Trump speech at DAVOS

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I think he has finally lost any marbles he had in his tiny little brain!

He called Greenland 'Iceland' multiple times, not just once.

Yes my FB is full of posts by various branches of Trump's government, all claiming that he's a great leader. It's been very obvious in recent days.

I'm not being flippant but I won't pander to beliefs that the US are the saviours of all like Trump likes to claim, there was something like 4 odd years of bloodshed before they came along and helped in WW2.

Where’s the CIA and why aren’t they doing their job?

And yet no one fucking calls him out for it. Disgrace.

Too many are still too stupid to get it! I've seen them on Nigel Farages Facebook posts supporting around, I don't think they get that Trump would love to turn the Great Britain they are so aggressive about protecting into an American territory!

I find it frightening that he said that he felt he owned Greenland previously because he defended them in WW2, does he think he owned every country that fought against the Nazis just beca America joined in to help!

I know! I was dumbfounded.

I don’t understand how many people on this thread haven’t got that. It was a line in the speech that is the subject of the thread. Are people just commenting without having bothered to actually watch it?

He did....

Good idea. Since Trump doesn't know Iceland from Greenland, he's unlikely to notice, especially if a group of actors are paid to fawn over him and call him "Daddy". They can lower a Greenlandic flag and raise a US one, and Trump will go away happy.

Because the media is being more tightly controlled by the few at the top owning it and traditional free press is significantly diminished. Fake Media was and still is a campaign to turn us away from what is happening, to not believe our own eyes and ears.

I think Trump is autistic. I heard somewhere he eats the same meal every single day and has other stringent routines. It all fits IMO

This is so fucking offensive I don't know where to start.

Yes - I feel like Putin has something on Trump too. Trump is delivering on the key Russian foreign policy objective of the last 50 years - to fracture NATO.

People often wonder why nothing stopped Hitler getting to where he did. How could no one in his immediate circle, or outer circle for that matter, see the utter lunacy (and pure evil) in what he was doing. And if they did, WHY didn’t they act?

The entire world can see this utter toddler-president taking a wrecking ball to everything around him, throwing his toys out the pram and tantruming at every opportunity, insulting his allies and chumming up to dictators, and basically talking bombastic shit about everything and that block of ice (Iceland/Greenland) and everything else … and we can’t do a thing about it.

In my opinion, listening to today's speech, it sounded to me that he has a very complex disorder. I remember when Biden was losing it. I wonder if there are people behind the scenes now wondering what on earth to do because it might get worse.

Apparently the strategy is just to outright lie, which I think makes it worse.

https://x.com/PressSec/status/2014020416860573726

Lying suggests that there is a problem.

It's odd to think that Greenland is one of the oldest landmasses in the world, whilst it's neighbour, Iceland, is one of the newest.

It depends what you spend money on.
The things that would have made a really big difference for Europe in the 2020s were:

1. An independent nuclear deterrence (only France has that)
2. A standing army
3. A seperate European/EU defensive alliance

America was opposed to all those things. The big elephant in the room re "standing up to Russia" and American presence in Europe is nuclear weapons and the nuclear deterrence. For pragmatic reasons (America needs allies under it's nuclear umbrella for it's own strategic defense) and humane ones (the less nuclear weapons the better) America would always have lobbied against its European allies getting weapons. It was Putin's ability to threaten nuclear war if he "lost" in Ukraine which led to so much restraint in how Ukraine's allies responded/are responding. Not to mention Ukraine had weapons once which they have up in exchange for a security guarantee from guess who...

What America meant, even under Biden, when it lobbied the EU to spend more on defense was that it wanted them to spend more on American made defense systems so we could use them in the next set of wars America asked us to join. Which is logical from Americas perspective. But a really hard sell to European electorates for good reason. I agree the EU does need to spend more on defense but it would be completely pointless to tie themselves into American made weapons anyway. It needs to be spending on things Europe needs for its own defense.

I listened on the car radio, thought it was some bad r4 play. Then realised and the full horror unfolded.. fucking nuts!

Sadly, yes. Several of my friends USA support him. I can't get my head round that. They are intelligent people and yet.....
Een if all the leaders of the world came together to strong arm him out, he would start a war and that's what they're holding off from causing. The prob is he could just start a war anyway....

J D Vance has a cock? And one big enough to make a dent in a bowl of porridge? I'm sceptical.

He was literally waffling on about anything and everything, jumping from one thing to another and then back again. Looked like he was about to fall asleep at any given moment and then he had the balls to keep referring to Joe Biden and sleepy joe Biden 😆 looked like he was also holding himself up with the podium. My son said he was a better comedian than president

Really? In AIBU? That's the best place you can think of for this?

Everything he said at Davos today and at his press briefing yesterday on the first year in office was either complete nonsense or a lie. He sounds either drugged or ill as very low energy for him both yesterday and today.

Several comments left me gobsmacked though. Standing in Switzerland, a German speaking nation he says You would all be speaking German if it weren't for the US as we won the war and got no thanks for it.

He pulled back on the tariffs and military action and the threat to take Greenland by force though but only because:
Bad polling showed virtually no US citizens agreed with invading Greenland
Overseas governments and investors selling off US bonds meaning a volatile bond market yesterday
The military saying they would not invade Greenland without Congressional approval.
There is some debate about whether these tariffs are even legal.

I think the EU leaders and Mark Carney did well to stand up to him but I am sure this won't be the last we see of his nonsense.

He keeps it hidden down the back of the sofa.

He seems to be completely mad - though has always been a horrible, narcissistic bully.

Why are there so many awful people running the world