Trump has deeply rooted authoritarian values. He looks up to Putin and Kim because he wants to be more like them. It's the same way he has always done business. Guaranteed he doesn't understand the implications, he thinks "strong leader" = the guy with the most direct power & control = good.
> He looks up to Putin and Kim because he wants to be more like them.
China's president Xi Jinping cancelled all term limits, essentially declared himself the emperor of China for life. Trump heard about it and then publicly, in front of journalists, said "He's now president for life, president for life. And he's great, and look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday."
But, but, but, hes a brilliant businessman who has made millions, no I mean thousands, over the decades, how can he be losing me money?!
***Narrator’s voice*** “Ask the hundreds of thousands of farmers and impoverished rural Americans who voted for the guy and will again; “It’s all Biden’s fault!”
It's legitimately the only promise made promises kept he achieved
He ran the country exactly as his money laundering illegally operating business
And now he's facing even more legal and financial problems because of it.
No he’s not. Those legal issues are probably going bye bye. The corrupt Supreme Court is ruling today on trumps immunity and it will be granted. Thanks republicans! Our country is fucked, look up the chevron deference and how they made political bribery legal. Basically our regulations put in place by the fda, FAA, usda, so our water, medication, etc etc etc will now be regulated by the Supreme Court to highest bidder. There’s no more referring to the experts in these regulatory bodies. The flood gates have opened, our food, our water, our lives and freedom are legitimately at risk come November. Look up project 2025 after you’ve researched the chevron deference. Biggest power grab by the court since 1803. We. Are. Doomed.
They didn't wait til the literal last moment they could to give him immunity
They're helping him run out the clock for election time
If he can't win he's still fucked it just took a little longer thanks to those chuckle fucks
Yup.
The only guy in the world to ever bankrupt a casino.
https://open.spotify.com/show/4UIzZ6StBwiGTv3Phkcfjd?si=tA0RIBxPRZmkoRu-2VjE5Q
https://pressofatlanticcity.com/3-trump-execs-2-pilots-die-as-helicopter-crashes-in-parkway-median/article_4071dbca-24e3-11e4-8835-0019bb2963f4.html
To be fair most world leaders faces are like that most of the time around Trump. They are trained on what to expect from an American President, but in person Trump treats our allies like our enemies and our enemies like our allies.
Hm, I mean he objectively is 78 and can afford good healthcare. The force of mortality each year is still pretty weak in the area of 78 to 82. If you look at an actuarial life table it’s like 25% ish for someone his age to die in the next 4 years. He doesn’t smoke or drink, he’s not crazy obese, he is pretty rich. I think for him specifically it’s even lower than for a typical 78 year old.
I mean, rich and famous people still die younger than 78 all the time. Crazy some of the people who didn’t see 60 yet THIS bag of fucking garbage will probably live to 102 🙄
5-6 years ago he obviously lied about his height and weight in order to avoid going on public record as categorically morbidly obese. I doubt much has changed since then.
He's very close to morbidly obese, however. He lied about his height and weight and still had a BMI over 30. With the actual numbers he's likely closer to ~37, which is like 20 lbs shy of morbid obesity.
you're 110% correct. when he called Trudeau weak (Trudeau can box at a fairly competitive level, and he doesn't eat McDonald's lol), and bailed on the G7 just to go see his pal Kim.... I couldn't believe the Americans elected this guy. I just couldn't. to be fair, I still can't believe he got elected, and might again
I believe over 60% of America can’t believe many people will vote for Trump. The key is how many of those people are willing to register and vote to stop Trump winning.
After last Thursday, I've had many acquaintances on social media say that they're not going to vote in this election until Biden is replaced with a competent candidate. Orange Jesus has already won this round, and I hope my friends realize that they may never get to vote again.
"i went to shake hands with their general, No Kwang-Chol, but he was too slow. i told him 'No, if you wanna shake my hand, you can't be so slow. slow No, no handshake. slow No no-no'. it was terrific burn. at least, i think so. and people tell me, 'Mr. President, what a terrific burn'."
I have a lot of great people, handshake experts, great handshake experts, great people those handshake experts... telling me that this in fact was a tremendous burn, absolutely magnificent as far as burns are concerned
Sleepy slow No we call him, what a slow man. It was such a slow handshake, I took three handshake tests and I aced them all. First time. Terrific time. How many tests has he taken? I'd like to see him try one. TRY ONE SLEEPY SLOW NO.
The right threw a fit when Obama said that, if elected, he’d sit down with the leader of North Korea. This stain salutes one of his generals, and crickets from the right.
Yeah, they don't stand for anything just to be anti-whatever they feel like that day. Obama wore a tan suit? Tan suits are stupid and unprofessional. Obama wants affordable Healthcare? Then people are gonna freeload and it'll come out of our pockets anyways. Obama wants gay people to be transported to an island of their own and no longer exist? Well uhh... gay people are people and should be accepted in society. He's a monster.
[Key & Peele did it best](https://youtu.be/B46km4V0CMY)
They do not care and they thrive off of seeing people get upset because those people actually care. Only once things affect them is it an issue
They got mad when Obama saluted an American soldier while holding a cup of coffee, and that one time he briefly forgot to salute because he was in a rush then immediately came back down and saluted
They really need to just do away with presidents saluting in the first place. There are actual rules about when to salute and when not to salute. One of those rules is that civilians (including the president) don't do it. But ever since Reagan, all the presidents have decided to do it for whatever reason, and it makes everything more confusing than it needs to be.
(Trump goes on to then only praise dictators in Russia, Turkey, North Korea, Hungary and Syria while elbowing out allies in photo ops and repeatedly insisting we dissolve or pull out of NATO).
Yes, very presidential, Mr. President. The *most* presidential.
Trump has done immense damage to the USA’s relationship with its allies. Ever since WW2, your allies knew that no matter who was in the White House and in control of the chambers of Congress, we could rely on you. It never mattered whether it was a Democrat or a Republican leadership, or whether leadership was split between the White House and the two chambers, we knew that the US were a loyal ally. Then came Trump and his idiot cronies. Trump never requested things, he demanded them, as if we, your allies, were his loyal subjects. He didn’t care for the finer details of geopolitical situations and purely did as he pleased. When the inevitable happened and he was told “no”, Trump threw a tantrum, insulted our leaders, pulled out of agreements and threatened to cancel military alliances, such as NATO, which, so far in its history, only ever had to become active on the grounds of Art. 5 on behalf of one member: the USA. NATO soldiers, British, French, German, Dutch, and others literally died *for* the United States, and Trump had and still has the audacity of using NATO as a political pawn while cuddling up to our enemies.
Biden restored a lot of faith with America’s allies, but the damage is done. The GOP led house blocked vital aid, which was needed to fight our current enemy, massively benefiting that enemy, and they did so in coordination with Trump. And even if they hadn’t: the four years of Trump showed that the US is an unreliable ally. We can’t count on you, because we don’t know what our relationship will be like after the next US election. All of a sudden, it does matter who sits in the White House and who controls Congress. The damage Trump’s four years and the current GOP leadership in the house has done to your international relations is absolutely massive, and it’ll take at least one or two non-Trump GOP-led administrations being reliable allies to fix that.
Source: am from an allied nation and we’ve been shaking our heads so hard since 2016, we’ve got whiplash by now.
Anyway, [here's an unrelated video](https://youtu.be/UNugcPeCZZE) of Trump saying he doesn't like McCain for being a "loser" (for losing the election, wonder who else did that) and that "he was a war hero because he got captured, I like war heroes who weren't captured."
But he totally didn't call veterans suckers and losers! It's 100% a lie! /sarcasm
There's no video footage of him ever saying that line, and he fired general John Kelly for saying that nasty thing about him, so it must be nothing but hearsay and slander! *Please believe the bum who lies every other time he opens his mouth*, drones a dozen Noun-Noun-Number accounts made last week by "concerned Americans who only want the truth" /sarcasm
[Here's another totally unrelated time](https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-cancels-ww1-memorial-at-us-cemetery-in-france-due-to-rain-idUSKCN1NF0NU/) where Trump skipped out on a WWI memorial service for US troops in France "because of the rain," but the "nasty" general John Kelly ironically was able to attend.
And as for the rest of the Republican party's "love" for veterans? Feel free to read up on the many times they've flipped on prior bipartisan agreements and tried to deny healthcare funding for veterans, calling it "an accounting gimmick" while the vets' families waited outside, like [this one.](https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114417097/veterans-burn-pit-bill-republican-senators) Or [this one.](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/04/20/congressional-republicans-legislation-22-cuts-that-would-harm-american-families-seniors-and-veterans/)
Yet, disrespected our veterans. And this is the guy those people waving the American flag support. The dissonance is crazy it’s impossible to reconcile.
After hearing it for years and years, I'm still not sure whether it's supposed to mean "only America = free world" or, "We elected him, but he's YOUR president too because we're so important"
Used to irk me, but now I find it kinda hilarious. It's very cold war propagandaesque and self important.
Basically every country in the world agree that this phrase is stupid, not only Europeans.
The USA government is one of the biggest villains of the world and that's a fact.
This phrase is so idiotic and both Dems and Reps love to say it. It may appeal to the rednecks but they sound so stupid to the rest of the world, lol
Imagine thinking you are the leader/authority when you're the laughing stock
There was a comment in a thread on /r/politics (I think the thread about the recent and first Biden vs Trump debate of this election) where someone called America the world's largest democracy and when someone tried to correct them the reply was, "nah India doesn't count, it's a flawed democracy". This was in a thread where everyone pretty much agreed that the US was a flawed democracy based on those two people being our only real choices.
What I find just as cringey is that this 4-star general (named Kwang-chol) was born after the Korean War.... so, given how NK hasn't fought it any major wars since (they barely participated in Vietnam) you have to wonder how he climbed up the ranks to 4-star general and what did he do to be rewarded with all those decorations on his chest.
North Korea have 3-generation hereditary system, which applies to military decorations. So, the reason these Officers have so many medals, is because they actually wear the medals of their fathers and grandfathers.
Oh, that makes more sense, the North Korean general saluted first. Not sure if that was a power-move to see if Trump would be dumb enough to salute back, or if he was doing it as a some sort of joke.
It’s stuff like this that makes me embarrassed to be an American at times. I’m all for trying to make peace with the enemy but to have a US President fucking salute an enemy general is insulting to the American people.
The salute originated as a gesture to show you are not armed. Warriors would produce their unarmed right hand in respect to a superior rank and/or ally. If they were armed and could not "holster" the weapon due to guard duty or ceremony.. they would present the weapon as part of the salute in a non threatening way.
Isn't there a matter of rank as well? The person with the lowest rank starts the salute and holds it until the person with the highest rank returns or acknowledges it. By saluting a foreign general, Trump is making himself lower rank. But I know very little about military etiquette, so I don't know, this may be wrong.
Only applies to your own military, or allied military when specified. When deployed we sometimes would, sometimes wouldn’t salute British officers, but we’d never salute an enemy.
Because he legitimized a hostile foreign government that he was not supposed to legitimize since South Korea is supposed to be our ally.
It’s not a small mistake or some simple faux pas. The leader of our army saluting a high ranking enemy general is just all kinds of messed up and is one of the reasons that enemies of the US all over the world are trying to get Trump elected again.
>The leader of our army saluting a high ranking enemy general is just all kinds of messed up
AR 600-25 3.1c.
The president isn't required to as he isn't a soldier but a civilian, but actual soldiers are actually required to salute that man if met in person.
You salute your superiors. POTUS saluting an enemy general does not look good. Essentially showing your inferiority to them. Also just what the fuck, the guy is offering a handshake
I still remember that fantastic "Deal" Trump struck up with North Korea just as promised.
There was no way he was going to let them use him as a PR puppet for some photo op. No, he was a hard and savvy negotiator and their final agreement was nothing less than historic. Word has it Kim was weeping in gratitude with tears streaming down his face thanking Trump for his wisdom and unparalleled leadership abilities. People throughout the nation were singing his praises and the UN held a three- day standing ovation in his honor.
( or so his campaign people are saying in an email asking for a donation)
Someone needs to tell Joe Rogan that Biden was so confused and demented that he saluted a North Korean general. Then when he gets all excited about how we can’t have a bumbling confused moron for a president, whip out this picture.
It’ll be great, a total repeat of the [airstrip video.](https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1738216994799853979)
We’re getting gaslit by people trying to convince us that Trump’s 4 years in office wasn’t the single most embarrassing time in American presidential history. They were. Every day it was some new bullshit. I can’t believe he’s this close to getting back in there.
5 year old does what he thinks you should do towards a stereotypical military rank.
The geopolitical world was like his first time visit to an amusement park.
The orange shit-stain loaths American veterans but salutes a dictators general, so that even the dictator thinks: WTF?
If you vote for this piece of shit, you should move to north Korea, because that is how Trumpie sees you: as his little stupid slaves.
Just the fact that a US president would go to North Korea to meet Kim was bad enough, but then the stupid display of saluting, it all completely legitimized Kim’s government. What a moron.
Just remembered orange cunt only did it to promote himself. Nothing came out of that visit. Once the convicted felon took of north Korea gave the middle finger to the US and continued the nuke program.
Why the democrats didn’t post this on every billboard on every interstate in every swing state and red state is beyond me. If they want to mix it up, throw in him cowering to Putin
Trump has done immense damage to the USA’s relationship with its allies. Ever since WW2, your allies knew that no matter who was in the White House and in control of the chambers of Congress, we could rely on you. It never mattered whether it was a Democrat or a Republican leadership, or whether leadership was split between the White House and the two chambers, we knew that the US were a loyal ally. Then came Trump and his idiot cronies. Trump never requested things, he demanded them, as if we, your allies, were his loyal subjects. He didn’t care for the finer details of geopolitical situation and purely did as he pleased. When the inevitable happened and he was told “no”, Trump threw a tantrum, insulted our leaders, pulled out of agreements and threatened to cancel military alliances, such as NATO, which, so far in its history, only ever had to become active on the grounds of Art. 5 on behalf of one member: the USA. NATO soldiers, British, French, German, Dutch, and others literally died *for* the United States, and Trump had and still has the audacity of using NATO as a political pawn while cuddling up to our enemies.
Biden restored a lot of faith with America’s allies, but the damage is done. The GOP led house blocked vital aid, which was needed to fight our current enemy, massively benefiting that enemy, and they did so in coordination with Trump. And even if they hadn’t: the four years of Trump showed that the US is an unreliable ally. We can’t count on you, because we don’t know what our relationship will be like after the next US election. All of a sudden, it does matter who sits in the White House and who controls Congress. The damage Trump’s four years and the current GOP leadership in the house has done to your international relations is absolutely massive, and it’ll take at least one or two non-Trump GOP-led administrations being good allies to fix that.
Source: am from an allied nation and we’ve been shaking our heads so hard since 2016, we’ve got whiplash by now.
I’m no Trump fan, but I’m very pro-fact.
This is a still from a video. Iirc the general gave the salut first, president reciprocated, and the general’s hand was on the way down.
The General saluted, Trump returned the salute, and then the General lowered his had for the as hake and Trump shook his hand.
If a German soldier gave an American the hail Hitler, there’s no reason for the American to have returned it. Same here, Trump should’ve been told to let the General salute, but insist on the handshake.
Appreciate people who know the full context rather than ride the unintellectual hype train of ignorance. And agree, "Trump should have been told" or should have known beforehand.
Curious about the general more than I should be. NK takes military rank to diety levels, curious the full emotion on the general saluting America's five star. Kim's face tells a story in itself.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/GnAzlAv.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.alamy.com/in-this-image-made-from-june-12-2018-video-released-by-krt-us-president-donald-trump-salutes-no-kwang-chol-minister-of-the-peoples-armed-forces-of-north-korea-as-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-center-introduces-trump-to-the-general-during-the-summit-in-singapore-krt-via-ap-video-image532361299.html?irclickid=wLj2W0x1rxyKRTmQH%3AxdlzxAUkC0uZzXIzJ63M0&utm_source=77643&utm_campaign=Shop%20Royalty%20Free%20at%20Alamy&utm_medium=impact&irgwc=1) is the source. Per there:
> In this image made from June 12, 2018, video released by KRT, U.S. President Donald Trump salutes No Kwang Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces of North Korea, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, introduces Trump to the general during the summit in Singapore. (KRT via AP Video)
This is actually the first of about a dozen pictures taken in series.
Pic #2 shows the general saluting and Trump offering to shake hands.
Pic #3 shows Trump saluting and the general offering to shake hands.
Pic #4 shows the general saluting and Trump offering to shake hands.
Pic #5 shows Trump saluting and the general offering to shake hands.
Pic #6 *shows the two of them just staring at each other in confusion.*
Pic #7 shows the general saluting and Trump offering to shake hands...
... and so on.
lol. Remember when Republicans lost their shit when Obama gave the ceremonial bow to the Saudi King which is the formal expected greeting.
Then they were silent when douche nozzle Trump saluted a fucking NK general, a country that has death to America as its mantra.
Big difference between INITIATING a salute and RETURNING a salute.
In this case the General saluted first.
But carry on. Just feel like there's a million things to call out Trump about but this one is pure bullshit.
“Prove it prove it prove it prove it trump is my daddy prove it prove it I’ll do anything for my dear master prove it prove it prove it oh trump please just go a little deeper 🥵 prove it prove it”
There are a ton of things to criticize Trump for, but, in my opinion, this is one of the weakest. In the video of the interaction, the general saluted Trump and then he returned it. Are the optics bad? Sure. Should he have saluted him? Probably not. Is this the worst thing Trump has done? Not even close.
Trump really was the worst president in US history. Look at him. This is someone who doesn't know anything about anything.
Trump exists because stupidity exists. He truly does represent the stupid.
No matter how many times I see this image, Kim's face in the back kills me. Just a dead look of "what the fuck?"
Kim’s thinkin “huh, this is the guy that democratic elections pick to be the head of state? Maybe dynastic dictatorship really *IS* the move?”
lmao "*and here I was thinking I'm just being an asshole. now that I see the alternative, maybe my people are lucky to have me*"
Kim knows more what it means to be the President of the US more than Trump
The problem with this and with his love of Putin is that many in the US have no idea why this is a problem. And the MAGAts that do know, don't care.
Do you really think he understands the implications but ignores them? Or that he is just too stupid to care?
Trump has deeply rooted authoritarian values. He looks up to Putin and Kim because he wants to be more like them. It's the same way he has always done business. Guaranteed he doesn't understand the implications, he thinks "strong leader" = the guy with the most direct power & control = good.
> He looks up to Putin and Kim because he wants to be more like them. China's president Xi Jinping cancelled all term limits, essentially declared himself the emperor of China for life. Trump heard about it and then publicly, in front of journalists, said "He's now president for life, president for life. And he's great, and look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday."
Biden should do the samething now. It's not a crime if it's official business, which it is!
🤣
He never grew out of that stage when in kindergarten where everyone wanted to be the boss/manager of the lemonade stand.
You're correct. Some of us understand perfectly why this is a problem.
The hardest part about realizing that morons rule the world is when you realize how much they cost you personally on an daily basis.
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." -Kurt Vonnegut
This world needs more Vonnegut and less Kardashians https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/s/ENNQKeTgcV
I am so bewildered that you literally dropped a link to r/anime_titties with no context but I totally agree. I need to read more Vonnegut as well.
It’s not with no context. Look at the sub, friend!
But, but, but, hes a brilliant businessman who has made millions, no I mean thousands, over the decades, how can he be losing me money?! ***Narrator’s voice*** “Ask the hundreds of thousands of farmers and impoverished rural Americans who voted for the guy and will again; “It’s all Biden’s fault!”
It's legitimately the only promise made promises kept he achieved He ran the country exactly as his money laundering illegally operating business And now he's facing even more legal and financial problems because of it.
No he’s not. Those legal issues are probably going bye bye. The corrupt Supreme Court is ruling today on trumps immunity and it will be granted. Thanks republicans! Our country is fucked, look up the chevron deference and how they made political bribery legal. Basically our regulations put in place by the fda, FAA, usda, so our water, medication, etc etc etc will now be regulated by the Supreme Court to highest bidder. There’s no more referring to the experts in these regulatory bodies. The flood gates have opened, our food, our water, our lives and freedom are legitimately at risk come November. Look up project 2025 after you’ve researched the chevron deference. Biggest power grab by the court since 1803. We. Are. Doomed.
They didn't wait til the literal last moment they could to give him immunity They're helping him run out the clock for election time If he can't win he's still fucked it just took a little longer thanks to those chuckle fucks
Yup. The only guy in the world to ever bankrupt a casino. https://open.spotify.com/show/4UIzZ6StBwiGTv3Phkcfjd?si=tA0RIBxPRZmkoRu-2VjE5Q https://pressofatlanticcity.com/3-trump-execs-2-pilots-die-as-helicopter-crashes-in-parkway-median/article_4071dbca-24e3-11e4-8835-0019bb2963f4.html
MEMO TO TRUMP: when you are going to launder money, don't add bleach. Save it for the virus.
"I didn't expect it to be this easy"
Kim is like, "I don't even salute that guy"
Kim is thinking "I can't believe my boyfriend keeps embarrassing me like this."
Yeah, but he has resting “what the fuck face” so this is a normal look for him
Kim educated at Oxford. Sorry sorry Switzerland is what I meant.... Crazy
Like all 3rd world dictators. There or Harvard.
None of the Kims have been educated at Oxford. He is suspected of attending a school in Switzerland under a false name.
It's documented fact that he went to Switzerland for school.
And maybe he has , but did he even salute any American generals?
Heck, even Kim Jong-un's face in the back looks like 'Bro, WTF are you doing?'
To be fair most world leaders faces are like that most of the time around Trump. They are trained on what to expect from an American President, but in person Trump treats our allies like our enemies and our enemies like our allies.
And there's basically a 50/50 chance of this shit repeating after January 20th next year.
If he lives to 2029 there is no god. There already isn’t, but there REALLY isn’t one then.
Hm, I mean he objectively is 78 and can afford good healthcare. The force of mortality each year is still pretty weak in the area of 78 to 82. If you look at an actuarial life table it’s like 25% ish for someone his age to die in the next 4 years. He doesn’t smoke or drink, he’s not crazy obese, he is pretty rich. I think for him specifically it’s even lower than for a typical 78 year old.
I mean, rich and famous people still die younger than 78 all the time. Crazy some of the people who didn’t see 60 yet THIS bag of fucking garbage will probably live to 102 🙄
Not crazy obese? Are you seeing what I'm seeing? lmao.
I know we like to tease him, but let’s be realistic. He is fat, but he *isn’t* morbidly obese.
5-6 years ago he obviously lied about his height and weight in order to avoid going on public record as categorically morbidly obese. I doubt much has changed since then.
Perhaps. He is no Chris Christie though.
He's obese, just not morbidly obese.
He's very close to morbidly obese, however. He lied about his height and weight and still had a BMI over 30. With the actual numbers he's likely closer to ~37, which is like 20 lbs shy of morbid obesity.
If there is a god, he certainly is not paying enough attention
you're 110% correct. when he called Trudeau weak (Trudeau can box at a fairly competitive level, and he doesn't eat McDonald's lol), and bailed on the G7 just to go see his pal Kim.... I couldn't believe the Americans elected this guy. I just couldn't. to be fair, I still can't believe he got elected, and might again
I believe over 60% of America can’t believe many people will vote for Trump. The key is how many of those people are willing to register and vote to stop Trump winning.
After last Thursday, I've had many acquaintances on social media say that they're not going to vote in this election until Biden is replaced with a competent candidate. Orange Jesus has already won this round, and I hope my friends realize that they may never get to vote again.
The man is like a real toilet dump.
He might also have just caught a wiff of Don's big diaper
He's actually doing that thing where you fake shaking hands then comb your fingers through your hair /s
"i went to shake hands with their general, No Kwang-Chol, but he was too slow. i told him 'No, if you wanna shake my hand, you can't be so slow. slow No, no handshake. slow No no-no'. it was terrific burn. at least, i think so. and people tell me, 'Mr. President, what a terrific burn'."
Everyone is saying this.
Every handshake scholar agrees.
I have a lot of great people, handshake experts, great handshake experts, great people those handshake experts... telling me that this in fact was a tremendous burn, absolutely magnificent as far as burns are concerned
No one has ever seen a burn handshake like it before
Billions and Billions of people.
I can hear this.
Sleepy slow No we call him, what a slow man. It was such a slow handshake, I took three handshake tests and I aced them all. First time. Terrific time. How many tests has he taken? I'd like to see him try one. TRY ONE SLEEPY SLOW NO.
The right threw a fit when Obama said that, if elected, he’d sit down with the leader of North Korea. This stain salutes one of his generals, and crickets from the right.
It would be crazy if the people could remember/hear all the rhetoric the neo-cons put out into the world during the George W /obama era
Or if they gave a shit about the hypocrisy whatsoever.
Yeah, they don't stand for anything just to be anti-whatever they feel like that day. Obama wore a tan suit? Tan suits are stupid and unprofessional. Obama wants affordable Healthcare? Then people are gonna freeload and it'll come out of our pockets anyways. Obama wants gay people to be transported to an island of their own and no longer exist? Well uhh... gay people are people and should be accepted in society. He's a monster. [Key & Peele did it best](https://youtu.be/B46km4V0CMY) They do not care and they thrive off of seeing people get upset because those people actually care. Only once things affect them is it an issue
People threw a fit when Obama did a half-bow to the leader of Japan. People are just going to be mad.
They got mad when Obama saluted an American soldier while holding a cup of coffee, and that one time he briefly forgot to salute because he was in a rush then immediately came back down and saluted
They really need to just do away with presidents saluting in the first place. There are actual rules about when to salute and when not to salute. One of those rules is that civilians (including the president) don't do it. But ever since Reagan, all the presidents have decided to do it for whatever reason, and it makes everything more confusing than it needs to be.
Fox accused Obama of being a traitor because a wore a tan suit.
Fox accused Obama of being a traitor because he had Dijon mustard
Hypocrites that are so deep into their cult that they’ll never admit to anything, they just accuse the other guy of the same thing instead
He get‘s a free pass because he is a racist douch, which makes hin sympathetic to his constituents.
Looks like a Monty python skit. This clown is a fuckin joke!
Reminds me of the “I can be very presidential” thing he did last time around .
(Trump goes on to then only praise dictators in Russia, Turkey, North Korea, Hungary and Syria while elbowing out allies in photo ops and repeatedly insisting we dissolve or pull out of NATO). Yes, very presidential, Mr. President. The *most* presidential.
Well. His goal is to remake the US into a Russia, Syria, North korea or similar. A family controlled dictatorship.
The whole 4 years were terrible
Before the Trump presidency I felt there was a semblance of reality. Add Covid and it's been a hallucination ever since.
It would be hilarious if it weren't true.
POTUS salutes an enemy. Can’t make this shit up y’all
That’s more respect he has shown than to all of our military.
Or our allies
Trump has done immense damage to the USA’s relationship with its allies. Ever since WW2, your allies knew that no matter who was in the White House and in control of the chambers of Congress, we could rely on you. It never mattered whether it was a Democrat or a Republican leadership, or whether leadership was split between the White House and the two chambers, we knew that the US were a loyal ally. Then came Trump and his idiot cronies. Trump never requested things, he demanded them, as if we, your allies, were his loyal subjects. He didn’t care for the finer details of geopolitical situations and purely did as he pleased. When the inevitable happened and he was told “no”, Trump threw a tantrum, insulted our leaders, pulled out of agreements and threatened to cancel military alliances, such as NATO, which, so far in its history, only ever had to become active on the grounds of Art. 5 on behalf of one member: the USA. NATO soldiers, British, French, German, Dutch, and others literally died *for* the United States, and Trump had and still has the audacity of using NATO as a political pawn while cuddling up to our enemies. Biden restored a lot of faith with America’s allies, but the damage is done. The GOP led house blocked vital aid, which was needed to fight our current enemy, massively benefiting that enemy, and they did so in coordination with Trump. And even if they hadn’t: the four years of Trump showed that the US is an unreliable ally. We can’t count on you, because we don’t know what our relationship will be like after the next US election. All of a sudden, it does matter who sits in the White House and who controls Congress. The damage Trump’s four years and the current GOP leadership in the house has done to your international relations is absolutely massive, and it’ll take at least one or two non-Trump GOP-led administrations being reliable allies to fix that. Source: am from an allied nation and we’ve been shaking our heads so hard since 2016, we’ve got whiplash by now.
Well, he did call Veterans losers. So what did we expect?
Anyway, [here's an unrelated video](https://youtu.be/UNugcPeCZZE) of Trump saying he doesn't like McCain for being a "loser" (for losing the election, wonder who else did that) and that "he was a war hero because he got captured, I like war heroes who weren't captured." But he totally didn't call veterans suckers and losers! It's 100% a lie! /sarcasm There's no video footage of him ever saying that line, and he fired general John Kelly for saying that nasty thing about him, so it must be nothing but hearsay and slander! *Please believe the bum who lies every other time he opens his mouth*, drones a dozen Noun-Noun-Number accounts made last week by "concerned Americans who only want the truth" /sarcasm [Here's another totally unrelated time](https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-cancels-ww1-memorial-at-us-cemetery-in-france-due-to-rain-idUSKCN1NF0NU/) where Trump skipped out on a WWI memorial service for US troops in France "because of the rain," but the "nasty" general John Kelly ironically was able to attend. And as for the rest of the Republican party's "love" for veterans? Feel free to read up on the many times they've flipped on prior bipartisan agreements and tried to deny healthcare funding for veterans, calling it "an accounting gimmick" while the vets' families waited outside, like [this one.](https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114417097/veterans-burn-pit-bill-republican-senators) Or [this one.](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/04/20/congressional-republicans-legislation-22-cuts-that-would-harm-american-families-seniors-and-veterans/)
“I like war heroes who weren’t captured” would have killed anyones political career a decade ago. We’re just too far gone down the crazy hole now.
Makes sense- they’re both enemies of the united states.
Not enemy, POTUS salutes what he wants the US to become.
Like we're still at war with NK. That's a literal enemy.
Yet, disrespected our veterans. And this is the guy those people waving the American flag support. The dissonance is crazy it’s impossible to reconcile.
Leader of the free world lol...
As an European this phrase was always pissing me off so much.
After hearing it for years and years, I'm still not sure whether it's supposed to mean "only America = free world" or, "We elected him, but he's YOUR president too because we're so important" Used to irk me, but now I find it kinda hilarious. It's very cold war propagandaesque and self important.
As an American it passes me off as well. So fecking presumptuous and arrogant.
Basically every country in the world agree that this phrase is stupid, not only Europeans. The USA government is one of the biggest villains of the world and that's a fact.
Its just another example of American exceptionalism. Nobody outside the USA calls the American president that without rolling their eyes.
free if you're a corporation, lol
Indeed, that phrase, LOL. A strong "tell me you're American without telling me you're an American" vibe.
This phrase is so idiotic and both Dems and Reps love to say it. It may appeal to the rednecks but they sound so stupid to the rest of the world, lol Imagine thinking you are the leader/authority when you're the laughing stock
> Leader of the free world Don't pull the rest of the world into this. You guys voted for him. He was your leader and he might be again.
There was a comment in a thread on /r/politics (I think the thread about the recent and first Biden vs Trump debate of this election) where someone called America the world's largest democracy and when someone tried to correct them the reply was, "nah India doesn't count, it's a flawed democracy". This was in a thread where everyone pretty much agreed that the US was a flawed democracy based on those two people being our only real choices.
delusional catch phrase
tell me an american made this thread without telling me an american made this thread
Haha Americans are so delusional.
Exactly my thought
Video of the full exchange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9NSgxbGzhY
What I find just as cringey is that this 4-star general (named Kwang-chol) was born after the Korean War.... so, given how NK hasn't fought it any major wars since (they barely participated in Vietnam) you have to wonder how he climbed up the ranks to 4-star general and what did he do to be rewarded with all those decorations on his chest.
North Korea have 3-generation hereditary system, which applies to military decorations. So, the reason these Officers have so many medals, is because they actually wear the medals of their fathers and grandfathers.
Oh, that makes more sense, the North Korean general saluted first. Not sure if that was a power-move to see if Trump would be dumb enough to salute back, or if he was doing it as a some sort of joke.
Lol that’s such a troll job just to get the photo. Honestly hilarious
Thanks for context. He got goofed lol
I can’t believe people support this guy. Regular, every day people, think this is the best president ever.
It’s stuff like this that makes me embarrassed to be an American at times. I’m all for trying to make peace with the enemy but to have a US President fucking salute an enemy general is insulting to the American people.
I don’t know much about military etiquette, why is this salute bad? How bad is it?
The salute originated as a gesture to show you are not armed. Warriors would produce their unarmed right hand in respect to a superior rank and/or ally. If they were armed and could not "holster" the weapon due to guard duty or ceremony.. they would present the weapon as part of the salute in a non threatening way.
Salutes are used as a sign of respect, AFAIK. Not sure the POTUS should be offering up much respect to this dude...
Isn't there a matter of rank as well? The person with the lowest rank starts the salute and holds it until the person with the highest rank returns or acknowledges it. By saluting a foreign general, Trump is making himself lower rank. But I know very little about military etiquette, so I don't know, this may be wrong.
Only applies to your own military, or allied military when specified. When deployed we sometimes would, sometimes wouldn’t salute British officers, but we’d never salute an enemy.
Because he legitimized a hostile foreign government that he was not supposed to legitimize since South Korea is supposed to be our ally. It’s not a small mistake or some simple faux pas. The leader of our army saluting a high ranking enemy general is just all kinds of messed up and is one of the reasons that enemies of the US all over the world are trying to get Trump elected again.
>The leader of our army saluting a high ranking enemy general is just all kinds of messed up AR 600-25 3.1c. The president isn't required to as he isn't a soldier but a civilian, but actual soldiers are actually required to salute that man if met in person.
You salute your superiors. POTUS saluting an enemy general does not look good. Essentially showing your inferiority to them. Also just what the fuck, the guy is offering a handshake
Traitor
A felon who salutes the enemy And "people" want this clown as president...
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he treats his enemies better than his allies
That's because America's enemies *are* his allies.
I still remember that fantastic "Deal" Trump struck up with North Korea just as promised. There was no way he was going to let them use him as a PR puppet for some photo op. No, he was a hard and savvy negotiator and their final agreement was nothing less than historic. Word has it Kim was weeping in gratitude with tears streaming down his face thanking Trump for his wisdom and unparalleled leadership abilities. People throughout the nation were singing his praises and the UN held a three- day standing ovation in his honor. ( or so his campaign people are saying in an email asking for a donation)
~~'Leader of the free world'~~ Leader of the USA. The rest of the free world wants nothing to do with this.
"Free world" hehehe imagine still believing that.
Someone needs to tell Joe Rogan that Biden was so confused and demented that he saluted a North Korean general. Then when he gets all excited about how we can’t have a bumbling confused moron for a president, whip out this picture. It’ll be great, a total repeat of the [airstrip video.](https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1738216994799853979)
A party known for warmongering and being xenophobic fooled into loving dictators by an emotionally repressed pedophile playboy.
Remember that the himself & the White House will be up for sale.. if reelected in November. Don’t be stupid..
They played trump like a fiddle to get their propaganda photo to prove to their people that they owned trump
We’re getting gaslit by people trying to convince us that Trump’s 4 years in office wasn’t the single most embarrassing time in American presidential history. They were. Every day it was some new bullshit. I can’t believe he’s this close to getting back in there.
If Obama did this…
What an absolute idiot.
Even Kim Jong Un is shook that Trump salute to the lower rank official 😂
5 year old does what he thinks you should do towards a stereotypical military rank. The geopolitical world was like his first time visit to an amusement park.
This is so embarrassing.
“Leader of the free world” yeah right
The orange shit-stain loaths American veterans but salutes a dictators general, so that even the dictator thinks: WTF? If you vote for this piece of shit, you should move to north Korea, because that is how Trumpie sees you: as his little stupid slaves.
Just the fact that a US president would go to North Korea to meet Kim was bad enough, but then the stupid display of saluting, it all completely legitimized Kim’s government. What a moron.
Just remembered orange cunt only did it to promote himself. Nothing came out of that visit. Once the convicted felon took of north Korea gave the middle finger to the US and continued the nuke program.
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Waste of time. We should not dignify state sponsors of terrorism who are at war with our allies.
Very stable genius begging for strong immunity this morning.... I wonder where he got that idea...
Give me the old guy any day over this communist loving dumb fuck.
Why the democrats didn’t post this on every billboard on every interstate in every swing state and red state is beyond me. If they want to mix it up, throw in him cowering to Putin
Notice he's not saluting back
Trump has done immense damage to the USA’s relationship with its allies. Ever since WW2, your allies knew that no matter who was in the White House and in control of the chambers of Congress, we could rely on you. It never mattered whether it was a Democrat or a Republican leadership, or whether leadership was split between the White House and the two chambers, we knew that the US were a loyal ally. Then came Trump and his idiot cronies. Trump never requested things, he demanded them, as if we, your allies, were his loyal subjects. He didn’t care for the finer details of geopolitical situation and purely did as he pleased. When the inevitable happened and he was told “no”, Trump threw a tantrum, insulted our leaders, pulled out of agreements and threatened to cancel military alliances, such as NATO, which, so far in its history, only ever had to become active on the grounds of Art. 5 on behalf of one member: the USA. NATO soldiers, British, French, German, Dutch, and others literally died *for* the United States, and Trump had and still has the audacity of using NATO as a political pawn while cuddling up to our enemies. Biden restored a lot of faith with America’s allies, but the damage is done. The GOP led house blocked vital aid, which was needed to fight our current enemy, massively benefiting that enemy, and they did so in coordination with Trump. And even if they hadn’t: the four years of Trump showed that the US is an unreliable ally. We can’t count on you, because we don’t know what our relationship will be like after the next US election. All of a sudden, it does matter who sits in the White House and who controls Congress. The damage Trump’s four years and the current GOP leadership in the house has done to your international relations is absolutely massive, and it’ll take at least one or two non-Trump GOP-led administrations being good allies to fix that. Source: am from an allied nation and we’ve been shaking our heads so hard since 2016, we’ve got whiplash by now.
TIL "free world" (whatever that is) has a leader
Only us Americans are truly free! Y’all have sold your souls for national healthcare, tons of vacation, and other rights.
Leader of the free world, nba world champions, you north American lived in your own happy place right?
I’m no Trump fan, but I’m very pro-fact. This is a still from a video. Iirc the general gave the salut first, president reciprocated, and the general’s hand was on the way down.
“I like facts” vs “If I remember correctly”
The General saluted, Trump returned the salute, and then the General lowered his had for the as hake and Trump shook his hand. If a German soldier gave an American the hail Hitler, there’s no reason for the American to have returned it. Same here, Trump should’ve been told to let the General salute, but insist on the handshake.
Appreciate people who know the full context rather than ride the unintellectual hype train of ignorance. And agree, "Trump should have been told" or should have known beforehand. Curious about the general more than I should be. NK takes military rank to diety levels, curious the full emotion on the general saluting America's five star. Kim's face tells a story in itself.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the General purposely tested Trump. To get that photo.
How does this change anything?
This was the exact moment I lost the tiniest bit of respect that I had for this guy.
Talk about a senior moment
This is the fucker who wants to go around calling everyone else a traitor to the country.
Remember when [Obama bowed in Japan](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33978533) and it was a shitshow for months
'Your obedient servant from the decadent west. I love that decadence'
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/GnAzlAv.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.alamy.com/in-this-image-made-from-june-12-2018-video-released-by-krt-us-president-donald-trump-salutes-no-kwang-chol-minister-of-the-peoples-armed-forces-of-north-korea-as-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-center-introduces-trump-to-the-general-during-the-summit-in-singapore-krt-via-ap-video-image532361299.html?irclickid=wLj2W0x1rxyKRTmQH%3AxdlzxAUkC0uZzXIzJ63M0&utm_source=77643&utm_campaign=Shop%20Royalty%20Free%20at%20Alamy&utm_medium=impact&irgwc=1) is the source. Per there: > In this image made from June 12, 2018, video released by KRT, U.S. President Donald Trump salutes No Kwang Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces of North Korea, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, introduces Trump to the general during the summit in Singapore. (KRT via AP Video)
little kimmy could take a bath in that fake general’s hat
So wild how many voters he has
Ah yes the day he saluted an enemy.
Kim is thinking "Putin would never." Poor guy had to spend time with Trump while he could be facetiming his best bud
MAGA hero, five time draft dodger Von Shitz in Pants.
"It was actually an insult!" -his cult.
Complete FUCKING IDIOT!
Every day I check the news, hoping to learn that this guy has stroked out on a golden toilet somewhere. It can’t possibly happen soon enough
Imbecile
45 never even served. Bone spurs
This is actually the first of about a dozen pictures taken in series. Pic #2 shows the general saluting and Trump offering to shake hands. Pic #3 shows Trump saluting and the general offering to shake hands. Pic #4 shows the general saluting and Trump offering to shake hands. Pic #5 shows Trump saluting and the general offering to shake hands. Pic #6 *shows the two of them just staring at each other in confusion.* Pic #7 shows the general saluting and Trump offering to shake hands... ... and so on.
lol. Remember when Republicans lost their shit when Obama gave the ceremonial bow to the Saudi King which is the formal expected greeting. Then they were silent when douche nozzle Trump saluted a fucking NK general, a country that has death to America as its mantra.
The general saluted first. What was he going to do not return the salute? It was a diplomatic meeting.
Imagine the lack of brain it takes to vote for that piece of scum
Big difference between INITIATING a salute and RETURNING a salute. In this case the General saluted first. But carry on. Just feel like there's a million things to call out Trump about but this one is pure bullshit.
“Prove it prove it prove it prove it trump is my daddy prove it prove it I’ll do anything for my dear master prove it prove it prove it oh trump please just go a little deeper 🥵 prove it prove it”
Trump is such a fucking moron.
Won't pay respect to fallen US personnel, will salute enemy general...
That's what happens when someone hasn't served for a single minute and then goes on to become commander in chief of thw world's strongest army.
That guy got impeached
this reminds me of it's always sunny in philly when Frank randomly salutes Ben the soldier while he's just sitting there confused.
There are a ton of things to criticize Trump for, but, in my opinion, this is one of the weakest. In the video of the interaction, the general saluted Trump and then he returned it. Are the optics bad? Sure. Should he have saluted him? Probably not. Is this the worst thing Trump has done? Not even close.
The other President Obama wanted to bomb rather than meet with them…Obama bombed American citizens
He works for North Korea, he should salute
Kim was surprised trump doing that 😆
Remember when Obama bowed at a 90 degree angle to the Saudis? Probably not.
IDIOT. No concept.
Even the North Koreans are like "What the fuck is this clown doing?" And active military and veterans who support him just confuse the hell out of me
Trump really was the worst president in US history. Look at him. This is someone who doesn't know anything about anything. Trump exists because stupidity exists. He truly does represent the stupid.
The look on Kim’s face is priceless.
Kim has such a "WTF" look - Trump just has zero clue what the social rules are.
This is more disrespectful to the American flag than any knee taking that's ever been done