{"id":32681,"date":"2018-06-10T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32681"},"modified":"2018-06-10T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T20:28:51","slug":"the-evil-empire-to-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/10\/the-evil-empire-to-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evil Empire to the North"},"content":{"rendered":"

The evil empire to the north has struck again.  They had the audacity sell their products here in the US, in spite of the pact that we sell far more of our products there.  Furthermore, they joined the rest of our allies by refusing to admit Putin to the G-7, depriving Trump of the spot where he gets that brown smudge for the tip of his nose.  Most of all, he betrayed Trump by telling the truth, albeit an excessively polite version.  Trump declared war!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0610Trump\"<\/p>\n

Shortly before leaving the annual meeting of major world powers on Saturday, President Trump boasted that it had been \u201ctremendously successful\u201d and that on a scale of 0 to 10, \u201cthe relationship is a 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fewer than nine hours later, the relationship was plummeting toward a zero. With a petulant tweetstorm from Air Force One, Mr. Trump all but blew up the Group of 7 nations that the United States has led for more than four decades and essentially declared open political war on America\u2019s closest neighbor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Whatever hopes that other leaders had of pacifying Mr. Trump and papering over their widening differences on trade, security and the world order vanished in a flurry of harsh recriminations. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada rebuffed Mr. Trump\u2019s positions in public comments, prompting Mr. Trump to refuse to sign the carefully crafted final communiqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n

The blowup left the United States alienated from its allies even more than it had been entering into the summit meeting and came as Mr. Trump flew to Singapore, earlier than originally scheduled, for a risky meeting with a nuclear-armed American enemy, Kim Jong-un, the repressive leader of North Korea… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Trudeau said nothing that was untrue.  Perhaps Trump was in withdrawal, because there is no Faux Noise in Canada, so he can’t watch the people who tell him what to think.  In any event, the enemies that Trump has befriended are still the enemies of the American people, and the friends Trump calls enemies still have our love and respect.  We love you, evil empire to the north. \"Winking<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n

VOTE BLUE!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The evil empire to the north has struck again.  They had the audacity sell their products here in the US, in spite of the pact that we sell far more of our products there.  Furthermore, they joined the rest of our allies by refusing to admit Putin to the G-7, depriving Trump of the spot […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}