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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Don't fret, Trump tells nervous Ireland, Brexit will work out 'very well'
By Steve Holland and Conor Humphries DOONBEG, Ireland©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Jimizo
Sometimes it’s better to just shut up.
PTownsend
Were the bar tabs, luxurious accommodation, meals and security for the Trump family picked up by US taxpayers?
Arrrgh-Type
Details? On an official state trip? From this President? Uh, no. He's got to focus his energy on feuding with Bette Midler on Twitter. You know, the important stuff.
CrazyJoe
Thanks to the PM of Ireland, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who refused to meet Trump at his Golf Course, so Trump could use it as a PR stunt and possibly take a 'tax deduction' for the trip.
Varadkar saw right through the 'blarney' of what Trump was trying to accomplish!
Toasted Heretic
Hasn't a clue about the Border, the GFA or the people. And Shannon has recent history with the warmongering.
Sinn Fein's Paul Gavan is correct when he says
Three million US troops and their weapons have been transported through Shannon Airport to and from US wars since 2001. CIA torture rendition flights have also refuelled at Shannon Airport in direct violation of Irish neutrality and international law, including the Geneva Convention on War, the Hague Convention (V) of 1907 on neutrality, the Nuremberg principles, the UN convention against torture and the UN Charter. US military use of Shannon is an affront to our tradition of neutrality and an appalling stain on our record of standing up for Human Rights across the world. There are a host of other very valid reasons to oppose President Trump including his racism, his misogyny, his anti-Palestinian policies and his appalling denial of climate change. However, above all, it is his fuelling of the military war machine that continues to wreak havoc and destruction throughout the world that demands that we take a stand today.
Amach as mo radharc, Mr Trump.
bass4funk
He has advisors on both sides to inform him.
I see.
Toasted Heretic
He says he's a genius, he doesn't listen to advisors. It's an insult to the people who have died north and south, to compare it to his vanity project. He's talking through his backside when he says Brexit is not a problem for Ireland.
Do you think recent activity in Derry and elsewhere is just co-incidence?
bass4funk
He’s not listening to Bolton on North Korea and Iran, so you should applaud that.
Some felt like that about the presence of the last President. It doesn’t matter, this commemoration is not about Trump, I know the media could care less about the fallen because of their bloodlust for this President, but no one should buy into the hype.
Depends on how you look at it, I get your point, but on a monetary level, it would be easier.
I don’t think so.
PTownsend
How can anyone even pretend to know who Trump listens to, or if he listens to anyone at all beyond Hannity and some of Rupert Murdoch's other paid mouthpieces, Sheldon Adelson (money talks, after all), Jared, Ivanka and little Stephen Miller? And what expertise do any of those people have greater than any person on the street.
How can anyone believe anything Trump says today when he's flip-flopped and flat out lied so many times.
Jimizo
Both sides of what in this case?
Yes, he has advisors. Nobody can be a functional expert on all areas and the question of the Irish border isn’t of huge significance to most people in the world.
Then again, he is the US President visiting Ireland. Any moderately informed person wouldn’t have spouted this ignorant gibberish. As mentioned earlier, it was a hurricane of trash and idiocy on Twitter from Trump yesterday. He could be putting that time to better use and not come across as a pig-ignorant halfwit.
rlperez@hotmail.com.au
Wait till the UK exits, they will come firmly under the heel of Washington; this is what this visit is all about. A "prenominal" trade deal, the US will control, not just your foreign policy but your economy. Didn't the US just tell your PM she had to spend more on defence to support US domination?
plasticmonkey
So the American people pay and the Trump Organization profits. Nothing unethical about that at all.
Blacklabel
Who picks a time while the President is overseas to post a known false quote attributed to the President? I thought overseas was sacred or something? It takes literally 15 seconds to send a tweet, you know?
Dont want to get called out, dont post false attacks.
cleo
Then either they aren't doing their job of advising, or he simply isn't listening.
The Guardian reports the conversation when he met the taoiseach:
“I think it will all work out very well, and also for you with your wall, your border,” he said at a joint press conference. “I mean, we have a border situation in the United States, and you have one over here. But I hear it’s going to work out very well here.”
Varadkar interjected that Ireland wished to avoid a border or a wall, a keystone of Irish government policy.
“I think you do, I think you do,” Trump said. “The way it works now is good, you want to try and to keep it that way. I know that’s a big point of contention with respect to Brexit. I’m sure it’s going to work out very well.
A moron spewing word spaghetti.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/05/ireland-visit-donald-trump-arrives-leo-varadkar-discussions
Put his time to better use, yes. Not come across as a pig-ignorant halfwit, not so easy. The truth will out....
Can't imagine anyone would want to look at Trump's backside, in any way.
Jimizo
I think Bette Midler was apologizing for wrongly attributing the quote to Trump. Very adult and honest. Trump didn’t recognize this and threw his potty at her.
Has Trump apologized for anything in his catalogue of lies and trash on Twitter?
Have you called out Trump on his false and vulgar attacks? I think I asked you about him posting dodgy videos from racists while serving as president and you said you didn’t care if I’m not mistaken.
Simon Foston
cleoToday 11:54 am JST
Right, otherwise he might have had something more appropriate to say about one of the most important issues facing the country he's visiting, while talking to its prime minister. I wouldn't have thought that kind of thing would be so hard to get right, especially for a stable genius.
theeastisred
Obviously one never expects an intelligent, knowledgeable comment from this source on any subject, ever. But just out of interest, it would be fun to hear the White House explain in what way the Irish border situation is similar to that of the US-Mexico border. Trump's level of understanding is like that of a 6-year-old who thinks shutting his/her eyes tight makes him/her invisible to others.
Nobody has proposed or suggested any 'solution' to the Irish border question that would have any chance of succeeding, and I doubt if any Brexiters anticipated this problem at all. So anyway it was a nice dig of Varadkar's to point out that Trump had not shared the wisdom of his 'proposal' to resolve it.
Toasted Heretic
That as may be, but I'm talking about Ireland, if he's so knowledgeable, why does he not know what the border is? Why does he keep referring to Varadakar as "Prime Minister"?
What commemoration are you referring to that's taking place in the Republic? Which fallen? The victims of British interference over the centuries or victims since Partition?
Any attempts to return to a hard border will devestate business in the border communities and have a greater effect in both the Republic and 6 counties. How is this easier?
In that case, you'd be in favor of no hard border, surely. The people of Ireland don't want a border.
Toasted Heretic
Doonbeg isn't going to rock the boat.
But Dublin is set for a protest today which starts at 6pm at the Garden of Remembrance.
Toasted Heretic
It just goes to show how poorly educated/informed Trump and his followers are, if they cannot tell the difference.
But of course the PotUS has to make it about his bloody wall. I'm no fan of the Blueshirts, but Varadakar was very diplomatic in his interjection. Trump came across as idiotic and patronising. Repeating that he loves the Irish, he knows the Irish.
Call An Taoiseach by his correct title and learn a bit about your host country, then.
itsonlyrocknroll
President Trump could have taken a more politically pragmatic approach and responded by simply stating the matter is for all parties concerned to find a diplomatic solution, picked up his golf clubs and gone on his way.
Obviously if there is an opportunity for an opinion however toe-curling unnecessary, inopportune, and inappropriate Donald Trump never fails to disappoint.
lincolnman
"Very well" - coming from someone who lost over $1 Billion over ten years and has had six bankruptcies... Did he give them a "mark my words, mark my words" too?
Likely being paid with Russian money - both have said they get all the money they need from Russia...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/eric-trump-donald-golf-courses-russia-funding-golf-writer-interview-2014-james-dodson-a7722806.html
Advisers? The only ones left are sycophants - all the adults have left - Mattis, Kelly, Tillertson, Cohn, McMaster, etc. What's left are the kindergartners trying to advise the fifth grader....
Luddite
The sound of the collective face palm from the Irish people could be heard worldwide. Trump is an utter moron with zero diplomatic skills.
Alfie Noakes
Trump couldn't even be bothered to spend a few minutes reading up on the UK/Irish border problem post-Brexit. Or even have some aide explain it to him in simple, short sentences. He was quite happy to ponce around in Buck House with his weird children for the weekend though, because that was PR for his re-election campaign. He just sat there and gibbered meaningless words at Varadker. Trump's nothing more than a slab of meat, a sack of entrails with eyes and a lizard's brain. Pig-ignorant half wit is about right.
Cosmos1
Trump visit latest : Trump says to the Queen ... " I'm off to Ireland next " Queen looking at his tie responds with. " One expects they've enough orange bigots there already"