New Yorker:
Accentuate the differences! Even if it means supporting your oppressors!!
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Cheers,
Scott.
Dnald Trump was at his most bombastic this week in Washington. “We are led by stupid, stupid people—very, very stupid people,” he shouted at a rally on Wednesday held to protest the Iran nuclear deal. Three days earlier, he had embarrassed himself—if he is capable of embarrassment—by commenting on a recent SurveyUSA poll showing that he would beat Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head race. “Thank you!” he tweeted, with a link to an article about the poll. The story he cited was actually from Iran’s Press TV, the English-language and quasi-propagandistic news outlet of the Iranian regime.
At the rally, which was held on the steps of the Capitol, Trump called the agreement between Iran and the world’s six major powers the worst deal—of any kind, apparently—in his lifetime. “So I’ve been doing deals for a long time,” he told the crowd. “I’ve been making lots of wonderful deals, great deals. That’s what I do. Never, ever, ever in my life have I seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated as our deal with Iran. And I mean never.”
The shallowness (and callousness) of Trump’s grasp of foreign policy became even clearer when he addressed the complex issue of American hostages detained in Iran, including a former F.B.I. agent who was last sighted there. “If I win the Presidency, I guarantee you that those four prisoners are back in our country before I ever take office,” he said at the rally. “They will be back before I ever take office, because they”—the Iranians—“know that’s what has to happen, O.K.? They know it. And if they don’t know it, I’m telling them right now.”
Accentuate the differences! Even if it means supporting your oppressors!!
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.