"After all that kissing arse at the Vatican, in Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia, I'm all touched out" says exhausted POTUS. Trump continued.

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In haste, I will post the old thread shortly.

The golf cart thing made me laugh (derisively)

Bet it won't make the news/go viral as HC collapsing at the 9/11 memorial service did. Because she had pneumonia.

What did Trump have? Toddleritis? Can't walk any more, is grumpy & needs to be carried, or carted?

He didn't want to use up any of his finite energy, Fid.

This is up there with the most cringy things he's done. What were they thinking?

Seriously though, if they were thinking at all Trump must have been mightily tired by that point. I doubt he'll do many overseas trips in future.

Article on Melania
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/27/melania-trump-steps-husbands-long-shadow-foreign-tour/

I'll make a prophesy here. I doubt Trump will do another foreign trip. First of all, he says he hates travelling and/or going outside the US. I want him to be so exhausted from this he doesn't come to the UK.

I don't think his health will come with it. He looked and acted dead on his feet at times. Apparently there's an Asian OPEC trip planned for him in November. Bet he doesnt go

www.rawstory.com/2017/05/i-dont-want-to-be-associated-with-him-100-eighth-graders-refuse-to-pose-with-paul-ryan-during-dc-trip/

He does not travel or 'translate' very well.

Love the looks exchanged between the guys around him when he makes his push.

A friend just sent me these:
You might say it was just a hand movement if it didn't have the smug smile
m.imgur.com/r/AntiTrumpAlliance/B3vj7fr

Otoh, Fox says the trip was a home run, America is back, Trump was an advocate for America and a pillar of strength. And goes on a rant about the traitor in the WH. And it's not Jared.

www.rawstory.com/2017/05/judge-jeanine-goes-on-unhinged-rant-i-know-who-the-white-house-leaker-is-but-im-not-ready-to-share/

Good grief, flipping people off?? What is he, 12???

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FFS a bloody war room to fight off the treason investigations. Seriously. The mind boggles.

I wouldn't even refer to it Ginger - I don't think there's any need. They've been referring to Bannon's 'War Room' for some time now. This sounds more like a turn of phrase to 'energise' 45.

I'd be suggesting to 45 that Bannon's "War Room" puts Bannon back in charge. Especially if part of his strategy is that Trump shouldn't tweet speak directly to the people so much...

But then I'm cruel.

Blimey. I watched a bit of that Fox News clip. Dreadful, truly dreadful, had to turn it off. Home run, my arse

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NEW: Trump prepares to fight Congress over proposal to lift ban on interstate tolls hill.cm/b8dPZ5y

This is a fascinating New Yorker article written in 1997 and is all about Trump and how he operates and the man he is.

How prophetic. Even then he was exaggerating the size of crowds, and there's a never ending stream of 'fantastic, super luxury, big, amazing'. Nothing's changed

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During first full morning back at @WhiteHouse after 9-day foreign trip @POTUS resumes tweet tirade against "enemy" media. pic.twitter.com/5RWsN7gIml

Trump probably flipped the Italian PM off because he asked him for some 'bunga bunga' and the PM told him 'we don't do that round here anymore'.

That picture of Scrotus in the Lil Tykes push car is absolutely priceless!

Thanks for the link to the 1997 New Yorker article Rousette - horrifying and fascinating in equal measures!

'Alair Townsend, a former deputy mayor in the Koch administration, once quipped, “I wouldn’t believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized.” '

Yes NorthWest it just goes to show. Trump has never been remotely likeable. In fact, quite the opposite.

This also caught my eye in The New Yorker article... it could have been written yesterday.

'Of course, the “comeback” Trump is much the same as the Trump of the eighties; there is no “new” Trump, just as there was never a “new” Nixon. Rather, all along there have been several Trumps: the hyperbole addict who prevaricates for fun and profit; the knowledgeable builder whose associates profess awe at his attention to detail; the narcissist whose self-absorption doesn’t account for his dead-on ability to exploit other people’s weaknesses; the perpetual seventeen-year-old who lives in a zero-sum world of winners and “total losers,” loyal friends and “complete scumbags”; the insatiable publicity hound who courts the press on a daily basis and, when he doesn’t like what he reads, attacks the messengers as “human garbage”; the chairman and largest stockholder of a billion-dollar public corporation who seems unable to resist heralding overly optimistic earnings projections, which then fail to materialize, thereby eroding the value of his investment—in sum, a fellow both slippery and naïve, artfully calculating and recklessly heedless of consequences.'

Macron admits his handshake with Trump was "not innocent":

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40077241

Interestingly, I seem to recall a short passage from some book where one of the characters is describing how to 'do' a handshake with a 'squeezer'. I didn't pay it too much mind because I don't seem to have to have handshakes with people but - if I recall - it came down to positioning your hand 'far up within the shake' so that any 'squeeze' has to be effected on your main hand and not on your fingers. Then, apparently, you can ........turn the tables, so to speak.

Look at where Macron has his hand positioned.

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Every single Trump supporter eventually... pic.twitter.com/avbqBMAsEk

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Chaos in the food industry caused after Trump yanked a rule requiring calories to be posted on menus nationwide politi.co/2runvre

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German Chancellor Merkel says the United States can no longer be considered a reliable partner in global affairs