I agree with radicalnan. I wish people could find a way of criticising without being so personal and as for the 'Trump Troll'....! We are all grandparents, for goodness sake. What sort of example are you giving to your grandchildren if you speak about people in this fashion? They will think it's ok to do that, which could well become verbal bullying.
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Trump: My Button Is Bigger Than Your Button.
(71 Posts)I cannot believe Trump. He ought to write the "How Not to Do Diplomacy" handbook.
Was he right to stand up to North Korea's equally barmy Kim Jong Un? Part of me admires his lack of tact in this instance. If we tiptoe around bullies it gives them power. Is Trump's confrontation so bad? It's a weird way for heads of state to behave, for sure.
Their playground 'bring it on' behaviour could result in Armegeddon.
news.sky.com/story/my-button-is-much-bigger-trump-threatens-north-korea-with-nuclear-war-11193800
Catherine - that's very sweet. (Your delightful grandson - not the troll!)
Is all of this news really true? Although I hesitate to utter the words 'Blair' and 'Truth' in the same sentence, he was insisting yesterday that the item relating to his having told 'The Donald' that Britain had been spying on him during the election campaign was 'fake' and yet it was now half way round the globe, and quoted 'But this is politics today'.
Yesterday a psychiatrist (I think) said Trump is 'unravelling'. The Times this morning had this as front page news and carried a most unfortunate photo of Trump, looking as if he indeed was losing his reason, and asking where his straight jacket might be found; his face looked pink and puffy and the hair (!) appeared to have a floating life of its own. How much can we really believe? If this is all true I may well decide to become a hermit and hide away in the forest without any media.
Hear hear Iam64 - good points well made.
Trump is only interested in getting even richer and in making himself look the big man. By ramping up all these political situations he improves the bottom line of the defence industry. Vile man.
I couldn't agree more, Blubelle. My whole family bursts out laughing out loud at the idea of Trump's "button" being bigger, better and working better than Kim Young One's! Did I hear Kim Young One saying that he was going to represent his country as the only athlete competing? And whenever I hear about DT's hands, I tend to think "Small hands, small dxxx"!
What a circus this is, or play school, two very powerful men acting like children, threatening world peace.
Is there no hope of Trump being de- throned in any way, I would pull the trigger myself,to stop this stupid bully of a man.
Quiz queen that sounds a better approach than DT!
*The people did not elect T. The electoral college did and there’s a difference. I live in the states and despise the role model he is for the world and especially our youth. His arrogance and narcissism is counter productive to every value and belief most of us have been taught. He is ignorant of the political system and how it works. I may not have liked all our leaders but I respected them .
I have heard many interviews with T before he became the president. He talked disgustingly about women and cheated his employees of money. No one is perfect but his congress has spent more time the last year not working for the people . I resent that.
Oh well, never mind, all you Labour lovers on here might get Jeremy for PM one day. He'll just look up into the sky and say, 'Oh dear, there one of those nasty bombs coming our way. Perhaps if I ask Mr Kimmy thingy over for tea and a sandwich at no. 10, he won't send another. Really, there's no need for any nastiness like that'
I used to find his antics funny, but now I fear for the safety of the planet.
I agree with Fennel - to think that we all thought 'Dr Strangelove' was a fantasy......
I too think Chump will be impeached eventually - can't wait.
Trump bashing again. I begin to think some of you ladies have the hots for him, he figures so large every day on GN.
Is he the worst in the world really? I find them all abhorrent but this persistent picking away at him is ridiculous.
Blair ought to be behind bars and if we spent as much effort on that, as we do criticising Trump, we may get some justice for the many people killed on his watch. Of course he is better looking than Trump and rather more 'smarmy', maybe that is what is really admired in politicians, good presentation??? That would account for the popularity of Obama.
If a group of men relentlessly abused a female politician for the size of her hands, hair style etc we would all think that wrong. Trump was elected by people in his country some of whom are pleased with him. We have our own problems to be dealing with.
If we subscribe to the sh*t storms in the media we abdicate critical thinking. He seems to be speaking to the Korean leader in language they both understand.
Bet Wolffs book makes interesting reading. Apparently he had unparalleled access to the White house for quite a few months.
Why can't Trump and KJU be compared? They are both despots, bullies, not very bright, boastful, narcissistic and both have a nuclear button, to name but a few similarities.
They could trigger armageddon if they are incapable of reigning themselves in.
What ever happened to diplomacy in the Trump Whitehouse? There isn't any. It's like a soap opera, with "you're fired/stupid/a liar" etc as a main theme, liberally sprinkled with boasting from the Potus.

Whatever you think of DT I can't compare him with that complete "nut job" that is KJU.
Wonder what Trump got for laundering it?
Just been reading about Trumps association with the Russians.
Anyone watching McMafia? You’d be hard pushed to distinguish between the two. Especially when you look at the pair of them I.e. Trump and wife.
Money laundering seems high up there. Drugs? Prostitution? Wonder why they need to launder it?
Trump has in fact directed his biggest tirade towards his pal Bannon. Strong language! Russia and Trumps family feature in Bannon book out next week.
Expect more from Trump
Is this confrontational verbal assault - for all the world to read - the new way forward? (Or backwards?)
Trump and Kim Yong Un are sparring and it's out there. There aren't peace keepers flying in to closed conference rooms to mediate - this is out and out hatred. They might as well be in a boxing ring.
I do agree lemon. I think previous diplomacy has conveniently turned a blind eye to what could be worrying global situations. Previous 'diplomatic' styles have kept a lid on a simmering pot. Kim Yong Un turns up the heat and Donald Trump pulls off the lid and throws it away. It's likely to boil over. They are pressing each others buttons, to coin a phrase. It is all so childish but it's made us all very aware of the precarious situation we are in.
Yes, they do both seem very like teenagers, but very powerful ones unfortunately.
I know what you mean though Day6 because previous Presidents have done nothing, which allowed the state of things to be as they now are vis a vis NK becoming a nuclear capability.
Its a case of my d*ck is bigger than your d*ck. Most men grow out of that phase in junior school.
The more I read about Trump and Kim Jong Un, the more I am struck by how similar they are. Posturing, posing, shooting their mouths off in silly threats, that could get serious, continually challenging each other to arm-wrestling contests, which they can always find reasons for not having.
Yes, the more I think about it the more sure I am that the future of the world lies in the hands of two men with the minds of 10 year olds.
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