Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett: I remember back when it was starting on the tariff war with Canada, one of the [Trump] administration officials told me that they were going after Canada for sport, just to show who's in charge.
Why is Israel getting blamed for trying to protect its citizens from hezbollah attacks? Iran funds and arms hezbollah, encourages them to kill israelis in israel and then blames israel for defending its own citizens. We should be focusing our anger on the iranian dictatorship not on a democracy fighting to protect its citizens
Donald Trump walked into the final day of the G7 nearly an hour late and announced "I'm the boss." The room laughed. Not with him. At him.
Macron, the actual host, had already kicked things off, then welcomed the latecomer with a polite "How are you?" the way you'd humor an uncle who wandered in halfway through dinner.
A day earlier, a live microphone caught Macron leaning into Zelensky and confiding that the leaders had just had a "difficult discussion" with Trump.
Difficult. That's diplomat for exhausting.
This is the whole gap. Trump sells himself as the dealmaker, the closer, the guy from the boardroom show who points and fires people.
In his head he's still hosting "The Apprentice." In the room, the grown-ups are quietly working around him, scheduling the meetings he forgets to schedule, smoothing the messes, waiting for him to sit down.
And the deals? He flew into Evian waving a memorandum with Iran like a trophy. Then he admitted it isn't even final, and if Tehran misbehaves he'll go right back to "dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head."
Ask him why the same leaders gossiping about him on hot mics were suddenly clapping for his Iran announcement, and he tells reporters they've realized he was right and now "all of a sudden they all want to be involved."
They don't think you were right. They're managing you.
There's a famous old photo of Trump at a G7 2018, arms crossed, while Merkel and a half-circle of leaders lean over a table at him like parents staging an intervention.
Nothing has changed except the year. He still shows up late, still demands the center of the frame, still confuses being tolerated for being respected.
A boss is someone people follow because they trust his judgment. What Trump has is a room of people who learned to schedule around his moods, flatter the deal so he stays in his chair, and say "difficult" only when the mic is off.
You don't do that to your boss. You do that to a liability.
Rosie O’Donnell on Trump / Epstein: “When it gets released, he will be put in prison along with all the other men who have not been charged in the gross rape and torture of young girls and boys. He thinks he can get away with the fact that he went there 300 something times. People didn’t believe priests could be pedophiles. A president, that couldn’t be true. It’s true. There’s evidence and survivors. He’s trying to hide it so he doesn’t have to go to jail. Those are the facts whether you like them or not”
🚨 TRUMP SPARKS DIPLOMATIC CRISIS WITH ITALY: Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has canceled his planned June 21–22 trip to Washington after President Trump insulted Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, claiming she “begged” for a photo with him at the G7 and that he “felt sorry for her.”
Meloni released a video firing back at Trump’s comments, calling them “completely fabricated.”
“I am frankly appalled,” she said. “I don’t know why the President of the United States behaves this way towards his allies.”
She added that Trump appears to show more accommodation toward “the enemies of the West” than America’s allies and concluded by saying: “Italy and I never beg.”
Netanyahu: "I demand that Western governments do what is necessary to fight antisemitism“
No person on the planet has done more to fuel the rise in antisemitism than this psychopath.
Dear media
@CNN@ABC@NBC@CBS@FoxNews
Report on Trump like you did on Biden.
Trump is:
Old
Declining
Confused
Bruised
Cognitive decline
Multiple doctors
Can’t stand or walk or step up or sit without help
Dementia
Speaks horribly about Americans
Degrades America
Lies
Vance: The Obama nuclear deal allowed enrichment. Ours won't. The Obama deal gave them a billion dollars of American money. This gives them zero dollars of American money.
French President Emmanuel Macron pulls off what could be the greatest diplomatic troll of all time by getting Trump to sign the "$300 Billion US Surrender to Iran" deal in... Versailles. The ignoramus Trump will have been clueless as to the historical significance of the location
Kind of odd that all the Trump "I’m the boss" clips leave out the part where he enters the room like he's part of the South Korean delegation, blindly following Lee Jae Myung to his seat.