Fucking hell. I don’t want to see what this shit is going to do to the markets come Monday. Friday was already a shit show.
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Really glad I am a decade plus from retirement. I think Monday will set us back a bit. And Il Douche will have no idea why this happened, and blame it on fake news. Damn, I hate this timeline!
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Here’s a look at Trump talking about Brexit and Boris talking about the trade war with China.
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The press is framing this as “gasp! an abrupt turnaround in policy!!” but it sounds like Trump was just tired and bored and didn’t give a crap anymore.
Asked during a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson if he was second-guessing his posture on China, Trump said, “Yeah, sure why not. Might as well. Might as well. I have second thoughts about everything."
Trump said, “I have no plan right now. Actually, we’re getting along very well with China right now. We’re talking.”
(Hilariously, the White House immediately issued a statement: "His answer has been greatly misinterpreted. President Trump responded in the affirmative — because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher.”)
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Surprisingly, Boris was the first one to rebuke Trump face to face, though as gently as possible, like a small child asking for gruel.
‘Just to register a faint, sheep-like note of our view on the trade war – we are in favour of trade peace on the whole, and dialing it down if we can,’ Johnson told Trump.
Johnson added: ‘The UK has profited massively in the last 200 years from free trade. And so we’re keen to see — we don’t like tariffs on the whole.’
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When were the Opium Wars again?
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Just in time for Donnie’s first meltdown about CNN this week
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But he has to get ready for his G7 tantrum. He’s swamped!
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I’m mildly amazed that, between them, Bojo and 45 haven’t managed yet to restart the War of Independence. I’m looking forward to a statement from Bojo on Monday:
Today, as once before, Albion finds its relations with Europe have left it, well… rather skint. We resolve to follow the example set by Donald Trump in his relations with China and navigate out of our present difficulties by taxing the American consumer. Henceforth, American importers of British products shall be required to purchase a certificate of authenticity known colloquially as a “stamp tax” on all goods imported from Her Majesty’s Imperial Estate Sale. An additional duty shall be levied on quintessentially British products like tea, jellied eels, and black pudding. Tallyho!
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Christ, not this shit again.
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Between the Trump’s self-owns and everybody else basically shutting Trump out, this G7 is turning into a real embarrassment for him.
Good.
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Very. Stable. Genius.
FTA:
Dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane would be banned under the terms of the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union.
This treaty was a mutually beneficial idea because the peaceful use of nuclear weapons proved to be a stupendously dumb idea. While you can use them to move a lot of earth or wind or water (and, say, create a water reservoir or artificial lake), it’s useless because it stays radioactive for a long time after. They literally have tried this! Chagan Lake and Project Plowshare by the USSR and US, respectively.
This quote, lol:
“What people near the president do is they say ‘I love a president who asks questions like that, who’s willing to ask tough questions.’ … It takes strong people to respond to him in the right way when stuff like this comes up.”
It takes weak people to respond in this manner. A strong person would say, “Nuking things for peaceful purposes generally makes those things radioactive, which is bad. We have tried this before, and it didn’t pan out. Do you remember, ‘Sharknado’? It’d be like that, but with radiation, and it’d be a hurricane.”
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Trump blew off a G7 meeting on climate change with the amazing excuse that he didn’t have time because he had to meet with the leaders of Germany and India (who were, um, in the climate change meeting).
When asked about it afterwards, he seems to have forgotten that the meeting had actually happened:
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/26/politics/trump-g7-doral-miami/index.html
… will face questions about whether he stands to profit financially
Ya think?
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Nah, attending such a meeting might imply that “climate change” was actually happening. We all know it’s just a Chinese hoax! Now go back to grilling burgers on your asphalt driveway. What a maroon.
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