![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Another revolting display
I just listened to a few minutes of Dear Leader's press conference in Belgium. Literally every question became an opportunity for him to congratulate himself; for bonus points, blame Barack Obama. (There was a slight mis-step when he mentioned Saint Ronald in the same breath with Barack Obama, but the real point was that he was better and stronger than both of them put together.) Whenever anybody asked a specific question (such as about arms control initiatives with Russia), he responded like a high school kid who hasn't read the book he's writing a report about and is hoping nobody will notice.
On Crimea: this is a very important issue, and you have to remember that Obama let it happen, I wouldn't have let it happen, but Russia has built a lot of things there, put billions of dollars into Crimea, and we'll see what happens. On NATO defense spending, all the other countries have promised to go back to their countries and seek legislative approval to increase their defense spending up to the 2% level in a very short number of years [which, coincidentally, is also what they promised to do in 2014, with a deadline of 2024], and then we'll talk about 4%, which I think is the right number, but when I won the election, NATO defense spending was going down, and it's been going up like a rocket ship in the past nine months. The U.S. has been spending 4.2%, and that's out of our GDP, which is by far the largest in the world and has gone up enormously in the past year and a half since a little thing called the election, our GDP has just shot straight up, so it's very unfair that we're spending so much more and they're not. On any concerns the NATO representatives might have about his upcoming meeting with Putin: no, they didn't express any concerns, it was just the opposite, they congratulated me and thought it was a very good idea, and they wished us all the best. On immigration: immigration is a very important issue, I won my election partly because of immigration, this guy in Italy just won his election because of immigration, and the Brexit vote was about immigration, and I'd say to the E.U. it has to be very careful, because immigration is taking over the E.U. and they have to be very careful.
"Sir, we very much appreciate your statement about NATO, but will you tweet something completely different when you get on Air Force One?" "No, I'm very consistent. I'm a very stable genius."
I guess I haven't listened to the guy speak more than a sentence or two in a while, so I'd forgotten quite how monumentally egotistical and self-defensive he is.
On Crimea: this is a very important issue, and you have to remember that Obama let it happen, I wouldn't have let it happen, but Russia has built a lot of things there, put billions of dollars into Crimea, and we'll see what happens. On NATO defense spending, all the other countries have promised to go back to their countries and seek legislative approval to increase their defense spending up to the 2% level in a very short number of years [which, coincidentally, is also what they promised to do in 2014, with a deadline of 2024], and then we'll talk about 4%, which I think is the right number, but when I won the election, NATO defense spending was going down, and it's been going up like a rocket ship in the past nine months. The U.S. has been spending 4.2%, and that's out of our GDP, which is by far the largest in the world and has gone up enormously in the past year and a half since a little thing called the election, our GDP has just shot straight up, so it's very unfair that we're spending so much more and they're not. On any concerns the NATO representatives might have about his upcoming meeting with Putin: no, they didn't express any concerns, it was just the opposite, they congratulated me and thought it was a very good idea, and they wished us all the best. On immigration: immigration is a very important issue, I won my election partly because of immigration, this guy in Italy just won his election because of immigration, and the Brexit vote was about immigration, and I'd say to the E.U. it has to be very careful, because immigration is taking over the E.U. and they have to be very careful.
"Sir, we very much appreciate your statement about NATO, but will you tweet something completely different when you get on Air Force One?" "No, I'm very consistent. I'm a very stable genius."
I guess I haven't listened to the guy speak more than a sentence or two in a while, so I'd forgotten quite how monumentally egotistical and self-defensive he is.