." What he didn't say was the fact that it is a moron making the decisions.

Has Donald Trump made a major diplomatic faux pas?

China Pres, Xi Jinping

Donald Trump exclaimed with glee that he was putting all his business interests aside because it was more important that he run the government. And then he "innocently" accepts a phone call from the President of Taiwan, breaking a protocol dating back to 1979 when mainland china was recognized as China's government. But hold on, what about that new hotel in Taiwan that had been in the works weeks before the mysterious phone call.

Lawrence O'Donnell, on MSNBC, in covering the Taiwan call, also mentioned the fact that Trump was in contact with Rodrigo Duterte, Pres. of the Philippines, noting that he had called Barack Obama a "Son of a whore" again. O'Donnell continued that Duterte was the "craziest and possibly most dangerous elected politician in the world...as of now." The emphasis is my own but put there to question whether it might be predicting a future Donald Trump.

In consideration of the breach of protocol alone, Trump or his incompetent minions may not think it is important that they have in effect held Beijing in disrespect, but you can bet China's President, Xi Jinping, is watching every move Donald Trump makes and will take appropriate steps. Jinping was educated in the U.S. and is well aware of our customs here but the President-elects Taiwan move caught the country off guard:

"Breaking decades of American diplomatic practice, he caught the Chinese government off guard by lunging into the most sensitive of its so-called core interests, the 'One China' policy agreed to by President Richard M. Nixon more than four decades ago."

So much for diplomacy with a nation that we need to keep on the good side of not only for trade, but in the interest of a more stable world. But the real story here is the fact that political pundits question whether a major reason he took that call from Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, was to firm up their relationship in order to obtain more favorable arrangements for building a hotel in the country. That would of course be a major conflict of interest which is my next post today.