6/10/18: If you want to know how a relationship with President Trump, which he rates at a “10,” looks from the other side, international reaction to his conduct at the G-7 summit is swift.
A leading British newspaper, The Guardian, sums it up:
Donald Trump has left the G7
network of global cooperation in disarray [emphasis added] after he pulled
the US out of a previously agreed summit communique, blaming the Canadian prime
minister Justin Trudeau whom he derided as “dishonest and weak”.
The US president, who arrived at
the summit in Canada late and left early to fly to Singapore to prepare for his
summit with Kim Jong-un, shocked fellow leaders with a bellicose press
conference on Saturday in which he attacked the trade policies of
other countries.
The US had nevertheless appeared
to agree [to] a form of words on contentious issues thanks to an all-night
negotiating session by officials from all sides.
But after leaving for Singapore,
Trump tweeted personal attacks on Trudeau and said that he had told his
representatives not to sign the summit communique, turning what had already been a tense meeting of the world’s leading
industrialised democracies into a fiasco.
“There’s a special place in hell.”
Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, decides to go all hellfire and damnation, and see if he can’t make the situation worse. “There’s a special place in hell,” he says, “for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door.”
At this point, I am sensing a new Trump election strategy in 2020. We’re going to need another wall, a wall to keep Canadians out! First, Trump will describe them as “moose loving killers” and “psychos with hockey sticks.” Second, he will bark at every rally, “Who’s going to pay for that wall?”
“Canada!” the crowd will chant.
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Canadians have fought on our side in almost every war since 1917. |
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