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When you're a clown the whole world laughs at you.
“We need a President who isn’t a laughing stock to the entire World,” Donald Trump
tweeted in 2014. “We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. Respect!”
Indeed, having such a leader would provide many benefits to the United States.
Instead, we get this:
Trump
says he’ll be leaving the summit early, and it won’t be the first time he has stalked angrily away from a meeting of U.S. allies before he was scheduled to depart. A year and a half ago, he
fled a meeting of the Group of Seven in Quebec, apparently miffed that the allied leaders expressed their differences with him on tariffs and climate change.
It’s almost as though at these gatherings of world leaders Trump becomes his most petulant, insecure and childish.
Trump’s preoccupation with the idea of being laughed at borders on the pathological. It was
his primary theme as a candidate whenever he discussed foreign affairs or international trade: China is laughing at us, Europe is laughing at us, the Taliban is laughing at us, OPEC is laughing at us, the world is laughing at us. But once he became president, he promised, the laughter would stop. And so he has asserted many times since taking office. “We don’t want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore, and they won’t be,”
he said.
Yet now, there is literally not a single person on Earth who gets laughed at more than Donald Trump.