Yeah, they're making a big deal about Trump saying he will make Canada the 51st state when Trump wasn't going to really do that anyway. So they made a point, about nothing.
To be sure, one of Trump's failings is that he constantly bloviates. He had no business early on referring to Canada as our 51st state. Or taking over Greenland.
I can see Greenland, but who wants Canada as a 51st state? Saying such stuff has simply inflamed both countries with a defensive, combative attitude--- not everything in global politics can be best handed so bluntly like a hostile business takeover. Now even if he does work out deals with both countries, he has to overcome all of that before he even begins to get anywhere with either. He has downright angered both countries belittling them before the battle even began.
I watched part of Trump the other day with the new PM of Canada at the WH. Media bait him with questions and he falls right in. They tried it with Carney and he didn't bite. He kept his answers short and direct without expounding on them, he even refused, saying he had already answered the question when they tried.
But Trump likes attention too much, tooting his own horn. Does Trump even have a press director or media chief? Sometimes Trump sounds like he answers stuff without having given even a bit of thought to the matter first. I heard him asked questions that should have been simple 1-3 word answers grow into whole paragraphs. Then he always goes off on a tangent. Like when he said we don't need anything from Canada. He did not need to say that. I don't know if it isn't true, but Trump continually exposes himself by unnecessarily saying more than he really needs to, and these other countries, the media and democrats arm themselves with it all, turn it around and use it against him.
Trump is so busy being the BMOC that he fails badly as a diplomat--- now he is finding out with Putin. While Trump always says more than he knows, Putin is a seasoned vet who always knows far more than he tells. After Trump saying 231 times how that war would never have started with him in office everytime the topic is bridged, he is finding out now that he cannot solve it in a day, not a week, a month, maybe not ever.
Same can be said for Trump's claim to buy up Gaza and take it over. Where the hell was his mind??? I sure hope these are just public faux pas and not signs of far deeper problems within. For all the good Trump gets done, he would probably get twice as much done if he would just shut the hell up sometimes.
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