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choie

(6,138 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:10 PM Tuesday

Wouldn't it have been great

if the entire group of UN members who had to sit and listen to trump’s braggadocio, lies and insults walked out after the 1/2 hour mark? Why just sit there and take his bullshit. I know what you’re all going to say - that they have no choice, he’ll seek revenge etc. It disgusts me that we can intimidate countries in this way.

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Wouldn't it have been great (Original Post) choie Tuesday OP

I said the same thing. Why must everyone kiss his ass 24/7? Irish_Dem Tuesday #1

The BBC News BBC Verify segment took apart some claims. But then... pat_k Tuesday #2

I do worry, it is because the US is less important Johonny Tuesday #3

Yes. The U.S. may still be the 800-pound gorilla in the room, but 47 is pat_k Tuesday #4

Irish_Dem

(75,383 posts)

1. I said the same thing. Why must everyone kiss his ass 24/7?

Reply to choie (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:16 PM

Tuesday

Does no one have an ounce of courage?

Disgusting.

pat_k

(11,880 posts)

2. The BBC News BBC Verify segment took apart some claims. But then...

Reply to choie (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:58 PM

Tuesday

... Sarah Smith was asked "How did this address to the United Nations go down?

You could see how uneasy many of the world leaders listening to it were, but they haven't come out and criticized him yet. You have the UN Secretary General saying that the U.S. is essential to the work of the United Nations. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she agrees with Donald Trump on the need for the EU to end it's reliance on Russian oil.

Donald Trump came here 7 years ago and bragged about his achievements in office, and the people listening to him actually laughed at him -- a humiliating moment for him. Things have changed so much nobody dares do that now.

So, so many cowering before this shameful, bullying, lying, cruel, bigoted, bloviating, Jabba the Hutt, troll.

The short BBC Verify segment and Sarah Smith's comments are posted in this thread:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220669917

Johonny

(24,773 posts)

3. I do worry, it is because the US is less important

Reply to pat_k (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:01 PM

Tuesday

Trump is pushing China into the leader of the not so free world, and Europe is beginning to abandon the US. More and more, Trump is pissing in the wind.

They aren't laughing, but they're also not exactly planning on hanging around for the long term.

pat_k

(11,880 posts)

4. Yes. The U.S. may still be the 800-pound gorilla in the room, but 47 is

Reply to Johonny (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:35 PM

Tuesday

... sabotaging and crippling every means by which that power can be used in cooperation with others to protect allies and promote the values of global citizenship, at home and abroad -- values like human-rights, rule of law, religious freedom, self-governance, and economic justice, and the thinking underlying those values, among them rationality, compassion as a moral imperative, and scientific inquiry.

He is abusing the raw power of the American presidency to extort and coerce and to wreak havoc and exact vengeance on any person or nation he perceives as a competitor or opponent.

He is incapable of building anything of value to anyone but himself. He only destroys.

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