Our list of allies grows thin! Our list of enemies grows long! Trump thread continued.

[TheClaws]

The above is a quote from The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, said by Lord Elrond. At this stage, with POTUS practically pissing off every ally the US has while cosying up with several dictators, it seems quite apt.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3283037-trump-puts-kids-in-cages-because-he-wants-his-wall-how-low-can-he-go-the-authoritarian-shitshow-continues

Ahah!
Christiane Amanpour
@camanpour
CRITICAL: @JDefteriosCNN sets the record straight. Most importantly, he points out that the US is growing as a natural gas exporter. “He wants to push this product into the European Union. He’s just not saying it outright. That is a fact.” link: www.snappytv.com/tc/8449919/5925317 snappytv.com/tc/8449919/592…
mobile.twitter.com/camanpour/status/1017067513354412032

It's not 'interesting' ffs, it's trumpspew. Stop treating this know nothing jerk like a normal POTUS, every time you do it enables him; nothing he says is either factual or reliable.
@BBCJamesCook
Ahead of Trump/Putin summit, an interesting line from President Trump who had repeatedly accused Germany of being captive to Moscow because it brought Russian gas. "Maybe everybody's going to have a good relationship with Russia so there's less of a problem with a pipeline."
mobile.twitter.com/BBCJamesCook/status/1017390489933438979

it's more what didn't happen at Stansted - military reception who he acknowledged; lots of airport workers gathered - prob because that's what you do when you work at an airport and someone 'important' arrives; but he didnt even acknowledge them. rude as fuck.

Plenty out to welcome him to Blenheim.

Pictures from Blenheim:
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16351030.donald-trump-visits-oxfordshire-landmark/

Thanks, yolo, he looked as miserable as we all feel.

Ick. From woman11017 s link. Although that's less hand holding and more being dragged.

www.salon.com/2018/07/11/american-hate-group-looks-to-make-allies-in-europe_partner/#.W0cvSANKUrI.twitter

Would he hold Macrons hand going upstairs? Why does he think our Prime Minister is incapable of steps?

Pictures from Blenheim
Melbot looks as if she should be poked on top of a Christmas tree. Maybot's ill fitting dress has a slit in the back of dress that nearly showed her knickers (unless she's wearing a thong), it is terrible colour for her pasty skin, and she's no Michele Obama, bare arms do her no favours. She never gets evening wear right. Her jewelry choice is usually great: that chunky silver chain necklace, with silver earrings, she wore in Brussels makes a classy statement and really flatters her, reflecting light to her face. The blokes look OK, though, if you discount T.'s hair and tan a l'orange.
(I'm available for consultations, Mme. Wintour or M. Enninful, and dirt cheap.)

Sleip, A gentleman takes a lady's arm to assist her, he only knows how to grab

*RedToothBrush posted this on the latest Brexit thread. The state is just something to sell really hits home:
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior
"There are parallels to past authoritarianism, but what's happening with Trump, in the digital age, is new and transnational. The president's loyalty is not necessarily to a state but to foreign leaders and multinational criminal alliances. The state is just something to sell."

More from RedToothBrush on the Brexit thread:

'One final predictation, which I am DAMN certain of: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are all going to be grim for political watching if you are into democratic values and principles. It will be a 4 day sales pitch for Brand Trump in all its All American Overblown Horror that Brits tend to find utterly distasteful. Expect the red carpet of full of turd glitter to be rolled out for Donald Trump Show. Expect May to embarass herself in her fawning all over him, as if she's star struck. Expect that hideously cringeworthy photo thats totally inevitable.

Politics is going to get worse. It may never get better.'

The motorcade in Camden.
twitter.com/m_santana/status/1017340614202068992

There is something so satisfying about that video, woman,
I think because it speaks for us all (even if they were going to pick T. up).

If only their presidential bud was there, they could have a threesome. Sad:

@chrislhayes

The rare two shirts, two pens combo. Well played.

@SimonMaloy
someone drank from the wrong grail

mobile.twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1017504237268406273

Note to the KJU letter Trump tweeted: it’s actually dated July 6. That’s before Mike Pompeo returned to NK, was ignored by KJU, and to them anyway, behaved “like a gangster”. So this is old news indeed and meant very much as a distraction.

Trump launches attack on Teresa May.

www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/donald-trump-has-launched-an-extraordinary-attack-on-british-pm-theresa-may/news-story/7a5eb99db690f249cd82652e6e78f86f

@waldojaquith
Theresa May deserves exactly what she’s getting. Everybody — everybody — who cozies up to Trump gets stabbed in the back.

@juliettekayyem
Text from calmest UK diplomat I know. Excuse the language: "we are all fuming right now. All month we’ve been preparing for tomorrow and he drops this shit right after the dinner?? Fucking ridiculous. Tomorrow will be a proper shit show now."

mobile.twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/1017612196011003904

May must feel like she invited the neighbour in for a cuppa and then neighbour promptly pissed all over her floor & walked blithely away.

I bet soon that POTUS will come out with some claim about the political views that the Queen has.

Blenheim
Dave Itzkoff
@ditzkoff
one thing was certain: it was an all-understudies dinner-theater production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf that no one would soon forget
mobile.twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1017566279463514112

Trump has apparently given some rather unfortunate tabloid interview but I don't know the details ....

Off to work and to protest.

This SBC series is going to be gooooood:
@frankthorp
Roy Moore says he was duped by Sacha Baron Cohen for his new CBS/Showtime series & threatens legal action "If Showtime airs a defamatory attack on my character..."

mobile.twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1017497372782362625

There is a circus out there somewhere that seems to have mislaid all its clowns:
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/12/politics/peter-strzok-hearing-congress/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22134841/peter-strzok-testimony-what-happened/

time.com/5337512/peter-strzok-congress-hearing/

www.politico.com/story/2018/07/12/trump-shahira-knight-legislative-affairs-director-714982