Trump speech at DAVOS

[Shmoigel]

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

That is definitely a thing, I agree but the pp didn't allude to that, only his alleged incontinence. Imo that detracts from the seriousness of what he is and instead move into cheap namecalling etc.

A bit like when people mock the leader of The Greens for his teeth instead of focusing on his somewhat wild policy suggestions.

Biden got publically confused a few times and should have stepped down long before he did.

He had a good run but was clearly unwell and not in a place to do four more years - and people round him should have been clear about that with him and his party should have planned for it.

Trump never made sense in speaches even in the run up to the first term - seen comedians make fun of transcrpits of some of those speaches they make no kind of sense and ramble - it's just got worse and worse.

I was shocked he got in first time and astounded he managed it a second - though think he was lucky with his apponents. It beggers belief they couldn't find better candiates in a country that size.

But where are congress and the senate the courts - there are supposedly check and balances in the US system where are they and why aren't they working - US system put him in this poistion of power and left him unchecked - all the rest of the world can do is react accordingly to that.

I gave up smoking on the first of Jan. Half way through his speech, I got the fear and went to buy fags. I'm disappointed in myself, but I really got scared. Something needs to happen here. Europe and the UK need to stand up to him. Are we so dependent on him? Is there nothing we can do?

I was wondering about this - how interpreters deal with him. It must be so stressful. He says Iceland but you know he means Greenland, no sentence goes completed, and he makes up words and concepts. How do you deal with that? I think I'd spend the whole time in excusing myself and reassuring the client they were his errors not mine. Total nightmare.

Without any agenda at all, he actually sounded odd and a bit unwell - slurred and vague. It could just be his senility catching up with him (he is in his 80s after all, imagine trying to do a job as demanding as POTUS at that age) or something more serious.

Re Greenland, if he’s not going to take it by force (apparently) it’ll be a case of ever-crushing tariffs and withdrawal from deals and agreements until we all agree. So fuck knows what happens now.

I’m absolutely desperate for us to rejoin the EU.

I was thinking that. Utterly graceless.

I really feel for decent Americans who must be mortified at their ‘representation’

Oh damn, I forgot the correct preface to the phrase. Sorry.
Actually Pratchett's eccentric beggars make a lot more sense than President Trump.

Don't let him do it to you!

Can't remember which one it was but he referred to one of the country's referring to him as daddy.

After yesterday I bet it wasn’t Somalia. Also why does he pronounce Somalia / Somalians the way he does !

He's actually only 79. Doesn't turn 80 until June 14th this year.

I will say one thing for the UK, we would have got rid of a leader like this ages ago despite not having a written constitution. Meanwhile this dementia ridden mentally unwell man holds the most powerful office in the world. Truly terrifying

Are we so dependent on him? Is there nothing we can do?

TBF our poltican are doing it trying to keep him on side at same time scrambling to deal with fact we can't rely on US for defence any more and trying to get new plans up to speed.

The EU may impose more economic sanctions - as might we - and the greenland plans not popular in US either.

World economic and trade routes are adjusting away from US - and it in the courts at minute I think as to whether Trump can impose tarriffs like he has been doing.

He spoke about Renee Good, the woman shot dead by an ICE agent, and said what huge fans of his her parents were/are (not in this speech though).

The disrespect is just off the scale.

I was watching a video of GWB and John McCain earlier and the stark difference in manners and grace was astonishing

This.

We need to up our defence spending, rejoin the EU and create a European army.

Brexit was a huge mistake.

It’s the only way. As Carney said earlier, the old ways are no more.

What’s so sad is that most people looked up to the USA over the last 50 years or so. Admired them and wanted to be like them (in some ways). Now I recoil and look at them in pity and horror. How could this have happened to such an amazing and wonderful country. Trump is just a symptom on what lies beneath. He was voted in.

We were listening to it in the car on the way out to get lunch. Drove five miles, ate lunch got back in the car and he was still going. We said 'is he still talking?'

Stopped at the supermarket, got a whole trolley load of food, got back in the car and he was still going. Drove five miles back home. Got out of the car and he was still going. 😂

He is like those old men who watch telly and shout at the screen their ideas of putting the world to rights
Except people have given him the power to make all his ill thought out ideas come to reality

Biden had age-related cognitive decline, mild-to-moderate. Normal doddery old person stuff.

Trump has much the same, but because he is a lifelong sociopath and no longer able to use cognitive resources to hide that, it's turning into full-blown psychosis.

Someone pointed out recently that with the exception of Obama, every US president since 1992 was born in 1946 (Clinton, George W Bush, Trump, Biden, Trump). The world is being run by old scared men clinging to their authoritarian power (Erdogan, born 1954; Xi, 1953; Putin, 1952; Netanyahu, 1949).

“Until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy, right? Very smart man said, ‘He’s our daddy.’"

Talking about NATO?

I would imagine that there are many Americans especially in 'fly-over country', who think he's marvellous, the people who know the square root of f a about anything outside their owns shores, even outside their own state.

<sarcasm>

There are people - in power - who can make things go away. Just like they did with Jeffrey Epstein. Can't they do it now???

He’s the joke I enjoy. The orange man baby is just so out there, I just have to laugh. 😂😂😂